Katrine Whiteson
@katrinewhiteson.bsky.social
UC Irvine, UCI Microbiome, Orange County Phage Team, Fiber Evangelist https://kwhiteson.bio.uci.edu/
We have an epic line-up for the SoCal Microbiome Symposium at CalTech on Sept 19th, Sarah Allard, Ariane Briegel, Nandita Garud, Sarakis Mazmanian, Joel Sachs, Julia Schartzman, Emily Stein and David Underhill. Thanks to hosts Margaret McFall Ngai and Ned Ruby!
August 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
We have an epic line-up for the SoCal Microbiome Symposium at CalTech on Sept 19th, Sarah Allard, Ariane Briegel, Nandita Garud, Sarakis Mazmanian, Joel Sachs, Julia Schartzman, Emily Stein and David Underhill. Thanks to hosts Margaret McFall Ngai and Ned Ruby!
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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
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POSTDOC🚨
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.
Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.
Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻
July 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
POSTDOC🚨
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.
Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻
With the excellent @anshika22.bsky.social moving to UCI 🥲Anna Zemke and I are again recruiting a postdoc on the HOST-PATHOGEN BIOLOGY of TRACHEOBRONCHITIS. This is a microbiome-device-host immunity problem of broad significance.
Contact Dr. Zemke (zemkea at upmc dot edu) if interested! 👇🏻
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Where does microbiome-based medicine stand today, and where is it headed?
We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social
loom.ly/h7uGlx0
We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social
loom.ly/h7uGlx0
Paving the way for microbiome-based therapy in clinical practice
This article presents recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based treatments that are ripe for clinical adoption and discusses challenges and opportunities facing the field based on expert inte...
loom.ly
July 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Where does microbiome-based medicine stand today, and where is it headed?
We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social
loom.ly/h7uGlx0
We explore five simulated clinical cases, featuring insights from @gilbertjacka.bsky.social and @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social
loom.ly/h7uGlx0
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Excited to be on the way to #ASMicrobe once more ! And if you want to know more about our work on CRISPRs, metagenomes, and phages, please come and chat and/or come see me tomorrow morning (9:15am in the EEB-IDS-202 session, which looks amazing overall !)
June 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Excited to be on the way to #ASMicrobe once more ! And if you want to know more about our work on CRISPRs, metagenomes, and phages, please come and chat and/or come see me tomorrow morning (9:15am in the EEB-IDS-202 session, which looks amazing overall !)
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Welcome to all attending @asm.org #Microbe2025 and to all following here. Looking forward to a great meeting!
Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired.
Check these out!🧵
Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired.
Check these out!🧵
June 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Welcome to all attending @asm.org #Microbe2025 and to all following here. Looking forward to a great meeting!
Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired.
Check these out!🧵
Delighted that many labmates & colleagues are presenting, as follows, and to celebrate the publication of the Academy's Early Microbial Life report, which I co-chaired.
Check these out!🧵
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Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research?
most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.
most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.
May 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Do you have any “published” E. coli phage? and willing to share for academic research?
most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.
most phages from yr 1980-2015 ish aren’t even available to researchers. they are either lost bcz of not sharing or archiving in registries.
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I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
May 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
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Daniel and Kelly talk to @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson) - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart
<p>Daniel and Kelly talk to Katrine Whiteson (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/l...
www.iheart.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Daniel and Kelly talk to @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
May 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
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Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research.
A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Clinical translation of microbiome research - Nature Medicine
This Review summarizes recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based interventions that are ripe for clinical adoption while also discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the field.
www.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Me and a few of my mates got together and wrote a review on the current state of clinical translation of microbiome research.
A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A great summary of the state of the art for microbiome research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:
rdcu.be/eg4OA
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rdcu.be/eg4OA
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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression
Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.
rdcu.be
April 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:
rdcu.be/eg4OA
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rdcu.be/eg4OA
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What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.
Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly
www.pnas.org
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a joy to read this beautifully written commentary on our community coalescence experiments! Thank you Alyssa Mitchell and @contaminatedsci.bsky.social for the insightful take and lovely graphical summary.
