What an effort! My old Monash University colleagues Glen Carter (not on twitter) and Benjamin Howden show in nature that prophylactic therapy induces last-line resistance in VRE. Big implications! nature.com/articles/s4158…

PSA, USB drives forgotten about in jeans pocket and gone through the washing machine still work! 🫣

2026!

Latest arricle out from Jeff M Boyd that we collaborated with along with Carroll Lab 🇺🇦 Jeffrey L Bose Eric Skaar. Showing that a non-coding RNA in S.aureus can impact metabolism and virulence! Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Rutgers University academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Excited to highlight our new work in #mbio showing how an A. baumannii type VI secretion system effector functions and is delivered. Awesome work by Valeriya Bezkorovayna , Brooke Hayes Francesca Gillett , Amy Wright David I Roper Dr Sheena McGowan and Marina Harper journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

We at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Center for Immunity and Inflammation are hiring at all levels. Please reach out if you want information, please RT. academiccareers.com/job/133970/ope…

Seems everyone is joining 🦋 bluesky, so you can find me over there at the same handle!

Sex differences in pneumococcal vaccine efficacy!

Does EM use Grok 3?

Association between living with our fury friends and MRSA infection!? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39995309/

RIPK3 can promote neuronal survival during viral infection by Brian Daniels at Rutgers University ! cell.com/immunity/fullt…

Latest from the lab! We had previously shown sex differences in A. baumannii pulmonary infection. Here, we show that human males have worse outcomes compared to females. Mice are not people! Work led by a super med student Matt Linz, MD ASM tinyurl.com/mr9xrbba

The virtual Staphylococcal meeting is happening July 9-10, cheap and easy way to stay up-to-date with the latest research! staphsymposia.org

Latest from the lab! We show in Mucosal Immunology a new humanized mouse model of S. aureus infection using human lung tissue examining the immune and bacterial responses! #OpenAccess mucosalimmunology.org/article/S1933-…

An improved humanized mouse model of Staphylococcus aureus infection to study pneumonia from Dane Parker mucosalimmunology.org/article/S1933-…

Such an honor to receive the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Faculty Organization Faculty of the Year Award.

We are hiring virologists at all levels! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/672389/vir…

Latest from the lab. We joined Amali Samarasinge and Charles Dela Cruz and a cast of many on a workshop for best practices for models of bacterial pneumonia American Thoracic Society (ATS) …rnals-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/doi/full/10.11…