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Zach Lonergan

@zrlon.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Microbiology at Rutgers University, interested in the chemical biology of microbial stress responses. www.lonerganlab.org

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Valeria Reyes Ruiz @reyesruiz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Congratulations to this years BWF PATH awardees!! What a phenomenal group of scientists! And special congrats to the amazing @laurenpalmer.bsky.social!
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Science in Stationary Phase by Roberto — With science in stationary phase, I convey a message of hope rather than despair.
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Science in Stationary Phase
by Roberto — With science in stationary phase, I convey a message of hope rather than despair.
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Bella Rauch @rauchlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Wan’t to be faculty at a collegial host-pathogen focused department in a beautiful bikable city with amazing food? This link is for you: facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/39006/a...
A picture of the portland waterfront during cherry blossom time
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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Excited to share the final part of my postdoc work, where we investigate the impact of antimicrobial treatment on susceptibility to hospital-acquired Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia. Thanks to our amazing group of collaborators for their contributions to this study! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The intestinal microbiota impacts nutritional immunity and resistance to Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia | PNAS
Broad-spectrum antibiotics are frequently administered to intensive care unit patients as part of empiric care. This treatment has been associated ...
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Had a great time talking C. diff on the #MattersMicrobial podcast! Thanks so much to @markowenmartin.bsky.social for being such a fantastic host and for the great conversation!
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Ira Blader @bladerlab.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Reposting our open #postdoc position with link to the application website . Come join us and learn how encephalitis triggers seizures and how to treat them jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Associate - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Blader Laboratory studies how infections in the brain cause neuronal complications such as seizures. We reported that when mice are infected with the protozoan parasite that the ...
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year, all! Reminder that the deadline for abstract selected talks is Jan 7th for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting "Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating Bacterial Infection." Register today and join us in Breckenridge!! It is going to be an awesome meeting!
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This month, my lab celebrated our 5 year anniversary! On October 16, 2020, I rode the L train to start my lab at UIC, as the only lab member during COVID. In 2025, we celebrated together! It’s been such an honor that all these incredible people and more have chosen to do science with me!
2020-Lauren Palmer in a mask on the L
2025-the Palmer lab celebrating at a restaurant
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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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Susan Schlimpert @s-lab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
There is still some time left to apply for these two Group Leader positions in Plant Biology and Microbe-Plant Interactions. Spread the word, apply & become our colleague @johninnescentre.bsky.social
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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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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
And congratulations to @cp-cell.bsky.social Poster Award Winners Rachel Washburn (USF) and Jessica Aycock (Clemson) at 2025 GRC MAST!!! 🥳🎉👏🏼
Rachel Washburn and Jessica Aycock with their Cell Press poster awards at GRC Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Congratulations to 2025 GRC Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction Poster Award Winners!! 🎆🥂🙌 Thank you @cp-cell.bsky.social and @femsmicro.org for sponsoring! From, Your secret judges 🤫
Michael Patnode with Rachel Washburn, Jessica Aycock, and Mason Clark, winners of GRC MAST poster awards from Cell Press and FEMS
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Valeria Reyes Ruiz @reyesruiz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽 The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
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Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How did life go from solo cells to many coordinating ones? Perhaps a bit of pressure. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
When subjected to mechanical pressure, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii grows bigger and bigger before fragmenting into a tissue-like, multicellular network.  Rados et al./Science (2025)
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 08/04/2025
I'm delighted to share a useful FREE web-based app portal of powerful bioinformatics tools for microbial genomes and shotgun microbiome sequences! It's called Micromics and is built by Middle Author Bioinformatics, led by co-founder @ironark.bsky.social omix.midauthorbio.com
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Microbial Omics
A suite of bioinformatics tools for microbial genome and metagenome analysis.
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Valeria Reyes Ruiz @reyesruiz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
So much joy to see everyone today coming together to celebrate 20 years of the Skaar Lab. Thank you to Eric for the leadership and mentorship over the years! 🥰
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Zach Lonergan @zrlon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I'm hoping to hire a full-time research technician to help with launching my research program here at Rutgers - if you know someone interested in gaining additional expertise in molecular microbiology, please send them my way! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/247...
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Laboratory Researcher
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Laboratory Researcher for the Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology within the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.Among the ke...
