Gina Lewin
@ginalewin.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Case Western studying microbial interactions in the oral and vaginal microbiomes (and beyond!). Also find me outside, baking, coloring, or sleeping.
thelewinlab.com
thelewinlab.com
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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Creativity in Science
When innovating in microbial ecology, Think Like a Microbe™ …
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Come join us in Knoxville!
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Come join us in Knoxville!
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
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Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu
Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference | Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference 2026
mmpc2026.umn.edu
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Mark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu
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This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)
September 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is your daily reminder that registration is open and *FREE* for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)
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Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
September 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
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Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫
Revealing Community Dynamics in Polymicrobial Infections through a Quantitative Framework
Laboratory models provide tractable, reproducible systems that have long served as foundational tools in microbiology. However, the extent to which these models accurately mimic the biological environ...
www.biorxiv.org
September 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Excited to share our latest preprint is up: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @aanuoluwaduro.bsky.social ! 🧪🧫
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A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants.
My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
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September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A substantial part (but not all) of this increased investment is multi-year funded grants.
My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
2/2
My current estimate is that multi-year funding has been used in lieu of ~2400 annually funded grants that could have been made.
2/2
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Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others.
Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
www.standupforscience.net
August 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Today, courageous FEMA staff members sent the Katrina Declaration to the FEMA "leadership" and others.
Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Sign on it support of these folks committed to the FEMA mission for all of us.
www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
The evolution of famine in Gaza, in maps and charts
For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip
www.economist.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Video OpEd via @nytimes.com on drastic cuts to the pipeline of federally funded medical research that drives diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for
Cancer
HIV
Diabetes
Alzheimer's
+ more
& helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power.
5 mins 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Cancer
HIV
Diabetes
Alzheimer's
+ more
& helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power.
5 mins 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Video OpEd via @nytimes.com on drastic cuts to the pipeline of federally funded medical research that drives diagnostics, drugs, and treatments for
Cancer
HIV
Diabetes
Alzheimer's
+ more
& helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power.
5 mins 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Cancer
HIV
Diabetes
Alzheimer's
+ more
& helps patients, enables patents, and advances soft power.
5 mins 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out!
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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Infections as ecosystems: community metabolic interactions in microbial pathogenesis | Infection and Immunity
Microbial communities are present on nearly every surface of the human body. These
microbiomes exist as dynamic ecosystems that are influenced by heterogeneous nutritional
and chemical landscapes, the...
journals.asm.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Excited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out!
🧫🧪
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧫🧪
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
Amino acid competition shapes A. baumannii gut carriage
Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete w/ microbiota & persist in gut. Amino acid supplementation & differences in diet promote A. baumannii gut colonization in mice & humans
@laurenpalmer.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete w/ microbiota & persist in gut. Amino acid supplementation & differences in diet promote A. baumannii gut colonization in mice & humans
@laurenpalmer.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Amino acid competition shapes Acinetobacter baumannii gut carriage
Ren and Clark et al. show that Acinetobacter baumannii uses ornithine to compete with
the resident microbiota and persist in the gut. Additional evidence demonstrates that
amino acid supplementation a...
www.cell.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Super excited to share our paper online 🚨today🚨 in Cell Host & Microbe! Xiaomei Ren @xiaomeiren.bsky.social and Mason Clark @rmasonclark.bsky.social co-led discovery of ecological factors for Acinetobacter baumannii carriage in the gut, a reservoir for pathogen spread. 🎉
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
tinyurl.com/443kfefk
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Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...)
Message me for an invite link if you are interested.
No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!
Message me for an invite link if you are interested.
No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!
July 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Microbiology professor, want to join a slack for microbiology professors, any career stage, diverse career types (pure teaching, med school, R1, community college, pure research fed PIs, ...)
Message me for an invite link if you are interested.
No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!
Message me for an invite link if you are interested.
No imposter syndrome, if you are 1% micro, join!
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The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
July 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601
Reading this tonight, and holding my family a little extra tight, heartbroken for all who cannot
In 1980, James Baldwin wrote in The Nation: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...
The children are always ours — 500 Women Scientists
In 1980, James Baldwin wrote in The Nation : “ The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing thi...
500womenscientists.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Reading this tonight, and holding my family a little extra tight, heartbroken for all who cannot
Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites)
@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social
@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites)
@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social
@cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social
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Dear Science Journalists,
Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.
The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?
Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.
The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?
July 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Dear Science Journalists,
Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.
The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?
Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored.
The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?
Happy to help fill some bubbles in Ohio and support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, which is doing lots of awesome work to connect people with science!
It’s that time again! Time for @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s 7th annual United States of Science Challenge!
Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we marched w/scientists this year.
$10 donations fill bubbles!
The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins!
givebutter.com/USS2025
Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we marched w/scientists this year.
$10 donations fill bubbles!
The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins!
givebutter.com/USS2025
June 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Happy to help fill some bubbles in Ohio and support @skypeascientist.bsky.social, which is doing lots of awesome work to connect people with science!
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The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
a 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
a 🧵
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
a 🧵
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Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change
Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies
Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies
It's hot. Fossil fuels made it hotter.
And it'll still be the coldest summer of your life if Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" passes this week.
heated.world
June 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today's heat wave was made FIVE TIMES more likely by fossil fueled climate change
Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies
Yet Republicans are trying this week to pass a bill that would decimate the energy transition and sell off swaths of public lands to fossil fuel companies
June 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I wanted to show support for these brave public servants and to allow others, including the scientific community, to join me. In partnership with @standupforscience.bsky.social, we have a way for you to do that... www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658356v1
June 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM