A specific intestinal bacterium drives adaptive immunity--fascinating new study by Greg Barton The Barton Lab UC Berkeley Akkermansia muciniphila induces intestinal adaptive immune responses during homeostasis science.sciencemag.org/content/364/64…

Check out this article by former student Lisa Leung on Candida auris #ASM #AMR

Vincent Bruno (my current rotation mentor) at University of Maryland, Baltimore is looking for new post-docs to study fungal pathogenesis. Bonus: lab is located in swanky new Institute for Genome Sciences building. #fungus #microbiology #postdoc #Bioinformatics #microbes

Beyond honored to be selected as University of Maryland, Baltimore Entrepreneur of the Year. Thanks to all my lab members, past and present, for getting us to this point and congrats to all the other award winners

The Ernst lab is hiring! We're looking for two motivated post-docs to work on our projects related to adjuvant development here at UMB. Job listings are included below - please RT! #vaccinedevelopment #postdoc #Shigella #Yersinia academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14194 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14195

It’s only fitting that that @CourtneyEChan printed theses showed up on her last day in lab!

Discovered new bacteria and found that our LPS receptors are blind to most deep sea bacteria. Kudos to my fantastic student Anna Gauthier, collaborator Randi Rotjan and the beautiful waters of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area for revealing a small subset of its secrets.

We're excited to have been able to collaborate on this project - congrats to all the amazing researchers and authors that contributed to this work

Totally fascinating study by ⁦Jonathan Kagan⁩ Randi Rotjan ⁦ErnstLabUMB⁩ & colleagues on innate immune systems ability to sense (or not) PAMPs from Deep-sea microbes! | ⁦Science Immunology⁩ immunology.sciencemag.org/content/6/57/e…

We're hiring! A bioinformatician to help implement best practice bioinformatics WGS analyses of major pathogens incl. Campylobacter & E.coli for public health purposes through @pathogenwatch working at Big Data Institute with Anthony Underwood Silvia Argimón David Aanensen my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Please help RT! Zhou lab at Boston Children's and Harvard Medical School is looking for a Research Assistant / lab tech, to help us study how immune cells talk to other cell types and their microenvironment. Please apply here sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

The Ernst lab is proud to have our fearless leader honored as the @UMSOD_Dentistry inaugural recipient of the Dr. Paul and Mrs. Jean Corcoran Endowed Professorship. Congrats Bob! dental.umaryland.edu/about/news/may…

Pataigin Introduces First Multiplex Lipid Microbiology Kit pataigin.com/blog/2021/07/1…

Exciting news from Pataigin - we've just introduced the first multiplex lipid microbiology kit! Check it out pataigin.com/blog/2021/07/1…

Interested in research at the cross section of infectious disease and immunology? We're looking for two postdocs! We have tons of projects on vaccine research, flu studies, adjuvant development, and more! Please share and send a cover letter and CV to [email protected]