Heran Darwin, PhD
@heran.bsky.social
Professor of Microbiology. Views my own. #Tuberculosis
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Heran Darwin, PhD
@heran.bsky.social
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If it wasn't clear, this ad is for tenure track Microbiology faculty at the assistant professor level😬
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October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
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October 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
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Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com
The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all
Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Important piece from Sarah Stanley at Berkeley on new NIH definitions that can be construed to arbitrarily halt research that is both safe and important to public health and future cures www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com
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Abstract submissions are open for the Midwinter Conference of Immunologists @midwinter-immun.bsky.social!! www.midwconfimmunol.org The Early Bird Registration deadline is Nov 14, 2025.
There will be lots of Selected Abstract talks so submit an abstract to be considered!
There will be lots of Selected Abstract talks so submit an abstract to be considered!
Midwinter Conference of Immunologists
The Midwinter Conference of Immunologists was founded in 1961 by a small group of Immunologists, among them Drs. Dan Campbell and Ray Owen. The goal of the Midwinter Conference is to provide a forum w...
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September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Abstract submissions are open for the Midwinter Conference of Immunologists @midwinter-immun.bsky.social!! www.midwconfimmunol.org The Early Bird Registration deadline is Nov 14, 2025.
There will be lots of Selected Abstract talks so submit an abstract to be considered!
There will be lots of Selected Abstract talks so submit an abstract to be considered!
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meta-PAMPs: A new class of immunostimulatory molecules that control the ability of bacterial factors to operate as PAMPs. Jordan Jastrab reveals that wall teichoic acid (WTA) is a key regulator of inflammasomes and interferons during infection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Wall teichoic acid is required for DNA-triggered innate immune receptor activation by Staphylococcus aureus
Receptors that stimulate inflammation are commonly activated by ligands that are buried within microbial cells. The mechanisms that facilitate immunostimulatory ligand release from microbes during inf...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
meta-PAMPs: A new class of immunostimulatory molecules that control the ability of bacterial factors to operate as PAMPs. Jordan Jastrab reveals that wall teichoic acid (WTA) is a key regulator of inflammasomes and interferons during infection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In addition to being a kick-a$$ geneticist and biochemist, JJ is now a brill innate immunologist because of the Kagan lab! #DarwinDynasty
Thrilled to share my work from the @jkagan1.bsky.social lab!
TLDR: O-acetylation and wall teichoic acid compete for space on S. aureus peptidoglycan. This competition regulates DNA release, and thus immune receptor activation, during infection!
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#microsky #immunosky
TLDR: O-acetylation and wall teichoic acid compete for space on S. aureus peptidoglycan. This competition regulates DNA release, and thus immune receptor activation, during infection!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microsky #immunosky
Wall teichoic acid is required for DNA-triggered innate immune receptor activation by Staphylococcus aureus
Receptors that stimulate inflammation are commonly activated by ligands that are buried within microbial cells. The mechanisms that facilitate immunostimulatory ligand release from microbes during inf...
www.biorxiv.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In addition to being a kick-a$$ geneticist and biochemist, JJ is now a brill innate immunologist because of the Kagan lab! #DarwinDynasty
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Postdoc position (please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#MicroSky
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#MicroSky
September 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Postdoc position (please re-post)
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#MicroSky
A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology.
If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert
h-seifert@northwestern.edu
#MicroSky
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Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers url:https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-18-tuberculosis-spawning-in-crowded-dirty-ice-detention-centers/
August 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Tuberculosis Spawning in Crowded, Dirty ICE Detention Centers url:https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-18-tuberculosis-spawning-in-crowded-dirty-ice-detention-centers/
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Final call: Session proposals #ASMicrobe 2026 are due tomorrow, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m. ET.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the scientific program and highlight key advances in the microbial sciences.
Submit now: asm.social/2wG
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the scientific program and highlight key advances in the microbial sciences.
Submit now: asm.social/2wG
August 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Final call: Session proposals #ASMicrobe 2026 are due tomorrow, Aug. 5, at 2 p.m. ET.
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the scientific program and highlight key advances in the microbial sciences.
Submit now: asm.social/2wG
Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the scientific program and highlight key advances in the microbial sciences.
Submit now: asm.social/2wG
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Thanks for your leadership on this @asm.org. asm.org/articles/pol...
