Kate Lagerstrom
@kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social
Postdoc at Princeton 🐅
Trustee for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org)
🌿ecology | 🧫 microbiomes | 🧬 genomics |
🦠 pathogen emergence | 💊 AMR | 👣 human impacts | 🐾 wildlife conservation |🌎 OneHealth
UNL & Stanford alum 🎓
💻 http://kate-lagerstrom.github.io
Trustee for AMI (http://appliedmicrobiology.org)
🌿ecology | 🧫 microbiomes | 🧬 genomics |
🦠 pathogen emergence | 💊 AMR | 👣 human impacts | 🐾 wildlife conservation |🌎 OneHealth
UNL & Stanford alum 🎓
💻 http://kate-lagerstrom.github.io
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On #WAAW2025, AMI urges global policymakers to strengthen the revised Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP-AMR), calling for a more inclusive, clear and equitable approach to tackling one of the world’s most urgent health challenges. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-war...
AMI warns that the threat of antimicrobial resistance in viruses and other pathogens cannot be underestimated
Applied Microbiology International (AMI) has urged global policymakers to strengthen the revised Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP-AMR), calling for a more inclusive, clear and equit...
www.the-microbiologist.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
On #WAAW2025, AMI urges global policymakers to strengthen the revised Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP-AMR), calling for a more inclusive, clear and equitable approach to tackling one of the world’s most urgent health challenges. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-war...
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Join an Advisory Group, Shape the Future 🌐
AMI is inviting members to apply to join our Advisory Groups. Each group is a global network of experts helping to steer AMI’s priorities, strategies, and initiatives in line with six #UNSDGs.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...
AMI is inviting members to apply to join our Advisory Groups. Each group is a global network of experts helping to steer AMI’s priorities, strategies, and initiatives in line with six #UNSDGs.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...
Advisory Groups
Microbiologists worldwide, shaping meaningful change.
appliedmicrobiology.org
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Join an Advisory Group, Shape the Future 🌐
AMI is inviting members to apply to join our Advisory Groups. Each group is a global network of experts helping to steer AMI’s priorities, strategies, and initiatives in line with six #UNSDGs.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...
AMI is inviting members to apply to join our Advisory Groups. Each group is a global network of experts helping to steer AMI’s priorities, strategies, and initiatives in line with six #UNSDGs.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...
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👏👏GREAT talk!
Ready for Q&A!
Moderator: Kate Lagerstrom
X: @kate-lagerstrom
Bluesky: @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social
Ready for Q&A!
Moderator: Kate Lagerstrom
X: @kate-lagerstrom
Bluesky: @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
👏👏GREAT talk!
Ready for Q&A!
Moderator: Kate Lagerstrom
X: @kate-lagerstrom
Bluesky: @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social
Ready for Q&A!
Moderator: Kate Lagerstrom
X: @kate-lagerstrom
Bluesky: @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social
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💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫
Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to...
#MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social
and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social
Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to...
#MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social
and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫
Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to...
#MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social
and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social
Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to...
#MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social
and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social
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Thanks Annie Roth! Great article on our new IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group in National Geographic. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Save the microbes? The world’s smallest species may soon get protections.
Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are listening.
www.nationalgeographic.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Thanks Annie Roth! Great article on our new IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group in National Geographic. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Kate Lagerstrom
Could you be the next President of Applied Microbiology International?
We're recruiting our next President to join our Board of Trustees and lead our organisation into the future.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/our-te...
Deadline: 30 September 2025, 10pm (BST)
We're recruiting our next President to join our Board of Trustees and lead our organisation into the future.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/our-te...
Deadline: 30 September 2025, 10pm (BST)
September 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Could you be the next President of Applied Microbiology International?
We're recruiting our next President to join our Board of Trustees and lead our organisation into the future.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/our-te...
Deadline: 30 September 2025, 10pm (BST)
We're recruiting our next President to join our Board of Trustees and lead our organisation into the future.
Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/our-te...
