Katie Wetzel

Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.

Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.

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

Nearly 300 patients screened for phage susceptibility ✅
50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅

Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started.
#pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3

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The Wetzel Lab is one! 🥳 Grateful for these enthusiastic scientists who have joined me for the ride.

Come hang out with us!

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Thrilled to share our most recent paper describing the antimicrobial activity of engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles targeting intracellular mycobacteria in macrophages and zebrafish. Outstanding work headed by Yara Tasrini, John Jairo Aguilera Correa, Miguel Gisbert and others.
rdcu.be/eAcN4

I learned so much from them today!

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Bacteriophages target membrane-anchored glycopolymers to promote host cell lysis and progeny release Most bacteriophages lyse their host cell to release progeny virions. Double-stranded DNA phages typically promote host lysis using a holin-endolysin system. Holins form pores in the cytoplasmic membra...

The excitement continues! Check out my latest preprint examining how phages have adapted to lyse different bacterial envelopes. I found a lysis gene (lysZ) that is conserved in phages that infect corynebacteria mycobacteria, and other actinos.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New phage lab just dropped!

Yes, I'll see you there!

Sad to miss it!! Have fun!

Congrats, y'all!! 🥳

Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Do you love phages? Other viruses? Cool science done by cool people? Check out this paper by my former bay mate @kfreeman.bsky.social and colleagues that sheds light on the cool molecular machines that are phage tails.

Congrats Jyot!! 🥳🥳

Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University, listed on FindAPhD.com

The Ross Lab is recruiting a PhD student! We study the physiology of chronic bacterial infection using M. abscessus. Contact me if interested!
Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

So bummed to have missed it @sczerwinski.bsky.social ! I heard it was great!