ASM Leads Letter on Federal Biosecurity & Biosafety Policy | ASM.org
The American Society for Microbiology leads a stakeholder letter expressing concerns on the implementation of EO 14292.
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July 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Thanks for your leadership on this @asm.org. asm.org/articles/pol...
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Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
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🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
July 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
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🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky
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We got hit with our first tariff tax. Ordered a unique piece of equipment from a Canadian Co. Took four months to build but arrived at the lab two weeks ago (yeah!). Then yesterday the FedEx bill for a $9,500 tariff showed up. Remind me how I invoice Canada to pay for this?
July 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
We got hit with our first tariff tax. Ordered a unique piece of equipment from a Canadian Co. Took four months to build but arrived at the lab two weeks ago (yeah!). Then yesterday the FedEx bill for a $9,500 tariff showed up. Remind me how I invoice Canada to pay for this?
Sadly, this is almost the number of people that die globally of TB every 2-3 days.
Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion
The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.
www.usatoday.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sadly, this is almost the number of people that die globally of TB every 2-3 days.
So glad he's returning to NY at Stony Brook! #TB!
OMG @samuelhbecker.bsky.social is in the sky! Welcome!
July 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So glad he's returning to NY at Stony Brook! #TB!
M abscessus in a macrophage from superstar @sarahstan.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
M abscessus in a macrophage from superstar @sarahstan.bsky.social
Any grad students interested in a career in science policy? Check out this opportunity: mirzayanfellow.nas.edu?utm_source=N...
The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
This program is an early career educational and training opportunity. It is designed to engage its Fellows in the analytical process that informs U.S. science and technology policy.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Any grad students interested in a career in science policy? Check out this opportunity: mirzayanfellow.nas.edu?utm_source=N...
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The new open access policy of NIH will take effect next week (July 1st). All NIH funded research 🔬🧪🧬accepted after July 1st must be open access upon publication. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology
June 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The new open access policy of NIH will take effect next week (July 1st). All NIH funded research 🔬🧪🧬accepted after July 1st must be open access upon publication. Worried about fees? 💸 Check out how IAI stacks up against other journals—you might be surprised. #OpenAccess #SciComm #Microbiology
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If you're at #ASMicrobe and need a pick-me-up, join the ASM's Progress, Impact, Access and Accountability (PIAA) Committee for coffee & cookies on Friday, June 20 from 2-2:45 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall! Hope to see you there! 🍪 asm.social/2t3
June 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you're at #ASMicrobe and need a pick-me-up, join the ASM's Progress, Impact, Access and Accountability (PIAA) Committee for coffee & cookies on Friday, June 20 from 2-2:45 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall! Hope to see you there! 🍪 asm.social/2t3
OMG @samuelhbecker.bsky.social is in the sky! Welcome!
June 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
OMG @samuelhbecker.bsky.social is in the sky! Welcome!
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Join the #VosshallLab as a postdoctoral scientist. Fully funded, right here in New York City @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Scientist - Vosshall Lab
Primary Work Address: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. We have an outstanding opportunity for a Postdoctoral Scientist to joi...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Join the #VosshallLab as a postdoctoral scientist. Fully funded, right here in New York City @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social
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A little too soon (re our NYC rat problem) but thanks @joeyzacks.bsky.social for sending that!
the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope
May 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A little too soon (re our NYC rat problem) but thanks @joeyzacks.bsky.social for sending that!
Savage but accurate. John Oliver will hopefully get the message to people that science and health societies can't.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
I have to admit, John Oliver outlining exactly what is wrong with HHS cuts and with RFK in great detail, was not what I would have expected. But this is sadly very accurate.
I have to admit, John Oliver outlining exactly what is wrong with HHS cuts and with RFK in great detail, was not what I would have expected. But this is sadly very accurate.
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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April 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Savage but accurate. John Oliver will hopefully get the message to people that science and health societies can't.
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Congratulations to all of the new National Academy of Sciences members!! Special shout out to @ejohnwherry.bsky.social and Eric Skaar!!! So well deserved!
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS
WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original res...
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April 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Congratulations to all of the new National Academy of Sciences members!! Special shout out to @ejohnwherry.bsky.social and Eric Skaar!!! So well deserved!