📢 The CARB-X Portal is now open!
Submit an Expression of Interest to apply for CARB-X funding for new #therapeutics, #preventatives, and #diagnostics to address drug-resistant bacteria. The deadline to apply is 22 April at 23:59 ET. 🧪 #ChemSky #IDSky
🔗 Apply now: bit.ly/3P56UDB
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@mlipsitch.bsky.social and I shared a few words about a giant of public health and immunology--and a beloved friend and mentor, who bridged basic science and its translation on a global scale.
A must read for anyone who cares (and these days, worries constantly) about American science and medicine.
Credit to Prof. Will Mair for sharing his story. There are many more stories like it.
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
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If you're a first-year biomedical Ph.D. student, I'd like to hear how your first few months of grad school have been going. I'm a science journalist at @statnews.com and got my Ph.D. in immunology before going into journalism. You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com. #journorequest
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
New preprint: with increasing resistance to ceftriaxone, the last recommended antibiotic for gonorrhea, we urgently need new drugs. Two--zoliflodacin & gepotdiacin--are up for approval by the FDA in Dec. Here we show a point mutation can result in cross-resistance. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
23 babies in 13 states have been diagnosed with infant #botulism linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, prompting a nationwide recall. Public health laboratories and federal partners have played crucial roles in the investigation, which is still ongoing. buff.ly/xU3Czsf
Excited to be moderating this fireside chat next week! We’ll dig into what’s happening with our research and the broader science environment. It won’t be all doom and gloom, as we’ll also share what’s keeping us optimistic. Join us!
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
Thank you!! It was a joy and honor to be a part of this event!
Dr. Anthony Fauci in a black suit and tie.
We are so excited to share that Bailey Bowcutt (@baileybowcutt.bsky.social), PhD student in the Grad Lab, moderated the Harvard Chan Studio event, “Dr. Anthony Fauci: Insights from 50 years of public service.”
🎦 Watch the full interview: youtu.be/qHxR75vO83M?...
UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
New STI surveillance data from the CDC shows declines in gonorrhea, chlamydia, and primary and secondary syphilis (though tragically congenital syphilis continues to increase). What explains these declines? (1/2)
With the article link:
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(The tinyurl wasn't clickable for me.)
Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
A student raises her hand and Djeneba Diallo calls on her during the outreach program. They are in an elementary classroom.
A student looks on as Dr. Hardy helps him load a slide into the microscope.
A student looks through a microscope and Djeneba Diallo looks through another microscope.
A close-up picture of a slide in a microscope.
MGI associate professor Jonathan Hardy and recent MSU human biology graduate Djeneba Diallo went out to Eisenhower Elementary in Flint, MI to introduce sixth-graders to the world of microbiology!
Read more here: tinyurl.com/mr3ab7zu
That’s how I know my writing is ready lol. When the options are set it on fire or submit, and I’d rather choose set it on fire.
I hope you get good news soon!
Very exciting.
College juniors and recent grads: note the approaching deadline for the 1st round, July 31.
Some difficult news from the team: In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff. Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date. We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠
An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠
I got the opportunity to speak with Science about my individual research fellowship being terminated. I was awarded the NSF GRFP before I chose Harvard for graduate school, but I still got cut. I study how we can improve treatments for a common antibiotic resistant bacteria, so this is sad to see
"Working Together to End TB." Our department's research saves lives, and we're proud to see IID's tuberculosis researchers highlighted alongside other incredible Harvard Chan School scientists! Check out the video to learn more about their impactful work (in 7 words)!
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I had a bad feeling and reached out to my NSF GRFP coordinating offer at Harvard. She confirmed all NSF GRFPs were cut here. Students were just never notified from NSF unlike the other grant terminations
I’m hoping that there will be some rapid action to get legal support to the PhD students who have had their NSF GRFP (fellowships) terminated in the Trump regime’s latest attacks on academia.
New preprint. After years of increases, gonorrhea diagnosis rates dropped in the US in 2022 and 2023. While the news is promising, understanding WHY is key to sustaining progress.
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I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school