Drs. Mike, Armbruster, Pearson, Shea, and Subash on the steps to the Wyatt Rotunda at Vanderbilt.
Fills my heart to catch up with all my UTI colleagues, including this group of former Mobley Lab postdocs who now all run their own labs. @aeshealab.bsky.social @lauraamike.bsky.social @chelsamicro.bsky.social @globaluti.bsky.social #UTIconf26 #UTIsky
Fantastic Official Day 1 at #UTICONF2026 catching up with collaborators @globaluti.bsky.social
#UTISky
Thanks, Jen!
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
#UTIsky @globaluti.bsky.social
Our next #UTIHour is just under a month away! Join our panel of experts on 2/17 at 4pm EST / 9PM UTC (ONE DAY AFTER #UTICONF26 ABSTRACTS ARE DUE).
We'll discuss the gut-bladder axis, and how disruptions in our intestines influence bladder health, infection risk & recurrence!
#IDSky #UTISky
#UTICONF26 is just around the corner!
We've got a great program covering:
🦠 #UTI diagnosis
🦠 Pathogenesis
🦠 Drivers
🦠 Microbiomes/reservoirs
🦠 Personalized therapies
🦠 Host-pathogen interactions
Deadlines:
Travel award - 1/12
Abstracts - 2/16
Early registration - 2/26
#UTISky #IDsky
This is *the* premiere #UTI conference in the field, and only happens every two years, so you don't want to miss it! Nashville, April 9-11 utiga.org/2026-6th-csa...
Registration for our 6th conference on clinical & scientific advances in UTI is OPEN!
📅WHEN: 4/9/26 - 4/11/26
🌎WHERE: Nashville, TN 🇺🇸
‼️APPLICATION DEADLINES‼️
✈️💰TRAVEL AWARD: 1/12/26
🗣️ABSTRACT: 2/16/26
🗓️EARLY REGISTRATION: 2/26/26
UTIGA.ORG/2026-6TH-CS...
#UTICONF26
#UTISKY
#IDSKY
This photo is making the rounds on social media and some have asked if it's legit.
It is.
As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim...
#IDsky
Really looking forward to this Oct 14 UTI Hour online to learn more about veterinary UTIs! utiga.org/upcoming #UTIsky
I may be American, but I’ll never be the Gestapo.
16 photos taken from the same place overlooking a small lake, showing seasons, weather, and wildlife.
A screencap of the montage
An archivist from my local library asked to include the photos as the local history collection. So, I’m stunned and delighted to share this! 3/end aadl.org/taxonomy/ter...
Recently I shared a montage of 16 photos that I chose to showcase the beauty and variety of this location. People kept encouraging me to share to bigger audiences 2/
I normally post to this account for scientific reasons, but I’m excited to share something more personal. I’ve been taking photos from the same spot for a few years. 1/
Postdoc position (please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#MicroSky
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As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
The practical upshot is that justice delayed is justice denied; or to be more precise, a lab which had to fire all of its researchers and halt work on groundbreaking research isn't going to be able to ever restore itself to the same position it would have been without a multi-year pause in funding.
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
Koala sleeping in a tree
Veterinary #UTIs don't just happen to companion animals.
A study in the 1980s found urinary tract infections were the cause of death in up to 30% of female koalas!*
Our Oct 14 (12EDT, 1600UTC) #UTIhour can help explain how 🐨 infections can impact 🧍♀️too
*(PMID: 6887434)
New publication from our lab, featuring Dr. Santosh Paudel’s work offers a refined cost-effective approach to study bacterial growth rates during infection @globaluti.bsky.social #UTIsky
Just saw this shared. You can see which stations stand to lose more than 50% of their funding adoptastation.org
Tomorrow!
I am both a professional microbiologist and a hobbyist gardener and I’m just finding out about mosquito dunks!
In case you are wondering what it's like for scientists now, every person I saw at the ASM conference asked others in a deeply serious voice "But how are you really?" I thought it was just me, but no, everyone is asking everyone this!
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
