ThePatrick&WatsonLabs
@thepwlab.bsky.social
Our labs study innate immune regulation during bacterial infection. We focus on interplay between mitochondria and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Robbie Watson) and post-transcriptional control of macrophage activation (Kristin Patrick). Views are our own.
Aw thanks, labbies! Y’all are the best!
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Aw thanks, labbies! Y’all are the best!
Anyone want to join me sobbing in my office?
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6-year-old steps up after axolotl lab lost funds: "Not a lot of people get how important it is"
When a Harvard team lost its research funding into the axolotl, a 6-year-old girl came to their rescue, inspiring the researchers with her actions. Steve Hartman has the story "On the Road."
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November 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Anyone want to join me sobbing in my office?
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My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
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The person packing our VWR order chose violence today. #secfootball #anchordown
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The person packing our VWR order chose violence today. #secfootball #anchordown
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If it wasn't clear, this ad is for tenure track Microbiology faculty at the assistant professor level😬
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 8:18 PM
If it wasn't clear, this ad is for tenure track Microbiology faculty at the assistant professor level😬
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UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
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Department of Microbiology | The University of Chicago
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October 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!
October 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!
If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague!
Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.
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Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee job with Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | 12843515
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine—Basic Sciences
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October 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you are somehow still compelled to be a PI in the world in which we find ourselves, we'd love to have you as a colleague!
Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.
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Two positions in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University.
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Anyone know if IAR shuts down if the government shuts down?
Study Section peeps might want to download the grants they have to review...
Study Section peeps might want to download the grants they have to review...
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Anyone know if IAR shuts down if the government shuts down?
Study Section peeps might want to download the grants they have to review...
Study Section peeps might want to download the grants they have to review...
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According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.
September 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
According to news reports, NIH is on track to award nearly all of its FY25 budget. Program officers—working long hours despite staff losses—made it possible. Take a moment to thank your PO for their dedication.
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A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
September 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails.
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits.
Thank you!
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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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Any plant biologist with a funded NIH R35 MIRA ESI willing to share their proposal with me? THANKS. #PlantSciences
August 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Any plant biologist with a funded NIH R35 MIRA ESI willing to share their proposal with me? THANKS. #PlantSciences
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Preprint on tandem split-GFP influenza viruses is now up! We strung 7 copies of GFP11 together to make a bright virus with minimal fitness defects. Fluorescence requires GFP1-10 from cells, so we made a few that are relevant for flu. See this fluorescent love story: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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July 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Preprint on tandem split-GFP influenza viruses is now up! We strung 7 copies of GFP11 together to make a bright virus with minimal fitness defects. Fluorescence requires GFP1-10 from cells, so we made a few that are relevant for flu. See this fluorescent love story: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
A P/W lab student who had his F31-DIV terminated just got a very fundable score on the (same) F31 he submitted again as a new application in April.
Its almost as if his science and aptitude had nothing to do with "DEI" 🤔
Hope this inspires others with unfairly terminated awards to try again!
Its almost as if his science and aptitude had nothing to do with "DEI" 🤔
Hope this inspires others with unfairly terminated awards to try again!
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July 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A P/W lab student who had his F31-DIV terminated just got a very fundable score on the (same) F31 he submitted again as a new application in April.
Its almost as if his science and aptitude had nothing to do with "DEI" 🤔
Hope this inspires others with unfairly terminated awards to try again!
Its almost as if his science and aptitude had nothing to do with "DEI" 🤔
Hope this inspires others with unfairly terminated awards to try again!
Want to learn more about all the ways macrophages regulate their functions downstream of transcription? Check out our new review, the brainchild of two talented trainees: Mackenzie Smith @u2afwho.bsky.social in the Patrick lab and Ed Courvan in the Parker lab.
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Plans within plans: post-transcriptional regulation governs macrophage responses
Macrophages are sentinels and first responders of the innate immune system. By sensing danger signals, they initiate and amplify inflammatory and rege…
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June 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Want to learn more about all the ways macrophages regulate their functions downstream of transcription? Check out our new review, the brainchild of two talented trainees: Mackenzie Smith @u2afwho.bsky.social in the Patrick lab and Ed Courvan in the Parker lab.
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IAI: Zero open access fees and a reasonable review process.
5 stars, will be back!
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5 stars, will be back!
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The new open access policy of NIH will take effect next week (July 1st). All NIH funded research 🔬🧪🧬accepted after July 1st must be open access upon publication. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology
June 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
IAI: Zero open access fees and a reasonable review process.
5 stars, will be back!
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
5 stars, will be back!
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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Alert! The abstract deadline for the Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response meeting has been extended to July 7 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
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June 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Alert! The abstract deadline for the Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response meeting has been extended to July 7 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
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Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Are you looking for a faculty job? We are hiring in my department at Roswell Park NOW. Contact me for details as I await the formal ad. (Please RT.)
“Look, it’s a macrophage.”
May 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“Look, it’s a macrophage.”
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1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
May 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
1/3 It’s official 🙌🏽
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
The Reyes Ruiz Lab is opening in 2026 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences. My lab will focus on host antibacterial effectors and adaptation of bacteria to host-imposed stress during S. aureus infections.
Our lab love language is sharing food, so we had to have breakfast AND lunch in honor of Robbie on his birthday!
May 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Our lab love language is sharing food, so we had to have breakfast AND lunch in honor of Robbie on his birthday!
Celebrating a successful RNA in Immunity session with all our favorite scientists, sponsored by the @cytokinesociety.bsky.social at #immunology2025. @carpenterlab.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social @naehasubramanian.bsky.social @heleneliu.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Celebrating a successful RNA in Immunity session with all our favorite scientists, sponsored by the @cytokinesociety.bsky.social at #immunology2025. @carpenterlab.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social @naehasubramanian.bsky.social @heleneliu.bsky.social
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It was a huge pleasure to represent @cytokinesociety.bsky.social at AAI to discuss RNA and immunity. Thanks to my co-chair @ramlabuw.bsky.social and all our fabulous speakers @thepwlab.bsky.social @naehasubramanian.bsky.social and @heleneliu.bsky.social. Mahalo!
May 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It was a huge pleasure to represent @cytokinesociety.bsky.social at AAI to discuss RNA and immunity. Thanks to my co-chair @ramlabuw.bsky.social and all our fabulous speakers @thepwlab.bsky.social @naehasubramanian.bsky.social and @heleneliu.bsky.social. Mahalo!