@ginalewin.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Case Western studying microbial interactions in the oral and vaginal microbiomes (and beyond!). Also find me outside, baking, coloring, or sleeping. thelewinlab.com
Job ad for Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment interactions position
Job ad for microbial drivers of chronic disease position
Come join us in Knoxville!
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
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 — 👍 8 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
The summarised schedule of Black in Micro Week 2025, October 14-16. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. Mon 14: Pathways for Change. Welcome and Keynote Address 12pm. Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD. Panel Discussion: Finding Black Spaces in STEM, 1:15-2:15 PM. Weds 15, Careers & Research: ECR Symposium 9-12 PM. Panel discussion: Navigating Careers in Microbiology 2-3 PM. Thurs 16, Community: Panel Discussion - Empowering Your Science 12-1:15 PM. Workshop: Science in Action
This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)
30.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 14 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
he Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California, Davis is seeking applications for a fulltime, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Mycology, with a focus on plant pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi and fungal-like organisms (e.g., oomycetes). We are looking for a highly motivated and creative scientist with a strong background in mycology and/or the biology of fungi and fungal-like organisms that interact with plants. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a world-class, externally funded research program that integrates both fundamental and applied aspects of fungal biology within the context of plant pathology. We welcome applicants pursuing a wide range of research topics related to plant-associated fungi, including but not limited to mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis or symbiosis with plants, population genomics and evolution of fungal plant pathogens, plant-associated fungal microbiomes and plant-microbe interactions, and/or one health approaches to fungal diseases and antifungal resistance. Applicants working in other relevant research areas involving pathogenic, symbiotic, or mycotoxigenic fungi or fungal-like organisms that affect plant health are also encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will have significant opportunities for collaboration with faculty in plant pathology, microbiology, genomics, and agricultural sciences, and to contribute to addressing issues of importance to California’s agricultural and natural ecosystems. The appointee primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upperdivision lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society, a general education class for non-majors. Additional graduate and undergraduate teaching responsibilities may be assigned based on departmental needs and the candidate’s expertise. The department offers modern instructional facilities, including a newly renovated teaching laboratory.
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫
13.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants.
My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others.
Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Video OpEd via @nytimes.com on drastic cuts to the pipeline of federally funded medical research that drives diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for
Cancer
HIV
Diabetes
Alzheimer's
+ more
& helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power.
5 mins 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out!
🧫🧪
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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. 🎉
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...)
Message me for an invite link if you are interested.
No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!
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
Reading this tonight, and holding my family a little extra tight, heartbroken for all who cannot
16.07.2025 00:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
College of New Hampshire views and people eating lobster
Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites)
@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social
Dear Science Journalists,
Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.
The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?
Wish I could like this 100 more times. Huge congrats, very well deserved! 🥳
01.07.2025 02:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to help fill some bubbles in Ohio and support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, which is doing lots of awesome work to connect people with science!
30.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change
Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies
Sign at a protest with images of monarch butterflies and text saying the “only orange monarch we want”
Great crowd today
#NoKings #ScienceNotSilence
I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
09.06.2025 12:01 — 👍 152 🔁 97 💬 3 📌 16This is so cool, @vscooper.micropopbio.org 👏
#EvolvingSTEM at its best!
🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨
Friday, May 30th at 3pm
Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.
We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e...
Please share, thank you 🙏🏻
Update to https://scienceimpacts.org to include terminated grants
Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Are you able to mentor a summer student and have a good project that can be virtually administered, sign up to be an NSURP mentor today! If you can't, hit that share button please and thank you! #NoLabNoProblem #NSURP
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The devastating blows to American science during Trump's first 100 days, in numbers. And the end is nowhere in sight. www.science.org/content/arti...
01.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
A young girl plays a game to brush foam "microbes" off a large drawing of a tooth while two adults look on
Visitors learn about bacteria by looking a petri plates under microscopes
My lab & I had a lovely time sharing our love of oral bacteria at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History this weekend. 🦷🧫
And learned that little kids are very passionate about the color of their toothbrushes. 😂🪥
