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Francis Alonzo @francisalonzo12.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Congratulations to all awardees including my awesome colleague @laurenpalmer.bsky.social !!

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Ross Fitzgerald @jrossfitz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution unlocks nutrient availability after a host switch

Staphylococcus aureus has undergone metabolic remodeling to adapt to the dairy niche.

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Mark Mandel @markjmandel.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Another great @mmpconference.bsky.social wraps up… 👏 to organizers Jonathan Allen and Abby Kroken! @akroken.bsky.social

Opening session of the MMPC conference with Abby Kroken and Jonathan Allen on stage and a slide displayed.

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Jordan Jastrab @jordanjastrab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thrilled to share my work from the @jkagan1.bsky.social lab! TLDR: O-acetylation and wall teichoic acid compete for space on S. aureus peptidoglycan. This competition regulates DNA release, and thus immune receptor activation, during infection! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #immunosky

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Wall teichoic acid is required for DNA-triggered innate immune receptor activation by Staphylococcus aureus

Receptors that stimulate inflammation are commonly activated by ligands that are buried within microbial cells. The mechanisms that facilitate immunostimulatory ligand release from microbes during inf...

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Adam Pickrum @apickrum.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Wrapped up another great #cshlhost25 meeting! Such a special place to share the awesome science going on around the world.

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Judith Behnsen @judith-behnsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

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Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence - Nature

Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.

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Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference @mmpconference.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! www.mmpconference2025.com/submit-an-ab...

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MMPC 2025 - Submit an Abstract

Submission Dates Abstract submission will open on May 1, 2025 Oral abstract submission deadline: July 15, 2025 Poster abstract submission deadline: Extended to August 25! Instructions for abstract s...

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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉 tinyurl.com/443kfefk

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Kim Davis @davislabjhu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Excited to post our first S. aureus preprint on biorxiv! Big congrats to co-first authors, postdocs @anjali20anil.bsky.social and Rezia Braza, and really enjoyed the collaboration with @torreslab.bsky.social !

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

📣 Applications now open PATH award supports early-career researchers studying the pathogenesis of infectious diseases in humans 💰 $505K over 5 years 🔬 For mid-to-late assistant professors 📅 LOI due: 07/17/25 Apply now 👉 buff.ly/qcSSxbq

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Now open - LOIs for the Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program. Deadline is July 17 @ 3pm ET. More information here: buff.ly/iSu3v60 #bwfpath #GrantOpportunity

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Johnson Lab - University of Iowa @campylobacterlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

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Zac White @zac-white.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Excited to share our latest story is out now in Immunity. A great collaboration between the Sano and Kim labs at UIC. IL-10 sensing by lung interstitial macrophages prevents bacterial dysbiosis-driven pulmonary inflammation and maintains immune homeostasis: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

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IL-10 sensing by lung interstitial macrophages prevents bacterial dysbiosis-driven pulmonary inflammation and maintains immune homeostasis

Immune-microbiota interactions are required to maintain host homeostasis. Kim et al. identified that steady-state sensing of IL-10 by interstitial macrophages (IMs) prevents spontaneous lung inflammat...

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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And this one, too #StandUpforScience

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