Kimberly Kline 🏔

@joeyzacks.bsky.social @dariavantyne.bsky.social @maribyndloss.bsky.social

Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!

We're just 6 months away from @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics : Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, May 2026 in Breckenridge! 👉Scholarship and short talk abstract deadlines are Jan 7! 🧐 keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Congratulations! 🤩

Postdoc position (please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#MicroSky

Yay yay! Congratulations!!

📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack

Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7

💕 Such a joyful day celebrating the wedding of our longest-standing lab member Pei Yi (since 2012!) and former PhD student Kelvin. 💍 Their special day brought together generations of the Kline Lab family - a wonderful reminder of the friendships and community that science builds along the way. 💕

Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!

Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666506v1

At my 1st @femsmicro.org congress (in Milan!) - it's a fantastic meeting. I co-chaired a superb session on Microbial Dark Matter with @jlewillett.bsky.social, who also kicked off the session with a talk on her lab's work. 🤩 We also heard from my FEMS Microbes co-EIC Kathleen Scott! 💪🏽 #FEMS2025

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation - Nature Communications Here, the authors show that vancomycin-resistant enterococci grow in the antibiotic-treated gut microbiome by utilising enriched nutrients in the presence of reduced concentrations of inhibitory micro...

Vancomycin-resistant 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙪𝙢 (VRE) thrives in the antibiotic-perturbed gut

VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes

Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!

Congratulations!

🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on?
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

Cyclic-di-AMP modulates cellular turgor in response to defects in bacterial cell wall synthesis - Nature Microbiology Brogan et al. uncover a signalling pathway in which levels of the nucleotide second messenger c-di-AMP increase in response to defects in cell wall synthesis. This regulatory pathway decreases turgor ...

Very happy to share that a large part of my thesis work is out today: B. subtilis uses the second messenger c-di-AMP to modulate its turgor pressure in response to the state of its cell envelope. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FEMS MICRO Milan is buzzing with excitement! 🎉🧫 Over 1,900 participants from 90+ countries are ready for 1,700+ posters & 100+ sessions (debates, expert panels, keynotes). This is Europe's premier microbiology event🏆🔬

Regular registration closes today, at 23:59 CEST: buff.ly/6f7yHDV

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jun #SGBUG with Aaron Tan from the groups of @kimingeneva.bsky.social and @gthibault.bsky.social talking about exciting findings on E. faecalis pathogenesis, and @weeboont.bsky.social from our lab sharing his newest work on phospholipid transporters in E. coli! @scelse.bsky.social Awesome crowd!

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Our very own 🤩Deepti Rawat🤩 is competing in the PhD Booster program at the University of Geneva, a program supporting career advancement by developing skills to communicate science to the public. Vote for her in the People's Choice Public Prize here! 👇 www.unige.ch/medecine/org...

Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!

Antibiotics re-booted—time to kick back against drug resistance - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Antibiotics re-booted—time to kick back against drug resistance

Blaskovich & Cooper review the pipeline of conventional antibiotics and highlight in depth numerous promising alternatives—including potentiators of antibiotic action, bacteriophage, lysins and microbiome modulation—the impact of CARB-X on innovation is patently clear

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Great meeting coming up next May
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Congratulations Joe!

Fantastic opportunity!👇🏼

Effect of host microenvironment and bacterial lifestyles on antimicrobial sensitivity and implications for susceptibility testing npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Effect of host microenvironment and bacterial lifestyles on antimicrobial sensitivity and implications for susceptibility testing

Absolutely thrilled to present our latest review, where we discuss how host microenvironment and bacterial subversion strategies can undermine traditional antimicrobial sensitivity testing, and whether better models may one day get us "beyond the MIC" #IDSKy
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It's a 24 panel illustration, with a rotor (circle) with 24 open circles. For each increment from 1 to 24, an additional circle is filled with blue or pink, in ways that create a symmetrical axis of mass, allowing the rotor to be balanced when rotating at high speeds. The pinks generally show the odd numbers (divisible by 3) while the blues are the paired (divisible by 2) I think?

Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.

Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.

(🧑‍🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)

Great stuff from University of Geneva colleagues Pierre Cosson and team. 🥳

Congratulations @shonmcbride.bsky.social and team! 😁