I’m very excited that after almost 7 years of work, we can finally share this fantastic story with you, published now in Science Magazine :
science.org/doi/full/10.11…
Here’s a thread with our key findings 👇

Iron wars: B. theta vs Salmonella. Wenhan Zhu show commensal B. thetaiotaomicron acquires iron in gut via siderophore-binding lipoprotein XusB. XusB-bound enterobactin is shielded from host sequestration by lipocalin-2 but can be captured by #Salmonella cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Great speech by The Nobel Prize winner Katalin Kariko
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'I see many of you may be immigrants, just like I am, its a little bit more difficult, but we are more resilient - that's the same for the women'

From all of us who are immigrants, who are women - you are an inspiration 🙏

Select symbionts drive high IgA. Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD, PhD &Co show dietary intervention w/pectin-derived oligosaccharides promotes ability of specific #bacteria , notably Lachnospiraceae bacterium A2, to elevate intestinal #IgA directed against array of symbionts cell.com/cell-host-micr…

👇👇👇 Check out this awesome paper by the great Mariana Byndloss Catie Shelton duo! It is absolutely amazing to see this come into fruition!

What amazing news! Congratulations, Drew and Katalin! Penn Medicine The Drew Weissman Lab

New in @sciencemagazine, my lab tackled the “sticky problem” of Candida auris to try and understand how this new pathogen can cause outbreaks in hospitals, and discovered a totally new adhesin that is critical for colonization and disease science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…
#ScienceResearch

We’re back! Northern Party 2023 is in the books. Incredible team, four meats, a mezcalita bar, and the Packers lost. A great night!

If you missed our poster at #clostpath23 , the paper is now out. A big congrats to Kevin Childress and thank you to Caroline and Matt Tyska journals.asm.org/eprint/BQGEYSV…

Come join us at #MEGAMicrobe TODAY at Gower Elementary School until 2pm!

It's so much fun to run a booth with Mariana Byndloss at @megamicrobe VI4Research ! Can't wait to do it again next year!