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Interested in a PhD or MSc in Microbiology? We are accepting applications for Fall 2025!

Applications are still open for our THREE tenure track positions, to start Fall 2025!

So we all agree that Moo Deng videos/photos are the best thing happening on Twitter right now? 💜

Congrats to Dr. Jéssica dC Mendonça Jéssica Mendonça of the Burcham lab @LindseyAtUTK for winning the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster Presentation at the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association Symposium!

Thrilled to have contributed to this innovative approach of costitutively activating TCS sensors to decode complex regulatory networks. Exciting insights into GBS host-pathogen interactions—definitely a must-read! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats to Aurélia Hiron and team, Université de Tours, for their #genetics study into how the #pathogen Streptococcus agalactiae adapts to low #zinc. An international collaboration 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 with Christopher McDevitt Stephanie Neville UniMelb MDHS Doherty Institute doi.org/10.1128/mspher…

Our paper is out! If you work with systemic models of bacterial infection in mice, we hope this is a good tool to decide the best model for your research!

Applications are open for the 2025 GRS/GRC on Staphylococcal Diseases! Make sure to get your abstracts submitted for the opportunity to present your work in beautiful Barcelona! grc.org/staphylococcal… Mary Turley

New paper from the lab out today on Akkermansia muciniphila and how it breaks down host glycans! IMIBirmingham College of Medicine and Health (UoB) Very proud of my group, especially Cassie Bakshani who did an amazing job. Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

From PhD to Startup! Microbiology alumnus Jordan Cannon turned his research into Circular Biosciences, a company tackling bioplastic waste with enzyme-driven solutions. Want to read more about how his team is pushing sustainable innovation forward? artsci.utk.edu/ut-support-hel…

Getting the spiderwebs out to excitedly share our new work Kimberly Kline 🏔 lab. We studied how Enterococci use lactic acid to suppress the inflammatory response and promote virulence. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… It is now under review, stay tuned for a revised version when published.=)

Thanks for allowing me to be part of such awesome story. Congratulations Andrew, Ashley, the entire Monteith lab and collaborators!

Brasil, our first #Oscars is coming today!! 💚💛 Fernanda vai ser totalmente premiadaaaa

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/…

Now published Nature Communications, congrats Bevika Sewgoolam 🇿🇦 in 🇨🇭 Kinki Jim, Vincent de Bakker Florian Bock, Paddy Gibson! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate here by the August 18 deadline: app.asm.org/account/login?…