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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Emmanuelle Genoyer @immunuelle.bsky.social · 5d

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026! My lab will study RNA virus-host interactions with a particular focus on the spatial regulation of viral replication and innate immune activation. genoyerlab.com

Genoyer Lab

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats! That's awesome news.

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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · Jul 26

Excited to share this collaborative study with @ritatamayo.bsky.social showing that E. faecalis influences C. diff morphology through the phase variable CmrRST system! This work was co-led by the amazing team of @ashleyweiss.bsky.social and Jilarie Santos-Santiago!

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jul 25

Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666506v1

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thank you!

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Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations @christinviral.bsky.social and team for publishing this super cool discovery 😎 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Here’s a quick summary of our cool findings about how stress due to simple mouse husbandry drives clearance of persistent enteric viral infection 🦠🐭 1/5

Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you Sunny!

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Jun 25

#NewResearch

🚨Out now!

Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice 🐀
@christinviral.bsky.social @cadwelllab.bsky.social

#MicroSky #VirusSky

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Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

www.nature.com

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you to all of my amazing co-authors in the @cadwelllab.bsky.social and Koralov lab!

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 25

In addition, we also see these inflammatory responses after cage change in mock mice. This highlights that we should be aware of the side effects common mouse husbandry practices can introduce into experiments.

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 25

This initially represses immune responses and allows virus expansion. Once stress is resolved, CD8 T cells in the gut become activated and induce inflammatory responses in the epithelium leading to virus clearance. Therefore, manipulating the environment we can shorten the duration of an infection.

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 25

We noticed variability in the length of infection for one of our enteric model viruses, murine Astrovirus, and discovered that the virus was cleared because of the stress following cage changes. The new environment leads to production of stress hormones such a glucocorticoids.

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Christin Herrmann @christinviral.bsky.social · Jun 25

Excited to share with you my postdoctoral work published today in Nature Microbiology!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have known for a while that stress can impact the outcome of infectious diseases; however, we reveal in our paper that it is not always detrimental.

Environmental stress drives clearance of a persistent enteric virus in mice - Nature Microbiology

Cage change of mice with persistent murine astrovirus infection triggers stress responses marked by corticosterone fluctuation, which is followed by CD8 T cell activation and induction of epithelial a...

www.nature.com

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Dr. Sunny Shin @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thrilled that our latest paper showing that DCs undergo either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation to restrict Legionella is now online at the @asm.org journal mBio! Congrats to 1st author @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! 🎉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Dendritic cells activate pyroptosis and effector-triggered apoptosis to restrict Legionella infection | mBio

The innate immune system senses bacterial pathogens by employing pattern recognition receptors that detect pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and guard proteins that monitor pathogen disru...

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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · May 23

Incredibly honored to be selected as a @bwfund.bsky.social Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease. Thank you to @bwfund.bsky.social for supporting our work - I am thrilled to join this amazing community! And special thank you to my AMAZING team (past & present) for getting us here!

Burroughs Wellcome Fund @bwfund.bsky.social · May 23

Announcing the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/announc... #bwfpath

Announcing the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - Burroughs Wellcome Fund

DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund proudly announces the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award recipients. This year’s cohort represents a diverse group of…

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Cadwell Lab @cadwelllab.bsky.social · May 17

Congratulations Xiaomin Yao and Eugene Rudensky for publishing this story @cp-immunity.bsky.social! Big thank you to NIH for making this work possible. Here’s a brief summary of this 🤯 finding about a gene variant that YOU 🫵 most likely have 1/n

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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · May 16

Excited to share our new work in @aga-gastro.bsky.social! We show that dietary fiber alters the window of susceptibility to C. difficile following antibiotic exposure. This really fantastic study was co-led by an amazing team @rinniehewlett.bsky.social @alhecht.bsky.social and Amanda PeBenito.

Dietary fiber modulates the window of susceptibility to Clostridioides difficile infection

Clostridioides difficile epidemiology is rapidly evolving, and understanding the factors that contribute to one’s risk of C. difficile infection (CDI) is urgently needed. Based on our observations in ...

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Valeria Reyes Ruiz @reyesruiz.bsky.social · May 14

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.

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Payal Yokota @payalyokota.bsky.social · Apr 25

Excited to share our latest study
@cp-immunity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to the editorial and review teams , to my co-first @yeungadventures.bsky.social, our co-authors, and to @khannakm.bsky.social
for his outstanding mentorship throughout! Pls read/share!👇
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Nerve- and airway-associated interstitial macrophages mitigate SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis via type I interferon signaling

The local immunoregulatory mechanisms that safeguard the host from excessive lung infection inflammation remain unclear. Yeung, Yokota et al. uncover the essential role of nerve- and airway-associated...

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Carman Li @carman-mc-li.bsky.social · Apr 20

Our lab has opened at the Cancer Biology Department and the Basser Center for BRCA @upenn.bsky.social! We study new mechanisms of hereditary cancers and their implications for sporadic cancers, building on my training with @labjacks.bsky.social and Joan Brugge.

Join us! tinyurl.com/CarmanLiLabH...

Carman Li Lab

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Apr 18

Gastrointestinal colonization as a source of Staphylococcus aureus in atopic dermatitis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.648849v1

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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · Apr 16

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors - Nature

Nature - Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors

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