Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence - Nature Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

Congratulations!

And congratulations to @cp-cell.bsky.social Poster Award Winners Rachel Washburn (USF) and Jessica Aycock (Clemson) at 2025 GRC MAST!!! 🥳🎉👏🏼

POSTDOC🚨
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.

Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny - Nature Zip promotes the accumulation of free phages in bacterial lysogen communities, safeguarding phage progeny.

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny

@nature.com from @themaxwelllab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Convergent evolution in toxin detection and resistance provides evidence for conserved bacterial–fungal interactions | PNAS Microbes rarely exist in isolation and instead form complex polymicrobial communities. As a result, microbes have developed intricate offensive and...

Now published at PNAS!

Convergent evolution in toxin detection and resistance provides evidence for conserved bacterial–fungal interactions | PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It was fun to write this piece together with colleagues from three continents (Cynthia Adinortey, @stephenkdolan.bsky.social, Sarah Doore, Rebeccah Lijek, Diana Priscila Pires, Wenqi Yu), and we hope that our summary will be helpful for other researchers and journal editors.

Delighted to share our work uncovering a new toxin detection system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Comments and thoughts welcome!