Well! Starting the year off strong by learning that there's a microorganism that appears to meet its nutritional needs by eating viruses.🤯 "Virovory" is a new puzzle for ecologists & might even change how we view global carbon cycling. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A great opportunity to those looking to pursue a PhD in Quantitative Life Sciences! Learn more and apply here by Jan 15: mcgill.ca/qls/applying

We are delighted to announce the launch of npj Women's Health. This new open-access journal is dedicated to publishing impactful and high-quality content on all aspects of women’s health throughout the life course. Editor-in-Chief, Melissa Medvedev, MD, PhD. nature.com/npjwomenshealt…

What makes GROWW such a special training program? We host a week-long Fall Institute bringing together cohort members and GROWW faculty from across Canada. You won't want to miss it! Apply now -> growwprogram.com/apply #networking #mentorship #WomensHealth #gradstudent #postdoc

What happens when resident microbes form intimate connections with human cells? Super excited to have received an NSERC Discovery Grant to examine the adhesion/invasion behaviors of human microbiota with a systems biology approach! NSERC / CRSNG U Calgary International Microbiome Centre CSM - Grant Development

Professional hat trick these past few months: promotion & tenure, a 5-year grant, and 🇨🇦 citizenship! Academia is far from perfect, but patience, passion, resilience, creativity, collegiality, and the drive to achieve EDIA are alive and well in me and many others U Calgary!

Woot-woot - a stellar group and big congrats to all, especially Karen Lithgow!

Made a deliberate choice to avoid the ASM meeting being held in Texas this summer. Is there a list somewhere of which states have the most harmful laws? I can't keep up...

Long, long way to go folks. These numbers mean we lack fundamental understanding of female bodies. Compounded by the historical (and on-going) dismissal of women's pain and perspective, this results in a lower quality of life. And we wonder why workforce gender gaps persist...

Great to connect with new and valued GlycoNet colleagues this week at my first #CGS2023 meeting! Thanks to PhD student Kevin Muirhead for representing #SycuroLab well.👏

Come take a look at this amazing poster at #bcid! Kat passionately explains risk factors associated with chlamydia infection

Couldn’t be prouder of this group - excellent presentations that were well received and awarded! New friends making it all the sweeter. Till next time! #BCID2023 ⁦Karen Lithgow⁩ ⁦@M_Goncheva⁩ ⁦The Reynolds Lab⁩ ⁦@⁩ ⁦Tracy Raivio⁩ ⁦⁦Brun Lab⁩

HUGE shoutout to all wildland fire crews from Alberta, out-of-province, out-of-country, and our military... You're doing an OUTSTANDING job out there in a very challenging season. THANK YOU, on behalf of all Albertans #abfire #ABwildfire

The data are clear - with a third of scientists experiencing anxiety or depression and 35% of women experiencing harassment, structural change is needed and inevitable.

Glad to be co-leading an amazing team dedicated to making microbiome science more standardized! IMPACTT Microbiome International Microbiome Centre Dr. Kathy McCoy

Knight Lab (UC San Diego School of Medicine / UCSD Engineering) is excited to announce a new release of Greengenes in Nature Biotechnology (nature.com/articles/s4158…). With this release, we provide a single taxonomy and phylogeny unifying 16S and shotgun metagenomic analyses! A thread (1/n)

Amazing accomplishment by Karen Lithgow winning Best Early Career Oral Presentation at #STIHIV2023 and giving another well received presentation at #IDSOG50. A talented scientist on the job market and on the rise! IDSOG ISSTDR Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases CIHR

Congrats Karen Lithgow - you’re putting on a clinic for giving clear, engaging presentations to multi-disciplinary audiences - with really cool science to boot! 👏🤩

As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say trib.al/v67hilX

I call this, "Phases of a Faculty Meeting"