Please RT: We are hiring at @WRAIR. We have two ORISE open positions/fellowships in the bioinformatic team at the MRSN. You will be doing research (genomic epi of MDR) but also clinical investigations (routine, genome-based detection of outbreaks in near real-time).

Mastodon handle 👆 for friends & colleagues making the leap

This was a tour de force and we were lucky to play a small supporting role. Congrats to the team! ID Pitt Stop CEBaM

Sometimes, just to shake things up a little bit, I use SNV instead of SNP

MDTP Student Highlight: Madison Youngblom Madison Youngblom, PhD is a PhD student in the Caitlin Pepperell who studies population ‘omics of bacterial pathogens #microbiology #UWMadison

Join us on Wednesday (7/19) at 10:00AM in 1120 Biochemistry for an exciting #MDTP dissertation defense seminar! Madison Youngbloom from Dr. Pepperell's lab will present her work on "Identifying signatures of bacterial adaptation to pathogenic niche using evolutionary genomics"

Our collaborative effort on the ever-sneaky C difficile, which has been spreading globally for the past few decades with cryptic DR rdcu.be/dgErF

Nicole Creanza on the interactions between socially learned song and speciation in songbirds #smbe23 #smbe2023 using data from eBird

Wonderfully clear talk from Creanza Lab on bird song evolution at #SMBE2023 bonus points for bird-themed garb

Thrilled to have worked on this project with such an amazing and adaptive team! Congrats to all, especially Yann Aquino @MonsieurRoti Lluis Quintana-Murci for seeing this across the finish line!

📍 Meet our amazing APP Lead Meghann Martin! Meghann works with our general ID service. 🩺

Adaptation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosistranscriptome to biofilm growth PLOS Pathogens from Caitlin Pepperell journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…