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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚨 The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty position in the field of environmental microbiology. Happy to answer any questions! 🧫🧪🧬 #microsky jobs.montana.edu/postings/45680
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"’NIH staff internally are very worried that the mRNA grants will follow the outcome of the vaccine hesitancy grants and be terminated’” It would be devastating to end this promising research that will save lives from infections and cancer www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...
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NIH cuts funding for vaccine hesitancy research and may target mRNA research too
The National Institutes of Health is terminating dozens of studies examining why people are hesitant about vaccines and how to increase uptake. mRNA vaccine research may be on the chopping block, too.
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Excited to share our work with @pjplanet.bsky.social and @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social tracking Staph aureus transmission across the NICU using genomics!! This study was co-led by the amazing @qianxuan.bsky.social and Lakshmi Srinivasan, and made possible by the @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social
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Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal intensive care unit predicts invasive infection
Background Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infection and is one of the most common pathogens causing serious invasive infection in the neonatal intensive care unit (N...
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Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️‍🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have an exciting opportunity to join my research team in Singapore @scelse.bsky.social as a PhD student to explore programmed cell death in biofilms. See below for more information and please share widely!
Unravelling the regulation of programmed cell death in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
One 4-year PhD Studentship in Professor Cynthia Whitchurch’s lab at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore – starting January 2026. The studentship will be funded for 4 years which includes tuition fees and a bursary. Students can be from Singapore or overseas. 
Project summary
Programmed cell death (PCD) pathways are genetically encoded programmes that lead to cell suicide. Whist it seems counter-intuitive that single-celled bacteria would maintain cell suicide pathways, PCD is beneficial to multicellular bacterial communities.  We have determined that Pseudomonas aeruginosa has 3 PCD pathways that intersect to enable explosive cell lysis for the release of extracellular DNA and other matrix components required for biofilm formation. This project aims to understand how these complex pathways that lead to PCD in P. aeruginosa are regulated. The project will use a range of cutting-edge approaches including molecular microbiology, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, AI and advanced microscopy. 
Requirements
Applications are invited from candidates with a Bachelors degree with Honours (2nd class upper division) or equivalent, or Masters degree in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences or a related discipline. Additionally, experience in molecular microbiology, microscopy and microbial genomics would be advantageous. However, in the absence of this additional experience the applicant should be keen to learn relevant skills in these areas.
Note that the following will be required of the candidate that is selected for this studentship (the application has to be submitted by the July 31st 2025): 
1.	Valid TOEFL/IELTS/GRE/GMAT/GATE scores (A valid GRE/GMAT score is required for applicants who are not graduates of the Autonomous Universities in Singapore, unless there is specific requirement state…
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Zach Lonergan @zrlon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The hits keep coming. Huge loss for my home state of West Virginia. WV-INBRE opened my eyes to a science career and changed my life.
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Thomas P200 Burke @findmeinthelab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I'm just going to reiterate what many people are saying: if you are concerned about the state of science / NIH funding, etc, NOW IS THE MOMENT to pick up the phone and call your senators and reps The federal govt continuing resolution budget expires in a month. They are deciding funding right now.
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
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Science Homecoming
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Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Rutgers peeps: Wednesday noon in my building
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 17/02/2025
No new NIH study sections have been announced in the Federal Register since Jan 21. But I hear that colleagues have been asked to serve. Does your meeting appear in these announcements? If this applies to you, please check and reply here with info! www.federalregister.gov/documents/se...
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Document Search Results for 'center for scientific review'
Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Multiple faculty positions in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in association with the Center for Immunology, and the Center for Antimicrobial Resistance at Cornell University
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Giedroc Lab @giedroclab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Our lab is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research associate to study zinc metallochaperones from the COG0523 superfamily of small GTPases. Apply here: shorturl.at/UmQYM or send application materials to Prof. Giedroc directly at giedroc@iu.edu. Looking for strong biochemists; please share!
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Zinc Metallochaperones)
The Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts + Sciences, consists of a well-rounded research community with cutting-edge expertise in a wide variety of modern disciplines including materials che...
