Congratulations to you both!!

My wife couldn’t watch. Was stunned when I told her it was (then) 4-2.

What a 3rd period!!!

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

American science is shrinking.

A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

Great talk and great to see you! Thanks for traveling out to Madison.

We are excited to host the 2026 Midwest Neglected Infectious Diseases (MNID) Meeting in Madison from Aug 7-8. Registration (free) and Abstract submission are online. Please share! www.mnidmeeting.org #MNID26

Seminar announcement flyer for the Medical Microbiology & Immunology Seminar Series at the University of Wisconsin. The flyer reads: "12:05 PM | 1520 Microbial Sciences Building." Featured event: April 17 — talk titled "Clostridioides difficile Pathogenesis: from Nursery to Nursing Home" by Dr. Joseph Zackular, University of Pennsylvania. A photo shows Dr. Zackular, a smiling man in a light blue shirt, standing in a laboratory setting. The UW Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology logo appears in the bottom left. Sponsored by the UW Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine and Public Health, and the Bonnie DeMeio Fund.

At the top of the hour... Come see today's exciting @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social seminar by @joeyzacks.bsky.social!

Buckle up, Penn State!

A job posting flyer from the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison advertising a Teaching Faculty II position. The role involves coordinating and teaching microbiology lab courses and/or large enrollment introductory classes. The application deadline is May 5, 2026, at 11:59pm CDT. Applications must be submitted electronically via the Jobs at UW portal; emailed applications are not accepted. Applicants must upload a single document containing a cover letter, CV, and teaching philosophy. The job listing URL is https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/teaching-faculty-ii-madison-wisconsin-united-states, Job ID JR10009916. The flyer notes that Madison, Wisconsin is described as a vibrant place to live and work, combining college-town energy, lakeside scenery, and a community-focused atmosphere.

Interested in a teaching faculty position in Bacteriology at UW-Madison? See the attached announcement! @uwbact.bsky.social

‼️ Excited to announce 1st session of #KlebClub2026!

We kick things off with a session on pathogenesis, with *Jay Vornhagen* as keynote speaker, alongside 2 short talks selected from submitted abstracts - Sylvie MIQUEL & @microbiosaroj.bsky.social

🗓 Thursday 9
🕘 9:00 -10:30 AM (EDT)

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PIs/group leaders, what was the most important aspect of the first paper your lab published

1️⃣ Establishing the lab's identity
2️⃣ Communicating an important discovery
3️⃣ Completing a project started as a postdoc
4️⃣ Other

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Postdoctoral Position - BMB APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

For non-scientists, LTER programs run for decades, so scientists can learn how ecosystems change over time. These programs cover ecology, evolution, systems biology, and it includes animals, plants, even microbes, and more. We learned so much about how our world works with LTERs. This sucks :(

Next Friday! The 🧪MMI Seminar Series 🔬features Dr. Michael Gale from the University of Minnesota!
mmi.wisc.edu/calendar/

Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking This flu season has been rough. Antivirals can help.

This excellent @theatlantic.com article by @sarahzhang.bsky.social provides additional information. 4/4 www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

For prophylaxis, you may want to ask for a prescription if you've had close contact with someone who gets flu, including family members. 3/4

I learned about Xofluza from my colleague @mehlelab.bsky.social. In practice it is hard to get. Our kids' pediatrician has a streamlined protocol for Tamiflu (thanks @uwhealth.bsky.social!) but we had to be persistent to get Xofluza. And since it is rarely prescribed, few pharmacies stock it. 2/4

This flu season I've learned...

1. Home tests are readily available, including combined flu/covid tests.

2. Antivirals need to be taken within 48 h.

3. Xofluza is better than Tamiflu (one dose; more effective against flu B) but few know about it.

4. Antivirals can be taken as prophylaxis.

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ASM got off on bad footing but righted the ship almost immediately. The initial issue was almost entirely a communication problem. ASM is not perfect but is a large org doing important work. Their journals are excellent. Here is one of many things they have done since. bsky.app/profile/vsco...

Congratulations!!

Dear letter writers, study sections, grant panels, etc…..(though expecting little will resonate)….

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...

Happy to share Episode 126 of #MattersMicrobial, w Spencer Nyholm, discussing how maternal microbes protect squid eggs from fungal infection. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? #MicrobialEvangelist #MicrobialCentricity @microbetv.bsky.social @spencernyholm.bsky.social

youtu.be/aQKZNfx4nRQ?...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa dynamically prioritizes motility and resource recycling during prolonged starvation | mSystems Molecular microbiology has traditionally focused on exponential growth in model organisms as the preferred context in which to study bacterial physiology, especially the regulation of new protein synt...

Now out in its final form, our investigation of how Pseudomonas aeruginosa manages resources to permit ongoing adaptations to environment during starvation:
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Congrats to first author @findunmun1.bsky.social, and co-authors Claudia Hemsley and Elize Ambulte.

Evolution of host–microbe symbioses: linking horizontal gene transfer to ecological function at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Evolution of host–microbe symbioses: linking horizontal gene transfer to ecological function at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨 PhD opportunity in evolutionary microbiology!

Join our lab to study how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses and ecological function

Plus: a PDRA position in comparative genomics is available

✉️ l.henry@qmul.qc.uk

Apply below

#PhD #Postdoc #Microbiology #Evolution #Genomics

Nice!

Wisconsin defeats Ohio State to win back-to-back NCAA women’s hockey championships It took the high-octane Badgers’ offense just 78 seconds to open the scoring as they defeated the Buckeyes 3-2 on Sunday.

Congratulations Badgers Women Hockey!!! www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

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