Jutras Lab

Disappointed I cannot attend, but many folks in the lab will be there-checkout their posters and talks!!!
#MMPC
#microsky

Invited to give a talk by graduate students-who DRIVE research nationwide-is easily one of the greatest honors for a PI. It’s even better when one of your former mentees is the host! Thank you Tanner and @harvard.edu Micro for being a bright light in these dark times. 🙏 Science will prevail 💪

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

Driver is from CT

a man in a bishop 's hat is saying mawwiage in a church . ALT: a man in a bishop 's hat is saying mawwiage in a church .

Me: I have exciting plans for us this weekend!
Wife: sounds great, why?
Me: it’s our wedding anniversary
Wife: oh fuck
😆🤣😆🤣😆😂

Hahaha 😂, love it! So good to see you in our new home town Wendy

Nope, not to my knowledge.

Our lab manager search is live! 👇
Please like and re-post
#MicroSky

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Interested in host-pathogen interactions? Want to work in a fun, exciting, and rigorous environment with phenomenal colleagues and world class facilities? Believe it or not, we’re hiring!
Please share #MicroSky 👇

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4 different NoAs have come in the past 3 weeks! All non-competitive renewals, but each was in doubt! Don’t know what it means bc funds still frozen here, but hats off to the hard working folks at the NIH!
Bravo 👏

Notice-zero blinks-super impressive 👀 👏

3. Your development as a science communicator, start to finish, is night and day
4. its 'our' job to convey your awesome science into a language the most number of ppl will understand. You’re doing that beyond the highest expectations.
5. I’m immensely proud of you.
Thanks for being awesome 💪

1. you’ve discovered very important relationships in a complicated system that will have broad implications for our field for years to come.
2. Published, good science means one thing- Your science will live on, forever.

went through a long practice session with 2 trainees for future conference talks (ie, best part of my job) and I forgot to follow our session with the most important info I had for them, so I thought I’d share what I sent to them in a message bc I think it’s the way all PIs feel…

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We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Another great contribution to the “Cell Regulation” themed issue of Current Opinion in Microbiology www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

This happens! Lake otters at my parents place in Canada often come up to our kayaks and want to play. Jump over the front, bang the side of the kayak, embarrass you in a ‘race’ they provoke. Fun and curious lil characters ❤️

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this announcement also came with guidelines surrounding the use of AI in grant. If someone uses AI to write grants, or help, I think they’re nuts (and the proposal is prolly 💩) but you could probably submit a lot of them…

A moral/encouraging reminder for those that need it…

“If you want to sing out, sing out. If you want to be free, be free, bc there’s a million things to be…”

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection!

Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link:
app.asm.org/account/logi...

My brain is just waiting for that instance in which changing my mind proves to be a good idea, so it can tell my gut to F-off…

Piperacillin Kills Lyme Bacteria in Mice, Leaves Gut Microbiome Alone - LymeDisease.org Member Community Already FDA-approved for pneumonia, the antibiotic shows promising results for Lyme disease

Piperacillin Kills Lyme Bacteria in Mice, Leaves Gut Microbiome Alone.
Already FDA-approved for pneumonia, the antibiotic shows promising results for Lyme disease. www.lymedisease.org/members/lyme...

So important! Please contact your Republican senators, especially Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), and Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA). 🙏 amplify!

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This is fantastic, congratulations! #glycotime

By deep characterisation of 186 N-glycan standards, we @thencfg.bsky.social have made the most comprehensive targeted LC-MS glycomic assay to date.
Non-reduced native glycan analysis is key.
We hope this enables anyone with QqQ and interest in #glycotime to measure specific N-glycan structures.

Had a great time at #ASMicrobe this week. Congrats to @richmarconi.bsky.social for receiving the ASM Applied and Biotechnological Research Award!

Overlap with ICLB (news.mayocliniclabs.com/2025-interna...), but I encourage all non-Lyme bacteriologists to attend this meeting 💪

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Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies - Nature Microbiology In this Consensus Statement, the authors outline strategies for processing, analysing and interpreting low-biomass microbiome samples, and provide recommendations to minimize contaminants.

New Consensus Statement in Nature Microbiology!
Working with low-biomass microbiome samples? From deep subsurface rocks to human lungs, contamination is a major challenge. We offer field-to-data analysis guidelines to help keep your results clean.
📖 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

YouTube video by Kristina Jansson 2013 Gordon Research Conference - "Microbes Microbes"

Remembering the music video we put together for the 2013 AEM GRC - youtu.be/8rkJPnKvRLQ?...