
Dr. Valeria M. Reyes Ruiz
@valeriamreyes
@HHMINEWS Hanna H Gray Fellow and @BWFUND PDEP Postdoc in the Skaar Lab @VanderbiltU | PhD in the Shin Lab @Penn | From Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Tweets are my own
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29-07-2012 04:53:33
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Had an amazing week at the #GRCToxPath connecting with old friends and making new ones. Such an inspiring group of scientists. Congrats to Sarah Price and Andrea-Anaya Sanchez, next GRS co-chairs, and Dr. Sunny Shin as the next GRC vice-chair! It promises to be a great one.


Skaar lab (Eric Skaar) past and present photo from #GRCToxPath! What a fantastic meeting! Amazing science and amazing people! Thank you Mary O'Riordan and Victor J. Torres for organizing and for Dr. Valeria M. Reyes Ruiz and Sean Callahan, PhD for running the GRS! Excited for 2026!



Antibiotic tolerance in Staph aureus biofilms is induced by arginine depletion by Jeff Freiberg, MD, PhD in Nature Communications opens up possible new ways to treat challenging Staph infections 🦠 💉 💊 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Incredibly proud to share the latest publication to result from my research furthering our understanding of why antibiotics fail, now out in Nature Communications! The surprise contributor to antibiotic tolerance in S. aureus? Arginine metabolism! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Awesome publication alert! Among Jeff Freiberg, MD, PhD many strengths, he inspires us by his passion for science, dedication to patient care, and outstanding mentorship. Excited to see the Freiberg lab grow into a nurturing and creative environment for scientific discoveries. Congrats!🥰

Surreal I get to present with these inspiring women! Can’t wait to interact with you all. Thanks to Scripps Research for the invitation.

Excited to share a key part of my postdoctoral work in the Cravatt lab at @ScrippsResearch, published today in Nature Chemistry! Huge thanks to collaborators Bruno Melillo, Rachel Hayward, Vividion Therapeutics, and all coauthors.

Hear from a talented lineup of immunologists next Wednesday, Sept 18 featuring Zuri Sullivan, Alex Wells, Djenet Bousbaine, Dr. Valeria M. Reyes Ruiz, Maria Cecilia Canesso, Dr Becs, Liwen Deng, & Nagela Ghabdan Zanluqui. Register: bit.ly/ScrippsLeaders





Register to what promises to be an incredible event! Our @VI4Research DEI Symposium is getting close (Sept 30). We are so excited to hear about three outstanding Immigrant Scientists and Vanderbilt International Researchers Alliance! Don’t miss out on it. REGISTER🚨

So happy to read this! Anyone would be lucky to be on the Kalli Kappel lab!

Thank you to Dr. Manuela Raffatellu is @manuelar.bsky.social Yi-Wei Chang Mariana Byndloss and Vanderbilt International Researchers Alliance for giving such outstanding and inspiring talks. @VI4Research DEI symposium highlighting immigrant scientists was a success thanks to your kindness and vulnerability in sharing your experiences. THANK YOU! ♥️


I am excited to announce that my work on antibiotic treatment failure in Staph is now funded through a K08 from NIAID News! A big thank you to @VUMC_ID Vanderbilt PSTP/Harrison Society @EFSInsideScoop and especially my mentor Eric Skaar to help get me to this point!


Excited to share my postdoctoral work on novel aspects of S. aureus skin infection pathogenesis, out as pre-print. This was such! a cool story to have developed Horswill Lab.
