We’ve touched down in Orlando for #MADID2025! 🌴 We’re looking forward to our 15+ on-site interviews w/ leading clinicians & sharing their important work in ID & AMR with our audience. MAD-ID The Antimicrobial Stewardship Meeting®️ You can find our coverage here: contagionlive.com/conference/mad…

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. statnews.com/2025/05/28/mod…

My ⁦NPR⁩ ⁦All Things Considered⁩ ⁦Ari Shapiro⁩ interview this afternoon vpm.org/npr-news/npr-n…

#Fungal #infections worldwide are becoming %resistant to drugs and more deadly via ⁦⁦The Conversation U.S.⁩ #Fungi #mycology #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance theconversation.com/fungal-infecti…

This is a really bad move on the part of HHS (although at this point it would be more newsworthy if they did something that actually advances the wellbeing of Americans)

Clear thinking: "Trump’s US: one that no longer defends its allies with hard power, but subverts and undermines those among them that it finds ideologically wanting" ft.com/content/dc439b…

Happy to see this paper finally out! And so proud of my rock star PhD student @juliacerato for leading this work! 💪🏻🥳 We show that blocking B-Raf kinase protects bronchial and nasal epithelial cells from RSV infection and modulates interferon responses. publications.ersnet.org/content/erjor/…

Great news for antibiotic biotech Spero Therapeutics ! GSK's $66M bet on Spero's rejected UTI antibiotic pays off with a phase 3 win fiercebiotech.com/biotech/gsks-6…

This is a huge mistake; one that will be measured in lost lives when these vaccines are needed…and they will be needed. The USG & Moderna have been very productive partners for over a decade. Much investment has gone into the technology, the facility, and to the global

Between Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH Rick Bright they adequately covered the horror of the canceled HHS Moderna flu vaccine contract, I have nothing more to add so easier to just RT

A new group wants to protect at least some of the nonillions of microbial cells on Earth. scim.ag/43oBLBi

Five different federal grants supported parts of this work to discover bacteriophages that specifically kill antibiotic resistant bacteria. They were all politically terminated three weeks ago.

⚠️BREAKING 1,000th human case of H5N1 bird flu dies. Cambodia has reported a BirdFlu death in an 11-year-old boy. Likely clade 2.3.2.1c caught from sick birds. 6th reported death worldwide this year. Secretary Kennedy has just cancelled a Moderna contract for a pandemic H5N1

🚩 A milestone in the fight against #AMR Congratulations to Roche on advancing zosurabalpin into Phase 3 trials—a potential first-in-class antibiotic against Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and other Gram-negative bacteria in over 50 years. This kind of bold

Interested in pneumococci, genomics and metagenomics? Come and do a PhD with me. findaphd.com/phds/project/l…

Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

Happy Friday! A new episode is now available. Want to learn more about aztreonam-avibactam? Check out this episode. Link in comments. #microbiology #podcast

Anyone out there do Ginkgo genomics?

It was such fun hanging out with Mark Mark O. Martin during his visit with UT American Society for Microbiology. Thank you for having me and for all the chats and laughs! We talked about #AMR and how we should work harder to combat it. Molecular Biosciences NaturalSciences @ UT youtu.be/nSO2Tv6j1J0?si…

"Researchers used PET/MRI to detect otherwise invisible #inflammation. Many patients referred for specialty care to address #longCOVID symptoms have subtle evidence of inflammation and other #cardiopulmonary abnormalities." tctmd.com/news/whats-dam…