Kimberly Kline 🏔
@kimingeneva.bsky.social
Professor, University of Geneva. We study Enterococcal biofilms, pathogenesis, and AMR. Formerly @KimInSingapore 🌴.
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
https://kimberlyklinelab.com/
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Kimberly Kline 🏔
@kimingeneva.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hey Enterococcus lovers: go.bsky.app/T24bCrJ. Who are we missing here?
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
A conserved sRNA regulates mucin adhesion and gut colonization across the Enterococcaceae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687296v1
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A conserved sRNA regulates mucin adhesion and gut colonization across the Enterococcaceae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687296v1
We're just 6 months away from @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics : Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, May 2026 in Breckenridge! 👉Scholarship and short talk abstract deadlines are Jan 7! 🧐 keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
keysym.us
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We're just 6 months away from @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics : Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, May 2026 in Breckenridge! 👉Scholarship and short talk abstract deadlines are Jan 7! 🧐 keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
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
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7
August 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7
💕 Such a joyful day celebrating the wedding of our longest-standing lab member Pei Yi (since 2012!) and former PhD student Kelvin. 💍 Their special day brought together generations of the Kline Lab family - a wonderful reminder of the friendships and community that science builds along the way. 💕
August 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
💕 Such a joyful day celebrating the wedding of our longest-standing lab member Pei Yi (since 2012!) and former PhD student Kelvin. 💍 Their special day brought together generations of the Kline Lab family - a wonderful reminder of the friendships and community that science builds along the way. 💕
Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!
📢 Our new preprint is out! We show how the common gut bacterium 𝘌. 𝘧𝘢𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 stops wound healing. It uses a metabolic pathway, extracellular electron transport (EET), to stress host cells, halting their migration. Watch WT bacteria (orange) stop the cells while the mutant (blue) doesn't!
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Our latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666506v1
July 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666506v1
At my 1st @femsmicro.org congress (in Milan!) - it's a fantastic meeting. I co-chaired a superb session on Microbial Dark Matter with @jlewillett.bsky.social, who also kicked off the session with a talk on her lab's work. 🤩 We also heard from my FEMS Microbes co-EIC Kathleen Scott! 💪🏽 #FEMS2025
July 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
At my 1st @femsmicro.org congress (in Milan!) - it's a fantastic meeting. I co-chaired a superb session on Microbial Dark Matter with @jlewillett.bsky.social, who also kicked off the session with a talk on her lab's work. 🤩 We also heard from my FEMS Microbes co-EIC Kathleen Scott! 💪🏽 #FEMS2025
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Vancomycin-resistant 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙪𝙢 (VRE) thrives in the antibiotic-perturbed gut
VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes
Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!
VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes
Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci utilise antibiotic-enriched nutrients for intestinal colonisation - Nature Communications
Here, the authors show that vancomycin-resistant enterococci grow in the antibiotic-treated gut microbiome by utilising enriched nutrients in the presence of reduced concentrations of inhibitory micro...
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Vancomycin-resistant 𝙀𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙪𝙢 (VRE) thrives in the antibiotic-perturbed gut
VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes
Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!
VRE gobbles up enriched sugars and amino acids, and loss of short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate) eliminates natural growth brakes
Therapeutic angle: Prebiotic SCFA mixtures block VRE growth!
🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on?
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
Secure your spot for the #FEMSMicrobes Webinar today 🚨. You’ll deep dive into emerging breakthroughs in the field, from antimicrobial discovery to protein profiling to gut fungi imaging. Big insights for health, industry, and environment. 🦠
Register now: buff.ly/7nFyEIj
#FEMSWebinar #Microbes
Register now: buff.ly/7nFyEIj
#FEMSWebinar #Microbes
July 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on?
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Very happy to share that a large part of my thesis work is out today: B. subtilis uses the second messenger c-di-AMP to modulate its turgor pressure in response to the state of its cell envelope. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cyclic-di-AMP modulates cellular turgor in response to defects in bacterial cell wall synthesis - Nature Microbiology
Brogan et al. uncover a signalling pathway in which levels of the nucleotide second messenger c-di-AMP increase in response to defects in cell wall synthesis. This regulatory pathway decreases turgor ...
