John McCormick 🇨🇦
@superantigens.bsky.social
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Western Ontario - we study bacterial exotoxins from Strep. pyogenes and Staph. aureus and how these pathogens manipulate our immune system. mccormicklab.ca
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The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.
Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.
Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
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Reposted by John McCormick 🇨🇦
Area man who dropped out of community college after two months to go work as VP at father’s company tell local kids to try harder.
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Area man who dropped out of community college after two months to go work as VP at father’s company tell local kids to try harder.
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We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
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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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Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance
Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists
More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3
Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists
More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3
August 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance
Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists
More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3
Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists
More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3
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🧵 Our paper out today in @naturemedicine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon
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#Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon
1/
#Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.
www.nature.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🧵 Our paper out today in @naturemedicine.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon
1/
#Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon
1/
#Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.
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The #CIHR Microbiology and Infectious Disease panel had a 13% success rate in Project Grant decisions released last week. Overall success was just over 15% across all panels. Worst success rate in recent memory. This is not what seizing the moment or investing in the future looks like.🇨🇦📉 #canpoli.
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Looks like the Marge Simpson convention is in town this weekend
July 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Looks like the Marge Simpson convention is in town this weekend
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Americans overwhelmingly support investment in cutting-edge biomedical and earth science research to create a healthier population and planet—yet may not be fully aware of the destructive impact of the federal funding cuts—this laudable effort from the next generation puts a human face on the crisis
U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
www.science.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Americans overwhelmingly support investment in cutting-edge biomedical and earth science research to create a healthier population and planet—yet may not be fully aware of the destructive impact of the federal funding cuts—this laudable effort from the next generation puts a human face on the crisis
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Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.
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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724)
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
Please share in your networks! #microsky
Please share in your networks! #microsky
April 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Tenure-track Faculty position just opened up in my department! If you want to be part of a dynamic group who is excited about science, apply. For more details, visit www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
Please share in your networks! #microsky
Please share in your networks! #microsky
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The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again!
Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)!
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)!
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
March 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again!
Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)!
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)!
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
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March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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🔔🔔 🔔 Sound the alarm! Not 1 but 2 PhD positions available in my research group at Amsterdam UMC studying the interaction between S. aureus wall teichoic acids and the host immune system. Multidisciplinary projects with experience in academia and industry. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
Vacatures - PhD (x2) in Staphylococcus aureus immune interaction - Amsterdam UMC
Do you have ambition to be trained in broad, top-class scientific and professional skills and gain experience in industry and academia? Apply now!
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🔔🔔 🔔 Sound the alarm! Not 1 but 2 PhD positions available in my research group at Amsterdam UMC studying the interaction between S. aureus wall teichoic acids and the host immune system. Multidisciplinary projects with experience in academia and industry. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
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New research article
Association between #HIV -1 Nef-mediated MHC-I downregulation and the maintenance of the replication-competent latent viral reservoir in individuals with virally suppressed HIV-1 in Uganda: an exploratory cohort study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ViroSky #OA
Association between #HIV -1 Nef-mediated MHC-I downregulation and the maintenance of the replication-competent latent viral reservoir in individuals with virally suppressed HIV-1 in Uganda: an exploratory cohort study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ViroSky #OA
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New research article
Association between #HIV -1 Nef-mediated MHC-I downregulation and the maintenance of the replication-competent latent viral reservoir in individuals with virally suppressed HIV-1 in Uganda: an exploratory cohort study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ViroSky #OA
Association between #HIV -1 Nef-mediated MHC-I downregulation and the maintenance of the replication-competent latent viral reservoir in individuals with virally suppressed HIV-1 in Uganda: an exploratory cohort study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ViroSky #OA
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To: Elon Musk/DOGE
From: Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
Subject: Five Things I Accomplished Last Week (🧵)
#1. Destroyed a previously normal heart valve in an otherwise healthy 58-year-old man
From: Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
Subject: Five Things I Accomplished Last Week (🧵)
#1. Destroyed a previously normal heart valve in an otherwise healthy 58-year-old man
February 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
To: Elon Musk/DOGE
From: Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
Subject: Five Things I Accomplished Last Week (🧵)
#1. Destroyed a previously normal heart valve in an otherwise healthy 58-year-old man
From: Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA)
Subject: Five Things I Accomplished Last Week (🧵)
#1. Destroyed a previously normal heart valve in an otherwise healthy 58-year-old man
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📢 Preprint - not peer-reviewed🤞:
Development of #immunity to #StrepA in The Gambia. We assessed IgG to conserved and M protein antigens across the life course, exploring association with protection against infection:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#IDSky #Immunosky
Development of #immunity to #StrepA in The Gambia. We assessed IgG to conserved and M protein antigens across the life course, exploring association with protection against infection:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#IDSky #Immunosky
Early life serological profiles and the development of natural protective humoral immunity to Streptococcus pyogenes in a high burden setting
Streptococcus pyogenes leads to 500,000 deaths annually; many due to rheumatic heart disease in low-income settings. Limited understanding of natural protective immunity to S. pyogenes hinders vaccine...
www.medrxiv.org
February 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📢 Preprint - not peer-reviewed🤞:
Development of #immunity to #StrepA in The Gambia. We assessed IgG to conserved and M protein antigens across the life course, exploring association with protection against infection:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#IDSky #Immunosky
Development of #immunity to #StrepA in The Gambia. We assessed IgG to conserved and M protein antigens across the life course, exploring association with protection against infection:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
#IDSky #Immunosky
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Just another one for 2025 👩🔬 Great work with @stephentuffs.bsky.social and Nick Walton from @superantigens.bsky.social lab. Here is our last study focusing on the impact of superantigens within 3 S. aureus isolates from the same bacteremia patient: doi.org/10.1128/iai....
Evidence that staphylococcal superantigens promote within-patient bacterial persistence following post-operative surgical site infection | Infection and Immunity
In this study, we investigated bacterial isolates from a patient who experienced three recurrent S. aureus infections over a 4 month period following total knee arthroplasty. Genomic and phenotypic characterization of these isolates revealed that they all ...
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January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just another one for 2025 👩🔬 Great work with @stephentuffs.bsky.social and Nick Walton from @superantigens.bsky.social lab. Here is our last study focusing on the impact of superantigens within 3 S. aureus isolates from the same bacteremia patient: doi.org/10.1128/iai....
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Here's my latest research article: the impact of TSST-1 in the vagina beyond menstrual toxic shock syndrome. doi.org/10.1128/iai....
TSST-1 promotes colonization of Staphylococcus aureus within the vaginal tract by activation of CD8+ T cells | Infection and Immunity
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) is a superantigen toxin produced from Staphylococcus aureus that causes the menstrual form of toxic shock syndrome. This research demonstrates
that TSST-1 also ha...
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January 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Here's my latest research article: the impact of TSST-1 in the vagina beyond menstrual toxic shock syndrome. doi.org/10.1128/iai....