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Professor studying how bacteria evade the immune system. Goal to develop new therapeutics to protect people from infections.
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Matthew Lawrenz @lawrenzlab.bsky.social · Sep 1
I am honored to be named an ASM Distinguished Lecturer! Looking forward to participating in upcoming ASM Branch Meetings and supporting our next generation of microbiologists.
ASM Distinguished and Waksman Foundation Lecturer Roster
ASM is a nonprofit professional society that publishes scientific journals and advances microbiology through advocacy, global health and diversity in STEM programs.
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Early abstract submissions for ASM Microbe 2026—now 3 fully integrated meetings within 1 microbial world—are officially open. Submit by Dec. 2, 2 p.m. ET to elevate your research, spark new collaborations and join the conversations defining what’s next. asm.org/events/asm-m...
Early abstract submission now open!
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Abstract portal is open for ASM Microbe 2026. New meeting format, same great science. Hope to see you in DC!
ASM Microbe | Abstracts
ASM Microbe showcases the best microbial sciences in the world and provides a one-of-a-kind forum to explore everything from basic microbiology to translation and application.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Cellular structure self-organizes through an interplay between internal mechanisms and external cues. The single-celled suctorian P. collini builds a trap structure to capture large prey using microtubule feeding tentacles, creating feedback between cell morphology and prey availability.
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Update on a significant development NIH grant terms.

On 10/1, a change to grant making regs went into effect that gives NIH more power to terminate grants for policy reasons.

But to use this power, new grant terms must include specific language. See @aniloza.bsky.social w/ the story from July.

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HHS devises legal playbook for future grant terminations, internal memo shows
Exclusive: HHS devises a legal playbook for future research grant terminations, an internal memo shows.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783
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October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Support science!
What's at risk when federal research funding to universities is cut | 60 Minutes
Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine. n.pr/4onXnXP
Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Just looking for two guests for my #MattersMicrobial podcast. Slots open between 7AM and noon on Friday, November 28th and Friday, December 26th. DM me, email, and please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. Always looking for #MicrobialEnthusiasts.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The UofA is hiring for a Principal Scientist in cancer immunology! This isn’t a typical academic position—we're looking for a scientist with a great idea but needs time/resources to translate and commercialize. Please repost and apply if interested!

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Principal Scientist, Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies
Develop a research program in the advancement of immunological therapies.Play a crucial role in all aspects of research development, implementation, a...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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My department, Cornell BME, is hiring!

This tenure-track faculty position is a great opportunity to join a vibrant community that values research, teaching, and entrepreneurship.

📝 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30816
Cornell BME at Weill Hall in Ithaca
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Molecular & Cellular Physiology (MCP) Monday

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to join the Dept of Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford. Apply to be our colleague 1/n
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
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October 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Looking to boost your professional skills? Whether you're in community college, undergrad, postbac, grad school or are a postdoc, ASM's free November webinar series has something for you! Explore sessions by educational/career stage and register today: asm.social/2Fa
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October 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get
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How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get
The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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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
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October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The Dean of Boston University's School of Public Health makes the case for investing in doctoral education, even now at the nadir of higher ed's status here in the U.S. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
The Case for Doctoral Education in Our Fraught Times
In a new commentary, Dean Adnan Hyder explains why doctoral education matters for reasons beyond academia’s future.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Come be my colleague! We have new faculty searches in Virology & Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology. UMN has great people & the Twin Cities are beautiful year-round!
Virology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Fungal Biology / Medical Mycology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/36547
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October 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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More public talks coming up in a couple of weeks. Here's the notice for my talk at UC-Merced on 6 Nov: "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Further info here: centerforhumanities.ucmerced.edu/events/where... #histmed #MedievalSky #EpiSky
Announcement for a talk sponsored by the University of California-Merced Seminar in the Humanities, to be given by Monica H. Green on Nov. 6: Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics. The image includes a photograph of the speaker at the center. The text of the abstract for “Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics” a talk to be presented to the Center for the Humanities, University of California, Merced, 6 November 2025 Monica H. Green monica.h.green@gmail.com https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/ Abstract: Where do pandemics come from? The question has never been more urgently on our minds than in the past five years. Yet while the force of pandemics has been recognized for centuries, aside from being seen as acts of God, there has been little understanding of their genesis. Those questions began to be answered in the early 20th century with increasing understanding of how major infectious diseases can move between animal populations and humans, that is, as zoonotics, often with insects as vectors. The advent of advanced genetics in the late 20th century has now allowed the precise tracking of strains of pathogens across species. And the rise of paleogenetics in the 21st century now allows us to track such diseases into the past. Pandemics are unique in that they manage to exploit human networks to spread globally and, more often than not, sustain themselves. Whether the diseases are carried by humans themselves or by human-created ecologies or means of transport, pandemics always have an anthropogenic element. How does that knowledge help us think comparatively about pandemics past, present, and future? And do the traditional humanities-based methods of History help us tell these stories anew? This talk will draw on new findings about the late medieval plague pandemic, the Black Death, to explain what we know about its genesis, spread, and perpetuation for the next 500 years. And it will compare it in broad outlines with other, more recent pandemics to show their commonalities.
October 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The Department of Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill is searching for an organismal biologist whose research is focused on resilience.

