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Jessica Lane 👩🏼‍🔬
@jrlane2014.bsky.social
PhD in microbiology from UAB 🐉
Current postdoctoral fellow at WashU 🐻 studying Klebsiella pneumoniae 🧫🫁

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We are also excited to welcome a new postdoc @jrlane2014.bsky.social to the Rosen Lab! We hope she likes Klebsiella pneumoniae as much as Streptococcus pneumoniae. Fun fact: Jessica has 2 cats named Teddy and Binx 🐈 🐈‍⬛
September 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Europneumo 2025 ✅
📍Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal
May 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Hi all, a postdoc position is open in my lab @ UAB. If you like Gram+'s, molecular biology, and pathogenesis consider applying. We study how S. pneumoniae causes disease. See the ad for details:

uab.edu/postdocs/pro...

scholars.uab.edu/3120-carlos-...

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March 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
March 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!

@standupforscience.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.
As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really?
Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.
www.npr.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Birmingham stands with science! #standforscience2025
February 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪
Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour
We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.
go.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The ATS applauds 22 state attorneys general in challenging NIH medical research funding cut. Friday's NIH action to cut life-saving medical research is prohibited by law. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...
Mass. leads court challenge on Trump's cuts to medical research funding
Over 20 states are suing the Trump administration over planned cuts to funding at medical and public health research institutions nationwide. The coalition of 22 state attorneys general is challenging...
www.nbcboston.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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On Feb. 7 the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it is capping facilities & administration costs (also known as indirect costs) to 15% starting Feb. 10. This will devastate science & scientific research in the U.S. Email your members of Congress now: asm.org/Articles/Pol...
Action Alerts
ASM is a nonprofit professional society that publishes scientific journals and advances microbiology through advocacy, global health and diversity in STEM programs.
brnw.ch
February 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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A bird flu pandemic is not inevitable. But a series of developments over the past few weeks indicates that the possibility is no longer remote.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
Bird Flu Enters a New Phase, Scientists Say (Gift Article)
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Chicago you were wonderful #AIC2024 🧫 🌃🎄
November 25, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Slowly putting together a UAB starter pack as some of us slowly move over! Will contain UAB official accounts, faculty, staff, graduate students/graduate alumni, etc! Let me know people I’m missing so I can add them to it!

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November 17, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Had a great time at the UAB Microbiology Department retreat! 🧫🦠
November 16, 2024 at 5:07 PM