Postdoctoral 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
05.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...
04.09.2025 19:24 — 👍 139 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 5
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated.
[Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
24.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 476 🔁 314 💬 6 📌 23
First day of the Morrison Lab at Western Michigan University! 👩🏻🔬🧫🧬
Lots of work to do, excited to officially start this chapter!
15.08.2025 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Mandel on receiving a NSF collaborative award to develop CRISPR technologies first in Vibrio bacteria and then adapt those broadly!
mmi.wisc.edu/news-departm...
11.08.2025 15:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I don’t have a problem with someone evaluating my science abilities if I have the ability to examine theirs.
Let’s do televised qualifying exams for all the political appointees who will be evaluating science grants and proposals. Let’s start with directors of institutes and cabinet secretaries.
07.08.2025 23:00 — 👍 281 🔁 44 💬 5 📌 4
Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).
30.07.2025 20:41 — 👍 401 🔁 85 💬 3 📌 3
Avgousti Lab
Investigating viral manipulation of host chromatin dynamics
Postdoc positions available! Please re-post!
Are you interested in how viruses manipulate chromatin? Are you excited to discover unknown facets of molecular biology? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come check us out at:
avgoustilab.org
26.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Hello BlueSky friends! I am wildly grateful and excited to share that I'm joining the Biological Sciences Dept at Western Michigan University as an Assistant Professor this fall! My lab will study host-virus interactions required for HCMV infectivity. Go Broncos! 💛🦠🧫🤎
19.05.2025 15:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy, Developed in Just Six Months
The first on-demand CRISPR therapy for an infant with a rare metabolic disease developed by the IGI and collaborators around the world.
This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on!
innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...
15.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 230 🔁 85 💬 3 📌 5
Multiple long-range cis interactions generate CTCF insulator-dependent viral chromatin domains in quiescent HSV-1 genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.08.652945v1
09.05.2025 03:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is the way to fight back. Not just rejecting illegal demands, but also arguing affirmatively for the value of university research.
15.04.2025 12:22 — 👍 312 🔁 66 💬 3 📌 3
How do we keep Standing Up for Science?
A heartfelt thank you for everyone that Stood Up for Science with us on March 7th—whether it be volunteering, donating, sharing, or attending in event, we're forever indebted to people like you who ca...
Our work is far from done—science is still under attack.
We’ve got ideas, but we want to hear from you. What’s worrying you most? What should we do next? How can we grow this movement together?
Fill out this quick form to share your thoughts & stay connected: forms.gle/7EEQMZUveXN9...
10.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 290 🔁 76 💬 6 📌 4
In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less:
Pick ONE thing and do it.
bsky.app/profile/itsa...
18.02.2025 11:56 — 👍 1106 🔁 633 💬 10 📌 48
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
“Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling. ...
This is not a fight that our country can afford to lose.”
By Harold Varmus 🧪
14.02.2025 21:50 — 👍 116 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 1
Graph showing that prior to 1963 when the measles vaccine was introduced, there were around 300,000-700,000 measles cases per year. Within a few years of the vaccine, the number of cases fell below 20,000/year. There were a blips where cases rose, but shortly after the second vaccine dose was recommended in 1989, annual cases have generally been well below 1,000 cases. In 2000, measles elimination was declared in the US. Now we have sporadic outbreaks that typically spread among unvaccinated people. Chart is from Center for American Progress and is based on CDC data on measles cases.
Vaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.
13.02.2025 15:10 — 👍 284 🔁 155 💬 7 📌 10
The statement reads: We are disappointed in the rapid capitulation by some U.S. institutions and organizations to recent attacks on diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. At their core, these weak arguments are fueled by the familiar underlying assumption that people from Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized identities cannot be excellent and therefore have not ‘earned’ our place in public intellectual life. However, we have always been competent, hardworking, and creative people who have contributed positively to society at large, across sectors but especially in science. We reject these attempts at silencing and erasure and will continue to be a place of respite and community in these turbulent times.
To our members, your talent, skills, and safety are important! To our friends and allies, you may be feeling like everything happening is out of your control, but we want you to know that your voice and actions can make a difference. We want to point you towards some immediate actions that you can take. These are the top 3 issues we are concerned about and what you can do about it if you mirror our concerns.
Freezing of federal funding and cutting grant programs for scientific research that have any connotation of being “DEI.”