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Zach Lonergan @zrlon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
In New Jersey — NIH Funding: $404M Jobs Supported: 5,136 Economic Activity Supported: $1.32B @kim.senate.gov @corybooker.com
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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs in lieu of a separately negotiated rate for indirect costs in every grant." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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John Helmann @johnhelmann.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Excited to share! @yeshapatel.bsky.social and I report... Mutations in RNAP confer antibiotic resistance via transcriptome remodeling. Repression of branched chain amino acid and Pyr pathways increases β-lactam resistance in B. subtilis. #MicroSky #AMR #antibiotics www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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A mutation in RNA polymerase imparts resistance to β-lactams by preventing dysregulation of amino acid and nucleotide metabolism
Patel and Helmann identify metabolic pathways that are dysregulated in RNAP mutant strains with altered β-lactam sensitivity. Genetic and physiological studies demonstrate that BCAA and Pyr synthesis ...
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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Judith Behnsen @judith-behnsen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Excited to share that we are hiring a Bridge to Faculty Postdoc in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois Chicago. Please reach out if you have any questions about the program. And please share broadly. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbiology and Immunology
Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbiology and ImmunologyThe Department of Microbiology and Immunology (MI) at the University o...
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Scott Saunders @saunderslab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠 Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics. There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you! apply.interfolio.com/154339 1/4
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John Helmann @johnhelmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How do secreted and membrane-localized enzymes get appropriately metalated? ... Bixi He and I tackled this question, with a focus on the cell envelope... Metalation of Extracytoplasmic Proteins and Bacterial Cell Envelope Homeostasis | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/3V0lM92
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Metalation of Extracytoplasmic Proteins and Bacterial Cell Envelope Homeostasis | Annual Reviews
Cell physiology requires innumerable metalloenzymes supported by the selective import of metal ions. Within the crowded cytosol, most enzymes acquire their cognate cofactors from a buffered labile poo...
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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just added several new people to volume 2 of the Pathogen Bacteria starter pack. Great to see all the new faces on here. go.bsky.app/NSpWU9W
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 19/11/2024
🚨Travel awards for Early Career Researchers to attend ASM Microbe🧫 1. Awarded through ASM Branches 2. $1650 per award, 3 per branch 3. Apps open now! 4. Named for Peggy Cotter, ASM past president & advocate 5. A proud accomplishment when I was COMS Chair 6. Apply / share! asm.org/Travel-Award...
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Peggy Cotter Travel Award
ASM is a nonprofit professional society that publishes scientific journals and advances microbiology through advocacy, global health and diversity in STEM programs.
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Jason Yang @jasonyanglab.org · 14/11/2024
Rutgers published a very nice story on our recent work! www.rutgers.edu/news/researc...
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Researchers Reveal Why a Key Tuberculosis Drug Works Against Resistant Strains
Rutgers Health study uncovers vulnerabilities in drug-resistant TB, offering hope for improved treatments.
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Zach Lonergan @zrlon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Such a great visit yesterday at West Virginia University and a full-circle moment to be invited by my undergrad research mentor extraordinaire Jen Gallagher! It’s the people in science that keep me going.
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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Excited to see many in the bacterial pathogenesis community joining here in the last few weeks, so here's a Starter Pack to help make connections. Reply/DM to be added to this or future Packs. #Microsky go.bsky.app/VH64BaY
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Victor J. Torres @torreslab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Publication Alert! Happy to share our new work published in CellReports of a collaboration with the Zychlinsky Lab (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology). "Histone H1 kills MRSA". cell.com/cell-reports.... Enjoy!
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Histone H1 kills MRSA
Marsman et al. detect histone H1 in MRSA in human abscesses and demonstrate that it kills MRSA under physiological conditions. They identify through selective evolution and a genome-wide screen that h...
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Lauren Palmer @laurenpalmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
SO EXCITED to share our recent work on dietary zinc deficiency worsening Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia, out today with @natureportfolio.bsky.social!! Surprisingly, this is due at least in part to the allergic-type cytokine IL-13. SharedIt link: rdcu.be/d0h4h Eat your zinc rich foods! 🦪🫘🧀🥩🥜
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Dietary zinc deficiency promotes Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection via IL-13 in mice
Nature Microbiology - Increased IL-13 drives increased bacterial dissemination and mortality following Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection of zinc-deficient mice and can be countered by...
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Zach Lonergan @zrlon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Happy to be here!
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