Come be my colleague! UMN Micro & Immuno is hiring 2 faculty with broad interests in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance/drug discovery. Great campus, awesome colleagues & collaborators, lovely cities, reasonable cost of living!

Congratulations to Jacob Vander Griend on his first first-author paper, published today in EIC Jack Gilbert, with support from Ruth 룻 Isenberg, PhD and Ketan Kotla! The paper does a thorough transcriptomic analysis of two colony biofilm models for Vibrio fischeri. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Surprised the lab with pre-lab meeting brunch 👩‍🍳

FOR SCIENCE. #BlueSoup 2.0 Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷

Coming to the Minnesota State Fair this year? Stop by the UMN Driven 2 Discover tent & help my lab collect Enterococcus isolates from the oral cavity! Very excited our proposal for this great outreach opportunity was just approved! 🧪🧫🧬👩‍🔬 Ruth 룻 Isenberg, PhD Amanda Haeberle

why is it called a nanodrop if the drop measured is a microliter

WEIRD + EXCITING thing going on. Folks in CT found a bobtail squid living in shallow seagrass. @SpencerNyholm told me this morning & we both got VERY excited about it. We'd expect to see those bobtails in much deeper water. (This pic is a bobtail, different species) (1/?)

Very excited for this one to hit the interwebs: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… We use a label free #MSImaging approach to look at c-di-GMP in V. cholerae V. fischeri and P. aeruginosa colonies, hoping to extend this to more complex systems soon! Mark Mandel Catherine McCaughey Allyson McAtamney

What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck is this

Started & ended the week with great presentations from Amanda Haeberle, Alex, Emily, & Ruth 룻 Isenberg, PhD at #WindRiver2024! Thanks to the organizers for the opportunities & the focus on trainees. Super fun week of science & mountains! #proudPI

I'm excited to join mSystems as an editor! Thanks to ASM for the opportunity. I'm looking forward to a lot of great science!

Thank you Jack for the opportunity to continue to grow EIC Jack Gilbert. Authors, send your best work on microbiome, symbiosis, and systems biology, and support ASM!

Thank you Delta for canceling my flight 3 hours before take-off and having no alternatives. Guess I'm driving to Madion! See y'all at #Phages2024 😅

Congratulations to Ruth 룻 Isenberg, PhD UW-Madison MMI on her Nat Sternberg Thesis Prize at the #Phages Conference for "outstanding Ph.D. work in the field of bacterial molecular biology". Looking forward to the talks from all three of the amazing awardees. conferences.union.wisc.edu/phages/awards-…

It's such an honor to receive the Sternberg award this year! Many thanks to Mark Mandel for nominating me and to all the people who supported my PhD work.

Great talk last night by Ruth 룻 Isenberg, PhD & the biggest congratulations for receiving the Sternberg award for her PhD thesis work! 🎉🙌🏅 #phages2024

Happy Noodlococcus Day to all those who celebrate 🍜🦠 On this day in 2019, we discovered this noodle-y colony contaminating an old plate, leading to the creation of ContamClub 🧫✨

A wild week for very fun reasons: Gave my Sternberg talk on my PhD work at #Phages Wednesday, then gave a talk on my postdoc work at #StrepGRS Saturday. I can't wait to pass out for 12 hours straight after I'm done conferencing 😂