Sooo excited (still kind of in shock😬) to get this score on my first F32 submission. So grateful for my support system and mentors! Can’t wait to continue exploring the role of mucin-degrading A. muciniphila and GBS in the female genital tract! #MaternalFetalHealth #DoranFactor

Now that the shock has worn off, I am SO STOKED to share that I received a fundable score on my F32! Infinite thank yous to everyone who has supported, mentored, and encouraged me. Now off to the world of mucus-bacteria interactions 🧫🧪👃🧬🧻 #teammucus

Super excited for this years Wind River Conference with an incredible line-up of keynote speakers! An amazing conference filled with plenty of opportunities for trainees to present talks or posters. Register here: wriver.sites.unlv.edu

ECRs - dont forget to sign up for the Streptococcal GRS (Aug 10-11)!! Enterococci are welcome too! We have spots still available, so sign up and come hanging out with fellow ECRs before the main GRC. ***Abstract deadline for talk selections May 5!*** grc.org/streptococcal-… RT!

We are ecstatic to announce that #CUAnschutz has been ranked #17 nationally – and #24 globally – in Nature journal's 2023 health sciences index ranking! 🖤💛

You can read the full breakdown of what exactly this means for our campus here: nature.com/articles/d4158…

What could be better than a postdoc in Chicago? Come study host-microbe interactions with cool bacteria!
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Feel free to email with questions or to submit an application: [email protected]

Extremely excited and honored to work with NMDC!

Our first research paper from the Palmer lab led by Hannah Noel is out in mBio! tinyurl.com/2s3urau4 We show the essential glycan carrier Und-P and the Mla system synergize for the A. baumannii cell envelope. This project started with a surprise from ATCC... a 🧵

Absolutely honored to join the CZI community and thrilled to embark on this with the one and only Jonathan Kipnis 💔. This joint effort is set to push the boundaries of neuroscience and advance brain health. Grateful and excited for what's ahead! #neuroimmunology #makingADifference

Check out this deadly good story from Zachary Burcham and Dr. Jessica Metcalf!

A conserved community of microbes assemble to drive decomposition

Pun absolutely intended 💀

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So cool to have our story featured in TWiM 🧫🔬

Streptococcus pneumoniae can evade antibiotic-mediated killing by inactivating specific metabolic networks instead of developing resistance mutations, which come at a high fitness cost. Find the study in mBio: asm.social/1FD

Postdoc position available in my lab! Projects will focus on the multi-scale impacts of bacteriophages in the gut microbiome & will build on our previous/ongoing work with Bacteroides phages. Apply here: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-re…

I am very excited to see our study on S. aureus lipoprotein-mediated toxin repression out in PLOS Biology! Many thanks to everyone involved! Horswill Lab Morgan M. Severn Young-Saeng C. Avina Christian Jenul Rebecca Keogh

As Jan-Willem Veening mentioned: the 2024 Streptococcal Biology GRS will be happening Aug 10-11, 2024!

We the excellent speakers Dr. Jessica Scoffield UAB Microbiology for the keynote address and mentoring session led by Kimberly Kline 🏔!

Huge congratulations to my friend Michael Bertucci!

Excited to share our story about S. aureus and itch!

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Excited to share the hard work of Marlyd Mejia and an incredible team on vaginal microbiota and pathogen dynamics in a humanized microbiota mouse model! nature.com/articles/s4152…

So universities make research professors pay for their entire salary & research through grant funding, but then the university also takes a cut of your grant funding? Seems like you’d have to always apply for grants, so when do you do research? Is this why you’re all kinda grumpy