Katie Wetzel
@kswetzel1.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Art by Arwa Abbas
Art by Arwa Abbas
Congrats to Dr. Ching Ko and colleagues for this advancement in engineering of mycobacteriophages!
Genome synthesis, assembly, and rebooting of therapeutically useful high G+C% mycobacteriophages.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2523871122
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41213020/
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2523871122
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41213020/
Genome synthesis, assembly, and rebooting of therapeutically useful high G+C% mycobacteriophages - PubMed
Bacteriophages show therapeutic promise for treating bacterial pathogens including nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). A major impediment is the paucity of therapeutically useful phages and the great variation in the phage infection profiles, especially among <i><i>Mycobacterium</i> abscessus</i> cli …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Congrats to Dr. Ching Ko and colleagues for this advancement in engineering of mycobacteriophages!
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Anyone have book recommendations for graduate students for scientific writing and/or presenting ?
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Anyone have book recommendations for graduate students for scientific writing and/or presenting ?
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#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Two (2) Open Rank Teaching Faculty
The Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks applicants for two (2) Teaching Faculty positions to be effective July 1, 2026. These positions will be fixed-term 9-...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature
Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.
nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
nature.com/articles/s41...
PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.
Science chats over donuts are the best chats!
So far during fall semester at Bio for Breakfast series at GSU!
@kswetzel1.bsky.social
@kswetzel1.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Science chats over donuts are the best chats!
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Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
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Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections - Nature Microbiology
The Entelli-02 phage product containing five phages has frontline potential to address infections caused by the multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae complex.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Excited to annouce the latest research published by our lab, which is led by Dinesh Subedi and is out today in Nature Microbiology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nearly 300 patients screened for phage susceptibility ✅
50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅
Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started.
#pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3
50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅
Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started.
#pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Nearly 300 patients screened for phage susceptibility ✅
50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅
Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started.
#pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3
50+ FDA-approved treatments and counting ✅
Phage therapy is making a difference — and we’re just getting started.
#pittsburghphageprogram #phagetherapy #P3
The Wetzel Lab is one! 🥳 Grateful for these enthusiastic scientists who have joined me for the ride.
August 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Wetzel Lab is one! 🥳 Grateful for these enthusiastic scientists who have joined me for the ride.
Come hang out with us!
Looking forward to this amazing phage conference.
Tomorrow last day for abstract submission.
#phage #phagesky #microsky
www.iasusa.org/bacteriophag...
Tomorrow last day for abstract submission.
#phage #phagesky #microsky
www.iasusa.org/bacteriophag...
Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics - IAS-USA
Physical Education: Bridging Clinical Research and Patient Care
www.iasusa.org
August 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Come hang out with us!
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Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
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Thrilled to share our most recent paper describing the antimicrobial activity of engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles targeting intracellular mycobacteria in macrophages and zebrafish. Outstanding work headed by Yara Tasrini, John Jairo Aguilera Correa, Miguel Gisbert and others.
rdcu.be/eAcN4
rdcu.be/eAcN4
August 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Thrilled to share our most recent paper describing the antimicrobial activity of engineered mesoporous silica nanoparticles targeting intracellular mycobacteria in macrophages and zebrafish. Outstanding work headed by Yara Tasrini, John Jairo Aguilera Correa, Miguel Gisbert and others.
rdcu.be/eAcN4
rdcu.be/eAcN4
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Scientists!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
August 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Scientists!
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!
We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15
If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
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The excitement continues! Check out my latest preprint examining how phages have adapted to lyse different bacterial envelopes. I found a lysis gene (lysZ) that is conserved in phages that infect corynebacteria mycobacteria, and other actinos.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bacteriophages target membrane-anchored glycopolymers to promote host cell lysis and progeny release
Most bacteriophages lyse their host cell to release progeny virions. Double-stranded DNA phages typically promote host lysis using a holin-endolysin system. Holins form pores in the cytoplasmic membra...
www.biorxiv.org
June 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The excitement continues! Check out my latest preprint examining how phages have adapted to lyse different bacterial envelopes. I found a lysis gene (lysZ) that is conserved in phages that infect corynebacteria mycobacteria, and other actinos.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New phage lab just dropped!
I'm pleased to announce that I will be starting my lab as an Assistant Professor at UMass Chan Medical School in August! My group will study phages that infect corynebacteria and mycobacteria to understand bacterial cell envelope assembly and phage gene function. Website and more info to come soon!
June 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New phage lab just dropped!
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Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
Phage steering in the presence of a competing bacterial pathogen
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June 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
Do you love phages? Other viruses? Cool science done by cool people? Check out this paper by my former bay mate @kfreeman.bsky.social and colleagues that sheds light on the cool molecular machines that are phage tails.
Hurray, it is finally out! Meet bacteriophage Bxb1 - the subject of my first full-phage cryo-EM study. My structures are beautifully complemented by the Park Lab’s cryo-ET analysis, shedding light on mycobacteriophage structural changes during infection.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Structure and infection dynamics of mycobacteriophage Bxb1
Mycobacteriophage Bxb1 is a well-characterized virus of Mycobacterium smegmatis with double-stranded DNA and a long, flexible tail. Mycobacteriophages…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Do you love phages? Other viruses? Cool science done by cool people? Check out this paper by my former bay mate @kfreeman.bsky.social and colleagues that sheds light on the cool molecular machines that are phage tails.
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The Ross Lab is recruiting a PhD student! We study the physiology of chronic bacterial infection using M. abscessus. Contact me if interested!
Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Using Informatics and Molecular Biology to Understand Chronic Bacterial Infection Physiology at Georgia State University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The Ross Lab is recruiting a PhD student! We study the physiology of chronic bacterial infection using M. abscessus. Contact me if interested!
Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out the projects here www.findaphd.com/phds/project...