From Sardinia to California - Professor at UCSD - Love microbes. Find me by the ocean or at my Pilates studio
Friday we lost a brilliant mind, colleague, and friend to her battle with pancreatic cancer. Those who knew her will remember Helene Andrews-Polymenis for her warmth, generosity and leadership. She will be missed by many. RIP
Manuela Raffatellu
Andreas Bäumler
Congratulations to Çagla Tükel @caglatukel.bsky.social for her election to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology! asm.social/2OC
Early Career Faculty Opportunity! @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social Health Sciences Summer Institutes in Infectious Diseases - opportunity to work with mentors on enhancing research development and grant writing skills!
Andreas Bäumler
JoAnn Trejo
These are challenging times - But I would like to take a moment and say a big THANK YOU to my amazing support group of friends and colleagues, who are always there via email, Zoom, phone calls, in person meetings - and are no doubt the best part of being an academic scientist.
Manuela Raffatellu
Congratulations to my colleague Karsten Zengler and coauthors on this exciting study, "Predicting competition and substrate preferences for targeted microbiome alteration". Our amazing co-mentored graduate student, Grant Norton, played a major role in the work.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)!
The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us!
apply.interfolio.com/185622
Applications due 8/1.
“Success in US science has come from sustained funding and welcoming the best talent from around the world, yet both of these advantages are in decline”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Patrick S. Mitchell
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
The American Academy of Microbiology elected 63 new fellows to the Class of 2026.
