Very excited to announce the 2024 Streptococcal Biology GRC (11-16 Aug) and GRS (10-11)! Co-organized with Michael Federle Kimberly Kline 🏔 Jose Lemos 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Kristin Krohn Huse Luke Joyce Great line up of speakers and discussion leaders! Registration: grc.org/streptococcal-…

As Jan-Willem Veening mentioned: the 2024 Streptococcal Biology GRS will be happening Aug 10-11, 2024! We the excellent speakers Dr. Jessica Scoffield UAB Microbiology for the keynote address and mentoring session led by Kimberly Kline 🏔!

📚🌐Thrilled to share our newly published paper in Nature Microbiology in which we unravel how plasmids can tip the scales in microbial war and peace.🪖🦠 Big thanks to Gur's lab The Elia Lab Jens Walter Explore the threads below for key findings (1/6): nature.com/articles/s4156…

2023 was a (mostly) good year to us. I am so grateful to work with such a smart, inspiring, kind, and fun group of people. I can't wait to see what 2024 has in store for this team!

Out today! A Comment article in Nature Microbiology on #antibiotic discovery using in vitro models that mimic in-patient conditions 🤒💊 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Please Re-Post: PhD project - genetic dissection of the competitive interactions between P. aeruginosa and E. faecalis, a collaborative project with the fabulous Kline Lab (Kimberly Kline 🏔). Interested? --> DM me, earliest starting date April 2024

Interactions in microbial communities can be of competitive or beneficial nature. Kimberly Kline 🏔 and Patrick Hsien-Neng Kao explain on the #FEMSmicroBlog how two human pathogens interact and impact each other in infection sites. #FascinatingMicrobes fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…

Reminder to sign up for the 2024 Streptococcal GRS and GRC!

Mark your calendars - 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms (2025) - November 9-13. We will communicate the location for this conference in short order. #Biofilms2025

We're still pretty excited about all the new insights gained from this scRNAseq study of Enterococcus faecalis wound infection, now up on eLife - the journal ! 🤓😎 A super awesome collaboration with Cenk Celik, Guillaume Thibault, and more. 🤠 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

We are happy to announce that the 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms will be held in Portland, Oregon, from Nov 9-13, 2025. We look forward to gathering the biofilm community for what should be a fantastic meeting. See the ASM website for details. asm.org/Events/ASM-Bio…

Want to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding ecological and evolutionary questions? Register now for the 2024 edition of the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop. It will take place 8-11 October 2024 in Heidelberg EMBL Events. Only few weeks left for abstract submission (10 July).

I am a little biased, but this is SUCH a great meeting! For microbial folks thinking about ecological and evolutionary problems, this a great crowd! Check it out! 👇

#SGBUG is back for July 2024, first with Haris Antypas from lab of Kimberly Kline 🏔 sharing about his work on enterococcal infective endocarditis!

Congrats to Emma Sheriff, PhD on her new paper describing how a QS regulated protease contributes to phage infection of E. faecalis. Bringing together “omics” and genetics to answer the question. Shelby E. Andersen Anushila Chatterjee and M. Kleiner NCSU. academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes/a…

Our previously preprinted work on E. faecalis HtrA is now out PLOS Genetics. A project close to my ❤️, started in 🇸🇬 by Adeline Yong and finished in🇨🇭 by Cristina Colomer and supported by an international cast! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

The 2024 GRC on Streptococcal Biology #GRCStrepBio24 was a terrific conference! Gordon Research Conferences; a big thanks to chairs Jan-Willem Veening and Michael Federle for organizing and Kimberly Kline 🏔 and Jose Lemos 🇧🇷🇺🇸 for taking over the next one!

Calling all Enterococcal researchers & enthusiasts! 🦠We've really appreciated the Enterococcal tools available @Biocyc, especially with upgraded curation, so I'm happy to spread the good word to those who are still out there.