Researchers found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa persists and continues to evolve throughout the upper and lower airways of people with CF despite the use of highly effective modulator therapy. Catherine Armbruster Vaughn Cooper (see: vscooper@bsky) jbombscientist journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Persistence and evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa following initiation of highly effective modulator therapy in cystic fibrosis

mBio by Catherine Armbruster et al from Jennifer Bomberger
with Vaughn Cooper (vaughnscooper 🧵, vscooper@bsky)

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Filamentous phage-bacterial host interactions prompted rapid evolution and epidemic spread of Pacific-Native Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Cheryl Whistler Vaughn Cooper (vaughnscooper 🧵, vscooper@bsky) #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

It’s a Friday! Which means a new episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast. This week, Vaughn Cooper (see: vscooper@bsky) talks about his program to teach evolution using a wonderful bacterial system. Please spread the word? Univ. of Puget Sound ASM

microbe.tv/mm/mm-17/

youtu.be/p8tdy_xg-ng?si…

Did you know that SeqCoast Genomics does:
-WGS, with long and/or short reads
-RNAseq
-shotgun metagenomics
-amplicon sequencing
-strain typing (reads to report)
-and all of the sophisticated analyses you would want?

What more would you like from your friendly genomics core?

Not sure if the is contentious or not….but we should support Addgene when we can even if it’s slightly more expensive

Because it helps make science more open and repeatable (and if it’s not supported it’ll go away like the E.coli stock center)

Most sequencing facilities do not offer RNA-seq tailored to microbial genomes. Few can match our speed and value. Give us a try! seqcoast.com/services-and-o…

Akos is always on top of the literature! Check out our new preprint:

Inhibition of PQS signaling by the Pf bacteriophage protein PfsE enhances viral replication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

There's no substitute for a great reference genome as the bedrock of your research. SeqCoast can produce a closed, error-corrected, and annotated reference for you, fast:
•  Experimental evolution
•  Changes during infections
•  Validate your constructs linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

We're excited to announce that abstract submission and registration are now open for MEEhubs2024, which takes place Jan 9 – 11, 2024! MEEhubs is a grassroots, innovative global conference in microbial ecology and evolution. It is also free! meehubs.org 1/10

Congratulations Nanami Kubota for your poster award at #EvergreenPhage2023 .
“A Tale of Two Cheaters” is an even more compelling title, thanks Luis Zaman

UNC Micro & Immuno is hiring! Emphasis is on drug resistance research in bacterial, viral, or fungal pathogens. Please RT! Open Rank, Department of Microbiology and Immunology jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/646399/ope…

Celebrating this amazing group of teachers and TA’s who made our second year BIORETS program successful and memorable. They will take their new curriculum based on EvolvingSTEM.org and their own research back to Pittsburgh Public Schools grades 6-12 this year

Great Britain's Tom Pidcock has added yet ANOTHER major medal to his collection 🔥

🥇 World mountain bike champion - 2023
🥇 World cyclocross champion - 2022
🥇 Olympic champion - 2021

What an athlete 👏

More ➡ bbc.in/3OACJTP

Excited to introduce #ggvloc ! 🎉 For everyone working with differential expression datasets & RNAseq data, this can be a game-changer. Visualize & highlight genes of interest in just one line of code
Check out the package here:github.com/loukesio/ggvolc. Don't forget to give it a ⭐

I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2):

Hawaiʻi People's Fund: hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/20056…

ʻĀina Momona: secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuama…

Look, I’m just saying if you DONT publish this story as “A Tail of Two Cheaters”, I might be a little sad ⁦Nanami Kubota ⁦⁦Vaughn Cooper (see: vscooper@bsky)⁩ . Amazing crew listening at #EvergreenPhage2023

Webinar hosted by ASM: Microbiomes For All: Tools for Student Microbiome Research
Learn How to Implement Authentic Student Research Experiences in Microbiome Analysis. Go from FASTQ to graphical and quantitative diversity / composition analyses
asm.org/Webinars/Micro…

To those who could not follow my CPI calculation, I made $16K in 1999-00 and was very well paid relative to peers. That’s about $29K today. And PittMed is in Pittsburgh, not Boston or SF, fwiw.

Will Ratcliff CEBaM Vaughn Cooper (vaughnscooper 🧵, vscooper@bsky) anne-ruxandra carvun Tera Levin Daria Van Tyne Oana Carja Absolutely wild, right? There's nowhere more exciting in microbial evolution than CEBaM right now