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Wolfram Zückert

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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ticks me off, too.
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Julia Willett @jlewillett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abstract deadline for the 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference has been extended until Aug 14! Make sure to register, submit your abstract, and get your official #mmpc2026 t-shirt while you're at it!
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Remembering the life of Brandon Jutras gone far too soon www.nhscotthanekamp.com/obituaries/D...
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Obituary information for Dr. Brandon Lyon Jutras
View Dr. Brandon Lyon Jutras's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Devastated to report that Brandon Jutras passed away a day or two ago. Brandon earned his PhD with me. He went on to be an Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine and a super star in Lyme research. A loving husband and father, a sincere friend, and a brilliant scientist 💔
Brandon Jutras, PhD, in his laboratory.
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When Clades Collide: Genomic Admixture in Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis) from the Great Plains "~50% infection rate (of B. burgdorferi) in ticks from Iowa and northeastern Nebraska, whereas ticks from Kansas show no evidence of B. burgdorferi infection" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Figure 1 from manuscript
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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 16/05/2026
Leaked image of new Apple EV.
EV on its roof, with charging cable underneath; reminiscent of Apple Magic Mouse.
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Alternative AssDeans @altassdeans.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Every graduation has one faculty member dressed so dramatically you can’t tell if they’re here to celebrate the students or challenge Gandalf to a duel.
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As reprehensible a character Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in “One Battle After Another” is, at least he balances his centrifuge.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A MinD-like ATPase couples flagellation and cell division in spirochetes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So who thought that "Project Hail Mary" would go south when he started up that unbalanced centrifuge...
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 11/03/2026
Great discussion by the The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (plus CME is available) 👇 #FOAMED #Lyme thecurbsiders.com/curbsiders-p...
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#516 Lyme Disease Primer featuring Dr. Sophie Woolston
YouTube video by The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
R21 submitted while R01 still waits to be reviewed 6 months after submission...
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a man in a torino 2006 olympics uniform
ALT: a man in a torino 2006 olympics uniform
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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Luca Troman @lucatroman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🌀 We solved the structure for T. denticola periplasmic flagella! I'm very happy to finally showcase this work. A huge collaborative effort between myself, @bindusmitapaul.bsky.social, @debnathghosal.bsky.social, Jack Kim, @banfieldlab.bsky.social, Eric Reynolds and the Chris Fenno lab. 🦠 Enjoy!
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Similar scenes in early 2025 when diversity grants were cut and some asked whether there now would be money left over for their research and if they should contact their program officer to ask for supplements... deplorable. bsky.app/profile/cdel...
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
"I will find you..."
Virus particle with face of Liam Neeson from "Taken"
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Human exposure to spirochete-infected Ornithodoros turicata collected from the home of an individual in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The University of Minnesota just announced the "Meal-A-Day Program" which will provide one meal a day for SNAP benefit recipients while the SNAP program is limited or unavailable. This makes me very happy. A lot of students, faculty, and staff at the U need this, unfortunately.
University Services
Meal-A-Day Program
Dear students, faculty, and staff,
The University of Minnesota is committed to supporting our students, faculty, and staff facing food insecurity. One way we are supporting our community during the disruption of SNAP benefits is through our temporary Meal-A-Day Program.
University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff on all campuses who are current SNAP benefit recipients will be able to access one free, in-person meal in a residential dining hall each day that SNAP benefits are limited or unavailable. Students, faculty, and staff may follow the process outlined below to verify eligibility. We expect the program to continue until SNAP benefits resume.
Accessing the Meal-A-Day Program
This program is only for students, faculty, and staff who are current SNAP benefit recipients, and who do not have existing meal plans. One-time verification of SNAP benefits will be required in order to access the Meal-A-Day Program.
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Roseola – HHV-6/7 before it was cool...
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Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference @mmpconference.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu
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Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference | Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference 2026
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We’re hiring! KUMC's Dept. of Microbiol., Mol. Genet. & Immunol. seeks a new Asst. Professor in Immunology. Be part of a vibrant department and benefit from association with the NCI-designated KU Cancer Center. Come join us in Kansas City! Apply here: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j...