www.nature.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Very happy to share that a large part of my thesis work is out today: B. subtilis uses the second messenger c-di-AMP to modulate its turgor pressure in response to the state of its cell envelope. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
FEMS MICRO Milan is buzzing with excitement! 🎉🧫 Over 1,900 participants from 90+ countries are ready for 1,700+ posters & 100+ sessions (debates, expert panels, keynotes). This is Europe's premier microbiology event🏆🔬
Regular registration closes today, at 23:59 CEST: buff.ly/6f7yHDV
Regular registration closes today, at 23:59 CEST: buff.ly/6f7yHDV
June 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
FEMS MICRO Milan is buzzing with excitement! 🎉🧫 Over 1,900 participants from 90+ countries are ready for 1,700+ posters & 100+ sessions (debates, expert panels, keynotes). This is Europe's premier microbiology event🏆🔬
Regular registration closes today, at 23:59 CEST: buff.ly/6f7yHDV
Regular registration closes today, at 23:59 CEST: buff.ly/6f7yHDV
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Jun #SGBUG with Aaron Tan from the groups of @kimingeneva.bsky.social and @gthibault.bsky.social talking about exciting findings on E. faecalis pathogenesis, and @weeboont.bsky.social from our lab sharing his newest work on phospholipid transporters in E. coli! @scelse.bsky.social Awesome crowd!
June 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Jun #SGBUG with Aaron Tan from the groups of @kimingeneva.bsky.social and @gthibault.bsky.social talking about exciting findings on E. faecalis pathogenesis, and @weeboont.bsky.social from our lab sharing his newest work on phospholipid transporters in E. coli! @scelse.bsky.social Awesome crowd!
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM
wwwfbm.unil.ch
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Our very own 🤩Deepti Rawat🤩 is competing in the PhD Booster program at the University of Geneva, a program supporting career advancement by developing skills to communicate science to the public. Vote for her in the People's Choice Public Prize here! 👇 www.unige.ch/medecine/org...
Deepti Rawat - Faculté de médecine - UNIGE
Hide, survive, infect: inside the survival playbook of a pathogen
www.unige.ch
June 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Our very own 🤩Deepti Rawat🤩 is competing in the PhD Booster program at the University of Geneva, a program supporting career advancement by developing skills to communicate science to the public. Vote for her in the People's Choice Public Prize here! 👇 www.unige.ch/medecine/org...
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!
We’re hiring: GIMM is launching its first call for Group Leaders.
Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery.
🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
📅 Apply by June 8
#ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch
Looking for scientists ready to push boundaries, ask bold questions & build the future of biomedical discovery.
🔗 gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
📅 Apply by June 8
#ScienceJobs #GroupLeader #BiomedicalResearch
June 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Blaskovich & Cooper review the pipeline of conventional antibiotics and highlight in depth numerous promising alternatives—including potentiators of antibiotic action, bacteriophage, lysins and microbiome modulation—the impact of CARB-X on innovation is patently clear
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Antibiotics re-booted—time to kick back against drug resistance - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Antibiotics re-booted—time to kick back against drug resistance
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Blaskovich & Cooper review the pipeline of conventional antibiotics and highlight in depth numerous promising alternatives—including potentiators of antibiotic action, bacteriophage, lysins and microbiome modulation—the impact of CARB-X on innovation is patently clear
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Great meeting coming up next May
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
May 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Great meeting coming up next May
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
Fantastic opportunity!👇🏼
Marie Curie fellowship, post-doc hosting oppotunity in my lab. MSCA Post-doctoral Fellowship at IBPC Paris on RNA modifications in bacteria (FRANCE) 🦠💫 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Fantastic opportunity!👇🏼
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Absolutely thrilled to present our latest review, where we discuss how host microenvironment and bacterial subversion strategies can undermine traditional antimicrobial sensitivity testing, and whether better models may one day get us "beyond the MIC" #IDSKy
rdcu.be/emYoh
rdcu.be/emYoh
Effect of host microenvironment and bacterial lifestyles on antimicrobial sensitivity and implications for susceptibility testing
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Effect of host microenvironment and bacterial lifestyles on antimicrobial sensitivity and implications for susceptibility testing
rdcu.be
May 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Absolutely thrilled to present our latest review, where we discuss how host microenvironment and bacterial subversion strategies can undermine traditional antimicrobial sensitivity testing, and whether better models may one day get us "beyond the MIC" #IDSKy
rdcu.be/emYoh
rdcu.be/emYoh
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
May 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.
Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.
(🧑🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)
Reposted by Kimberly Kline 🏔
Delighted to announce the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting: Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection. Join us in Breckenridge in May 2026!!
You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26
#KSAntibiotics26
You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26
#KSAntibiotics26
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
keysym.us
May 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Delighted to announce the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting: Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection. Join us in Breckenridge in May 2026!!
You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26
#KSAntibiotics26
You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26
#KSAntibiotics26