Thanks so much Roby! Just got an invite to it.

#newPI What do you do when references of applicants to your lab don’t respond to your multiple requests to meet to discuss the candidate? How often do you contact them? What do you do when they don’t respond? When do you give up? Trying to figure out a fair way to deal with this.

#newPI What do you do when references of applicants to your lab don’t respond to your multiple requests to meet to discuss the candidate? How often do you contact them? What do you do when they don’t respond? When do you give up? Trying to figure out a fair way to deal with this.

Anyone know how you can automatically follow back everyone that’s following you?

It’s gonna be a looooong day!

Zlitni Lab - Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist (Human Microbiome) University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!

I deeply care about mentorship and building a creative and supportive research team. If you're excited about microbiome research and eager to make an impact, apply today!
(4/4)
Position 1 - aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05344
Position 2 - aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05345
#microbiome #sciencejobs #hiring

Position #2 is for a bioinformatician to contribute to new & ongoing computational projects. The candidate will develop & implement computational pipelines to analyze public and inhouse microbial genomics data & to assist with managing the lab's computational operations (3/4)

Position #1 is for a candidate with experience in microbiology/molecular biology/biochemistry. The candidate will contribute to ongoing & new projects to help the lab develop & test new ideas. The candidate will also contribute to day-to-day lab operations and management (2/4)

🚨The Zlitni is recruiting 2 Research Specialists! Join us to work on innovative projects focused on microbial communication in the human microbiome. If you're passionate about microbiome research and ready to contribute to a dynamic team, apply now! Please share widely (1/4)

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📢The Zlitni Lab at UCSF is recruiting postdocs (experimental and computational) to join our team. We study microbial communication & quorum sensing in the human microbiome, and how these processes influence health and disease. To apply shorturl.at/erriN Please share widely!

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📢The Zlitni Lab at UCSF is recruiting postdocs (experimental and computational) to join our team. We study microbial communication & quorum sensing in the human microbiome, and how these processes influence health and disease. To apply shorturl.at/erriN Please share widely!

Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces Throughout the golden age of antibiotic discovery, Streptomyces have been unsurpassed for their ability to produce bioactive metabolites. Yet, this su…

Our review - Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces - is now online

Thanks to coauthors @jonathanparra.bsky.social @ainsleybeaton1 @ryanfseipke @barriewilksjic @matthutchings.bsky.social

and editors Toni Gabaldón & Luiz Carvalho for the invitation

Streptomyces extracellular vesicles are a broad and permissive antimicrobial packaging and delivery ... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Justin Nodwell “Our first chunk of work on the packaging of antimicrobial specialized metabolites into vesicles - stellar work by Kirstin Meyer.’ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi Roby!

Incredible 🧵 on the effects of predatory publishing on the overall scientific publishing market. Worth reading all 33 posts and the article linked below

The goal of the mentor should be for their scientist-in-training to supersede them in achievements, by providing them with even more opportunities and support than they ever had.

🤣🤣

I’m too scared that this will implode 🤣

“A caring supervisor not only nurtures their students’ development but also provides guidance and mentorship to help them effectively communicate their work with their intended audience. Publishing our work is not just a choice; it is our responsibility as scientists.”

BIG NEWS! We are thrilled to share the news that
Primordium Labs and plasmidsaurus have joined forces, forming a single company with a unified mission of accelerating scientific discovery through innovations in DNA sequencing!

Very much!! Still in the deep dive 😀

Amazing work! Functional genomics of phages! Congratulations 🎊

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I'm excited to share our most theoretical work yet, led by 3rd year PhD student Paul Torrillo.

We revisit the old observation that dN/dS depends on the distance between compared sequences.

We arrive at a radically different conclusion than current prevailing theory.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our review on #microbiome engineering is out! We chart the history of bacterial genetics & the challenges when applying tools designed for E. coli to microbiomes (hint: not effective). Kudos to co-authors Christian Kirk (phd student) & Ruth Ley (uber boss) 🧪🧬

www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/...

A group photo of ~140 attendees of the 6th International Conference on Enterococci in Porto (September 2023). The background consists of white university buildings and the sky is bright blue.

Have been home for a few days now, but my mind is still very much in Porto and the 6th International Conference on Enterococci (#ICE6). A great event for a wonderful community.

Yay! More microbiome and enterococci folks on 🔵!

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?