Three people in front of a door decorated for Christmas.

Happy holidays!!

3rd annual Coady Lab pumpkin painting!

Today's update: increasing numbers of last-minute study section cancellations owing to absence in the FedReg. This includes BV (close to home) and BMCD (NCI).

This is yet another example of procedural impoundment and is described well here:
www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

CALL YOUR REPS.

Happy Valentine’s Day from 5 kick ass microbiologists - who all made it to this week’s zoom meeting for the first time in ages! #women #STEM #faculty #science @katypatras.bsky.social @laurainthelab1.bsky.social @lindseyatutk.bsky.social @alisoncoady.bsky.social

Happy Black History Month! I’m not sure if ASM is celebrating this year, so I’ll share some links to ASM resources I had previously collated on black women in microbiology that are now deleted (or at risk of being deleted). Deleted content can be viewed via the internet archive (links provided).

mSphere of Influence: Revisiting the central dogma, again! | mSphere The idea that information flows from DNA to RNA to protein with an exception involving reverse transcription has stood the test of time. Protein-coding genes have been known to be encoded in a nucleic...

The journal mSphere published by ASM provides an opportunity to early career scientists to write about studies that have influenced them. I was fortunate to be recommended by Dr. Alfredo Torres. Thank you mSphere and Dr. Torres for the opportunity.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

OK GO YouTube video by wakskat

I stumbled across a video my graduate class made for retreat 17 years ago. And it reminded me of the joy and belonging I felt then. Like I’d finally found my people. I often still feel that way. youtu.be/d3tzNjGU0jo

Delighted that the final version of our Candida parapsilosis outbreak +MLST creation manuscript is out now in The Lancet Microbe.
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Thread of the main findings below!

Starter package "Scientists with pets they post often" ??

Mama Cat would like that.

The Medical Mycology Trainee Seminar Series is back! Our next seminar is November 14th at 4 pm GMT (5 pm Central Europe Time, 11 am Eastern Standard, 8 am Pacific Standard, 12 am in China). 1/12

That’s just a reflection of how much cooler she is than us.

The Coady lab attended the fall Texas Branch ASM meeting last week, went to a lot of talks, presented posters, gave talks, met up with friends, and had a great time. #txasm

A group of scientists holding painted pumpkins in lab

2nd Annual Coady Lab pumpkin painting 2024. ❤️

The Last of Us and the Question of a Fungal Pandemic in Real Life

doi.org/10.3201/eid3...

This was a fun project to work on in 2020. Happy to see it in print.

Viral afterlife: SARS-CoV-2 as a reservoir of immunomimetic peptides that reassemble into proinflammatory supramolecular complexes | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Perfect trainees and perfect mentors I often remark that the online science community is populated exclusively by two types: Hard working brilliant trainees doing the work of a PI in all but name (often held down by their evil, lazy, …

drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2023/12/20/p...

Coady Lab pumpkin painting!

del Olmo, V., Mixão, V., Fotedar, R. et al. Origin of fungal hybrids with pathogenic potential from warm seawater environments. Nat Commun 14, 6919 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Origin of fungal hybrids with pathogenic potential from warm seawater environments rdcu.be/dp0ZD

This is a story I’ve watched the Dickson lab develop.

I really did not care about mosquito genetics & climate change research when I started. Now… I still don’t.

But I do care about virus dissemination & this work argues climate change shifts mosquito genetics altering arbovirus ifxn.

The underside of a sea lion

We took advantage of the first cool weekend in Houston to visit one of our favorite places!

Microbiome twitter, we are looking for negative control samples from as many sources and kits as possible. If you've included blanks in your 16S or ITS amplicon seq project and the data is publicly available, drop a link in the thread!

RTs appreciated!

Behind every seemingly sane early stage professor, there is a slack of other ESIs shitposting through it with her...you know who you are.