#FEMS2023 has started! Full lecture hall and loads of smiles! Enjoy these 4 days of science 🤩🦠🔬

Beautiful talk by Jorge Galan!

Great talks and inspiring discussions at #FEMS2023 in Hamburg, Germany!

Join us at Michigan! There's still time to apply.

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Early-career scientists, have you completed a Ph.D. in the last 10 years? Been the first author of 2+ peer-reviewed papers? Join our #mBio Junior Editorial Board to gain more valuable experience. Learn more and apply by Oct. 31: asm.social/1um

Structure-driven exploration of secretins opens the way to better understand these giant portals of the bacterial envelope. New paper from the lab by Voulhoux's group : Insights into dynamics and gating properties of T2SS secretins | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the U.S. are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Learn more on #STEMSTEAMday: scim.ag/4Kv

Congratulations to the 2023 medicine laureates! Watch the very moment Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received their Nobel Prize diplomas and medals during the 2023 Nobel Prize award ceremony. #NobelPrize

New year, new class of antibiotic - but the old model of reimbursement will kill it unless we change course. A new class of antibiotics is cause for cautious celebration — but the economics must be fixed nature.com/articles/d4158…

Who would have thought? Bacterial flagella hijack type IV pili proteins to control motility | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Beautiful day and enough snow for cross-country skiing in Ann Arbor today!

Today is Fettisdagen (Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday) in Sweden. It's the last day before the Lenten fast and traditionally the day to eat semlor. Indulge! #semla #fettisdagen #semlor

Excited to announce that the 14th International Acinetobacter conference (and first in North America!) will take place in Niagara Falls on July 6-10 2025 in collaboration with FASEB. More info to follow. #FasebAcinetobacter

Registration for Vibrio2024 is now open! Please kindly spread the word to those that might be interested ♻️ event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2024/pag…

We are still accepting applications! CRC tier 2 positions are tenure track faculty positions that are open to all nationalities and are reserved for candidates who are within 10 years of receiving their PhD (longer if the candidate has taken a leave).

The type II secretion system as an underappreciated and understudied mediator of interbacterial antagonism | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ia…

Ever wondered how phenotypic heterogeneity is kept to a minimum in bacteria? We provide an answer by showing that c-di-GMP made during division ensures phenotypically similar daughters. Wonderful coll Jenal_lab & fantastic work by Maria & MarcoHerfurth rdcu.be/dN5Vf