Large-scale investigation for antimicrobial activity reveals novel defensive species across the healthy skin microbiome https://t.co/yawcIdiL5d #biorxiv_micrbio

Check out our latest study presenting a new skin microbiome isolate collection demonstrating extensive antimicrobial activity. This was a long-term and huge team effort led by @uyenthynguyen, Shelby Sandstrom, and @SalamMicrobes. #skinmicrobiome #amr

What I don't get about academia is the chronic lack of celebration. It is hard to get & maintain grant funding, hard to get papers accepted without Faustian bargains, hard to be a great mentor, & hard to maximize trainee success. All of it is hard. We should celebrate everything.

Check out our latest tool to find BGCs and explore their evolution and diversity within a single lineage. Includes tools for visualization and detailed reports! Interested in other types of gene clusters? Check out Zol & Fai

Our latest paper assesses the impact of antiseptics on the viable skin microbiome. The #skinmicrobiome is highly viable and resilient to insult but resistant pathogens are selected for increasing the risk of infection in the short term.

I just returned from #Woundheal2024 feeling reinvigorated. The most exciting part was celebrating the awards lab trainees won! @LizCTown won a travel award for top trainee abstract and @jz_alexcheong took home first place in the Young Investigator Symposium! #whs #dfu

Very excited to share our new research in collaboration with @lindskalan lab in @mbiojournal ! Key aspects of papillomavirus infection influence the host cervicovaginal microbiome in a preclinical murine papillomavirus (MmuPV1) infection model | mBio

Thank-you @McMasterIIDR for the support, I'm looking forward to this collaboration and fun project!

Newest lab preprint from the fabulous @maryhswaney Skin-associated Corynebacterium amycolatum shares cobamides https://t.co/c4DNppr6TN #skinmicrobiome #corynebacterium

Five exceptional researchers from the Faculty of Health Sciences have been awarded new and renewed Canada Research Chairs. Congratulations to @Andrew_P_Costa, P.J. Devereaux, @lindskalan, @Sloboda_Lab @MGVanstone on this prestigious achievement! https://t.co/VH9YoMYwBZ

Super honored that @lindskalan and I’s review article, "Living in Your Skin: Microbes, Molecules and Mechanisms", was highlighted as an @ASMicrobiology Top Cited paper in 2023! https://t.co/mdo4kd2L7Y

With our annual Trainee Day symposium just one week away, it’s time to meet some of our amazing speakers and award winners!

Check out our latest! We used a combination of clinical indicators, quantitative microbiology, microscopy, sequencing and proteomics to characterize the “gunk” that forms on top of wounds. Turns out that this “gunk” can be useful to predict healing times! @LizCTown

Interested in doing a PhD with me in Sweden? Experimental+computational genomics skills or interests? We have an open position! Great environment at KTH on @SciLifeLab campus, staff benefits, well-funded project, close interactions with our New York team. Link in the replies 👇

Eek so excited for this! Alex is the first PhD graduate from the lab and he will be talking about a little bit of everything #DFU. From polymicrobial #biofilms to model #skinmicrobiome systems and #metatranscriptomics.

Come join us!

We are looking for a new Faculty Research Assistant to come do fungal bacterial interaction research and more. apps due 16 July, info at

Director, Center for Genomics and Data Science Research

#MDTP Student Highlight: Thy Nguyen Thy (@uyenthynguyen) is a graduate student working in @lindskalan lab studying skin microbiome. She is currently in the Toronto area, so she has been exploring the city and trying out new foods. #UWMadison