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Katrine Whiteson

@katrinewhiteson.bsky.social
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UC Irvine, UCI Microbiome, Orange County Phage Team, Fiber Evangelist kwhiteson.bio.uci.edu

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Katrine Whiteson @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
We have an epic line-up for the SoCal Microbiome Symposium at CalTech on Sept 19th, Sarah Allard, Ariane Briegel, Nandita Garud, Sarakis Mazmanian, Joel Sachs, Julia Schartzman, Emily Stein and David Underhill. Thanks to hosts Margaret McFall Ngai and Ned Ruby!
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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
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Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 17/07/2025
POSTDOC🚨 With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance. Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻
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Gut Microbiota for Health @gmfhx.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Where does microbiome-based medicine stand today, and where is it headed? We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social loom.ly/h7uGlx0
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Paving the way for microbiome-based therapy in clinical practice
This article presents recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based treatments that are ripe for clinical adoption and discusses challenges and opportunities facing the field based on expert inte...
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Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excited to be on the way to #ASMicrobe once more ! And if you want to know more about our work on CRISPRs, metagenomes, and phages, please come and chat and/or come see me tomorrow morning (9:15am in the EEB-IDS-202 session, which looks amazing overall !)
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 19/06/2025
Welcome to all attending @asm.org #Microbe2025 and to all following here. Looking forward to a great meeting! Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired. Check these out!🧵
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research? most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 24/05/2025
I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
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Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Daniel and Kelly talk to @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson) - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart
<p>Daniel and Kelly talk to Katrine Whiteson (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/l...
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚
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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research. A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Clinical translation of microbiome research - Nature Medicine
This Review summarizes recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based interventions that are ripe for clinical adoption while also discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the field.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 09/04/2025
Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eg4OA 1/
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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression
Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.
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Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers #mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief @leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems
Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of microbial cells, populations, comm...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP. phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca... #AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬
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Hiring BS Microbiologist, Laboratory - Bethel
View job details and apply now
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Larry Miller, PhD @larrymillerphd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Any of you have amazing science images? Entries are open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork competition. Your science caught on camera could win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the chance to see your images appear in print and online. Entries are due by March 28. 🧪🔬🧬 #SciComm
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#ScientistAtWork 2025: Nature is seeking stunning photographic images that capture researchers’ working lives
Winners get a cash prize, and will have their image featured in Nature in print and online.
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Made a feed for phage papers/discussions/friends! Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽
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a cartoon drawing of a man in a white superhero costume
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Margaret Moerchen (she/her) @carrotslittle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Help our friends at the NSF: Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings. If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments. (comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me) Please share & let me know who to add #phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬 go.bsky.app/BGugi2N
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Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Insulin (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson) - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart
<p>Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff.&nbsp;</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio...
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 27/02/2025
From the editors of @asm.org journals, a call to action! Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio
The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic pr...
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Anca Segall (aerotaxing to sanity) @ancas.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@asm.org @pnas.org @vscooper.micropopbio.org Do you have any suggestions for how scientists can help protect the integrity of science and what your position on RFK Jr as head of HHS is? Yes, I have already written my congressional reps. What are the organizations doing to protect the future?
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”– Martin Luther King Jr. “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”- Mahatma Gandhi
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