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Are you a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher working on any topic in #biodiversity science, including #ecology, #evolution, or #conservation? Is there a scientific paper you love so much that you want to shout about it from the rooftops? Then read on! 1/5

📣Have you checked out our special issue on microbial ecology? nature.com/nmicrobiol/vol…

In case you were waiting for the combined, three position ad! UTK Microbiology is hiring TTF for Fall 2025. Come join us!!

Slides from my #ISME19 presentation available at github.com/statdivlab/pre… . Looking forward to continuing the rest of the session in 1.4 at 2:30pm today! Joint work with David + Cat Sarah Teichman Benjamin Callahan and Mike McLaren

How accurate are genome scale metabolic models (GEMs) of microbial communities? 🤔Researchers profiled 2 approaches to refine GEMs derived from metagenomics using reference-based taxonomic profiling. Learn more in EIC Jack Gilbert 🔗 asm.social/22d

Our lab is actively seeking Master's and PhD students passionate about exploring microbial communities and their interactions through both wet lab experiments and computational approaches. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!

Emily Cantrell is proudly representing the Burcham lab and UTK Microbiology at UTK Discovery Day, presenting compelling evidence of interactions among microbial decomposers!

Taxometer: Improving taxonomic classification of metagenomics contigs nature.com/articles/s4146…

Really cool techniques used to integrate multi-omics data!

Delighted to share our work developing an mRNA vaccine for C. difficile, published today in Science Magazine. This study with The Drew Weissman Lab was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: Alexa Sem from the Zackular lab and Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh (now at CHOP Research)! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Microplate readers used for bacterial growth experiments generate lots of data. The user-friendly ipolygrowth R package, presented in #MRAJournal, calculates growth rate parameters for microplate time series data using 4th-degree polynomial functions. asm.social/27Q

Read Jéssica Mendonça & @LindseyAtUTK 's latest publication, "Comparison of lateral tail vein and retro-orbital venous sinus as routes of inoculation to study Group B streptococcal systemic infection" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

Undergraduates from around the US. Interested in a summer research experience in Microbiology? Check out microreu.utk.edu for an opportunity to study in one of our world class labs!

Our 2025 Ambassador cohort applications are officially OPEN! Are you an early career researcher passionate about open science and FAIR #microbiome data? Head to microbiomedata.org/ambassadors to learn more & apply!

Evaluation of Metagenome Binning: Advances and Challenges biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The debut paper from the lab is live! Check out the amazing work by Ashley Wise-Mitchell and collaborators discovering that mitochondria are not just the 'powerhouse of the cell' but adapted by neutrophils to sense bacterial persistence and trigger NETosis. cell.com/action/showPdf…

From waste management to protein innovation: Black soldier fly as an e... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

From bench to bedside—innovative research in our department is driving real impact. Dr. Lindsey Burcham’s collaboration with UT Medical Center connects lab-based studies of the vaginal microbiome to maternal and infant health outcomes. research.utk.edu/oried/2025/06/…