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!
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Applications due 8/1.
I had a wonderful time chatting with Dr. Joseph Zackular about Cdiff, the ecological aspects of infectious disease, and working at the interface of microbiology and medicine. Can’t wait for this #MattersMicrobial podcast episode to be released. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology
Big congratulations to all of this year ASM honorees, including my former PhD mentor @maribyndloss.bsky.social!!! It was sincerely a pleasure to complete my PhD under her mentorship and I am excited to see all success her lab finds in the years to come.
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So excited to have been selected for this recognition by BWF PDEP and am ever more inspired to continue the work I have done and hope to do to follow in the footsteps of past and current mentor(s)!
Mark O. Martin
Congratulations to everyone, especially to @joeyzacks.bsky.social! So well deserved. 🥰
Honored to have received the 2026 ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research. This award is also a recognition of my phenomenal trainees and their hard work. Thank you to the mentors that have supported my career and those who have nominated me for this award.
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ASM announced the 2026 Awards and Prize Program recipients. The awards recognize leading scientists and researchers for their accomplishments and contributions to research, education and leadership.
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Congratulations to @haidermanzer.bsky.social on being awarded the @bwfund.bsky.social Postdoc Diversity Enrichment Program Award!! So well deserved - we are very proud here in the Zackular Lab!
Very excited to share our new work from previous Byndloss Lab grad student @shealynicg.bsky.social published today!
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Iwasaki and colleagues show that mucosal vaccine boosters can induce protective immune responses without any adjuvant by retooling lymph node resident memory B cells with memory T cells acting as a natural adjuvant. Read it here: rdcu.be/elTur
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So proud to call you my friend and can’t imagine the things you and your future lab members will accomplish. They’ll truly be lucky to have a mentor like you!
Despite being the primary site of digestion, the mammalian gut represents a region
of nutrient scarcity for potential invading enteric pathogens such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Tm)...
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Nature Immunology - Iwasaki and colleagues show that an intranasal booster with an unadjuvanted recombinant SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, after intramuscular immunization with an mRNA vaccine encoding...