Deadline: 30 September 2025, 10pm (BST)
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🥁 We’re thrilled to announce the beginning of #MVIF Season 5
with #GloMiNe2025 event jointly organized by @microbiotavault.bsky.social and #MVIF
Save the date: 9 & 10/11 September 2025
& register here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...
with #GloMiNe2025 event jointly organized by @microbiotavault.bsky.social and #MVIF
Save the date: 9 & 10/11 September 2025
& register here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...
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August 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🥁 We’re thrilled to announce the beginning of #MVIF Season 5
with #GloMiNe2025 event jointly organized by @microbiotavault.bsky.social and #MVIF
Save the date: 9 & 10/11 September 2025
& register here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...
with #GloMiNe2025 event jointly organized by @microbiotavault.bsky.social and #MVIF
Save the date: 9 & 10/11 September 2025
& register here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...
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Reposted by Kate Lagerstrom
Applied Microbiology International is to lead a new conservation committee dedicated to the protection of microbial biodiversity. IUCN has approved the creation of the first-ever Species Survival Commission (SSC) group dedicated to microbial biodiversity. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-to-...
AMI to head world-leading committee dedicated to protecting microbial diversity
Applied Microbiology International is to lead a new conservation committee dedicated to the protection of microbial biodiversity. IUCN has approved the creation of the first-ever IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) group dedicated to microbial biodiversity.
www.the-microbiologist.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Applied Microbiology International is to lead a new conservation committee dedicated to the protection of microbial biodiversity. IUCN has approved the creation of the first-ever Species Survival Commission (SSC) group dedicated to microbial biodiversity. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-to-...
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Join us at this meeting to learn more about AMI's key achievements and strategic progress made during 2024. You'll also be invited to:
🟣 Approve the minutes of the 2024 AGM
🟣 Approve changes to our Articles of Association
🟣 Welcome new trustees and thank those retiring from the Board
🟣 Approve the minutes of the 2024 AGM
🟣 Approve changes to our Articles of Association
🟣 Welcome new trustees and thank those retiring from the Board
We’re pleased to invite all AMI members to our 94th Annual General Meeting (AGM)!
This year’s AGM will be held virtually, giving you the opportunity to join from anywhere in the world.
📅 Date: 17 July 2025
🕓 Time: 4pm – 5pm (BST)
Register now: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
This year’s AGM will be held virtually, giving you the opportunity to join from anywhere in the world.
📅 Date: 17 July 2025
🕓 Time: 4pm – 5pm (BST)
Register now: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...
July 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Join us at this meeting to learn more about AMI's key achievements and strategic progress made during 2024. You'll also be invited to:
🟣 Approve the minutes of the 2024 AGM
🟣 Approve changes to our Articles of Association
🟣 Welcome new trustees and thank those retiring from the Board
🟣 Approve the minutes of the 2024 AGM
🟣 Approve changes to our Articles of Association
🟣 Welcome new trustees and thank those retiring from the Board
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🌍🦠 World Microbiome Day shout-out: we’ve just unveiled the Microbiota Vault—a planetary backup for microbial diversity. Built on equitable, One Health values & linked to the new IUCN SSC Microbiomes. Read our Nature Comms piece: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
#MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025
#MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025
The microbiota vault initiative: safeguarding Earth’s microbial heritage for future generations - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - The microbiota vault initiative: safeguarding Earth’s microbial heritage for future generations
doi.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌍🦠 World Microbiome Day shout-out: we’ve just unveiled the Microbiota Vault—a planetary backup for microbial diversity. Built on equitable, One Health values & linked to the new IUCN SSC Microbiomes. Read our Nature Comms piece: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
#MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025
#MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025
I’m so proud to be a part of AMI.
Congratulations to the whole team!
Congratulations to the whole team!
AMI has made The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list - for the second year in a row! 🎆
This accolade reflects the hard work and dedication of our amazing team, and our commitment to a culture where everyone feels valued.
Read more: www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-mak...
This accolade reflects the hard work and dedication of our amazing team, and our commitment to a culture where everyone feels valued.
