Christina Koch is moon-bound. 🚀🌕 The three-time NC State grad and her fellow Artemis II crew members blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening. She will see parts of the solar system no human has ever seen before.
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Only TWO WEEKS left to register for @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, in Breckenridge!
Check out the lineup of speakers - it is going to be an amazing meeting! Join us in May! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Very provocative new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
As global temps rise, drought is becoming more frequent and prolonged across many regions
Paper shows climate-driven drying of soils can fuel antimicrobial resistance at its ecological source, independent of clinical antibiotic use
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We are looking for a talented research specialist to join our team at NCSU CVM in the Theriot lab! Please take a look and apply if your are interested.
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C. difficile is a terrible condition. Seems like it shouldn't have to be this hard to try to treat a child with a bad case of it. www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/c...
New preprint from the Theriot lab and collaborators, which looks at how strain-dependent bile acid transformations by commensal Clostridia attenuate C. difficile virulence and disease without decreasing colonization!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
⏰ Last chance to save $250! Register for Beyond Antibiotics by 11:59pm MST on March 5.
Join @joeyzacks.bsky.social, @kimingeneva.bsky.social, @dariavantyne.bsky.social & @maribyndloss.bsky.social to spark new collaborations.
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#NatMicroPicks
C. diff vaccine! 🦠💉
A protective mucosal vaccine formulation that provides sterilizing immunity to clear C. difficile from the host.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Some nice press from a recent international collaboration with researchers from Leiden University.
news.cvm.ncsu.edu/a-mouse-mode...
Nearly 1,000 people have registered so far! Don't miss out!
Really fun collaboration with Roman Melnyk from The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute and Peter Dosa from University of Minnesota, making synthetic bile acids to be gut-restricted prevents C. difficile infection in a preclinical mouse model
#NewResearch
A bile acid-bound structure of toxin TcdB revealed the mechanism of inhibition and guided the design of a synthetic bile acid that alleviated C. difficile infection in mice.
#MicroSky 🦠💊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really nice work driven by postdocs Dr. Gancz in my lab and Dr. Zhang in Baker @erinbakerims.bsky.social lab at UNC, looking at novel lipids and how they might play a role in restoring colonization resistance against C. difficile in patients with rCDI post FMT.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Leids ‘superantibioticum’ houdt met lage dosis gevaarlijke darmbacterie in bedwang www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/...
New paper alert! In this work, published in @natcomms.nature.com we show that a new antibiotic is effective against (r)CDI. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really nice collaboration with the Martin and Smits labs at Leiden University Netherlands, designing and testing novel antimicrobials that target C. difficile but spare members of the microbiota, including Lachnospiraceae.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE) SPIRE’s Mission: 1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 2) To promote effective teaching and research partnerships between research intensive institutions and partner institutions with a large population of underrepresented students The four major components of the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program include: Research Teaching Professional Development Additional Opportunities
Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n
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If you believe that keeping your head down and being quiet will spare you from this fate, you are mistaken. This will be all of us.
Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.
Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
The best of both worlds with awesome speakers that will focus on how the microbiome affects ecosystems at a mechanistic level. Can’t wait for this meeting.
A federal agency - which controls an enormous amount of money - is breaking the law to hide its decisions from you and avoid accountability.
Hey OMB, see you in court.
I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
Thank you Senator Tillis! NC folks drop him an email or make a call and thank him
We’ve known for months now that Vought was illegally impounding funds with the goals of rescissions. Better late than never for GOP Senators to politely ask that he stop breaking the law.
Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07....
I am so excited about this meeting. I will cover the discovery of 10,000s new metabolites, including an entirely new class of molecules. Looking forward to hearing and discussing your science on microbiome metabolites and metabolism.
New paper is out from our lab showing that some probiotics can accelerate and prolong the return of colonization resistance to C. difficile after antibiotics.
news.ncsu.edu/2025/07/prob...
Join us in Banff, CAN January 19-22 for the Keystone meeting on Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites! Early scholarship deadline is September 23!