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Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers
#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems
Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the
underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of
microbial cells, populations, comm...
journals.asm.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers
#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#mSystems Editorial by a group of editors, senior editors & editor-in-chief
@leonorabit.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @ashley17061.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
forms.gle
March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP.
phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca...
#AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬
phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca...
#AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬
Hiring BS Microbiologist, Laboratory - Bethel
View job details and apply now
phh.tbe.taleo.net
March 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP.
phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca...
#AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬
phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca...
#AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬
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Any of you have amazing science images? Entries are open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork competition. Your science caught on camera could win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the chance to see your images appear in print and online. Entries are due by March 28. 🧪🔬🧬 #SciComm
#ScientistAtWork 2025: Nature is seeking stunning photographic images that capture researchers’ working lives
Winners get a cash prize, and will have their image featured in Nature in print and online.
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Any of you have amazing science images? Entries are open for Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork competition. Your science caught on camera could win a £500 cash prize (or local-currency equivalent) and the chance to see your images appear in print and online. Entries are due by March 28. 🧪🔬🧬 #SciComm
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Made a feed for phage papers/discussions/friends!
Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽
Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽
a cartoon drawing of a man in a white superhero costume
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a man in a white superhero costume
media.tenor.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Made a feed for phage papers/discussions/friends!
Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽
Please feel free to pin this feed to your bluesky profile and if you wish to add to the feed, simply add the #phage hashtag (NOT case sensitive) and the feed will aggregate the posts. See you there! Please repost🙏🏽
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Help our friends at the NSF:
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
March 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Help our friends at the NSF:
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
Seeking scientists based in California who are willing to attest to direct harm caused by NSF firings.
If you’re in the science world, please RT this to widen the net— a lawsuit on the unjust mass firings needs these comments.
(comment briefly here and I’ll follow up!)
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Happy International Women's Day
I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me)
Please share & let me know who to add
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬
go.bsky.app/BGugi2N
I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me)
Please share & let me know who to add
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬
go.bsky.app/BGugi2N
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Happy International Women's Day
I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me)
Please share & let me know who to add
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬
go.bsky.app/BGugi2N
I made a Women In Phage Research starter pack (+ me because I dont know how to remove me)
Please share & let me know who to add
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky 🧬🖥️🔬
go.bsky.app/BGugi2N
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Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Insulin (featuring Dr. Katrine Whiteson) - Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe | iHeart
<p>Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff. </p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio...
www.iheart.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Daniel and Kelly chat with Dr. Katrine Whiteson about diabetes, the history of insulin production, and Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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From the editors of @asm.org journals, a call to action!
Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio
The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding
the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations,
socioeconomic pr...
journals.asm.org
February 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
From the editors of @asm.org journals, a call to action!
Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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@asm.org @pnas.org
@vscooper.micropopbio.org
Do you have any suggestions for how scientists can help protect the integrity of science and what your position on RFK Jr as head of HHS is? Yes, I have already written my congressional reps.
What are the organizations doing to protect the future?
@vscooper.micropopbio.org
Do you have any suggestions for how scientists can help protect the integrity of science and what your position on RFK Jr as head of HHS is? Yes, I have already written my congressional reps.
What are the organizations doing to protect the future?
February 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
@asm.org @pnas.org
@vscooper.micropopbio.org
Do you have any suggestions for how scientists can help protect the integrity of science and what your position on RFK Jr as head of HHS is? Yes, I have already written my congressional reps.
What are the organizations doing to protect the future?
@vscooper.micropopbio.org
Do you have any suggestions for how scientists can help protect the integrity of science and what your position on RFK Jr as head of HHS is? Yes, I have already written my congressional reps.
What are the organizations doing to protect the future?
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“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”-
Mahatma Gandhi
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”-
Mahatma Gandhi
February 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.”– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”-
Mahatma Gandhi
“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”-
Mahatma Gandhi