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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations! 🤩

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · Sep 6

Postdoc position (please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
[email protected]
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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yay yay! Congratulations!!

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Guillaume Thibault @gthibault.bsky.social · Aug 27

📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack

Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Aug 24

💕 Such a joyful day celebrating the wedding of our longest-standing lab member Pei Yi (since 2012!) and former PhD student Kelvin. 💍 Their special day brought together generations of the Kline Lab family - a wonderful reminder of the friendships and community that science builds along the way. 💕

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!

Guillaume Thibault @gthibault.bsky.social · Aug 11

📢 Our new preprint is out! We show how the common gut bacterium 𝘌. 𝘧𝘢𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 stops wound healing. It uses a metabolic pathway, extracellular electron transport (EET), to stress host cells, halting their migration. Watch WT bacteria (orange) stop the cells while the mutant (blue) doesn't!

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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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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Jul 16

At my 1st @femsmicro.org congress (in Milan!) - it's a fantastic meeting. I co-chaired a superb session on Microbial Dark Matter with @jlewillett.bsky.social, who also kicked off the session with a talk on her lab's work. 🤩 We also heard from my FEMS Microbes co-EIC Kathleen Scott! 💪🏽 #FEMS2025

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Jul 11

Vancomycin-resistant 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙪𝙢 (VRE) thrives in the antibiotic-perturbed gut

VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes

Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show that vancomycin-resistant enterococci grow in the antibiotic-treated gut microbiome by utilising enriched nutrients in the presence of reduced concentrations of inhibitory micro...

www.nature.com

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations!

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Jul 3

🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on?
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

FEMS Journals @femsjournals.bsky.social · May 7

Secure your spot for the #FEMSMicrobes Webinar today 🚨. You’ll deep dive into emerging breakthroughs in the field, from antimicrobial discovery to protein profiling to gut fungi imaging. Big insights for health, industry, and environment. 🦠

Register now: buff.ly/7nFyEIj

#FEMSWebinar #Microbes

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anna brogan @apbrogan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Very happy to share that a large part of my thesis work is out today: B. subtilis uses the second messenger c-di-AMP to modulate its turgor pressure in response to the state of its cell envelope. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cyclic-di-AMP modulates cellular turgor in response to defects in bacterial cell wall synthesis - Nature Microbiology

Brogan et al. uncover a signalling pathway in which levels of the nucleotide second messenger c-di-AMP increase in response to defects in cell wall synthesis. This regulatory pathway decreases turgor ...

www.nature.com

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FEMS @femsmicro.org · Jun 14

FEMS MICRO Milan is buzzing with excitement! 🎉🧫 Over 1,900 participants from 90+ countries are ready for 1,700+ posters & 100+ sessions (debates, expert panels, keynotes). This is Europe's premier microbiology event🏆🔬

Regular registration closes today, at 23:59 CEST: buff.ly/6f7yHDV

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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Shu-Sin Chng @figlegend.bsky.social · Jun 12

Jun #SGBUG with Aaron Tan from the groups of @kimingeneva.bsky.social and @gthibault.bsky.social talking about exciting findings on E. faecalis pathogenesis, and @weeboont.bsky.social from our lab sharing his newest work on phospholipid transporters in E. coli! @scelse.bsky.social Awesome crowd!

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

wwwfbm.unil.ch

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our very own 🤩Deepti Rawat🤩 is competing in the PhD Booster program at the University of Geneva, a program supporting career advancement by developing skills to communicate science to the public. Vote for her in the People's Choice Public Prize here! 👇 www.unige.ch/medecine/org...

Deepti Rawat - Faculté de médecine - UNIGE

Hide, survive, infect: inside the survival playbook of a pathogen

www.unige.ch

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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Jun 1

Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!

Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine @gimmfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 15

We’re hiring: GIMM is launching its first call for Group Leaders.

Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery.

🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
📅 Apply by June 8

#ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · May 31

Blaskovich & Cooper review the pipeline of conventional antibiotics and highlight in depth numerous promising alternatives—including potentiators of antibiotic action, bacteriophage, lysins and microbiome modulation—the impact of CARB-X on innovation is patently clear

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Antibiotics re-booted—time to kick back against drug resistance - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Antibiotics re-booted—time to kick back against drug resistance

www.nature.com

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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · May 12

Great meeting coming up next May
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!

www.keystonesymposia.org

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · May 23

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · May 23

Congratulations Joe!

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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · May 22

Fantastic opportunity!👇🏼

Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · May 21

Marie Curie fellowship, post-doc hosting oppotunity in my lab. MSCA Post-doctoral Fellowship at IBPC Paris on RNA modifications in bacteria (FRANCE) 🦠💫 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · May 21

Absolutely thrilled to present our latest review, where we discuss how host microenvironment and bacterial subversion strategies can undermine traditional antimicrobial sensitivity testing, and whether better models may one day get us "beyond the MIC" #IDSKy
rdcu.be/emYoh

Effect of host microenvironment and bacterial lifestyles on antimicrobial sensitivity and implications for susceptibility testing

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Effect of host microenvironment and bacterial lifestyles on antimicrobial sensitivity and implications for susceptibility testing

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