Nick Dillon

Scale highlighting trade-offs between larval and adult beetles in response to infection

A teaser of panels illustrating potential approaches to studying stage-structured immune systems, including transcriptomics, experimental evolution, and experiments in wild-derived populations

Pls RT: We are recruiting a postdoc (and potentially an RA or staff scientist) to work on the evolution of stage-structured immune systems! Experimental evolution, natural variation in immunity, and/or evo genomics in flour beetles (Tribolium). See ad here: my.vanderbilt.edu/tatelab/join...

Should we be concerned about ASM Microbe being in LA next week? Hard to tell what's happening there from the outside.

That's terrible.

NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.

Congratulations Vaughn! You're going to do awesome!

"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."

This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.

#IDSky #MicroSky 🦠 🧫 🧪

Can I please be added?

Had a great visit at TTU as a TechASM Super Speaker. It's a really beautiful campus. Met a lot of nice faculty and students, and had a lot of wonderful conversations. Especially honored to have been selected and invited by the graduate students. Excited to watch all of your careers flourish!

re-posting the potentially best meme I've ever made here, before the other place collapses and it's lost to history #MicroSky 🦠

The TX ASM meeting in Galveston, TX was really good this year. Great talks by Dillon lab members Tuhina Maity, and Hasan Raza. Also big congratulations to our very own Anna Evers and Harish Jawahar on winning poster prizes! Fun conference and a nice beach walk.

@katypatras.bsky.social has gotten sooo much taller then us...

Just starting to use this again. Done with twitter/X now.

Can you please add me?

The Dillon Lab attended the TX chapter ASM meeting last week in full force! We had a whole row of posters that were just from our lab! Special congratulations to Muneer Yaqub for winning the S.E. Sulkin and Nathanional Thomas for winning the Samual Kaplan awards!

The Biological Sciences Department at UTD is hiring multiple open-rank faculty this year. Come and be part of an awesome collaborative department, at a rapidly rising Carnegie R1 university, in one of the best (and fastest growing) metros in the country!
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/24504

The Biological Sciences Department at UTD is hiring multiple open-rank faculty this year. Come and be part of an awesome collaborative department, at a rapidly rising Carnegie R1 university, in one of the best (and fastest growing) metros in the country!
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/24504

Aerial view of the Mississippi State University campus, looking down at the quad.

Mississippi State is hiring multiple Asst Profs! Focus areas:

1. molecular, cellular, developmental bio
2. ecology, evolution, behavior
3. physiology

Integrative work across areas is welcome. 1/1 teaching.

explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/en-us/job/50...

Please share and reach out for more info!