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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 30/09/2026

What a cross section from 2011 to 2026 and beyond!

Multigenerational photo of Duke people at ZDMS19 (L-R) John, Victoria, Peyton, David, Stefan

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Philipp Niethammer @niethammerlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👉 The Niethammer lab has two postdoctoral openings. We’re looking for researchers interested in how organelle mechanotransduction and redox signaling shape early responses to tissue injury. If interested, please reach out to me with a CV and letter of intent written in your own words (🚫 AI).

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 19/09/2026

I recognise 2 people in this picture. Where are the Cronan and Oehlers lab cousins?

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 15/09/2026

Biopolis to NTU = 20 km, also the average run distance difference between our lab members Has @astar-idlabs.bsky.social been focused on the wrong microbial fitness competitions?

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 14/09/2026

ATCC19977 is the basic lab strain

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 13/09/2026

Mycobacterium abscessus. There's isolate and infection model wet lab capabilities across the island for functional validation.

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 11/09/2026

And the mid-Atlantic's craziest bus-driving, cross country skier on the Wintergreen slopes @drvaldivia.bsky.social!

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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Apply to do a PhD at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with me on global genomics of Mycobacterium abscessus bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/project-refe... About the scheme: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/application-...

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Project Reference: TRG27-SAN-JB1 | Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme

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VinTorraca @vintorraca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So honoured to have been invited as a keynote for the Zebrafish Infection and Immunity meeting. Even more excited to hear updates from the other 2 keynotes Prof Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic and Dr @oehlerslab.org ! Looking forward to catching up with the community! www.zebrafishinfection.co.uk

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EMBL Australia @emblaustralia.org · 28/08/2026

Ready to take the next step in your research career? 👨‍🔬 We're seeking an outstanding researcher to establish an independent research program as an EMBL Australia Group Leader at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) @monashuniversity.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 2 October 🔗 bit.ly/4qHYtjb

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We've strangely seen this before... 🤔 #zebrafish

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Marta Batet Palau @martabatetpalau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So excited my PhD work is finally out! A huge collaborative effort of the Ruprecht lab, especially of my co-authors @laurafbianchi.bsky.social & @hannamariahakkinen.bsky.social Check below Laura's thread if you want to know more about E-cadherin novel and unexpected role in epithelial phagocytosis

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Victoria Deneke @vdeneke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looking for a postdoc lab? The @ditalialab.bsky.social is a fantastic place to think deeply about fundamental problems in biology using quantitative approaches. I feel incredibly fortunate to have done my PhD here & to have learned from such an insightful and supportive mentor - please 🔁 & apply!

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 26/08/2026

Have you talked to Rong Li at NUS? Some positions are only advertised when the right applicant is available

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 24/08/2026

The purist's dichotomy of biological states in the lab 🧪

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Find out how RNA control your immune system! The Renshaw Lab (Sheffield) are hiring TWO PDRAs to study RNA-binding protein ELAVL1 in neutrophils using human cells, #zebrafish, multi-omics. Closes 26/8 Wet lab-based: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK873/r... Bioinformatics-based: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK931/r...

Neutrophil migration over time during inflammation. Credit to Catherine Loynes.

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Philipp Niethammer @niethammerlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

👉1/3 We are looking for a research technician to join our lab at Sloan Kettering Institute in New York City. This is an ideal position for a recent college graduate (e.g., from the NYC area) interested in basic biology and gaining hands-on research experience before graduate or medical school.

https://www.mskcc.org/research/ski/labs/philipp-niethammer

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 20/08/2026

Continuing my "people I hung out with 10 years ago" on podcasts, it's @thehornerlab.bsky.social on the Immune podcast! I never knew she ran track, mid 2010s era @tobinlab.bsky.social should have thrown down a lab v lab stadium stairs run challenge www.microbe.tv/immune/immun...

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Immune Booster 34: Decoding antiviral signaling networks with Stacy Horner

Stacy Horner discusses her work on innate detection of viruses, viral countermeasures, and the role of m(6)A RNA modifications in regulating antiviral immunity.

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Antonio Pagán @antoniopagan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Stanford Medicine’s Microbiology & Immunology Department (my home department) opened a job search for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Candidates interested in any and all areas of microbiology and/or immunology are encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the University Tenure Line. We seek ou...

