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Our summer REU student Brady Ward gave a great talk about filamentous phage today at Montana State University

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Hello science fam! We have had a last-minute cancellation for our GRC on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics and are looking for someone who studies EEG in the context of microbes who would be available to come to beautiful Tuscany in July! Message me!

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New Pf phage paper from @ebburgenermd.bsky.social ! #microsky

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Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We are now growing Leptospira biofilms... #MicroSky

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Tick pic #LymeDisease #MicroSky

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Spring planting

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Exciting news!! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @natmicrobiol.nature.com We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A few nasty P. aeruginosa isolates for you @dominickfaith.bsky.social #microsky

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We’re thrilled to be featured on the May cover of Nature Microbiology... And our Research Briefing is out now—check it out, it’s 🔥! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I am thrilled to share the first manuscript from the Wiles lab! We present "Phollow", an in vivo phage-tagging approach that enables direct observation of phage outbreaks with single-virion resolution by live imaging. Here some highlights 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🚨New paper! A prophage-encoded sRNA limits lytic phage infection in adherent-invasive E. coli. Huge thanks to members of the Round Lab, @duerkoplab.bsky.social, Wiedenheft Lab, and phage legend Sherwood Casjens. #microsky 🦠🧫🧪🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Happy Cinco de Mayo from Montana

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Spectacular phage meeting October 12-14 in Washington DC. iasusa.org/bacteriophag... Submit Abstracts by 5/14: 1. Oral presentations (posters) selected from Abstracts 2. Simple Abstract submission; registration and payment can be later 3. Scholarships for New Invest/Trainees

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Hey y'all, please join me in welcoming Montana State University's Center for Biofilm Engineering to BlueSky! @cbe-biofilm.bsky.social biofilm.montana.edu #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬

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Tick mouth #LymeDisease 🧫🦠🧪

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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...

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New lab website is live, check us out! secorlab.org #microsky

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I'm delighted to share a useful FREE web-based app portal of powerful bioinformatics tools for microbial genomes and shotgun microbiome sequences! It's called Micromics and is built by Middle Author Bioinformatics, led by co-founder @ironark.bsky.social omix.midauthorbio.com

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One week left to apply!

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Delighted to share that @asm.org has met its goal for all of its 'legacy' journals (ie favorites like J. Bact, I&I, AEM) so ALL 2025 articles will be published open access. Thanks to all institutional subscribers, this is the S2O way. Please submit to these great journals! asm.org/Press-Releas...

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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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Fantastic new preprint of Vaughn Cooper's lab @vscooper.micropopbio.org - filamentous phages can get cancer and it's contagious. 🔥👇🏼 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A teeny bit of information officially from NIH... nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2025/03/...

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My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social “It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.” “Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.” elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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🚨 The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor tenure-track faculty position in the field of environmental microbiology. Happy to answer any questions! 🧫🧪🧬 #microsky jobs.montana.edu/postings/45680

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My talking points in recent interviews, please use as you see fit: 1.Every $1 in NIH funding returns ~$2.50 to the economy. 2.Every $1B in cuts from NIH extramural = 7500 lost employees, just in science. 3.These don't include priceless improvements in health. 1/x

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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

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Another one through peer review—many thanks to the reviewers and editor who helped us improve this along the way. New insight into how reservoirs and humans interact with larval Ixodes scapularis ticks. And as always, thanks for supporting me and the work, @tuftslyme.bsky.social

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Telomeric transposons are pervasive in linear bacterial genomes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Reading the judge's opinion on the IDC case and now I have a whole another level of appreciation of why legal documents are written the way they are.

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🚨Postdocs & new faculty! Apply for the Young Investigator Award and present your research at our upcoming Montana Biofilm Science & Technology Meeting July 9–11, 2025 at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. 🦠🧫🧪🧬 Apply by April 1, 2025 www.biofilm.montana.edu/news/article...

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Update on NIH study section: 🦠🧫🧪🧬

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As of today, at least 73 study sections have not met. If they review 50 applications, plus 30 triaged, 10% funding rate = 8 grants per SS. That's 584 fundable grants on hold. Probably 5000 researchers affected in those teams composed of our best and brightest. SABOTAGE.

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Another one bites the dust :( 🧪🧫🧬🦠

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ATTENTION The Washington Post is collecting data about funding issues. Please consider contributing. thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

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STAT story is up about study section restart. www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/s...

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We discovered the first alternative genetic code in Archaea! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Featuring quotes from @jeremymberg.bsky.social @peiferlabunc.bsky.social and the research of @chelsamicro.bsky.social

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New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

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