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🥳Congratulations to the Brett Finlay's 4 newest Drs. Andrew Santos (Andrew Santos), Mihai Cirstea (Mihai Cirstea), Dr. Sarah Woodward (Sarah Woodward) and Dr. Jorge Pena (Jorge Peña) on their successful PhD defences! 👏

I am ecstatic to finally share our work in nature where we investigated BlaR1, a signalling protein that controls resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in the major human pathogen, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. #MRSA #AMR #cryoEM nature.com/articles/s4158… (1/n) 🧵

We are looking for a junior Lab Tech to join our growing team! Info about the position can be found on our lab website. This position might be perfect for any recently graduated undergrads interested in gut health :) oac.uvic.ca/reynoldslab/

Congrats to Jorge Peña on this preprint of his PhD work! He investigated the role of AHL-mediated quorum sensing during enteric infection and found that QS-interference may not be the one-size-fits-all therapeutic alternative to abx that we'd hoped for! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Dr. Stefanie Vogt (Stefanie Vogt) and I are excited to share our latest research that explores the fascinating world of microbiota and pathogens, uncovering how Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) responds to gut microbiota metabolites🦠🔬 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs–#Budget2023 means that our brightest minds will go train outside of Canada Chrystia Freeland @justintrudeau #SupportOurScience

#ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs–#Budget2023 means that our bright, motivated trainees use their valuable brain energy to instead worry about making ends meet each month Chrystia Freeland Justin Trudeau #SupportOurScience

So excited to get to share the preprint of our work (also my very first research article!) at the Tokuriki lab demonstrating that evolution under static selection pressures can promote functional diversity, and thus population-level evolvability, in proteins.

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Really excited to share our latest review on how gut microbes change the systemic levels of active hormones and affect host physiology! Kudos to Sophie Cotton and Charlotte Clayton for their hard work on this! tinyurl.com/sac97yha

This is a huge problem - researchers who are driving innovation should not be barely surviving or going into personal debt to do so. But it's also part of a larger unaffordability problem in Canada.🏚️🫰

Huge congratulations to Dr. Paula Littlejohn, PhD, MHS on this exciting new story out in Nature Microbiology! She identified that combined deficiency in multiple micronutrients impacts the gut resistome in antibiotic naive mice. Check it out! Michael Smith Labs UBC Dept of Microbiology and Immunology UBC Science Brett Finlay

We are hiring! We are looking for a postdoc with experience in Staph genetics. If you are interested in bacterial interactions within the skin microbiome and searching for bioactive molecules that impact Staphylococcus virulence, please follow this link: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Excited to share our preprint on bacterial adaptation to pH 🦠! Excellent work team! Sarah Woodward Laurel Neufeld Wenny Feng Antonio Serapio-Palacios Brett Finlay

Excited to share our @BioRxiv preprint 👩‍🔬, “The Gut Microbiome Controls Liver Tumors via the Vagus Nerve” from @TimGreten @NCIResearchCtr. 🧵 #neuroimmune #HCC #microbiome #CancerResearch

Dr. (!) Zakhar Krekhno & I are excited to share our work investigating the role of the type II secretion system in enteric pathogen Citrobacter rodentium! We found that the T2SS contributes to host colonization via mucus degradation by secreted effectors! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We're taking registrations for #ASMicrobe in the ATL! forms.gle/dMgXp8zqU4rSee…

Experienced #ASMicrobe folx!For the first time this year we’re a little behind on our target mentor:singleton ratio. Help newcomers and solo attendees get the most out of the meeting by sharing your knowledge and helping make connections! binningsingletons.com/singleton/bins…