Looking forward to a great symposium on Commensal-Pathogen Interactions at #ASMicrobe with talks by @KLemonLab and Joe Zackular and featuring 4 great trainee abstracts. Come see us on Sunday morning 6/18 at 8:15AM in Rm 371!

Wow, this is fantastic! UAB's Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo from my department UAB Medicine will succeed Tony Fauci as director of the NIAID! uab.edu/news/people/it…

Congrats to Caitlyn Sebastian and all of the students who presented flash talks at the UAB GBS student research symposium today. It was a really nice snapshot of work going on the different PhD student program themes

Excited to share the first paper from our lab is out as a preprint! Joshua Huffines established a dual-species culture model to investigate S. aureus-Corynebacterium interactions on nasal cells & how temperature influences bacterial persistence & cytotoxicity

Excited to say our first research article from the lab with great work by Joshua Huffines is officially live! mSphere ASM Temperature influences commensal-pathogen dynamics in a nasal epithelial cell co-culture model | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Very excited to share that Uday @snowkaryote and I will be joining the Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Bio Dept UVA-MIC UVA School of Medicine as Assistant Professors this Fall! 🎉 My lab will study protein secretion in Gram-positive bacteria and its impact on host barriers & immunity.

No surprise that NIH funding is stalling and the long term impact will be devastating. Just after we honored #RareDiseaseDay, a community dependent on federal support, this slowdown threatens lifesaving research. Patients can’t afford delays - we have to invest in science to

March 7th! Let’s all stand up for Science, life saving biomedical research funded by the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation….it underpins the development of new medicines, clinical trials & new technologies. Science creates jobs!

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. scim.ag/3XlYkEu News from Science

Ok. I guess I have to address this. The information on your phone app comes FROM data provided by NOAA for free. NOAA gathers weather data (daily balloon launches) and feeds it into the modeling so your phone can tell you it's going to rain tomorrow. Saying we don't need NOAA or

If promoting #ScienceForAll is controversial, then something is wrong with our society, right? Am I missing something? Shouldn't we be pursuining knowledge about how diseases work and impact people? Or is that idea controversial? There's nothing partisan about that.

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion, Rebecca Calisi Rodríguez go.nature.com/3Xpt0oo

Isn't Jay Bhattacharya's vision for the NIH to boost dissident views and encourage dialogue? How does this support his view?

AAI encourages members and friends of #immunology to #StandUpforScience tomorrow, March 7. Join the rally in Washington, D.C., find events local to you, or participate in the National Day of Action to uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility, and ensure its

“UAB saved my life, twice.” HAPPENING NOW: Rally for Science in Railroad Park. ABC 33/40 News Signs read, “In Science we trust.” The rally is in response to the Trump Administration cuts to NIH.

Closing Soon: Help shape the future of disability health research at #NIH by submitting your input on the framework for the NIH Strategic Plan for Disability Health Research. Responses are due by 3/12/25. go.nih.gov/c9AiRUX

"Our futures are at stake with this." UAB students speak out amid potential NIH funding cuts. UAB received more $400 million in funding from the NIH in 2023. ABC 33/40 News

‘Everyone loses’: 300 patients, researchers, students rally in Birmingham to protest Trump spending cuts al.com/educationlab/2…

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on