Exited to share our new publication featuring the fascinating lipoteichoic acid polymer in the envelope of Staphylococcus aureus, with insights on how its synthesis is regulated, and its contribution to protein secretion! Missiakas Lab Shafi Azam journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

🔬 COM Seminar! 🔬 Join us for an insightful seminar with Dr. Jonathan Budzik, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. 👨‍🔬 “The dichotomous role of TAX1BP1 during M. tuberculosis infection” 📅 Wed, 2/14/24 ⏰ 12 PM – 1 PM 📍 BSLC 109

Hot off the press, a comprehensive discussion of how Staphylococcus aureus exploits human proteins to persist as biofilm-associated infections. academic.oup.com/femsre/article… Horswill Lab

Please join us in welcoming our newest faculty member to the University of Chicago Department of Microbiology, Dr. Elias Roth Gerrick Elias Gerrick, who will join as Assistant Professor effective September 1, 2024. (1/3)

Great to see everyone at the Missiakas Lab /Schneewind lab reunion #ASM2024 #ASMMicrobe2024

The Gerrick Lab at the University of Chicago (voices.uchicago.edu/gerricklab/) is now hiring! We are looking for motivated and curious postdocs, graduate students, and technicians to study commensal protists in the gut microbiome:

Lab trip to Lake Geneva 🌊🚤 Such an incredible summer adventure! ☀️

We are proud to announce that @NazikElmekki has been named a Gilliam Fellow, with Laurie Comstock as her Adviser. This recognition from @HHMINews highlights their outstanding contributions to the scientific community. Congratulations to Nazik and Laurie on this achievement! (1/3)

Summer badminton fun with the lab! ☀️🏸

My favorite spot! ⁦Chicago Botanic Garden⁩

🎉 Huge congratulations to our Amanda Blocker on passing her qualifying exams and officially becoming a PhD candidate! We're so excited for all the amazing anthrax research 🦠🔬 she’ll continue to do. Keep shining, Amanda! 🌟🧫

"Grillin' and Chillin' with the lab crew at HTRL! 🔬🔥 Science by day & BBQ all the way - experiments meet epic eats!"

qBio10 - the 10th annual weeklong quantitative analysis bootcamp, where incoming bioscience PhDs explore the intersection of biology & data science! 🧬💻 From coding challenges to city adventures, such an amazing TA experience🎓✨ Excited for their paths ahead! 🐒

Wow - Tonu Pius just put together an amazing video for the qBio program we run for incoming PhD students here at UChicago. Such a pleasure to welcome another year of biology PhD students to Chicago and work with such talented TAs, co-instructors, and students. Thanks Tonu Pius!

Culturing more than microbes at this week’s potluck—Brazilian chocolate brigadeiro, Egyptian falafel, Bengali beef, and more, brought together by our diverse team of scientists! 😋

The 2nd Annual Howard T. Ricketts Symposium & Microbiology Retreat was an amazing experience! 🎉 The UChicago Department of Microbiology community had a great chance to learn & connect. 🦠 Keynotes from Victor J. Torres and SUSAN R WEISS left us all inspired and ready to push forward in our own work! 🤠🔬

🌎💙 So proud of my friends Téa & Michael UChicago Committee on Microbiology for launching a fundraiser to support victims of Hurricanes Helene & Milton! Growing up on the Gulf Coast, this is close to their hearts. They’re raising $1K for GlobalGiving—every bit helps! 🙏 globalgiving.org/fundraisers/hu…

🦠➗OUT NOW - PcdA promotes division plane selection in #Staph by Kumaran Ramamurthi Félix Ramos-León @braf_phd Vivek Anantharaman Amany M. Missiakas Lab CambergLab Aravind group @NCIResearchCtr nature.com/articles/s4156…