Registration is open for the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Stress Response to be held on July 19-24 2026!! Submit your abstract by February 15th to be considered for a short talk. Apply now before it fills up!! Hope to see you there!! www.grc.org/microbial-st...
Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
The @asm.org Mechanism Discovery Meeting is one of 3 integrated meetings within #ASMMicrobe2026, bringing together research that directly informs the fundamental mechanisms that power microbial life. Submit your abstract until January 21: asm.org/events/asm-m...
"The changing roles of Escherichia coli" -- a short essay by yours truly.
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While everyone is hustling for the holidays, hopefully folks will have time to submit abstracts or register for #ASMMicrobe2026 in DC! Please repost!
A reminder of why #ASMMicrobe is so important (at least to me)! Please repost!
Submit your abstracts for ASM Microbe 2026!
As a member of the Scientific Program Committee, I can vouch for great science with something for everyone!
@asm.org
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New work from our lab - led by MS student Emmanuel Oladokun
Pete Greenberg's view in #JBacteriol:
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, my model for research on quorum sensing, biofilms, and opportunistic infections
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Everything is everywhere but Escherichia coli adapts to different niches
-in #ISMEJournal
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Just got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University!
GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027
GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027
Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists!
More details to come! Please repost!
Boxing up the NSF at Eisenhower Av for the forced relocation. Boxes have “Details Matter” signage.
NSF
- Forced reorg
- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)
- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)
I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
#NSF BIO is hosting a Virtual Office Hour December 18 at 1:00 Eastern Time
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
Thats 216 biomedical PhD students for their whole degree, or 140 2 year R21 grants, or 30 5 year R01 grants, or one fired football coach...
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
The average American apparently has no idea how much of a positive impact our world-class research had on public health & have no idea how much misery & death will result from its destruction. I'm so fucking livid every day at the median voter's ignorance that led to this colossal fuckup.
PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
Want to help us as an abstract reviewer for the @asm.org #ASMMicrobe2026? Abstract Review Period: January 29 - February 5, 2026. Please fill out the Abstract Reviewer Interest Form: asm.org/Microbe2026-... Thanks for your help!
Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu
👇👇👇 come to #mmpc2026 for the science, stay for the Minnesota Microbiology shirts (iykyk)
WHO reports 1 in 6 bacterial infections worldwide are antibiotic-resistant, with resistance rising sharply since 2018. Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli and K. pneumoniae pose the biggest threat. Action on #AMR surveillance and responsible antibiotic use is needed.
www.who.int/news/item/13...
My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level!
Applications Due by October 15, 2025
We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels.
lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...
@asm.org is currently seeking a visionary volunteer to serve as the inaugural Chair of the #ASMMechanismDiscovery scientific unit. The Chair will play a leadership role in setting the scientific direction and priorities. More info & Apply here: asm.org/about-asm/vo...
Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.
#Antibiotika verlieren zunehmend ihre Wirkung: Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt, dass 2019 in Deutschland rund 45.700 Menschen im Zusammenhang mit #resistenten Erregern starben. Nun ist ein verantwortungsvoller Antibiotika-Einsatz gefragt, um das Problem einzudämmen. via #welt www.welt.de/gesundheit/a...