The potential confirmation of RFK Jr., a vocal anti-vaccination proponent, as the head of HHS.
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) removed their ABRCMS and IDEAAS webpages in addition to some scientist spotlights and written articles highlighting the current and historic contributions of microbiologists who are a part of marginalized communities including LGBTQIA+, Women, Indigenous and Black, as well as others page that could be considered “‘DEI”. Many have now been reinstated with changes to language (i.e. removing terms like “equity” and “marginalized”), and the statements released by ASM did not acknowledge the harm that they have caused to their members and showed no remorse for their actions.
A statement from the BMA Board Members to the BMA Community and Beyond.
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04.02.2025 19:46 — 👍 209 🔁 122 💬 2 📌 3
Joy is resistance. Community is resistance. Continuing to do work we believe in is resistance. Education is resistance. Living aligned with our professed values is resistance. It is a hard time to be a person and a scientist, but now is the time to keep showing up, for ourselves and for each other.
04.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Black History Month! I’m not sure if ASM is celebrating this year, so I’ll share some links to ASM resources I had previously collated on black women in microbiology that are now deleted (or at risk of being deleted). Deleted content can be viewed via the internet archive (links provided).
03.02.2025 14:26 — 👍 57 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 3
Shoutout to all of the exceptional Black scientists who have contributed to and are currently contributing to virology research! Your work is vitally important to understanding basic virology controlling viral diseases worldwide! #BlackHistoryMonth
03.02.2025 16:21 — 👍 180 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 6
DO NOT TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS. They balked. Now make them pay a price. Again and again and again.
Politics does not end with elections.
29.01.2025 18:00 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
This is a critically important point
27.01.2025 00:36 — 👍 579 🔁 104 💬 5 📌 2
VAI is an independent biomedical research, K–12 & graduate education organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our scientists study cancer, Parkinson’s, metabolic disorders and other diseases. vai.org
Senior Scientist, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Molecular Biologist. RNA Scientist. Yeast Geneticist 🧬. British🇬🇧. Runner 🏃🏻…. Opinions are my own.
Interests: RNA Decay, RNA Processing, RNA & Disease.
The WMU-AAUP is a faculty-driven union that advocates for academic freedom, due process, shared governance, and the preservation of higher education as a public good. Founded in 1950 at Western Michigan University.
We study the replication and pathogenesis of the beta-herpesvirus called Human Cytomegalovirus (#CMV) at UW-Madison.
http://kalejta.virology.wisc.edu/
Hank Seifert is a Professor at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. I'm interested in everything, particularly bacteria, but our group studies the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus—antigenic variation and functions.
Currently: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute (Bremen🇩🇪) working on virus-like bacteria in protists
PhD in Invertebrate pathology and Virology 🦀🦋
Research lab @DukeU studying cell response to stress | Ubiquitin | Gene Expression | Diseases
Always promoting Diversity, Inclusion & Equity | #BLACKandSTEM
Baker Lab | Lovelace Biomedical | ABQ, NM
Influenza and alternative RNA splicing
Official Bluesky account of United States Senator Tammy Baldwin's office, proudly working for the State of Wisconsin.
Eco-Evo-Devo of killifish & kin. 🐟 Uncovering the 🧬 blueprints for life in extreme environments. Ex luto surgimus. #EcoEvoDevo #Killifish #WMU
My lab studies the interplay between cancer metabolism and cell cycle dysregulation. Professor at The Wistar Institute
airdlab.com
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota. Interested in virus-host interactions, antiviral immunity, and virus evolution.
Virology, yarn, bright colors. And a bit of nonsense. Associate Professor in Chicago. 🌵 🏳️🌈🧀🦄🏋♂️🧶🦠
Studies the pathogenesis and evolution of influenza and astroviruses in high risk populations in order to develop better therapies
microbiologist, Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Professor of Plant Pathology; Chair of the Coalition for the Life Sciences; committed to studying microbial communities and STEM education.
@jo44atWID
Comprehensive, scientific research and instruction on microbiology and immunology as they relate to human disease.
RTs ≠ Endorsements
www.mmi.wisc.edu
Reimagining Science!
sciforgood.org
she/her
Molecular virologist and Associate professor at the University of Calgary, Canada.
small college biologist/virologist
