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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 11h

🔱 🔱 #SeizeTheMoment

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 16h

If you don’t have a retractable roof, you forfeit!

Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 1d

I’m hosting @laty.bsky.social for our department seminar series on Wednesday at noon! Please join us! (Happy to share the Teams link!)

Dr. Laty Cahoon’s talk on Wednesday is titled “ The chaperone PrsA2 regulates the secretion, folding, and activity of listeriolysin O during Listeria monocytogenes infection”

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Not the Seattle Mariners @mariners.bsky.social · 2d

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 5d

Watching Sarah McLachlan’s documentary reminded me that I used to be cool. I was at the first Lilith Fair concert on July 5, 1997 at the Gorge at George, WA. Girl power!

First ever Lilith Fair concert on July 5, 1997 at the Gorge at George, WA.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6d

ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this cool paper from my colleagues @nanamikubota.bsky.social and @vscooper.micropopbio.org on phages that can affect bacterial evolution!

Nanami Kubota @nanamikubota.bsky.social · 5d

Published in Current Biology! P. aeruginosa can use its filamentous phage to inhibit competitors but high phage production is susceptible to cheater miniphage invasion. Subsequent phage tragedy of the commons can lower bacteria and phage fitness. Link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5I3QW8S...

Nanami Kubota @nanamikubota.bsky.social · Apr 2

Preprint out! Bacteria w/ hyper-replicative filamentous phage lead to overnight emergence of cheater phages. Bacteria w/ both phages can outcompete wildtype, then rapidly lose phage via a phage Tragedy of the Commons
@shellyscrib.bsky.social @vscooper.micropopbio.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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ASM @asm.org · 6d

Congress must end the government shutdown and enact funding that provides robust investments in federal science agencies and public health. Read our statement: asm.social/2CS

Congress must work together to open the government and fund federal research by passing full-year appropriations legislation that provides robust funding for federal science research and public health programs.

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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 7d

Check out PMI talks tomorrow at the SOM Grad Student Symposium:
@catmphelps.bsky.social (in @meisellab.bsky.social ), Daria Jelic (Doug Reed lab), Kelsey Ertwine (Abby Overacre lab), @febrigunawan48.bsky.social (in Renfeng Li lab), and @dariavantyne.bsky.social !

Pitt BGSA @pittbgsa.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow from 8am-6pm, The Assembly transforms into a celebration of graduate research, innovation, and sustainability at the 30th School of Medicine Graduate Student Research Symposium.

See you tomorrow—bring your energy, your ideas, and join a scientific experience that is setting new standards!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12d

This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy.
- They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism
- Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway
It's very different from the press conference.
Pass it on.

Official communication from FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy acknowledges there is no causal link between its use in pregnancy and autism. Also states clearly that this is the safest over the counter treatment for fever and pain in pregnancy. It is very different from what was communicated at the press conference.

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 13d

24 long years! Finally! 🔱

My Seattle Mariners are AL West Division champions for the first time since 2001! 🔱

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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to PMI and @pittdeptofmed.bsky.social professor @dariavantyne.bsky.social for receiving the 22nd annual Distinguished Mentor of the Year at the University Pittsburgh School of Medicine for her outstanding mentorship of PhD students & junior scientists!

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 14d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

www.linkedin.com

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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to Paul Zdinak from the @alokjoglekar.bsky.social lab, who will be defending his thesis next Tuesday!

Paul Zdinak will defend his thesis on Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 1pm. The title is "Class II MHC signaling and antigen-presenting bifunctional receptors (SABRs) for CD4+ T cell antigen discovery and regulatory T cell engineering."

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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to Sean Roberts from Dr. Mark Shlomchik's lab who will defend his thesis on Monday! 🎉

Sean Roberts will defend his thesis on September 29, 2025 at 12:30pm. The title is "The neuro-abundant proteins BASP1, RET and NPY1R regulate the development and function of germinal center B cells."

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 14d

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

cfopitt.taleo.net

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 14d

A reminder that the my department has an ongoing faculty search! Would love to have more colleagues here!

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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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 16d

It’s been a long time

Top photo of a city on fire with the text “The world right now”
Bottom photo of Will Farrell yelling with the text “Me: Go Mariners!”

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 20d

Among children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths, resulting in direct savings of $540 billion and societal savings of $2.7 trillion.

Senator and Insurers Cast Doubt on U.S. Vaccine Panel as It Readies Review

www.nytimes.com

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 23d

Maybe there’s a vaccine for that?

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 23d

Good luck with that.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25d

“Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to promote vaccinations.” This outbreak has already killed two babies. @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Cassidy asks Kennedy to promote vaccines targeting whooping cough

BATON ROUGE, La. — Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday that Louisiana is undergoing its worst whooping cough outbreak since 1990 and called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

www.ktbs.com

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 25d

So proud of my friend and colleague @mccarthy-kr.bsky.social on giving an outstanding lecture on his research in the Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar Series today! 👏

Dr. Kevin McCarthy looking down with reflection on an ad for the Pitt Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Seminar

Dr. Kevin McCarthy on Zoom is wearing a fun monkey shirt and is explaining that flu vaccines do not last long due to viral evolution and also because of the way vaccines are made.

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 26d

51 pages of text (0.5 inch margins, 11 pt Arial font), 56 pages of tables, 24 biosketches, and 4 letters of support! 😮‍💨

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. @zandrea.bsky.social · 26d

Officially finished the resubmission of our 20-year virology T32 training grant. We scored a 20 impact score (10 is the best and the payline is 15). I worked so long and hard on this for our training program that really doesn’t directly benefit me. Hoping we can get years 21-26! 🤞🏼

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