Amy Hitchcock Camp

Just got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University!

GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027

GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027

Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists!

More details to come! Please repost!

Candidates with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply!

I'm very excited to announce that the Worcester State University Biology Department has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!

My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!

We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Bacterial sporulation (endospore formation) is complicated,but it turns out a lot of steps are regulated by classically defined developmental "checkpoints", and not events that are intrinsically required for the next step to occur. Zac Park reviews these in #Bacillus subtilis
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Finally a small win: NIH rescinds requirement to denounce DEI as a condition for receiving funding.

Which is great, since saying I don’t care to create inclusive spaces is antithetical to my mission as an educator.

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I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠

🧪Amy @amycamp.bsky.social & I met in the Silver lab @danafarber.bsky.social in 2001 & we've collaborated ever since we both got our own labs. This paper about a new ClpCP adaptor, out today, is the work of about 10 years & we are very happy to see it fly the nest. genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵

www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

‪I don't see any indication in this statement that ASM thinks they did anything incorrectly. If that's the case, are they telling us they would do it the same way the next time? Not even communicate differently with members?

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Huge congratulations to Dr. Odgahl!!!

I can't even begin to articulate how pissed off I am that letters of rec for so many US programs are due this weekend.

from https://x.com/Dr_Savage_Sci/status/1432314561718374400

@bstevensonlab.bsky.social while dusting my account on 𝕏, I came across this tweet by christina. I still miss her...

Folks associated w/ PhD programs: it’s *not* too late to send an email to all letter writers apologizing for not realizing that your standard 12/1 deadline fell on a Holiday-weekend Sunday and announcing that letters would be accepted through midnight on 12/2. Even NIH extends Sun deadlines… 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Met with a student today who shared that she had been told numerous times — by both peers and faculty — that she doesn’t “*seem* like a Chemistry major.”

Please . Don’t . Do . This .

This “sense” can only be fueled by implicit bias, and it erodes a student’s deeply deserved sense of #belonging.

Agree 100% that having a science buddy as awesome as @katieberry.bsky.social especially at a small college has been a gift, both for me and my students!

If you have questions or would like more info on how to apply, please email me directly at acamp@mtholyoke.edu

For a glimpse of the work students have done in this course in the past, please visit the MohoMicrobes Blog! MohoMicrobes.blogspot.com

I typically teach this course and could share class and lab materials. I would also be happy to serve as a mentor, as I will not be on leave but rather teaching another course.

The Mount Holyoke College Biology department is seeking a visiting instructor to teach Microbiology with lab in Spring 2024. A great opportunity to gain teaching experience in a small liberal arts college setting. Please share, and msg me directly with questions/how to apply.