www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
So sad for all the students and faculty and staff. This is also a huge loss for higher ed. Hampshire College was always a place I looked at and imagined how fun it would be to teach there.
Community Science Program New Investigator (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 CSP New Investigator recipients! Jennifer Goff SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Trailblazers of PyOM Breakdown: Are actinomycetes taking the lead?
From our FY26 New Investigator call: @jlgoff.bsky.social will use multi-omics to identify which soil microbes degrade PyOM from prescribed burns, providing insights for biochar use in bioenergy systems.
jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio
This needs to be talked about. Moving was financially brutal when I took my position. I got very little moving reimbursement & my first paycheck arrived after 6 wks.
I now have persistent issues with student researchers having paychecks coming MONTHS late .
www.chronicle.com/article/cong...
Sharing about environmental microbes with Senator May and Chancellor King!
Had a blast talking to our state legislators and SUNY officials about why we should care about environmental microbes!!
Made it!
I’m concerned if that’s what your iced coffee looks like….
Microbes go to Albany for the SUNY Research Expo
Excited for this new project with JGI!
Vote for Oakie in mascot madness!
Not only is an acorn objectively the coolest mascot for a forestry school, but Oakie is also a big fan of a microbiology-themed game created in @micromaresca.bsky.social’s biochem II class!
www.suny.edu/mascotmadnes...
Even if you have students in the audience, you have 0 rapport with them, so it can be hard to get buy-in for things that you would normally implement very successfully in your own classes (example: I did a case study at a demo and it was awkward with the demo audience but my students now LOVE them)
☝️this! I have not watched demos but having done them myself, I felt like things went more smoothly when I kept things simple. I found that faculty (often the main audience) were resistant to participating in a lot of activities but were fine with a lecture+small assessments scattered throughout.
Present your research at the 2026 CNY Environmental Science & Studies Conference (March 27–28, SUNY ESF)! Student oral talks (10–12 min) & posters welcome. Free, interdisciplinary, and open regionally.
Registration deadline is March 6! There are still lots of spots open for student talks!
When your flight to DC for a meeting was cancelled due to blizzard but you are still deeply committed to hanging out with your postdoc lab bestie who will be at the meeting.
Georgie visits lab meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😻
Love making dreams come true at work! @hannahgreich.bsky.social
Proud of my winter community college interns for presenting on their research projects today! In just two weeks they accomplished a lot of new work!
The peak of my academic career has definitely been our local cheese shop sharing the ESF insta post about the cheese day I do in my class! 🧀🧀🧀
⏰ Reminder: Peggy Cotter Travel Award apps due Feb 16!
We have 3 $1,650 travel awards for ASM Microbe 2026!
👩🔬 Early-career professionals (≤15 yrs from terminal degree)are eligible
📧 Apply: jegoff@esf.edu
🧬 ASM + CNY ASM membership are required
Learn more: sites.google.com/view/cnyasm/...
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is funded by the National Science Foundation to create "points of entry" for students interested in research. Students apply from across the country to spend 10 weeks in Bozeman, Montana this summer (May 26, 2026 - August 1, 2026). Admitted students are paired with a faculty mentor, who serves as an advisor for a student's summer project. Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Our program leverages MSU’s unique microbiology expertise, focusing specifically on microbes living with little or no oxygen (like those in the hot springs of nearby Yellowstone). Low oxygen microbes are essential to human and ecosystem health. They influence (or control) such processes as the breakdown of food in the GI tract, removal of toxins from our bodies and the environment, and production of greenhouse gases. They are also models for understanding the origins of life on this planet, and the potential for life on other planets. A key goal of our program is to recruit students from schools with limited research infrastructure. Being in Montana, a state with a vibrant Native American community, we are particularly interested in applications from students at tribal colleges. However, ANYONE with an interest in microbiology - or biology/science in general - can and should apply. If willing and able, please share/tweet/spread the word far and wide. Applications are due February 14, 2026. Full details can be found through our website http://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
Georgie says that you’re doing amazing!
⏰ Reminder: Peggy Cotter Travel Award apps due Feb 16!
CNY ASM is offering up to 3 awards ($1,650 each) for ASM Microbe 2026 (DC, June 4–7).
👩🔬 Early-career professionals (≤15 yrs from terminal degree)
📧 Apply: jegoff@esf.edu
🧬 ASM national + CNY ASM membership required (can do after applying)
The experimental work done here as primarily performed by my undergraduate mentee Konnor when I was at UGA. He also did the analysis and integration of the proteomics and RBTn-Seq data.
Using a combination of proteomics , metabolomics, and RB-TnSeq we worked out the details in this non-model organism to expand our understanding of acid tolerance mechanisms beyond enteric bacteria. 🧵
We found that glutamate biosynthesis was protective under acidic conditions despite the lack of a canonical glutamate decarboxylase system while BCAA biosynthesis was detrimental to growth under these same conditions. 🧵
This strain can carry out complete denitrification at pH below 6 but lacks your “traditional” acid tolerance genes in its genome. So we set out to examine how this strain acclimates to acidic conditions. 🧵
