Leigh Knodler
@leighknodler.bsky.social
Australian first | Scientist second | Associate Professor at The University of Vermont | FirstGen | Lover of germs, especially Salmonella and their type III secretion systems
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Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏
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November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Faculty search at UAlbany targeting folks broadly applying AI/ML to infectious disease research!! Please RT 🙏
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
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I hope that one day Karoline Leavitt has to stand in front of a room of Epstein victims and explain to them what she means when she says, “It’s all a Democrat hoax.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I hope that one day Karoline Leavitt has to stand in front of a room of Epstein victims and explain to them what she means when she says, “It’s all a Democrat hoax.”
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While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
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Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.
While the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Unreal, the impact this is having on scientists. I spent over 700 hrs writing 4 grants submitted Apr-Sept that *might* have been funded next Apr; 2 abt to be 3 apps missed review bc of shutdown. In normal times takes 9-24 mo to get a grant funded. No hope for labs like mine. Literally no hope.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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UMN's Department of Microbiology and Immunology is hiring! Come be our colleague in the Twin Cities! Searches are open for Virology and Fungal Biology (links below).
Virology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Virology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
UMN's Department of Microbiology and Immunology is hiring! Come be our colleague in the Twin Cities! Searches are open for Virology and Fungal Biology (links below).
Virology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Virology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
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Coenzyme A depletion causes antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684135v1
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Coenzyme A depletion causes antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684135v1
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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
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
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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
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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The unique lipopolysaccharide composition of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 dampens pyroptosis and inflammasome activation and suppresses host cell death https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679141v1
September 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The unique lipopolysaccharide composition of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 dampens pyroptosis and inflammasome activation and suppresses host cell death https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679141v1
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Check out our new publication, a collaboration with Giovanni Luchetti and Vishva Dixit @ Genentech.
We show that the E.coli effector NleL inhibits intestinal epithelial cell extrusion after #inflammasome activation via degrading the kinases ROCK1 and 2!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explainer 1/8
We show that the E.coli effector NleL inhibits intestinal epithelial cell extrusion after #inflammasome activation via degrading the kinases ROCK1 and 2!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explainer 1/8
Enteropathogenic bacteria evade ROCK-driven epithelial cell extrusion - Nature
The bacterial ubiquitin ligase NleL evades host defence mechanisms both by inhibiting pyroptosis and by preventing infected intestinal epithelial cells from being extruded into the lumen and expelled ...
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Check out our new publication, a collaboration with Giovanni Luchetti and Vishva Dixit @ Genentech.
We show that the E.coli effector NleL inhibits intestinal epithelial cell extrusion after #inflammasome activation via degrading the kinases ROCK1 and 2!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explainer 1/8
We show that the E.coli effector NleL inhibits intestinal epithelial cell extrusion after #inflammasome activation via degrading the kinases ROCK1 and 2!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explainer 1/8
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Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Thèse en Microbiologie-Biochimie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
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Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
"We became inconvenient".
NIH whistleblower details clash over childhood vaccines with Trump administration: "We became inconvenient"
A former NIH official says she was removed after clashes over vaccines, accusing RFK Jr. and his deputies of posing "a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety."
www.cbsnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"We became inconvenient".
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I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
August 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
August 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
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Unfortunate truth is, U.S. academics are not going to find jobs overseas. Some of the biggest name glam faculty will be poached, but for most, the ride is just going to end.
This isn't to say other countries won't take the lead in research, etc. They'll just do it mostly with their own citizens.
This isn't to say other countries won't take the lead in research, etc. They'll just do it mostly with their own citizens.
Australian universities to cut about 2,400 jobs and hundreds of courses as sector blames ‘confused’ government policies
Vice-chancellors say they’ve been forced to restructure but critics point finger at ‘unaccountable’ university management
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Unfortunate truth is, U.S. academics are not going to find jobs overseas. Some of the biggest name glam faculty will be poached, but for most, the ride is just going to end.
This isn't to say other countries won't take the lead in research, etc. They'll just do it mostly with their own citizens.
This isn't to say other countries won't take the lead in research, etc. They'll just do it mostly with their own citizens.
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We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
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Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
August 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.
Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!
Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!
Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!
Fund mRNA research!
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📢 Tell your friends and colleagues about JEM’s Early Career Travel Award! ✈️🧳 We're providing support for #gradstudents and early-career #postdoc researchers to attend #Cytokines2025, this November in Seattle! Apply by Sept. 26 👉 rupress.org/jem/pages/ea...
August 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📢 Tell your friends and colleagues about JEM’s Early Career Travel Award! ✈️🧳 We're providing support for #gradstudents and early-career #postdoc researchers to attend #Cytokines2025, this November in Seattle! Apply by Sept. 26 👉 rupress.org/jem/pages/ea...
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Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
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“Grant review by political appointees will further impede the work of the scientific community to provide solutions and fight public health threats. With strong and responsible oversight, we need to harness—not suppress—all perspectives and approaches in the effort to solve these problems.”
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Grant review by political appointees will further impede the work of the scientific community to provide solutions and fight public health threats. With strong and responsible oversight, we need to harness—not suppress—all perspectives and approaches in the effort to solve these problems.”
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The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.
It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.
Likely to enter force within days.