Andreas Bäumler
Distinguished Professor University of California Davis
Member, NAS, AAM, Leopoldina, AAAS
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerPostdoc position available in my lab! Project will focus on how the microbiome-derived metabolite butyrate shapes C. difficile fitness and pathogenesis & will build on our previous/ongoing work in this space. Apply here: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-...
- I just leaned that my former postdoc mentor, Fred Heffron, passed away last week. I have fond memories from my time in Portland. Fred was smart, funny, and gave us the freedom to develop our own ideas. I am indebted to him for getting my academic career started in the US. Thank you and R.I.P.
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerScience: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social bit.ly/3M8yf9B
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerE. coli is the leading bacterium causing death from AMR infections worldwide. If you'd like to explore approaches to exploit the DNA damage response as alternative antimicrobial, please apply to the following PhD studentship available in my lab starting October 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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- Reposted by Andreas Bäumler#XDR Shigella is a serious, emerging global health threat. This topic is one of many we'll be discussing at #TheShigellaMeeting Registration is open! www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/registration... #AMR #MicroSky #IDSky 🔬🧫🦠
- Novel XDR Shigella strain identified in Los Angeles Researchers say the strain of XDR Shigella sonnei appears to be spreading beyond high-risk groups into the broader population, which could lead to more treatment failure. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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- Reposted by Andreas Bäumler⏰ Deadline Jan 7 (11:59 pm MST) to submit a short talk abstract or apply for a scholarship for the Keystone Symposium Beyond Antibiotics. Hear from @joeyzacks.bsky.social, @maribyndloss.bsky.social: youtu.be/8Ppjx-MnvxA keysym.us/KSBeyondAnti... @kimingeneva.bsky.social & @dariavantyne.bsky.social
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerI don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerSubmit your abstracts for ASM Microbe 2026! As a member of the Scientific Program Committee, I can vouch for great science with something for everyone! @asm.org asm.org/events/asm-m...
- Friday we lost a brilliant mind, colleague, and friend to her battle with pancreatic cancer. Those who knew her will remember Helene Andrews-Polymenis for her warmth, generosity and leadership. She will be missed by many. RIP
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerWhile everyone is hustling for the holidays, hopefully folks will have time to submit abstracts or register for #ASMMicrobe2026 in DC! Please repost!
- The art of cleaning up (Ursus Wehrli)
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerJust decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerAssistant 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
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerRegistration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
- Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerWe're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerUChicago 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 Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerUChicago 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 Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerPlease repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist Applications due Dec 1 Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerEvidence for Neolithic acquisition of the high pathogenic island by Escherichia coli followed by recent selection biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerOpen tenure track assistant- or associate-level faculty position in the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research. Great science, great facilities, great colleagues - come work with us! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674888/f...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerExcited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerOur department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
- Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic www.mdpi.com/3429378 #mdpigenes
- Ancient Origins and Global Diversity of Plague: Genomic Evidence for Deep Eurasian Reservoirs and Recurrent Emergence mdpi.com/3442038 #mdpipathogens
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerI am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerOur 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...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerHappy to see the preview @joeyzacks.bsky.social and I wrote on the excellent paper recently published by the Gibbons Lab @gibbological.bsky.social is in press! I'd encourage folks interested in bacterial pathogenesis or microbial ecology to check out the preview and the research article!
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerFaculty 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/...
- Reposted by Andreas Bäumler1/ Excited to share the first preprint from my lab! 🎉 My postdoc Paz asked how cholera toxin (CT) helps Vibrio cholerae thrive in the gut. Turns out, CT rewires epithelial metabolism toward L-lactate production—fueling pathogen growth in the small intestine during disease
- A Salmonella T3SS-2 mutant grows fine in spleen macrophages, contradicting tissue culture dogma (PMID: 23236281). This observation was largely ignored, but adding certain carbon sources rescues growth in cultured macrophages, hinting that T3SS-2 may be doing something entirely different in vivo.
- A Salmonella T3SS-2 mutant grows fine in spleen macrophages, contradicting tissue culture dogma (PMID:23236281). This was largely ignored, but adding certain carbon sources rescues growth in cultured macrophages, hinting T3SS-2 may be doing something different in vivo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerExcited to have our new mini review on Microbiome Metabolism out today in I&I as part of the @asm.org New Voices in Microbiology collection! Check it out! 🧫🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Resistance is futile! Neanderthals interbred with humans over a period of 200,000 years, in three major waves, until the last survivors were assimilated by modern humans. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerNIH wants to hear from you. No really. Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- Please use this link to nominate: asm.org/IAI-minireview
- Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...
- Meet the new Editor in Chief of mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerHappy that our manuscript showing that PgtE protease enables Salmonella to evade C3-mediated serum and neutrophil killing is published in mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... - check out the companion paper from @rtsolis.bsky.social and team, focused on PgtE in the African Salmonella strain ST313
- The study identifies 4 Salmonella isolates from teeth (i.e., likely a case of bloodstream infection) dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. Would be cool to know the serotype 🙂
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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
- The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerAlert! The abstract deadline for the Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response meeting has been extended to July 7 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...
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- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerReminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
- Science has more than doubled our life expectancy, revolutionized our quality of life, and powered unprecedented technological advancement. But can we afford to take scientific progress for granted? What happens when science funding is slashed, diversity is suppressed, and pseudoscience takes hold?
- Thanks to Hirotaka Hiyoshi and Yukako Fujinaga for inviting me to present at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Bacteriology. It was great meeting old in new friends in Kanasawa 😊
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerJust a few spots remaining for the GRC Salmonella Biology and Pathogenesis meeting to be held in August. The final program is now online. www.grc.org/salmonella-b... Apply now to hear about the latest scientific discoveries about Salmonella, meet up with old friends, make new friends......
- Reposted by Andreas BäumlerThe FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”
- We need one of these in Davis 😊
- Reposted by Andreas Bäumlerimportant historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...
- Great meeting coming up next May www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
- Fantastic line-up of speakers
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- Emerging resistance to last-line antibiotic underscores the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance.🧪🧬🦠🔬 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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- The origin of a language ancestral to both Anatolian and Indo-European peoples lies between 4400 bc and 4000 bc in Caucasus–lower Volga (CLV) people. The Yamnaya population derives about 80% of its ancestry from the CLV group. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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