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Assistant Professor (Organismal Biologist)
The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill will employ a tenure-track position in Organismal Biology at the Assistant Professor level.The Assistant Professor studies resilience using the organism as...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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We’re hiring! KUMC's Dept. of Microbiol., Mol. Genet. & Immunol. seeks a new Asst. Professor in Immunology. Be part of a vibrant department and benefit from association with the NCI-designated KU Cancer Center. Come join us in Kansas City! Apply here: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j...
October 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨The Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) and @pitt-immunology.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a tenure-stream Assistant Professor. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3L42cGS
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October 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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My home department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at UC Irvine is looking to hire a new tenure-track assistant professor in the broad area of structural biology. Come be my colleague! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09887
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October 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🚨Job posting! #UMassAmherst Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is hiring a TT faculty member in #Immunology. Both fundamental and translational areas considered. Please spread the word!
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Details - Assistant Professor - Immunology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🔬🧫 Microbiology job seekers! Go to BMA Job Board to view open positions. Have a vacancy to fill? Posting instructions also available (scroll to bottom). blackinmicrobiology....
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October 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Welcome to Day 2, Black In Micro's Research Symposium is about to begin! Register here: tinyurl.com/BIMW25, then use the same link to login & attend

Donate to Early Career scientists: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (all links in bio)
Black in Micro Week 2025 Early Career Research Symposium held on October 15, 2025, from 9 AM to 12 PM EST. Presenters include Katelyn Nicole Ward, Larisa Chila Kiki, Mallory Evans, Savannah Nicole Lewis, Enycé Fairbanks, and Khadijat Oluwapelumi Adefaye. It features six research presentations by early career scientists from various universities, covering topics such as drug repositioning for fungal infections, bacteriophage adaptation to silver ions, inflammasome responses to LPS, NK cell dynamics in malaria, organoid modeling of bacterial toxins, and protein disorder in Hepatitis E virus. Early Career Research Symposium featuring Aureliana Filomena Chambal Chilengue, Hassan Abbas, Nazik Elmekki, Immaculata Chika Ede, Audrey Randall, and Justin Durunyamunwu. Topics include tuberculosis transmission analysis using reference-free clustering, gut microbiota comparisons in ulcerative colitis, fitness determinants of Phocaeicola vulgatus, wound biofilm modeling, the role of Parabacteroides distasonis in type I diabetes, and microvascular modeling in dengue virus research. Early Career Research Symposium showcasing presenters howcasing presenters Nadia Holness, Deus Kamya, Trinity Moore, Caitlin Wiafe-Kwakye, Drea Darby, and Teni Shosanya. Topics include the role of Staphylococcus aureus in skin inflammation, the impact of Candida albicans on oral epithelial cells, the role of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron in gut inflammation, the effect of Enterococcus faecalis on colorectal cancer, the influence of Streptococcus pneumoniae on lung immunity, and the use of Escherichia coli in synthetic biology applications.
October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM