Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠

Self promotion time! Recently, we found that maternal BMI status does not impact HMO composition, however maternal HMOs were correlated with specific infant bacterial taxa and genes, reinforcing the influence of HMOs on the infant gut microbiome. www.mdpi.com/3139886

Collaborative mucin degradation by commensal gut microbes- an insightful mechanistic paper!

Just had an NIH grant withdrawn for not fitting the IC mission (despite matchmaker alignment). Feeling sad and infuriated, but also hopeful the NIH will still be around next year for me to try again.

Note to colleagues at R1 schools: an easy way to support the research of faculty at smaller schools is to invite them to give talks in your seminar series. I just received emails about high-profile colloquia at two different Ivies: 100% of speakers in both are affiliated w big research universities

I'm building a "reading list" of articles about microbes in pop culture (eg: 3000 year old beer) to get students excited about micro. I'm looking for good journals/resources with easy reading (freshman/sophomore level). Any suggestions from the blue?

Nice genome-resolved metagenomics of 90 fermented foods - including a lot of fungal genomes

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Want to know why CSU faculty are going on strike next week? Here's a great explanation:
medium.com/@kateozment/...

Manuscript accepted! 🥳 Looking forward to sharing the final version soon!

for folks in grad programs, what are key barriers that may affect your ability to regularly attend seminars organized as part of routine department seminar series?

Excited to share this preprint! The credit for most of the work goes to Loren Padilla! Huge thanks to our collaborators for helping us get the final piece of the puzzle.
Akkermansia and 2'FL: which species eats it best?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My first post here and I'm very proud to announce our newest publication in JMBE in which we redesign the microbial unknown doi.org/10.1128/jmbe...
A huge shout out to my coauthors: Kayla Perri and Maha Abdelhaseib, my mentors: Tom Walter and Chris Sahley, and my inspiration: Sue Merkel