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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.

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The better goal tender won. Please don’t blame all of the US for our government.

22.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants Most Neisseria gonorrhoeae clinical isolates are piliated but lose piliation during laboratory passage. However, most public genomic sequences are from non

Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants url: academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
#Microbiology #Microsky

22.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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Peptidoglycan architecture dictates protein interactions, tissue tropism, and arthritis in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Author summary Many of the pathogenic mechanisms by which Borrelia burgdorferi causes disease involve cell envelope interactions with host components. To further elucidate the role of peptidoglycan in...

Peptidoglycan architecture dictates protein interactions, tissue tropism, and arthritis in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

Exciting new research from @jutraslab.bsky.social

journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

#MicroSky

29.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity will be held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by
@sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...

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Oxford Press just sent an email to print a Reviewer Certificate. My response, "Please, this offer is tone deaf. I review as a professional duty, even though journals make money whenever I publish or read. A certificate is neither valuable nor appreciated." #AcademicSky

16.01.2026 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please repost. #microsky

08.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Bought and paid for

01.01.2026 03:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT

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Northwestern Microbiology-Immunology Annual Faculty Dinner. Good times, good colleagues.

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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

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Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. Stevens: “Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk” W...

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10.12.2025 16:48 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants Most Neisseria gonorrhoeae clinical isolates are piliated but lose piliation during laboratory passage. However, most public genomic sequences are from non

Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants url: academic.oup.com/jid/article/... @iboiko.bsky.social and Selma Metanne

10.12.2025 18:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Got a competitive renewal

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Iryna Boiko and Selma Mettane show that most gonococcal genomic sequences are from nonpiliated bacteria, even though clinical isolates are piliated.

Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants: academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

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What you get if you stay in academics a long time and volunteer to participate in the important things.

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The right-wing think tank which wrote the entire platform for the current president of the US is defending neo-Nazis, and meanwhile a substantial portion of American rabbis think the Muslim candidate for NYC mayor who has denounced antisemitism is the biggest threat to me as an American Jew.

04.11.2025 03:32 — 👍 80    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 2
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Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!

We're just 6 months away from @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics : Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, May 2026 in Breckenridge! 👉Scholarship and short talk abstract deadlines are Jan 7! 🧐 keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

04.11.2025 14:47 — 👍 18    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0
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Flavin affinity for the reductase HpaC differentially sensitizes Neisseria gonorrhoeae during Type IV pilus-dependent killing Author summary Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the causative agent of the sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhea. Neutrophils are first host immune responders that activate multiple potent antimicrobial def...

A new article by @husonfirst.bsky.social about Neisseria Flavin pathways and pilus phenotypes : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

30.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.

But it’d be cool if it talked, right?

27.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 202    🔁 110    💬 3    📌 2
Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference | Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference 2026

Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu

23.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 10    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

Microbiology Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post)

A funded postdoctoral position in Chicago will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested, please get in touch with Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu

21.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 2    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Reposting, submit soon!

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Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

05.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 62    🔁 71    💬 2    📌 1
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The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com

06.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 42    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 4

Opening session for the 2025 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference.Going on with Year 31 of this great get together. @
#mmpcconference

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