Join us tomorrow in Stillwater. It's going to be an epic weigh off.

Come be my colleague! UMN Micro & Immuno is hiring 2 faculty with broad interests in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance/drug discovery. Great campus, awesome colleagues & collaborators, lovely cities, reasonable cost of living!

With the rate things are icing up right now, it's going to be a short "Weird Duck Season" this year. The chatter of the transients is constant outside right now, and if it doesn't snow soon it'll be an opportunity to try some wild ice skating.

Hey reproductive immunologists! Submit an abstract for ASRI in Houston ASRI theasri.org/Abstracts-Post… Dr. Indira Mysorekar Melissa M. Herbst-Kralovetz, PhD

Thrilled to share our latest article, now out in JVI, where we used trophoblast stem cells to model HCMV infections in the early placenta. With Tyler Rollman micahgearhart and others journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

Thrilled to have spent the last few days at #sri2024 with so many #umn Minnesota Placenta Biology Research Community and to catch up with so many international colleagues.

Go Big Red!!

Thrilled to have had an opportunity to share some recent work at #ASRI2024. Even more excited to co-host #ASRI2025 in St. Paul! More details soon. theasri.org/event-5383481

Great to have Dr. Indira Mysorekar visiting us Mayo Clinic and giving an exciting talk about viral infection in pregnancy! This even got colleagues from the University of Minnesota to come and visit. Thank you Indira 🙏 #placenta #womenshealth

We are incredibly excited to host ASRI 2025 in St Paul! Please submit your ideas for proposals ASAP! Sylvie Girard Elizabeth Enninga, PhD ASRI CFI-UMN

Our lab is on the lookout for a motivated and productive postdoc trainee who’s also fun to work with! If you have a strong background in molecular biology and experience with pancreatic islet beta-cells or animal models of diabetes/obesity, contact me!! alejandrolab.umn.edu/emilyn-alejand…

Interested in studying the effect of viral infection on the placenta? We're hiring a research technician. This is a perfect opportunity for someone looking for research experience before graduate school. hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job Search Job ID: 362363

Craig Bierle Sylvie Girard and I want to know what you want to see at #ASRI2025 Please submit your ideas by August 15 using the link below and save the date to join us in Minnesota!

🚨🚨The deadline is approaching soon! Please submit your session proposals for #ASRI2025 🚨🚨

Guess who's hiring! The Micro & Immuno Dept at LUC is looking for a microbiologist OR virologist! Come join these fun people who are really good at golf AND science! And there's a guy down the hall that crochets viruses. Contact us with questions! careers.luc.edu/postings/28847

Thrilled to share our latest preprint and first foray into T cell immunology during congenital and placental CMV infection. Gratitude to Gregg Milligan for reagents and Marco Pravetoni's lab for help with antibiotic production that enabled this project. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that, Dr. Sarah Wernimont, RSDP Class of 2020, has been award a new R01 grant! CONGRATS DR. WERNIMONT!