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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · 7h

Science chats over donuts are the best chats!

Sheyda Azimi @sazimi.bsky.social · 12h

So far during fall semester at Bio for Breakfast series at GSU!
@kswetzel1.bsky.social

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Amelia Randich @ameliarandich.bsky.social · 7d

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)! 🦠

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Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.

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

Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology

The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.

www.nature.com

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Pittsburgh Phage Program @pghphageprogram.bsky.social · Aug 21

Nearly 300 patients screened for phage susceptibility ✅
50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅

Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started.
#pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Wetzel Lab is one! 🥳 Grateful for these enthusiastic scientists who have joined me for the ride.

Image of six scientists standing and smiling

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Aug 12

Come hang out with us!

Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · Aug 12

Looking forward to this amazing phage conference.

Tomorrow last day for abstract submission.

#phage #phagesky #microsky

www.iasusa.org/bacteriophag...

Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics - IAS-USA

Physical Education: Bridging Clinical Research and Patient Care

www.iasusa.org

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

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Laurent Kremer @lkremer1.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thrilled to share our most recent paper describing the antimicrobial activity of engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles targeting intracellular mycobacteria in macrophages and zebrafish. Outstanding work headed by Yara Tasrini, John Jairo Aguilera Correa, Miguel Gisbert and others.
rdcu.be/eAcN4

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Aug 7

I learned so much from them today!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 7

Scientists!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!

We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15

If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

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Amelia McKitterick @amelia-mckitterick.bsky.social · Jun 25

The excitement continues! Check out my latest preprint examining how phages have adapted to lyse different bacterial envelopes. I found a lysis gene (lysZ) that is conserved in phages that infect corynebacteria mycobacteria, and other actinos.

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

Bacteriophages target membrane-anchored glycopolymers to promote host cell lysis and progeny release

Most bacteriophages lyse their host cell to release progeny virions. Double-stranded DNA phages typically promote host lysis using a holin-endolysin system. Holins form pores in the cytoplasmic membra...

www.biorxiv.org

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Jun 24

New phage lab just dropped!

Amelia McKitterick @amelia-mckitterick.bsky.social · Jun 24

I'm pleased to announce that I will be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School in August! My group will study phages that infect corynebacteria and mycobacteria to understand bacterial cell envelope assembly and phage gene function. Website and more info to come soon!

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Jun 23

Yes, I'll see you there!

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Jun 20

Sad to miss it!! Have fun!

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congrats, y'all!! 🥳

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James Gurney @jamesgurney.bsky.social · Jun 10

Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Phage steering in the presence of a competing bacterial pathogen

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Apr 16

Do you love phages? Other viruses? Cool science done by cool people? Check out this paper by my former bay mate @kfreeman.bsky.social and colleagues that sheds light on the cool molecular machines that are phage tails.

Krista Freeman @kfreeman.bsky.social · Apr 16

Hurray, it is finally out! Meet bacteriophage Bxb1 - the subject of my first full-phage cryo-EM study. My structures are beautifully complemented by the Park Lab’s cryo-ET analysis, shedding light on mycobacteriophage structural changes during infection.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Structure and infection dynamics of mycobacteriophage Bxb1

Mycobacteriophage Bxb1 is a well-characterized virus of Mycobacterium smegmatis with double-stranded DNA and a long, flexible tail. Mycobacteriophages…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Dec 20

Congrats Jyot!! 🥳🥳

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Brittany Ross @persisterbritt.bsky.social · Nov 29

The Ross Lab is recruiting a PhD student! We study the physiology of chronic bacterial infection using M. abscessus. Contact me if interested!
Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Katie Wetzel @kswetzel1.bsky.social · Nov 15

So bummed to have missed it @sczerwinski.bsky.social ! I heard it was great!

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