Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group

🌊 Join us for the third episode of the #GOOS #BioEco #EOVs webinar series to discuss Coral cover and composition, and Microbe biomass and diversity!
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Schematics showing the mechanisms of Listeria monocytogenes infection and dissemination.

#Listeria monocytogenes causes serious infections by invading cells and crossing intestinal, blood–brain, and placental barriers, leading to #bacteraemia, CNS, and maternal–neonatal complications https://www.nature.c...

Institutes across the Vienna BioCenter are offering fully-funded PhD positions in our Autumn call. Don't delay your application as the call is closing on 10 October 2025: www.vbcphd.at

Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...

Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases Through this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, Nature Health, and Scientific ...

📢 A new collection 'Climate Change and Infectious Diseases' is open for submissions!

A joint project with @natcomms.nature.com @nathealth.nature.com & @commsmed.nature.com, with @julietai.bsky.social as the lead editor for Nature Microbiology

#MicroSky 🦠
More info: www.nature.com/collections/...

Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.

Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology

Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year!

Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists!

event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

Vibrio is one of the microbes taken off the CDC surveillance list :(

CDC Surveillance ended for
'campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and Yersinia.'
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Global study maps spread of potentially dangerous Vibrio vulnificus in warming coastal waters Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton.

Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially harmful marine bacterium, is now found in most coastal regions worldwide, with warming waters and algal blooms linked to its increasing prevalence and northward spread. doi.org/g94n59

Graphic shows 'Annual Conference 2026', with a background of Belfast city hall. Features the 'Get Involved' logo, as well as the 'Microbiology Society' logo, and multiple tourism organisations. It features a caption that reads 'Abstracts now open'.

Abstract submission for Annual Conference 2026 is open!

Submit your research today for a chance to showcase your pioneering work with leading minds in microbiology. Abstract submission closes at 23:59 GMT on 11 November 2025.

Welcome to the social media account of the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative (IMiLI). Nearly 1,000 researchers freely contribute to the IMiLI project integrating microbiology into education providing downloadable resources for all. Explore at imili.org

On this week, 40 years ago, my friend Ralph Isberg, then a postdoc with Stan Falkow, reported the discovery of the 1st invasin gene in @nature.com "We report here the identification of a single genetic locus from this organism (Y. pseudotuberculosis) that is sufficient to convert the innocuous

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sleep and sunscreen affect your bite appeal.

What do mosquitoes like?

People who recently drank beer were 44 percent more attractive to mosquitoes than people who abstained..

Mosquitoes also liked people who used cannabis and people who had slept near another person the previous night…

🧪

www.sciencenews.org/article/avoi...

Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A hall full of people setting up tables, two people are sitting down onr with a light blue ammonite blouse the other dark blue cartoony ammonite, the table has multicolor dinosaur crochet planters, paleonthology tshirts, a rack with jewelry, an anti ai sign.

Screenshot of our etsy shop, orange strip with iur orange square the introvertebrates science mosquito in a labcoat logo. A bubble with a heart has the number 14 next to it. Text says: theintrovertebrates All things insect and science art and crafts Cambridge, England Latest activity: 03 May, 2025 123 sales 5.0 (3) The shop is for gifts in the UK. Buyers bought gifts from this shop and gave them 5-star reviews!

we are @fionatel.bsky.social and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social, a duo of geneticists from Cambridge (the UK one) that loves to do science arts and crafts, so we decided to open our own little business at the intersection of genetics, paleontology, gardening and more!

theintrovertebrates.etsy.com

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Dongli Dong and James Lyng's study of the thermal resistance of #Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes is published today, including Vibrio isolates from Irish coastal waters. @uniofgalway.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jf...

The Vienna BioCenter PhD program in Molecular BioSciences will offer 20+ fully-funded positions in the Autumn Call which is now open. Please share. Further details: www.vbcphd.at

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

A mammoth toothache: bacterial community discovered in mouth of ancient mammal Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths.

This study describes the oldest microbial DNA ever sequenced

go.nature.com/4nfIzcU

✨I am thrilled to announce that my #ERCStG project will be funded by @erc.europa.eu. It explores how predatory bacteria interact with bacteria, which they invade and kill 🔬. I am very grateful to the ERC, the panel, reviewers, mentors, collaborators and colleagues! 🙏
#ERCStG => tiny.cc/174s001

Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience?

The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!

Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

@sangerinstitute.bsky.social

#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬

We are excited that the Earth BioGenome Project, a global network of scientists including those from the Sanger Institute, has mapped the second phase of its ambitious plan to sequence all 1.67 million known species on Earth by 2035. 👏

www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/bi...

The ecology and evolution of microbial immune systems: a look on the wild vibrio side | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Natural populations of vibrio beyond the well-studied pandemic strains of Vibrio cholerae, provide a powerful model for investigating the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial immune systems. Their genetic diversity, ecological versatility, ease of ...

The ecology and evolution of microbial immune systems: a look on the wild vibrio side

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B by @fredoleroux.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Congratulations to Avery Imes and all of our collaborators on this cover & editor's spotlight article in #AEM! More details on the study in the preprint thread linked below. @asm.org bsky.app/profile/mark...

Microbial strategies to support environmental goals Microbes have significant potential to improve environmental health - they can degrade persistent pollutants, convert waste into less harmful substances, and ...

New (retrospective) @natureportfolio.nature.com cross-journal collection on how microbes can help to reach environmental goals: Microbial strategies to support environmental goals
www.nature.com/collections/...

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🗓️ Closes 25 August

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🗓️ Closes 5 September

Join us! This is more than a scientific meeting, it's a platform to catalyze collaboration, share knowledge openly and develop solutions for safeguarding marine ecosystems in a changing world. Great line-up of speakers and early bird rate still available!

Please RT!