Infectious disease is the only field of Medicine where: 1) drugs that used to work become useless (resistance); 2) new diseases emerge regularly (HIV, COVID); and 3) therapeutic options for some diseases have gotten worse with time. magazine.jhsph.edu/2023/threat-of…

Happy to share these beautiful studies about ergosterol transport in C. neoformans, done by Keeley Choy with help from Ellie Gaylord. Two talented and insightful Wash U DBBS graduate students – it’s a privilege to work with them! @WUSM_MolMicro @WUSTLdbbs biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congratulations to Rohan Wakade for getting this story out. An in vivo microscopy based screen evaluating C. albicans morphogenesis is pretty darn cool. #krysanlab

Congratulations to my graduate mentor Audrey Odom John MD PhD for this honor. It is well deserved!

A *FREE* Microbiology Textbook with open licensing and rigorous vetting of written material. Such a refreshing take on an otherwise extortionate pricing model for students who can barely afford to student. Free AND Good?! Madness. Anyone teach it yet? openstax.org/details/books/…

“It’s just a few lines of code, right?” This is the well-known phrase for someone disregarding the effort put into software dev. Here are other insults for other functions in a genomics company 🧵:

"Coinfections in the lung: How viral infection creates a favorable environment for bacterial and fungal infections." Read it here: plos.io/3nLHVLf

Denise J. Jamieson has been named University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of our college. Welcome Dr. Jamieson! spr.ly/6011OmM49

Meet Dr. Damian Krysan, our division director for Infectious Disease. Here, he describes the collegiality among his colleagues at University of Iowa Health Care, how his division is a hospital-based subspecialty, and the research his team is known for. youtu.be/WpT-g5a4wnU

A nice collaboration with Tobias Hohl is now @fungalspore.bsky.social lab is out on Biorxiv, congrats to Matthew James on first paper :-) : Aspergillus fumigatus cytochrome c impacts conidial survival during sterilizing immunity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals at Booth 2743 at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) | American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting to learn more about their sterile and non-sterile clinical supply manufacturing and testing services. UIPharmacy

Highly recommend!!!

In just two weeks, UI Health Care researchers published new findings in FOUR high-impact journals on topics from treating metastatic eye cancer to how a fungus adapts to infect human hosts. spr.ly/6010umLr6

I'm extremely grateful to my mentors, colleagues, and the institutions that have invested in my training. I continue to be humbled by the willingness of people to invest in me as a scientist. The most recent is the NIH reviewers that issued a PERFECT score on my K22.

Excellent work by Sarah Beattie. Congratulations!!!

Postdoc Andrew Jezewski researches how the fungus Cryptococcus grows in the brain and how it tolerates carbon dioxide. Read his story: grad.uiowa.edu/news/2024/05/p…

It's official! I'll be joining a stellar group of faculty in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson and the Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center (EPIC) January 2025. Clemson EPIC linkedin.com/posts/cuepic_e…

Check out our pre-proof characterizing an acetate/acetoacetate utilizing enzyme in Leishmania. Helps explain what appeared to be a lack of acetoacetyl CoA ligase in an organism that should require one. UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics #krysanlab SSGCID doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.…