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Joe Sorg @thejoesorg.bsky.social · 26d

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

Five Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in Microbiology, Evolution, and Biological Clocks - College Station, Texas job with Department of Biology - TAMU | 675062

Texas A&M University (TAMU) invites applications for five full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor positions

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

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.

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Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

Cornell University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Job #AJO30338, WDR-00054776 Assistant Professor - Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · Aug 18

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/...

Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.

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Amanda Amodeo @aaamodeo.bsky.social · Aug 14

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined).

Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.

apply.interfolio.com/171625

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Marc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social · Jul 30

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

www.utm.utoronto.ca

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Johnson Lab - University of Iowa @campylobacterlab.bsky.social · May 9

Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks!

Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · May 5

Thank you 🙂

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SPP2389 - Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity @spp2389.bsky.social · May 5

We heard Stefan talk about his work on multicellularity in Stenotrophomonas at our conference this January, check out his latest preprint!

Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · May 5

New preprint alert 🚨: We found that Steno maltophila senses a quorum sensing molecule from the co-infecting pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and switches to multicellular aggregates as a protective mechanism. #MicroSky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia exhibits defensive multicellularity in response to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecule

Microorganisms commonly exist in polymicrobial communities, where organisms can respond to interspecies secreted molecules by altering behaviors and physiology, however, the underlying mechanisms rema...

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · May 5

Project was led by postdoc Stefan Katharios, working with @tiffzarrella.bsky.social and other lab members.

Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · May 5

New preprint alert 🚨: We found that Steno maltophila senses a quorum sensing molecule from the co-infecting pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and switches to multicellular aggregates as a protective mechanism. #MicroSky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia exhibits defensive multicellularity in response to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecule

Microorganisms commonly exist in polymicrobial communities, where organisms can respond to interspecies secreted molecules by altering behaviors and physiology, however, the underlying mechanisms rema...

www.biorxiv.org

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · May 3

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia exhibits defensive multicellularity in response to a Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing molecule https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651457v1

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · Apr 12

Excited to share this new preprint from the lab, where postdoc Pavan Silva @kptsilva.bsky.social found pathways that control gene amplifications, and thus antibiotic resistance, in Staph aureus!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genetic determinants of gene amplifications alter frequency and evolutionary trajectory of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

Gene amplifications are thought to be common in bacterial populations, providing a rapid reversible mode of adaptation to diverse stresses, including the acquisition of antibiotic resistance. We previ...

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Apr 12

Genetic determinants of gene amplifications alter frequency and evolutionary trajectory of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.647645v1

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · Mar 7

Our paper is now online at PLOS Genetics! @plos.org

Tony Martini @tmartini.bsky.social · Mar 7

We are now live at PLoS Genetics! Thanks to the editors and reviewers for their work and suggestions to improve the paper!

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Immunominutes @cindyleifer.bsky.social · Feb 13

Come join our faculty! We’re hiring.

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · Jan 21

Congratulations Vaughn @vscooper.micropopbio.org !!

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · Jan 18

A plug for our paper on gene amplifications in S. aureus: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efflux pump gene amplifications bypass necessity of multiple target mutations for resistance against dual-targeting antibiotic - Nature Communications

Antibiotics that attack multiple targets in bacteria are thought to reduce the frequency of resistance. The authors show that genomic amplifications of poorly characterized efflux pumps can instead le...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jan 8

Stefan Katharios-Lanwermeyer (from @anukharelab.bsky.social lab)- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia aggregation in response to an interspecies signaling molecule protects it from bacterial antagonism

P. aeruginosa vs S. maltophilia

#MultiBac2025

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Scott Saunders @saunderslab.bsky.social · Nov 22

Wow - bluesky! 📈 🦠

Please help me amplify a special faculty search. We're looking for someone in "Microbial Systems Biology" to join me and @kreynoldslab.bsky.social at UTSW Sys Bio / Bioinformatics.

There is an empty lab space right next to us waiting for you!

apply.interfolio.com/154339

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Anupama Khare @anukharelab.bsky.social · Nov 22

It was really fun to have you visit 🙂

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Nov 20

Microbiome FacultyJob at UC Davis in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (one of the departments where I reside ...)

See recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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