🎉Our work on the ancestry of innate immune proteins is now published in PLOS Biology! Great insights from postdoc Ed Culbertson on the connections between mammalian immunity and bacterial anti-phage immunity🦠 Original tweet thread on our findings here:

A great program at UCSF to start your own small lab. Please alert graduating PhD students around you who you think have a strong track record and the potential to succeed with early independence.

We're hiring! If you have a background in any subdiscipline of #ecology (global change and microbial ecology particularly welcome) and would like to work with us, check out the job ad below. #editorjobs #ecologyjobs https://t.co/CpNpjUj5hL

Pls share: Microbiology faculty position available at Texas A&M University.

In a new study, we report the discovery of a human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins that participates in the TLR pathway of mammalian innate immunity!! Co-led with @EnzoZ_P lab, in collab with @morehouse_ben https://t.co/AvaPknd6XX

The University of Chicago has two faculty searches that should interest evolutionary biologists/geneticists. A fantastic university with lots of strong colleagues across departments. Get in touch if you have any questions! https://t.co/CIGQ8b9bXd https://t.co/MeV2SUmqUN

VEuPathDB coming back online is terrific. BUT for now it is only a temporary reprieve that brings back a static version. Please visit https://t.co/uzMgkUa18H to stay informed on what's happening and take the anonymous survey there to help inform discussion about the future

Congrats, Sammy! Such amazing works characterizing an enzymatic TIR in animals

I’m pleased to announce my transition to Chair of the Department of Microbiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. As part of this role, we’re recruiting two junior faculty for 2025, focusing on infection biology. Learn more and apply: https://t.co/Dcf8ynAgWu

We are hiring! Assistant Professor in Microbiology (with emphasis on molecular and/or cellular biology). Please, spread the word: https://t.co/D50PeZ7aWp

Our new article, “The Prokaryotic Roots of Eukaryotic Immune Systems,” is out. Immune factors from both prokaryotes (e.g., restriction-modification, CRISPR/Cas systems) and eukaryotes (antibodies) have been central reagents for the very emergence of modern biochemistry and

Is your research impacted by the loss of VEuPathDB? Take the survey at https://t.co/dTyrB6mJO0 Sign up on the same page for further information

We’re hiring in my Division of @BerkeleyMCB! Come join a fantastic group of immunologists in a larger community of basic scientists in the department https://t.co/Z0ysrFoqRM

VEuPathDB data will remain available beyond the day NIAID meant it to go dark, but no new data will be brought in. Get involved with @VEuPathDB in the conversation about the future of shared data.

THREE assistant professor faculty positions in microbiology at Yale! (1/3) Microbial Pathogenesis @YaleMicroPath: https://t.co/bUb0Boc23C, deadline 10/15. Virologists, please apply.

New Lab Content: @lf_cabo⁩ shows that Toxoplasma rewires placental trophoblasts with important developmental consequence. My fav part: infection suppresses trophoblast fusion, a critical process in maintaining the protective placental barrier. Read 👇

It’s very upsetting! A big loss to those who work on microeukaryotes

There have been some exciting new papers using anti-phage genes to discover new eukaryotic immune defenses... and vice versa! 🤯 These cross-kingdom evolutionary links are super cool. Check out our new Preview for an overview: https://t.co/75K3MjAFqh

The link for the faculty position is now posted! Deadline is October 15th. Please share widely with talented scientists in your network. Come join us at UCSF! https://t.co/Gccrtpl8ym

Are you interested in the proteins that enable macrophages to eat, kill, and digest bacteria, apoptotic cells, or other debris? Here, we present PhagoID, phagosome proximity labeling we used to profile human and mouse phagosomes with quantitative mass spec! (1/ 11)