Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology!
If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad:
apply.interfolio.com/185622
E subunit-enabled ENZYME YOGA. Structures of catalytically active, asymmetric, hybrid acyl-CoA carboxylase, essential in M. tuberculosis @edumullapudi.bsky.social & @matthiaswilmanns.bsky.social & Minh Thai.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
see also Liang et al.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
EMBO Symposium alert:
Save the date: 9–12 March 2027
Join us in scenic Heidelberg for this unique meeting, covering everything about drug resistance and tolerance.
Mechanisms of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, fungi, and cancer www.embl.org/about/info/c...
@agnese75.bsky.social's work is out. She shows that under iron starvation M. tuberculosis splits flux through the Krebs cycle and secretes metabolites, akin of fermentation. Why is this important? Metabolic flexibility is what makes it so hard to kill in vivo.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Very excited this work by Victor and Jakson @crick.ac.uk is out!! started many years ago with @jvaubourgeix.bsky.social They generated Mtb-Timer, a fluorescent reporter in Mtb as a proxy for Mtb replication and measure antibiotic responses Mtbhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.01796-25
What would happen if Darwin, Russell Wallace and Koch walked into a bar?
We present our new way to study mycobacteria, employing a macroevolution framework (species not strains). Possibilities are endless!! Thanks to Fernanda Subtil for pushing this.
elifesciences.org/articles/101...
Phage satellites induced by virulent phages are mobilized by natural competence leading to phage resistance in a new host | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72928-1
Excited to host @uwmadison.bsky.social Drew Hryckowian @a-hryckowian.bsky.social today. Looking forward to hearing all about microbiome-pathogen-host with focus on Clostridioides difficile. And of course, the unavoidable and multidirectional flow of nutrients and chemistry between these.
Join us in beautiful Madison WI! In addition to the postdoc call I previously announced, I am seeking applicants for a Scientist position. IMO this position is best suited for someone who successfully completed their postdoctoral training, see here for more details: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/scienti...
The heterogeneous selection landscape of genome evolution in prokaryotes www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #jcampubs