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Stephen Dolan

@stephenkdolan.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Clemson University. Fascinated by all things microbiology. https://www.thedolanlab.com/

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Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence - Nature Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

03.09.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 3

Congratulations!

07.08.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And congratulations to @cp-cell.bsky.social Poster Award Winners Rachel Washburn (USF) and Jessica Aycock (Clemson) at 2025 GRC MAST!!! πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰πŸ‘πŸΌ

25.07.2025 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI πŸ₯²Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.

Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! πŸ‘‡πŸ»

17.07.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny - Nature Zip promotes the accumulation of free phages in bacterial lysogen communities, safeguarding phage progeny.

Prophages block cell surface receptors to preserve their viral progeny

@nature.com from @themaxwelllab.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.07.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats! Great to catch up again.

11.07.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have a relationship with local media, use it now!

These issues are hard to explain but critical for your neighbors to understand, looking at you Birmingham, St Louis, Philly, Baltimore, San Diego etc

28.02.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic pr...

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

27.02.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Microbiology Society Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...

Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

02.11.2024 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 8
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Convergent evolution in toxin detection and resistance provides evidence for conserved bacterial–fungal interactions | PNAS Microbes rarely exist in isolation and instead form complex polymicrobial communities. As a result, microbes have developed intricate offensive and...

Now published at PNAS!

Convergent evolution in toxin detection and resistance provides evidence for conserved bacterial–fungal interactions | PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

04.08.2024 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was fun to write this piece together with colleagues from three continents (Cynthia Adinortey, @stephenkdolan.bsky.social, Sarah Doore, Rebeccah Lijek, Diana Priscila Pires, Wenqi Yu), and we hope that our summary will be helpful for other researchers and journal editors.

18.12.2023 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted to share our work uncovering a new toxin detection system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Comments and thoughts welcome!

30.11.2023 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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