Read more: www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-mak...
May 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I’m so proud to be a part of AMI.
Congratulations to the whole team!
Congratulations to the whole team!
A new type of immune defense discovered in E. coli turns viral machinery against itself. Dubbed "Kongming" after the Chinese military strategist who used enemy's weapons to defeat them, this novel immune signaling pathway could benefit the future of phage therapy: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Base-modified nucleotides mediate immune signaling in bacteria
Signaling from pathogen sensing to effector activation is a fundamental principle of cellular immunity. Whereas cyclic (oligo)nucleotides have emerged as key signaling molecules, the existence of othe...
www.science.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A new type of immune defense discovered in E. coli turns viral machinery against itself. Dubbed "Kongming" after the Chinese military strategist who used enemy's weapons to defeat them, this novel immune signaling pathway could benefit the future of phage therapy: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Kate Lagerstrom
NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
www.nbcnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome!
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.
There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.
There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
April 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome!
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.
There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.
There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
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If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?
Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable
www.science.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM
If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky
Not only is it authored by a few of my scientific idols, it also has a foreword by Jared Diamond?! I need this book now!
Check out the new book by Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford and Gerardo Ceballos of UNAM bit.ly/3BjimXZ
Check out the new book by Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford and Gerardo Ceballos of UNAM bit.ly/3BjimXZ
November 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Not only is it authored by a few of my scientific idols, it also has a foreword by Jared Diamond?! I need this book now!
Check out the new book by Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford and Gerardo Ceballos of UNAM bit.ly/3BjimXZ
Check out the new book by Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford and Gerardo Ceballos of UNAM bit.ly/3BjimXZ
Hey microbiologist friends! What bugs like to grow in coffee?? 😅
(Note to self: Don’t forget to wash out the coffee pot next time you go on a month-long trip…)
(Note to self: Don’t forget to wash out the coffee pot next time you go on a month-long trip…)
November 11, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Hey microbiologist friends! What bugs like to grow in coffee?? 😅
(Note to self: Don’t forget to wash out the coffee pot next time you go on a month-long trip…)
(Note to self: Don’t forget to wash out the coffee pot next time you go on a month-long trip…)
Today, 14 journals published the same call-to-action. It succinctly outlines microbe-based strategies to combat the climate crisis.
The authors volunteer to spearhead the creation of a task force, but need our help! Contact them @ climate@isme-microbes.org
www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scienti...
The authors volunteer to spearhead the creation of a task force, but need our help! Contact them @ climate@isme-microbes.org
www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scienti...
Scientists issue call to action underlining importance of microbial solutions to tackle climate crisis
Ahead of COP29, Applied Microbiology International (AMI) has partnered with leading global scientific organisations to issue a unified call to action, spotlighting microbial solutions as pivotal in co...
www.the-microbiologist.com
November 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Today, 14 journals published the same call-to-action. It succinctly outlines microbe-based strategies to combat the climate crisis.
The authors volunteer to spearhead the creation of a task force, but need our help! Contact them @ climate@isme-microbes.org
www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scienti...
The authors volunteer to spearhead the creation of a task force, but need our help! Contact them @ climate@isme-microbes.org
www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scienti...
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New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30
October 26, 2024 at 5:45 PM
New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30
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Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
October 20, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added!
A thread (1/3)
go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi
The last chapter of my dissertation describes E. coli diversity in wildlife at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge & offers insights into the role of humans in the occurrence of antibiotic resistant & pathogenic strains. Thanks to my co-authors and collaborators🙏🏼 Read it now! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Impressive pan-genomic diversity of E. coli from a wild animal community near urban development reflects human impacts
Microbiology; Wildlife microbiology
www.cell.com
February 14, 2024 at 7:06 PM
The last chapter of my dissertation describes E. coli diversity in wildlife at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge & offers insights into the role of humans in the occurrence of antibiotic resistant & pathogenic strains. Thanks to my co-authors and collaborators🙏🏼 Read it now! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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