The registration deadline for MMPC 2025 has been extended to Friday September 5! https://t.co/KJJMx0HYb3

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! https://t.co/ph4amsNddl

Reminder: the deadline for poster abstracts is this Friday, August 15! https://t.co/ph4amsNL2T

Reminder: MMPC's abstract deadline to be considered for an oral presentation is July 15! https://t.co/ph4amsNddl

Registration for MMPC 2025 opens today! We can’t wait to see you in St. Charles, IL, for the first MMPC hosted by Loyola University Chicago! https://t.co/KJJMx0Iw0B

The 2025 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference, hosted by Loyola University Chicago, will be held October 3-5. We have a website where you can find additional information and begin making your plans!

Last, a bit of life advice: if you’re giving a talk alongside @jonathankirk, make sure you go before him! Incredible storyteller, comedian, and advocate. Congrats, "Senior" Scientist! (though we are not too far apart in age, ha!)

If any of my teachers or mentors had told me, “Abby, you’re not cut out for this,” I think I would have listened. I think it’s important to remember the power of our words and reserve judgement about newcomers in science, and in higher education in general.

I got to present a bit about my research and career journey. I talked about some of my favorite things, like bacteria and ocular surface cells, but also about the mentors who showed me a path in science and encouraged me to keep going.

I received truly humbling recognition today as I was awarded Junior Scientist of the Year at Loyola.

Can P. aeruginosa adopt an intracellular lifestyle? In #JBacteriology, researchers review studies that observe intracellular P. aeruginosa in vitro, as well as contextualize these findings with the few studies that report similar observations in vivo. https://t.co/3aicMQ0v0x

Check it out here:

Our hope is that this will spur more investigation into this phenomenon. Intracellular P. aeruginosa has been observed in animal models and recently also lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, but it remains uncertain if it contributes to disease severity or treatment resistance.

Regretfully we couldn't cite them all, so we've put those indexed on Pubmed into this NCBI collection:

We wrote a minireview on the studies that observed intracellular Pseudomonas aeruginosa, now out in @JBacteriology ! When we set out to do this, we thought there were about 40-some papers, but we found just over 100!

happy #FluorescenceFriday from the omega cell!

First Kroken lab posters! Hope you got a chance to visit Rachel and Adam! #2023MMPC

Lots of firsts for me at #2023MMPC! First speaker ribbon 😊

I'm still figuring out where my online science community is, and for the time being, will try to crosspost in a few places and see what sticks. Twitter/X: @krokenlab Blue Sky: https://t.co/rTq9w12EZY Mastodon: akroken@mstdn.science

Hello fellow scientists. We still like PHCbi -80 freezers, right? Any other brands I should give a serious look?