Victor J. Torres
@TorresVJ_Lab
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Professor and scientist fascinated by infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions and bacterial infections. Views my own 🇵🇷 #CienciaBoricua #MacFellow
Memphis, TN
Joined January 2019
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named to Forbes' 2025 list of America's Best Employers for New Grads. Proud to have a workplace where new grads can excel and make a difference. https://t.co/G72OYzGIj7
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Join the CHOP Microbiome Center as a Research Technician IV! We are seeking a motivated individual with hands-on experience in next-generation sequencing (NGS) to support our innovative microbiome research.
careers.chop.edu
Apply for Research Technician IV job with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @NatureSMB🥳 https://t.co/5SaPnwQ4zf Massive team effort led by @leonie_anton @mehsehret @Wenjing_Cheng_ in collaboration with @DziekanJerzy @CowmanAlan #teamtomo
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Our NoA just dropped for our NIGMS MIRA (R35), we are hiring a postdoc at @StJudeResearch Interested in antibiotics or covalent inhibitors then contact me at Daniel.Blair@stjude.org with a CV and cover letter. Prior work : https://t.co/6tUOk9GkIN
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📢 Job alert! The Structural Microbiology Laboratory ( https://t.co/as2mdUrPZp) has two new openings! We are looking for a PhD student and a Research Technician to join our team. Project: "Structure-function studies of Type VI secretion system toxins". https://t.co/mzKTxFRh0E
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If you want to know more, at the end of the article there is a link to a MicroTalk that yours truly had with @realKarlKlose on Vibrio vulnificus.
Vibrio vulnificus, a so-called “flesh-eating bacterium,” causes severe wound infections. What are the mechanisms behind its ability to destroy host tissues—and why does it destroy them at all?
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What has evolution taught us about immunity? 🧬🦠 #NASmember K. Heran Darwin of @nyugrossman explores how Mycobacterium tuberculosis has shaped human defenses—and what this means for future cures. Watch her Research Briefing at the #NAS162 annual meeting: https://t.co/7Koaaua99H
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Attend the 2025 Bringing Chemistry to Medicine Symposium to learn from leading experts in transcription, chromatin regulation, computational biology and chemical biology. Registration is free and available both in-person and virtually.
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Deadline this week on 7/17 at 3 pm EASTERN for Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease: https://t.co/42kTshGCSs
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🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Come work with us at the University of Iowa on Orientia tsutsugamushi—a fascinating intracellular pathogen. Projects include building genetic tools + uncovering how effectors hijack host cell cycle + centrosome function. Please share! 📩 mary-weber@uiowa.edu
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One week until deadline 7/17 at 3 pm EASTERN for Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease: https://t.co/42kTshGCSs
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Answers to two waaaaay too frequently asked questions: 1. No, associate professors may not apply. This is a career development program focused on assistant professors. 2. Yes, proposed work should focus on the pathogenesis of infectious disease.
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11/11 We would like to thank all our collaborators and funding sources including @NIAIDNews and @StJudeResearch. Diane was supported by The Pew Latin American fellows program in the biomedical sciences @pewhealth.
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10/11 We hope this model helps accelerate S. aureus research by overcoming the species specificity that has plagued the use of human isolates in laboratory mice.
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9/11 Lastly, we established that vaccinating mice with LukMF’ elicits a potent protective response that safeguards the host from infection mediated skin pathology.
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8/11 Mice lacking CCR1, or mice temporally depleted from neutrophils, exhibit reduced infection-mediated skin pathology and bacterial burdens.
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7/11 Mechanistically, LukMF’ targets neutrophils recruited to the skin by binding to CCR1 promoting an uncontrolled response that fuels inflammation and tissue damage.
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6/11 The LukMF’ toxin is homologous to LukSF-PV, a toxin epidemiologically linked to CA-MRSA infections. LukMF' is known to target and kill bovine neutrophils through CCR1. https://t.co/5khNnEYw7O
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This study explains the mechanism of action of LukMF', a bicomponent toxin found in bovine lineages of S. aureus that is associated with mastitis in cattle. At a molecular level, we describe how...
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5/11 Comparative genomics performed by @PirontiLab and proteomics helped with the identification of the LukMF’ toxin as the driver of skin infection.
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4/11 By using a model of skin and soft tissue infection, Diane showed herein that a natural rodent infecting strain (DIP) was more virulent than a human-adapted epidemic strain (USA300).
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