Valeria Reyes Ruiz

Hope says hi and we both send big hugs! ♥️

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Ready for MMPC, but first, some yummy food in Chicago! 🥰♥️

Rock band!

Ready to start MegaMicrobe 2025! Thanks to Owen and Jesse for leading the Skaar Lab booth with the ESKAPE band. 🎸🤘

Honored to have received the 2026 ASM Award for Early Career Basic Research. This award is also a recognition of my phenomenal trainees and their hard work. Thank you to the mentors that have supported my career and those who have nominated me for this award.

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Sending lots of hugs! ♥️

Did you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC?
We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research!
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Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance

Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists

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Congratulations Lauren, Xiaomei, Mason, and others! Such phenomenal work. 🙌🏽

Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe‬! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social‬ co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉

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So exciting to see this published! I hope you are all doing well 🙂

Staphylococcus aureus exploits lipoic acid salvage to combat host oxidative stress Acosta et al. find that ADP-ribosylation of the lipoic acid carrier protein GcvH-L promotes Staphylococcus aureus resistance to oxidative burst and facilitates infection. ADP-ribosylation leads to a s...

Happy to share Iván’s first-author pub from the lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Congratulations!!! I hope there are many more stories like these.

This is awesome! Congratulations Angel. Excited to get to UW Madison and connect again. 🙂

Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.

I'm excited to announced that the version of record of this article is out in @elife.bsky.social. With the other first coauthor My Tran, we found that phage resistance cause reduced beta-lactam resistance and reduced virulence phenotypes in diverse MRSA strains.

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Somedays are so heavy. Keep the empathy and kindness at 100%. This world needs who you are! ♥️

This is our home ❤️🥹 Feels good to spend time with family.

Congratulations to everyone, especially to @joeyzacks.bsky.social! So well deserved. 🥰

Thanks to everyone! I am so lucky to have a strong support network. ❤️

Congrats to @sarahprice.bsky.social on her win for the Skaar Lab Desserts Taste test! Also, celebrating @eliasxwest.bsky.social. Big win with Cremé Bruleé. Runner up with a strawberry pie.
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Thank you for being the best role model! I hope to give forward all the love and support you have provided over the years. Words don’t do justice to how lucky and grateful I have been to have you in my life. ❤️

3/3 To my role models, for pushing through many barriers that helped me see a path. To my community, for giving me a safe space. And to my future colleagues and trainees, for their trust and a future full of possibilities.

2/3 I am filled with love and gratitude for all the people that helped make this goal possible. To the many wonderful mentors, especially @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social and Eric! My family and friends, for loving me and celebrating who I am. To my mentees, for helping me grow and learn together.

1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.

Sending big hugs! ♥️

So much joy to see everyone today coming together to celebrate 20 years of the Skaar Lab. Thank you to Eric for the leadership and mentorship over the years! 🥰

#20yearsofskaar

Celebrating 20 years of the Skaar Lab 🙂

Thrilled to share our @elife.bsky.social paper "Inflammasomes primarily restrict cytosolic Salmonella replication within human macrophages" by 1st author Dr. @marisaegan.bsky.social (@cambupenn.bsky.social alum, now faculty @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social)! elifesciences.org/articles/90107 🧵(1/n)