Katrine Whiteson

@ebburgenermd.bsky.social this seems like your kind of thing!

Love! This turned out so well!

Our 11th Annual Southern California Microbiome Symposium is this Friday, September 19th at CalTech!

We all owe Margaret McFall-Ngai and Ned Ruby a big thank you for organizing!

Some more detailed location information: North Wilson Parking Structure, $9/day: 341 S. Wilson Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91106
Symposium Location: Chen Neuroscience Research Building Rm 100; 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125

The symposium will start at 10am in the Chen Neuroscience building Room 100, and we can park for $9/day in the North Wilson Parking Structure, Building 123. Classes won't be in session yet, so Margaret McFall-Ngai has said it won't be too crowded.

SoCal Microbiome Symposium 2025 Registration The SoCal Microbiome Symposium will be held on September 19, 2025 (10am - 4pm) at CalTech. There is no registration fee.

-Registration (free) is required at: forms.gle/vRHYZm6gbC1p...
-To display a poster, follow this link: forms.gle/7d2yMFU1xgsC...

We have an epic line-up for the SoCal Microbiome Symposium at CalTech on Sept 19th, Sarah Allard, Ariane Briegel, Nandita Garud, Sarakis Mazmanian, Joel Sachs, Julia Schartzman, Emily Stein and David Underhill. Thanks to hosts Margaret McFall Ngai and Ned Ruby!

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

POSTDOC🚨
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.

Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻

Paving the way for microbiome-based therapy in clinical practice This article presents recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based treatments that are ripe for clinical adoption and discusses challenges and opportunities facing the field based on expert inte...

Where does microbiome-based medicine stand today, and where is it headed?

We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social

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thank you FERRIS. Maybe you mean @danielwhiteson.bsky.social's book? But maybe I also have a book in me :).

Excited to be on the way to #ASMicrobe once more ! And if you want to know more about our work on CRISPRs, metagenomes, and phages, please come and chat and/or come see me tomorrow morning (9:15am in the EEB-IDS-202 session, which looks amazing overall !)

Welcome to all attending @asm.org #Microbe2025 and to all following here. Looking forward to a great meeting!

Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired.

Check these out!🧵

There might be a few at BEI from the Human Microbiome Project. I might have some of them too, and could share.

I'm giving a seminar tomorrow, and I'll share the probiotic 'sus' score I've been developing with UCI students in my microbiome course. If you have a favorite crazy claim made on probiotic packaging, I'd love to see it!

Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research?

most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson) - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart <p>Daniel and Kelly talk to Katrine Whiteson (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/l...

Daniel and Kelly talk to @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.

Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design

Please repost for reach 💚

Clinical translation of microbiome research - Nature Medicine This Review summarizes recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based interventions that are ripe for clinical adoption while also discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the field.

Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research.

A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:

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What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of microbial cells, populations, comm...

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers

#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Cancelled NIH grant information submission form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.

If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.

Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP.

phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca...

#AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬

#ScientistAtWork 2025: Nature is seeking stunning photographic images that capture researchers’ working lives Winners get a cash prize, and will have their image featured in Nature in print and online.

Any of you have amazing science images? Entries are open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork competition. Your science caught on camera could win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the chance to see your images appear in print and online. Entries are due by March 28. 🧪🔬🧬 #SciComm

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Made a feed for phage papers/discussions/friends!
Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽

Help our friends at the NSF:
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)

Happy International Women's Day

I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me)

Please share & let me know who to add

#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬

go.bsky.app/BGugi2N

Insulin (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson) - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart <p>Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff.&nbsp;</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio...

Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff.

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...