Michael Glickman

Poster of the 2026 CSHA meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense.

Please join us for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense this May 11-15 in Suzhou, China! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Abstract deadline is March 6. Hope to see you there!

New preprint!

TL;DR: Network analysis reveals that CEBP/β and PU.1 stabilize regulatory architecture in tissue-resident alveolar macrophages to constrain inflammatory responses

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Voices: Medical research saved my daughter’s life. We must protect the funding that makes that research possible. “Scientists are seeking new treatments and cures for many diseases, common and rare,” writes Lateishia Curtis in an op-ed. “Talk to friends, neighbors and policymakers about medical research. The next...

Wonderful op-ed by a mother who explains how NIH-funded research at U of U Health saved her daughter's life.

"That research — and Briar’s life — demonstrate just how critical federal support is to scientists, doctors and, especially, the patients they help."
www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

The Structura logo with dates for the workshop listed. The bottom reads "Hosted by SickKids and Structura Biotechnology"

Deadline approaching to register for the @structurabio.bsky.social & @sickkidsto.bsky.social CryoSPARC workshop in Toronto!
Open to all, this is a unique opportunity to learn CryoSPARC from the experts at Structura.
April 30/May, 2026.
For more information and to register:
tinyurl.com/y42pf4wy

Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by
@sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...

CuiT is a Cu importer required for metal homeostasis in Salmonella enterica https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701185v1

Characterising antibacterial toxins in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Characterising antibacterial toxins in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.

Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia

Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.

Deadline: 11.01.26

More info:

shorturl.at/f1TuF

The Institute for Environmental Genomics at U Oklahoma (www.ou.edu/ieg) has 3 Research Scientists & 4-6 Postdoc openings (see details linked below).

Contact ieg@ou.edu w/ questions.

THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF BIOLOGY OF MYOCBACTERIA GRC WILL BE IN 2028, NOT 2027. Exact date and location TBD. Sorry about the long wait, but we think it is better long term. PLEASE repost/tell your friends!

and the TB Keystone. We thought having this GRC alternate with Drug Dev would be ideal for the log term health of both conferences. SO: We petitioned to move Biology of Mycobacteria to the even cycle and our petition was approved. This means that......

The attendance/evaluations were outstanding and GRC approved us for a second conference, thanks everyone!

In consultation with my cochairs @siegristpalmore.bsky.social and Babak Javid (still on X), we were concerned by the date proximity of this GRC to the important GRC on TB drug development...

Many of you in the mycobacterial community attended the awesome inaugural 2025 Biology of Mycobacteria GRC, organized by @heran.bsky.social and myself: www.grc.org/biology-of-m....

I am writing with an update about this conference as the new chair.

Cool, thanks @uwmadisonrna.bsky.social !

I saw this incredible quilt at the Renwick gallery at the Smithsonian so I thought I would link it to the only quilting person I have seen. It documents the daily temperature of a year by color. There is a deeper key that was not posted I believe.

Given the current state of affairs I was going to spend the weekend quilting but of course, given the current state of affairs I spent half a day getting Gracie to cooperate ready to roll now rho

Commensal-derived trehalose monocorynomycolate triggers γδ T cell-driven protective ocular barrier immunity: Immunity www.cell.com/immunity/ful... @cp-immunity.bsky.social

🚨4-year fully funded PhD in the lab of @magicmicrobe.bsky.social (& collaborating with me!): How does iron availability shape the ability of pathogens to invade the gut microbiome?
Apply by Jan 26th
Advert: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
How to apply: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...

METTL9 tests Candida’s mettle by limiting metal acquisition The gut mucosal immune system orchestrates diverse defense mechanisms against fungal pathogens. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Bao and Yang et al. demonstrate that intestinal epithelial cells s...

METTL9 tests Candida’s mettle by limiting metal acquisition

Highlight of new findings showing intestinal epithelial cells secrete anti-zincophore protein, METTL9, that limits fungal access to essential zinc, thereby diminishing colonization & growth
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Species-specific iNOS expression distinguishes epithelial and myeloid IFNγ responses in tuberculosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.11.697682v1

NY state friends, please do this today!

The Governor’s State of the State is tomorrow, January 13 at 1:00 PM. We are hopeful she will announce the Empire Biomedical Research Institute (EBRI).

Email the Governor and your Reps!
actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

Try incognito mode in different browsers to get SciENcv to work. Also I have noticed major increase in eRA commons problems with different web browsers

Deep contrastive learning enables genome-wide virtual screening Recent breakthroughs in protein structure prediction have opened new avenues for genome-wide drug discovery, yet existing virtual screening methods remain computationally prohibitive. We present DrugC...

@science.org Deep contrastive learning enables genome-wide virtual screening | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring new faculty!! Come join our amazing community in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine! The deadline for applications is 2/21, but applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta...

Canada Research Chairs www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...: $1M/year for 8 years, plus up to $6M in CFI infrastructure support. Looking for leading researchers abroad interested in AMR research, antibiotic discovery (Pandemicstopai.ca), phages. Email short vision + CV. Tight deadlines: March 10 & June 15

Registration is open for the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Stress Response to be held on July 19-24 2026!! Submit your abstract by February 15th to be considered for a short talk. Apply now before it fills up!! Hope to see you there!! www.grc.org/microbial-st...

Looking for a postdoc in 2026? The Ewel fellowship at UF provides $70K salary and $20K research support for 2 yrs. I'm happy to sponsor a postdoc interested in microbial ecology of Florida coastal ecosystems (seagrass, coral, mangroves, springs). 🦠 Due 1/11/26

postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...

Identification of sporulation genes in Bacillus anthracis highlights similarities and significant differences with Bacillus subtilis How good is Bacillus subtilis as a model for the spore-forming pathogen Bacillus anthracis? Using high throughput genetics to identify B. anthracis sporulation genes and cytological analysis of the mu...

Fer’s tour de force in B. anthracis is out! Fer got Tn-seq running, built an ordered knockout library, defined all essential sporulation genes, and found a peptidoglycan deacetylase inhibitor critical for engulfment. Including our first one-by-all Alphafold screen! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...