Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position for a recent graduate to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
Please contact Hank Seifert h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#Microsky, #Microbiology, #MicrobialEvolution
Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...
As part of the ZDMS cancer RIG 2026 meet up webinars, we want to encourage ECR participants to apply for the opportunity to share their research with our community, if you are doing cool cancer research using #zebrafish please apply here eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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As today is #WorldTBDay we urge you to read this powerful interview with Dr Zolelwa Sifumba highlighting how her experience as a #tuberculosis survivor, alongside her training as a medical doctor, complements her work as a patient advocate for TBProof in South Africa
doi.org/10.1242/dmm....
Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible!
-Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline
I’m pleased 🤗 to share our new preprint exploring the mode of action and resistance of the antitubercular drug pyrazinamide (PZA) 💊 Thanks to everyone who have participated 🙌
We hope these findings will help the fight against drug resistance in tuberculosis.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This is a fascinating paper that reveals defined and clear mechanism for a phenomenon that for some seemed unbelievable- the up regulation of genes paralogous to those with specific types of inactivating mutations. This is called transcriptional adaptation 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...
A comprehensive and thought-provoking review on how perturbations of proteostasis impact immunity in C. elegans & comparisons/conserved principles w/ vertebrate immunity - Emily Troemel, @hawlelab.bsky.social, and Michalis Barkoulas
journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/...
Cartoon representing the mycobacterial oxidative phosphorylation system, including cytochromes, NDH-2, and ATP synthase. Taken from Figure 1 of the article.
#Microbiology
The anti-tuberculosis drug bedaquiline targets the mycobacterial ATP synthase, but how that leads to bacterial death is unclear
Here the authors clarify how bedaquiline works
@jnblab.bsky.social @morwan.me
#TBSky #antibiotics #AMR
http://dlvr.it/TQjZ0W
I’m recruiting new members to the Farrell Lab this summer. We will have space for 1 postdoc (since Abhinav is leaving to start his own lab at U Arizona!!) and 2 postbacs, since my current two will leave for PhD programs at the end of the summer. More details in thread:
Friends! I am so happy to share our new preprint!
Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago.
How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Are you a recent graduate with a passion for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics — and a desire to influence public policy in North Carolina?
The NC STEM Policy Post-Graduate Fellowship is now open for applications through March 9, 2026.
ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/nc-stem-poli...
For scientists choosing where to build their careers, these questions are essential, and they shape who decides the U.S. is, or isn’t, a viable place to do science.
I keep thinking about one of the last things Bill Foege said to me: “Bet on the optimists. You need the optimist to say, ‘We’re going to try to do it.’”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by
@sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...
Our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Apply by 6 February 2026.
biologists.com/grants/trave...
Excited to share work led by the wonderful Gopi Viswanathan examining roles of granuloma neutrophils &defining bacterial transcriptional profiles within mycobacterial granulomas. Cool collab with Qingyun Liu at UNC for evolutionary analysis of granuloma-specific genes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF BIOLOGY OF MYOCBACTERIA GRC WILL BE IN 2028, NOT 2027. Exact date and location TBD. Sorry about the long wait, but we think it is better long term. PLEASE repost/tell your friends!
Thrilled to share our new preprint showing that dietary amino acids license the NLRP3 inflammasome via mTOR-dependent mRNA translation! Congrats to co-1st authors @mikelhaggadone.bsky.social, Brian Goldspiel, co-senior author @metabailism.bsky.social & collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill:
One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science.
The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%.
THIS IS BAD.
🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur
Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines
Special interest: AI methodologies
📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026
👥 2-12 years post-PhD
Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea...
#JobOpportunity #Research
Sharing our lab’s first publication! Probing clinical isolates of Cryptococcus, a disease-causing fungus of the lungs and brain, we found multiple heat-mobile elements that ‘jump’ in the genome at body temperature (!) with the ability to drive adaptive changes. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
ASM Mechanism Discovery Meeting - Last chance to submit your abstract. Share your science. Deadline: Jan.21, 2 p.m. ET.
Last chance to submit to the ASM Mechanism Discovery Meeting at #ASMicrobe 2026. Abstracts close Jan. 21 at 2 p.m. ET. Showcase foundational research uncovering the mechanisms that power microbial life. Submit now: asm.social/2LT
A*STAR/KCL PhD scholarship available!
Dream of doing cutting-edge research, travelling between continents, and becoming obsessed with modelling infections in zebrafish?
My lab and @oehlerslab.org are looking for you!
Project details: 👉 shorturl.at/mkt1a
Catalogue page 6, project 2.1!
The appropriations bill that includes NIH is being finalized.
The Senate bill includes a bipartisan amendment from Senators Capito (WV) and Baldwin (WI) limiting multi-year funding of grants.
The House version does not and OMB has issued a veto threat if the House includes such language.
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We are hiring new faculty!! Come join our amazing community in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine! The deadline for applications is 2/21, but applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta...
Grinnell College has openings for two 1-year term positionsto teach microbiology and immunology. More information here:
apply.interfolio.com/179939
📣Building Bridges in Leukocyte Biology #BBinLB webinar series hosted by the @leukocytebiology.bsky.social
Next speaker: @oehlerslab.org
"Differential subversion of host immune signalling by tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria"
📅 Jan 28 at 9 am EST -register free link below
#Zebrafish
We’re hiring!
@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community!
Details below👇
