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Matthew Higgs, PhD

@madeofmicrobes.bsky.social
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Wolfgang Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill @wolfganglab.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Excited to share our new paper in Microbiome, led by Wolfgang Lab postdoc Cristian Roca, in collaboration with Drs. Bradly Drummond and Ilona Jaspers. We show that nasal microbiome dysbiosis is associated with COPD exacerbation risk. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Matthew Higgs, PhD @madeofmicrobes.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Wolfgang Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill @wolfganglab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A huge congratulations to Cristian, who defended this PhD thesis yesterday. We're proud to now call him Dr. Roca!
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Matthew Higgs, PhD @madeofmicrobes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It's been a crazy (but great) 5 years. Glad to finally be done!
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Wolfgang Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill @wolfganglab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
For our first post on Bluesky, we're excited to share our recent work published in mBio @asm.org! Led by PhD student @madeofmicrobes.bsky.social, we show that flagellar motility and interactions with the mucus environment influence Pseudomonas antibiotic tolerance. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Flagellar motility and the mucus environment influence aggregation-mediated antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic lung infection | mBio
Antibiotic treatment failure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is a key driver of mortality in muco-obstructive airway diseases (MADs). The bacterial mechanisms that contribute to antibiotic toleran...
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