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Known to me as the «Barf and Polish» approach…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Yesterday, I noted that the missing funding for non-competitive renewals and new awards had decreased from June to July by approximately $1.99 B. It appears that ~$0.28 B is due to the use of multi-year funding. This still represents 651 grants and investigators that could have been funded. 8/9
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My quote of the day This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Winston Churchill
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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Fantastic preprint of Bert van den Berg, @sykhalid.bsky.social Syma Khalid, and colleagues on the molecular mechanism of how phages target LptD as host receptor👇🏼🧬🔐
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 27/06/2025
Predicted structures from the AFDB are poor substitutes for experimental structures when training inverse folding NNs. Here, authors show that this is because they are "too perfect", and passing them through a custom-trained AFDB-to-PDB NN helps fix this threadreaderapp.com/thread/19384...
Comparison of inverse folding models trained on PDB, AFDB, and debiased AFDB. Debiasing the AFDB leads to partial recovery of performance in every architecture shown here
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NPR @npr.org · 26/05/2025
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
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A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts
Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Seriously cool paper that helps explain how the agent of Q fever is idiosyncratically able to thrive in an acidified phagolysosome by pumping out a host protease! 🧪🧫🦠 #MicroSky
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"The peptidoglycan of Borrelia burgdorferi can persist in discrete tissues and cause systemic responses consistent with chronic illness" Yet another important publication from @jutraslab.bsky.social, @lochhead.bsky.social, and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSky 🦠🧫🔬
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The peptidoglycan of Borrelia burgdorferi can persist in discrete tissues and cause systemic responses consistent with chronic illness
Polymeric Borrelia burgdorferi peptidoglycan cell wall can persist in murine livers for weeks to months after direct injection or infection.
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The new Klarna approach to conservation...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/04/2025
Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
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No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
An email that is predatory, yet so fitting the times we live in...
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"DC’s hottest Signal chat is Houthis PC Small Group. This place has everything: war plans, flame emojis, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic…" 😆
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 to the newly minted Ph.D. Candidate Nick Freitas (not on 🦋), shown below as a #K-INBRE undergraduate summer student in 2019. Yes, we let him wear his K-State T-shirt. ONWARD through the inner membrane, the periplasm to the surface! #KUMedicalCenter #IGPBS 🦠🧫🧪
Nick Freitas in front of laboratory equipment
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Just x'd x yesterday. Mieux vaut tard...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There are no illegal protests in a democracy. Fuck that guy.
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
phys.org/news/2025-02... Model organisms are just pioneer lab bench organisms.
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What is a model organism? Moving beyond E. coli
You wouldn't know by looking at Escherichia coli that it's kind of a big deal.
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Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In case you were "adhocking" in one of the postponed NIH study sections and were hoping to benefit from the 2-week late submission policy for reviewers for your own grant submission (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...), here's the info received from DRR (Division of Receipt and Referral) by my SRO: 1/2
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NOT-OD-15-039: Simplifying the NIH Policy for Late Application Submission
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Simplifying the NIH Policy for Late Application Submission NOT-OD-15-039. OD
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Congratulations to Dr. Bryan Murphy! Mark VI Ph.D. graduate from the Zückert Lab.
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
not a cell phone in sight just people living in the moment #MicroSky #IDSky
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It's nice to see our work from 15 years ago making a difference in expanding genetic tools for another tick-borne pathogen! journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Development of inducible promoter and CRISPRi plasmids functional in Rickettsia rickettsii | Journal of Bacteriology
This work expands upon the genetic toolbox available for R. rickettsii. We describe both an inducible promoter and CRISPRi system compatible with Rickettsia, which may provide key instruments for the development of further tools. The development of an ...
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
NOW OPEN (please RT): Asst. Prof. Position in Molecular Bacterial Pathogenesis or Cancer Immunology at KU Med. Ctr, KC. Details in ad below. Application deadline Oct. 1, 2024. Job link: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j.... Position number JR004886. 🦠 #microbiology #immunology #academicjobs
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Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
The new Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute at Johns Hopkins SPH Molecular Microbiology and Immunology is hiring at the assistant professor level. Application opens Oct 15. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/133621
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Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Postdoc opportunity on Borrelia burgdorferi genetics at NIH, Bethesda 🧫🦠🧪
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Wolfram Zückert @wolfzueckert.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
On my way to Brussels, Maastricht and Lisbon. Fitting for a first post on Bluesky…
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