Did you know that it only takes one spontaneous mutation in your bacterial culture to activate a phage, and trigger a subsequent cascade of bacterial/phage evolution? 🧪 Curious how you could detect similar events in your experiments? Check out Nanami’s work!

Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium - Nature Microbiology Genomic and functional analyses of healthcare-associated vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium reveal that bacteriocin T8 is enriched in emergent lineages and provides a competitive advantage in v...

Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social

CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies More than 1 in 10 of the health agency's workers are being let go, including an entire new class of CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officers.

CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dis...

Many researchers are still waiting on Notice of Awards to start their work. Delays (or worse, withdrawals) don’t just pause projects—they ripple through the entire system, stalling discoveries and breakthroughs.

Cutting off research funding means cutting off progress.

#PublicHealth

Home The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program funds innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and Informal Science Education (ISE) educational projects for pre-kinde

Since 1991, the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) is dedicated to K-12 students & funds innovative STEM educational projects.

It supports our EvolvingSTEM program that engages >1500 students/yr in authentic research.

🚨Its Program Announcement (PAR-23-137) is now GONE.😡
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Exploring SNP filtering strategies: the influence of strict vs soft core Phylogenetic analyses are crucial for understanding microbial evolution and infectious disease transmission. Bacterial phylogenies are often inferred from SNP alignments, with SNPs as the fundamental ...

Do you make core genome alignments for phylogenomics? Mona Taouk and I explored how including sites with some missing data (a soft core) can improve analysis, especially for large datasets.
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Congrats Vaughn!

I'm incredibly honored by this opportunity to serve as President-Elect of @asm.org starting this summer. Looking forward to working with the Board, ASM leadership ,and staff to help advance the microbial sciences. I'm also glad to share my Vision statement, please join us!
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I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

Ryan Wick has tested out the latest kits and basecalling for bacterial genome assembly:

rrwick.github.io/2023/10/24/o...

At assembly error rates like this I start to begin wondering what is "ground truth"