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 19/08/2026

Bacteriology postdoc in IRIM, Montpellier. Great location and institute! Better preserved collection of Roman infrastructure in the region than anywhere else I've been.

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 19/08/2026

🤮 "thought leadership"

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International Zebrafish Society @izfs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Submit your abstract by 8/20 for the 6th Zebrafish for Personalized & Precision Medicine ( #ZPPM ) Conference taking place November 13-15 in Zhongshan, China! Learn more: zppm.zebrapeutics.com #Zebrafish #ZebrafishMeeting #PrecisionMedicine

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 07/08/2026

Cue joke about C. auris showing skin. We've been thinking about chitins as delivery biomaterials but there's more than one type!

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 05/08/2026

@mads100tist.bsky.social @zebrafishrock.bsky.social: Who's volunteering to log back into to the twitter account to Chuck Norris up the zebrafish factoids?

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Signed portrait of Theodor Escherich, MD (1857-1911). Dr. Escherich was a German-Austrian pediatrician, best known for his discovery of the Escherichia coli bacterium

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M. Brent Hawkins @homeobox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"After you open a new bottle be sure to mark it with the date"

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 01/08/2026

Yes! The fin puns are back!!!

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

OCTOPUSES JUST GOT WEIRDER
Featuring an illustration of a two spot octopus with a blue and purple ribosome behind it

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Prof Tanya Parish @proftanya13.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Work on the new edition of the Mycobacteria Protocols is well underway. We have a couple of spaces, so if you are interested and have a new method you think would be a no brainer to include, drop us a line.. #Mycobacteria #MycobacteriaProtocols #TB #TBResearch🦠🧪

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ThePatrick&WatsonLabs @thepwlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🚨🚨 Faculty search! Spread the word! 🚨🚨 The Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department at Vanderbilt is hiring! Special consideration will be given to faculty working with Risk Group 3 pathogens (so you can join us in our brand new state-of-the-art BSL3!) apply.interfolio.com/188545

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Chris Brooke @christopherbrooke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@alnajifg.bsky.social's long-delayed masterpiece (spanning his time in my and Marco Vignuzzi's labs) on influenza virus WT/DelVG co-evolutionary dynamics is finally out!! Lots of exciting data about how DelVGs evolve and compete within complex populations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Longitudinal analysis of influenza A virus deletion-containing viral genomes reveals key determinants of co-evolutionary dynamics and interference - Nature Communications

Tracking influenza virus populations over 72 passages, the authors show that hundreds of defective viral genomes compete for dominance, ultimately resolving into a single variant carrying an adaptive ...

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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Please repost! #microsky🦠 The Glickman Lab at MSK is recruiting! Projects in Mtb pathogenesis, basic biology of mycobacteria, and mycobacterial cancer therapies. See our publications here: tinyurl.com/3f386f4x Send CV and cover letter to: glickmanmycolab@gmail.com

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 17/07/2026

Almost 20 years after my first in vivo live imaging infection it infuriates me when graduate students blindly recite the dogma of intravellular v extracellular infections. Nice summary countering the dogma around two of the (worst?) examples I hear about

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 14/07/2026

In keeping with ZII8 tradition, ZII9 will feature a plenary by some yobbo from the west of a Southern Hemisphere city (this guy!)

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 13/07/2026

sounds like a @biologists.bsky.social mission for another EIC @danielgorelick.bsky.social the 1990s catalogue has lost OA designation

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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Congrats to the 5 winners of @biologyopen.bsky.social Global South travel grants #EZM2026 was an honor to meet & learn about your science

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 09/07/2026

The both sides of the story 🤣

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 09/07/2026

Chocolate lined mini cones for espresso

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 09/07/2026

Do the techniplast cups count?

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 02/07/2026

Our labs are birthday buddies!

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

What is the best way to spell/pronounce the name of the small freshwater fish called Danio rerio? Let's settle it on the pitch! ⚽🐟🏆 Follow us throughout the remainder of the tournament as we update the bracket after each round! Which one is your favorite to win? 🗺️🤔 #ZebrafishWorldCup #zebrafish 🧪

Bracket for the knockout rounds of the World Cup with the names of how each country spells/pronounces Danio rerio according to their official language. Reposted with flags of the teams listed above the match-ups.

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 26/06/2026

I just saw he's at the European myco meeting

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Stefan Oehlers @oehlerslab.org · 25/06/2026

Say hi to Bill at JHU for me!

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