Nic G. Shealy

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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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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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!

Congratulations to everyone, especially to @joeyzacks.bsky.social! So well deserved. 🥰

Mucosal unadjuvanted booster vaccines elicit local IgA responses by conversion of pre-existing immunity in mice 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...

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!

Come join us in Breckenridge, CO next May (2026) for the Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection
Keystone meeting! More information below:

New preprint on some of my dissertation work.

Can’t do this without an amazing team of collaborators or mentor.

Herein we use a genetically resistant mouse model to explore small intestinal colonization resistance to S. Tm, and the ability of diet to overcome genetic resistance.

More to come!

#Mentoring acknowledges individuality, empowering mentees to develop into independent thinkers, who recognize, embrace, and celebrate their unique voices.

Hello Bluesky!

My name is Nic Shealy, a PhD candidate in the lab of @maribyndloss.bsky.social.

I study bacterial metabolism and am enamored by microbe-microbe interactions and microbiota-host interactions! Not such a small world after all.

Haha you’re too kind but I can’t accept that title. Might be the boss, @maribyndloss.bsky.social!

And happy to help with the chamber! I was just the self help line you call for advise, you did the work haha!