Ben Ross
@rossbenjamind.bsky.social
Associate professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology at Dartmouth College. Studying interbacterial interactions among members of the human gut microbiota. https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/faculty/facultydb/view.php/?uid=7172
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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
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Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
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Two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages require the exopolysaccharide Psl for infection
NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes from Courtney Reichhardt and @micheleleroux.bsky.social and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes from Courtney Reichhardt and @micheleleroux.bsky.social and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages require the exopolysaccharide Psl for infection - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages require the exopolysaccharide Psl for infection
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November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Two unrelated Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages require the exopolysaccharide Psl for infection
NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes from Courtney Reichhardt and @micheleleroux.bsky.social and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes from Courtney Reichhardt and @micheleleroux.bsky.social and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Excited to share some new work led by grad student Sophie Walton (w/ @petrovadmitri.bsky.social). We used in vitro gut communities to study how natural selection acts on strains of the same species as they compete within larger communities. Check out Sophie's thread below for details!
Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Excited to share some new work led by grad student Sophie Walton (w/ @petrovadmitri.bsky.social). We used in vitro gut communities to study how natural selection acts on strains of the same species as they compete within larger communities. Check out Sophie's thread below for details!
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Congratulations to BCB Professor Soni Lacefield on Receiving the Genetics Society of America Ira Herskowitz Award!
This prestigious award recognizes “outstanding contributions in the field of yeast research in the last 20 years”
This prestigious award recognizes “outstanding contributions in the field of yeast research in the last 20 years”
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Congratulations to BCB Professor Soni Lacefield on Receiving the Genetics Society of America Ira Herskowitz Award!
This prestigious award recognizes “outstanding contributions in the field of yeast research in the last 20 years”
This prestigious award recognizes “outstanding contributions in the field of yeast research in the last 20 years”
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Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
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Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
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October 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social
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During hyperphagia, bears can spend 22 hours per day foraging.
The sweet scent of wind-fallen apples attracts them, which is why if you live in bear country, it's essential to remove fallen apples daily.
Kilham Bear Center link, if you feel like donating:
kilhambearcenter.org/how-you-can-...
The sweet scent of wind-fallen apples attracts them, which is why if you live in bear country, it's essential to remove fallen apples daily.
Kilham Bear Center link, if you feel like donating:
kilhambearcenter.org/how-you-can-...
How You Can Help | Kilham Bear Center
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October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
During hyperphagia, bears can spend 22 hours per day foraging.
The sweet scent of wind-fallen apples attracts them, which is why if you live in bear country, it's essential to remove fallen apples daily.
Kilham Bear Center link, if you feel like donating:
kilhambearcenter.org/how-you-can-...
The sweet scent of wind-fallen apples attracts them, which is why if you live in bear country, it's essential to remove fallen apples daily.
Kilham Bear Center link, if you feel like donating:
kilhambearcenter.org/how-you-can-...
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Your daily moment of zen:
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
October 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Your daily moment of zen:
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.
Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
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Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
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A recent cool preprint by John Whitney's lab on a new family of antibacterial proteins secreted by Gram-positive bacteria that enter and kill a broad spectrum of bacteria. Cell entry is receptor-independent and relies on cleavage by a co-secreted protease and the PMF.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Proteolytically activated antibacterial toxins inhibit the growth of diverse Gram-positive bacteria
Many species of bacteria produce small-molecule antibiotics that enter and kill a wide range of competitor microbes. However, diffusible antibacterial proteins that share this broad-spectrum activity ...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A recent cool preprint by John Whitney's lab on a new family of antibacterial proteins secreted by Gram-positive bacteria that enter and kill a broad spectrum of bacteria. Cell entry is receptor-independent and relies on cleavage by a co-secreted protease and the PMF.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
September 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.
Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.
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The deadline for short-talk submissions and scholarships for the January 2026 Keystone Microbiome Meeting is September 23rd!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine, January 2026, in Banff, with field leaders!
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September 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The deadline for short-talk submissions and scholarships for the January 2026 Keystone Microbiome Meeting is September 23rd!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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Dartmouth is hiring! Come be my colleague. Biochemistry and Cell Biology is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Join us in New Hampshire for great science, nice people, and beautiful scenery ⛰️ apply.interfolio.com/171438
August 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Dartmouth is hiring! Come be my colleague. Biochemistry and Cell Biology is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Join us in New Hampshire for great science, nice people, and beautiful scenery ⛰️ apply.interfolio.com/171438
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I have an R56 that will pay for 1 year of a postdoc that will hopefully bridge us to a 4-year R01. It's not without risk but uh...everything in science feels like a major risk right now. We're in need of a #postdoc w/ #nmr experience. DM or email me for project details.
I am (optimistically) looking for a postdoc with solution state biomolecular NMR expertise to join our group. I can provide access to high-end instrumentation and technical assistance via our membership at the New York Structural Biology Center. #nmr #academicsky #postdoc
August 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
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August 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined).
Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.
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Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined).
Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/171625
Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions.
apply.interfolio.com/171625
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Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
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Pseudomonads coordinate innate defense against viruses and bacteria with a single regulatory system: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#MicroSky
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Pseudomonads coordinate innate defense against viruses and bacteria with a single regulatory system
Brinkley et al. describe a general immune response strategy in Pseudomonas species,
termed GUARD, that protects against both bacterial and viral threats. This program,
controlled by the Gac/Rsm global...
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August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Pseudomonads coordinate innate defense against viruses and bacteria with a single regulatory system: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
August 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
2) Are you in the US?
3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?
4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?
If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.
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Two conferences, one reg! Sign up for Microbiome Metabolism & Metabolites + get Human Microbiome FREE. Joint keynotes: Emily P. Balskus & Mohamed S. Abou Donia. keysym.us/KSMicroMetab26 @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social @mfgrp.bsky.social @inesthiele.bsky.social #KSMicroMetab26 #KSMicrobiome26
Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites: Discovery and Function in Health and Disease | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites: Discovery and Function in Health and Disease, January 2026, in Banff, with field leaders!
keysym.us
August 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Two conferences, one reg! Sign up for Microbiome Metabolism & Metabolites + get Human Microbiome FREE. Joint keynotes: Emily P. Balskus & Mohamed S. Abou Donia. keysym.us/KSMicroMetab26 @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social @mfgrp.bsky.social @inesthiele.bsky.social #KSMicroMetab26 #KSMicrobiome26
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You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization | mSystems
In this study, we asked whether normalization by host reads alone was sufficient to
estimate absolute bacterial biomass directly from stool metagenomic data, without
the need for synthetic spike-ins, ...
journals.asm.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements.
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🧵
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Postdoc position to work at the Institut Pasteur with Alex Kaminski and Didier Mazel on Z-DNA phages ! research.pasteur.fr/en/job/a-two...
A two year post-doctoral position at the BacterialGenome Plasticity Unit starting October 1st - Research
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July 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Postdoc position to work at the Institut Pasteur with Alex Kaminski and Didier Mazel on Z-DNA phages ! research.pasteur.fr/en/job/a-two...