Please share! Here's our latest preprint on the university-wide mentorship program BUMMP, highlighting its profound impact on biology students from all backgrounds. In 4 years, this pioneering initiative has served over 1,350 mentees!!!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredibly proud of Devons Mo who absolutely rocked the socks off of his 2nd year seminar!!! His presentation was clear, engaging, and incredibly entertaining- he has the whole room laughing!!! #ProudPI #METX #STEM #gradschool #PhD #phdjourney #srbr #circadian #microbiology

A great opportunity for early career investigators! And as if that weren't enticing enough, winning the award also includes a cash prize 🤑 Apply now 👇

ECRs - dont forget to sign up for the Streptococcal GRS (Aug 10-11)!! Enterococci are welcome too! We have spots still available, so sign up and come hanging out with fellow ECRs before the main GRC. ***Abstract deadline for talk selections May 5!*** grc.org/streptococcal-… RT!

Please spread the word about the GRS! Alyx Job Ronni da Silva Nicholas de Mojana Garima Arya Sarah E. Clark Shirli Cohen Amanda Haeberle Vicki Mercado-Evans, Ph.D. Dr. Stephanie Marroquin GBS International Daria Van Tyne Jéssica Mendonça Nina van Sorge

Please spread the word about the GRS! Lindsey Burcham, PhD Jacqueline Kimmey brandon kim Dr. Laura Cook Lamar Samanta Katy Patras Bruno Lima Justin Kaspar Ruth 룻 Isenberg, PhD Angela Nobbs Adam Ratner MD MPH Shelby E. Andersen Jade Magnus Jespersen Giuseppe Ercoli Joe Zackular

If you’re a fan of DIY lab equipment, you’ll love the phenotype-o-mat, a customizable DIY 96-well plate imager from ArcadiaScience that you can now build for only $400 🧵 1/7
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Final hoorah! Till next year, see ya all in Bermuda! Meghan Koch Matthew Miller Aaron Whiteley Kara Marshall Sarah Kocher

Days 1-4 Pew meeting…incredible time meeting all the new fellows and deepening bonds with continuing ones 😍so sad to say goodbye to the graduates tomorrow!!! Incredible time as always! Pew Health Mariana Byndloss Kara Marshall Aaron Whiteley Meghan Koch

Fighting pneumococcal superinfection. xue liu Jean-Claude Sirard Jan-Willem Veening ID lafB as crucial for S.pneumoniae replication. Intranasal vaccination w/flagellin-adjuvanted LafB induces Th17 lymphocytes that protect against pneumococcal superinfections in mice cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Attending SRBR 2024? Become a research participant and find out what attending the conference does to your circadian rhythms!
Participants from all countries are welcome.
Informed Consent: forms.gle/j12DP3Ga1ckspH…
Information Sheet: drive.google.com/file/d/1pkqbnQ…

First step in a community project to provide a uniformly assembled, annotated and searchable set of bacterial genomes, our preprint on our initial release of 1.9 million genome assemblies+taxonomic estimates. (figure compares with previous 661k dataset)
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wonder if I can apply? 🧐😬 Future postdocs, check out this fantastic opportunity - interferons and infection, London, vibrant host-pathogen environment, fantastic PI, lots of energy! 😍

All of y’all who are going to be dragging on the way to work Monday morning should join Arizona and Hawaii in rejecting Daylight Saving Time. It’s legal! It’s natural! It’s better! ⁦Save Standard Time⁩ nytimes.com/2024/03/07/wel…

We updated our database of POSTDOC fellowships. We identified 316 different fellowships.

For each entry, we provide a link to the funder, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria.

Download this free database here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

See below for a tremendous faculty opportunity! UMass Chan Program in Innate Immunity UMass Chan - Division of Infectious Diseases @UMassChan

That’s a wrap on the 2024 GRC Acute Respiratory Infection! This one is quickly becoming a favorite - I’ll definitely be back in 2026! Super impressed by the trainees at this meeting, reach out if you want a postdoc, you are all on another level!!! 🤩 #GRC

Avengers ish reunited? Honestly not clear why spider man, storm lady, buff dude and naked man are fighting crime but we nailed it. Sarah E. Clark Elsa BouGhanem Lab #GRC_BARI #pneumo #LeadingLadiesOfStrep

Don’t mess with this power house!!!!!!!! Elsa BouGhanem Lab

Always nice to show up in Tuesday news day!

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