Bhattacharya killing one of the most promising technologies in a generation for improving health, treating disease, & preventing mass death from pandemics was unforgivable; this will be his legacy
I was interviewed about his lies about mRNA vaccines here: www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/e...
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Such a fantastic visit! Thank you to @vanessasperandio2.bsky.social for hosting me! Had a blast connecting with the AMAZING @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social community!!
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!
2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
Massive and important positive news...
#NSF #GRFP awards are out.
2,599 awards!
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1,440 Honorable Mentions.
A significant boost from last year.
Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!
& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Tomorrow is the last day to submit an abstract for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating Bacterial Infections.
It is going to be an amazing meeting and we have a few slots left!
keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Enhancing Diabetic Wound Healing: A little help from Alcaligenes faecalis? #Microbiome #ActAgainstAmputation diabeticfootonline.c...
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Orlaith Keenan in the Zackular lab (@joeyzacks.bsky.social) defends her thesis tomorrow!
Excerpt from article interview of Paul Offit where he describes an interaction from 2005nwuth RFK Jr. "He made me a bad guy" Offit told The Philadelphi a Citizen last fall. "But I honestly don't think anybody is going to kill me. I certainly don't think they'll give me a heads-up first. They just want me to shut up." "And," he added, “fuck them."
@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass
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
Happy to share this study from the lab led by Orlaith Keenan published in mBio!
Working with an outstanding collaborative team, Orlaith demonstrated that maintaining the right balance of neutrophils is key to limiting severe disease during C. difficile infection. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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
Delighted to contribute to this review of the genetics of obesity, just out in @natmetabolism.nature.com, led by Amélie Bonnefond and Philippe Froguel.
@chopresearch.bsky.social @penngenetics.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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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Does an imbalanced gut microbiome worsen chronic kidney disease?
By elucidating the ecological causes for changes in the gut microbiota composition during chronic kidney disease and its consequences for disease progression we were able to answer this question.
I endorse this message
Bile acid dependent attenuation of toxin mediated disease is independent of colonization resistance against C. difficile www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Image from their link showing evidence of fabricated references
Holy smoke. What ultimately happened???
Call me when they start fighting over whether naming the lab after the PI is abusive to trainees
Even among healthy people, immune systems operate at different baseline levels.
In our new Cell paper, we show that these immune states are stable over time and are associated with the gut microbiome. 🧵
@cp-cell.bsky.social
#Immunology #SystemsImmunology
@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Acute Paternal Immune Activation Shapes Embryonic Development and Protects Offspring from Viral Infection
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @upenn.edu
@cambupenn.bsky.social @colinconine.bsky.social @kelliejurado.bsky.social
This moron has no idea how much of a third rail this is. If he goes through with a public fight with Dunkin he will never live this down. In the words of my people "fuck ya motha."
My awesome colleague, @yarimura.bsky.social, is recruiting a postdoc to start at the end of 2026 or early 2027! His lab uses cryo-EM to uncover structural basis of key chromatin events using native complexes isolated from human cells or Xenopus egg extracts!
careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/30706/p...
Poster of the 2026 CSHA meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense.
Please join us for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense this May 11-15 in Suzhou, China! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Abstract deadline is March 6. Hope to see you there!
⏰ 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.
🎥 youtu.be/8Ppjx-MnvxA
keysym.us/KSBeyondAnti...
#KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Latest from @gibbological.bsky.social.
"We [use] microbial community-scale metabolic models to predict probiotic engraftment and microbiota-mediated short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production in response to probiotic and prebiotic interventions...w/75-80% accuracy."
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
