Mark Mandel

markjmandel.bsky.social

16 October 2026 18:24

Looking forward to Jay Vornhagen's @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social seminar today at noon!

Drew Hryckowian

a-hryckowian.bsky.social

07 October 2026 01:50

Huge congratulations to @uwmadisonmdtp.bsky.social PhD student @alex-dobrila.bsky.social on leading this new paper! This is the first part of Alex's thesis work, where he shows that C. difficile uses EndD to mediate butyrate-dependent toxin release and sporulation. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Yunn-Hwen Gan

yunnhwengan.bsky.social

24 September 2026 11:33

Our new paper is online and describes how antibiotic treatment #AMR versus osmotive laxative pre-exposure alters the gut environment leading to different colonization outcomes and evolutionary fates of hypervirulent #Klebsiella pneumoniae! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CJFYDB... #Microsky #UTIsky

Petra Levin

redrockcity.bsky.social

21 September 2026 00:50

4 years (!) in the making, in this review Jade Wang and I detail the fundamental processes underlying growth, the cell autonomous nature of homeostatic control, and the contribution of stochasticity to both. TL;DR Bacteria are more like teenagers than you think. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Matthew Lawrenz

lawrenzlab.bsky.social

20 September 2026 13:25

Check out our latest study into nutritional immunity by Yersinia led by postdoc Mahendar Kadari. Our investigations into the metallophore yersinopine revealed some surprising differences in zinc acquisition between Y. pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis.