It's official -- in January, I will start as an Assistant Professor in the U Minnesota Dept of Micro & Immuno! My lab will study uncharacterized gene function, biofilms, and polymicrobial interactions primarily using E. faecalis (but other cool bugs too!).

@NIH’s new 15% cap on research funds threatens U.S. science. Call Congress now to oppose it! Your voice matters—act today. Find your rep’s number at https://t.co/kXwPoeLUgW. #SupportScience #cell biology Learn more:

Personally, I do not believe science trainees want to hear gaslighting about how everything will be fine with the NIH. Things are going to be very much not fine for a lot of people. PIs who are fortunate enough to have resources should be ready to rescue individuals.

Since the advisory council for my grant got shut down this week and the government is destroying critical health/biomedical research and training programs I'm gonna need some billionaires to step up here...@taylorswift13 fund my lab please 🙏🙏

🚨Apparently all NIH Study Sections have been suspended indefinitely. For those who don’t know, this means there won’t be any review of grants submitted to NIH Depending on how long this goes on for, this could lead to an interruption in billions in research funding.

So it only goes to seminar for free food? Groundbreaking

I'm excited to announce our latest publication! We teamed up with @KHullahalli to barcode Klebsiella and ask basic questions about bacteremia pathogenesis: 1) how are bacteria shared between sites and 2) which host and bacterial factors influence dynamics? https://t.co/Ajdjyu0QUX

Check out this exciting collection of #enterococcus papers from our great colleagues!

Absolutely bonkers that the Palisades and Altadena are basically gone and they're running out of water and the NFL is just like "we'll move the game if needed" ...like why would you even consider asking people to come into LA right now to watch SPORTS

Does anyone have Acinetobacter phages? A kid in Belgium needs them... Please share & contact me or @phagedirectory if you can help!

It's that time of year! Registration and abstract submission for the 6th Klebsiella Seminar Series is now open. Participation is free and abstracts are due by February 16th. See the link below for details: https://t.co/vOKIxqXJas #KlebClub

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied @biorxiv_micrbio by Paul A Jensen https://t.co/4R66AEWGXa B. subtilis is #6 😍, anyhow, the literature is biased to models Would publications on plants or animals be similarly biased?

Published just in time for the holidays! I learned so much while writing about the past, present, and future of E. faecalis research with Gary. Check it out! 🦠🧫🧪🔬 https://t.co/bmVbKiwtgx

My road in academia has been bumpy, & I take responsibility for that. Still, as retirement looms, I am reflective. So much left undone. Yet I received this in the mail yesterday. No, not every #DocMartian stays in touch. But I received this yesterday. Thank you, @RuthlessRuth15

👏New paper by @anaasantos96 et al. ending the year! We assessed Enterococcus spp. diversity in healthy adults finding: 🔍VVE 🔍linezolid-resistant strains 🔍E. lactis increase since 2001 🔍Species-specific bacteriocins inhibiting VRE https://t.co/CEdeC5AlCa @UCIBIO_Research

Pls share: Binghamton University and the Binghamton Biofilm Research Center are excited to accept applications for our 2025 REU site focused on microbial biofilms research https://t.co/ki6lWbTQVb @ASMicrobiology

📣 Postdoc position available in my group at Pitt to study how Klebsiella controls its cell surface and develop new projects. https://t.co/DR9KWs8ZQb Read more and apply here by Jan 12: https://t.co/R9yY3TRCQi Reposts are appreciated! #klebclub #newPI

The BV-BRC (Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center) team will be offering a Bioinformatics Workshop on February 24-28, 2025, at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.

👇🏼👇🏼 eligible senior students and junior postdocs—apply to our Bridge to Faculty program by January 16 for fullest consideration!! University of Illinois Chicago Micro is a fantastic place to launch a lab!

Arginine metabolism in E. faecalis impacts its #biofilm formation and #AntibioticResistance 💊. This study from @jlewillett lab shows how arginine alters E. faecalis physiology and may influence infections in the GI tract and oral cavity 🦷. #FEMSMicrobes https://t.co/ALNB06f1eB

My first PhD paper is out in mBio !( https://t.co/zFz5rQc9TQ) Oral bacteria often form mixed species biofilms where aggregation drives interspecies interactions. But how do they bind to each other? Here, we investigated Veillonella parvula aggregation with other bacteria . [1/6]