Ruth Isenberg, PhD
Microbe lover 🦠 | Microbiology PhD | Postdoc at University of Minnesota in the lab of Julia Willett | First-gen | she/her
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDHelp requested: my friend is interviewing for TTF positions at private SLACs in the US, and wants to prepare a startup package list that is fitting. Can anyone share startup $ ranges at their SLACs, so it's a reasonable number? Please RT.
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDI know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons) Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out gofund.me/5cbfe22fe
- Professor Ruth: Coming Fall 2026! I'm thrilled to announce that I have officially accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Biology Department at @macalestercollege.bsky.social! #HeyMac #NewProfessor #WomanInSTEM
- It has been my dream for so long to be a professor at a primarily undergraduate liberal arts school, and I finally get to fulfil that dream. I'm so excited for this next step in my career and look forward to working with the wonderful students at Macalester.
- I am also equally looking forward to starting up my own independent research lab studying the genetics underlying bacterial interactions!
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View full threadMy lab did a little signing ceremony to celebrate!
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDGreat profile of @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social www.the-scientist.com/postdoc-port...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDMark your calendars! #mmpc2026 The 2026 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference will be take place September 25-27, 2026 at the University of Minnesota! We are excited to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Andy Camilli. Give us a follow and watch for important information here ➡️ mmpc2026.umn.edu
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDIndependent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
- Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026. Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years. Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhD#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDAnnouncing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDPlease share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDGiving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDJob opening - pls share: The Biology Department at Worcester State University has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... .
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDGood news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
- The best part of getting a PhD alongside your sister is you get to send silly emails like this to each other
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDDid you miss the opportunity to submit an abstract to MMPC? We have extended the deadline to August 25! Please consider sharing your latest and greatest research! www.mmpconference2025.com/submit-an-ab...
- I suppose this is a good time to let y'all know @jlewillett.bsky.social and I have a new preprint out! I had a lot of fun giving a talk about this work at #Phages25 🧬🦠
- @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social secreted product web ties survival among many mouth microbes #sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhD@ruthlessruth15.bsky.social: #Streptococcus mutants can kill #Enterococcus and other G(+)’s with mutanobactin, a cyclic lipopeptide that increases cell membrane permeability #phages2025 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDThe Parker Lab at UNC Biology is hiring a postdoc to work on insect–microbe interactions. Support available for multiple years from startup; we are open to a range of project ideas. Come join us to study symbiosis in a supportive, collaborative environment! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/303...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDKenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDOne of the first #LuxSelfies (people illuminated by bacterial bioluminescence) I successfully photographed. #Micronaut and #DocMartian Ruth Isenberg...and I did not retouch her eyes. So: camera glitch or demonic entity? You decide. @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social
- Okay but for real, what are people actually looking for when they ask you to identify your ethnicity/race? Whenever I can only select one (which is silly) I at least want to select the option that is closest to what the asker is looking for.
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDWe found that many bacterial species use exogenous peptidoglycan fragments - released by lysis of neighboring cells - as a general danger signal, triggering a danger response that protects bacteria against many dangers: biofilm formation. Details here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Today I learned how to wrangle C. elegans! I can confirm that they do a lot of wiggling back and forth. But I love them ❤️🪱
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhD🚨 Attention #teamtomo PhD students! 🚨 12-week paid internship opportunity at Genentech. Want to see how we use cryoET in pharma? And spend the summer 2025 in the Bay Area? Details and application link here: roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/ROG-A2O-GENE...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDHi BlueSky friends! Postdoc(s) available in my lab! Multiple projects on how bacterial genomic and functional diversity impacts microbial interactions & disease. 🦠🧫 See www.thelewinlab.com/join-us/post... for more information. Please RT & share. #Postdoc #Microbiology #OralMicro #VaginalMicro
- I'm so happy that this paper is finally published! This one was a long time coming: 9 years, 3 pairs of hands, 270 strains, 93 plasmids, and a lot of hard work. It started as a side project that eventually led to my entire dissertation, and I'm glad it did.
- Superb #mSystemsJ by @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social et al from @markjmandel.bsky.social Functional analysis of cyclic diguanylate-modulating proteins in Vibrio fischeri "protein OE to systematically characterize the functional potential of all 50 V.fischeri proteins"❗️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Shout outs to Jing Gao for starting the project with her cloning prowess, @chanholschbach.bsky.social for taking it across the finish line after I graduated (peep Fig 3 🤠👀), and @markjmandel.bsky.social for the support and making sure it was seen through to the end.
- Thank you Delta for canceling my flight 3 hours before take-off and having no alternatives. Guess I'm driving to Madion! See y'all at #Phages2024 😅
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDThursday: another episode of #MattersMicrobial! Episode #48 is with the great Mark Mandel. He discusses the work he and his colleagues do with the beautiful squid-Vibrio sysmbiosis. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @microbe.tv @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology youtu.be/6V61a92LoGs?...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDA Label-Free Approach for Relative Spatial Quantitation of c-di-GMP in Microbial Biofilms Anal Chem from Laura Sanchez with @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social @markjmandel.bsky.social, Fitnat Yildiz and more pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDComing to the Minnesota State Fair this year? Stop by the UMN Driven 2 Discover tent & help my lab collect Enterococcus isolates from the oral cavity! Very excited our proposal for this great outreach opportunity was just approved! 🧪🧫🧬👩🔬 Big thanks to @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social & Amanda Haeberle!
- Surprised the lab with pre-lab meeting brunch 👩🍳
- Rockstars @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social & Amanda Haeberle organized pancake day for our lab! What a great surprise! 🤗🥞🧃🥂🏆
- This is WILD. I love science.
- Scientists 🧪 were like "Hey, you know how we can get DNA into our experimental organisms using electricity? You think...we could use electric eels for that?". h They did the experiment, and the answer was hell yeah we can. WILD new paper from Shintaro Sakaki et al peerj.com/articles/165...
- Microbiology Barbie 💖
- People on this app are much nicer than on the other 😅
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDCome be my colleague! UMN Micro & Immuno is hiring 2 faculty with broad interests in bacteriology and antimicrobial resistance/drug discovery. Great campus, awesome colleagues & collaborators, lovely cities, reasonable cost of living!
- Reposted by Ruth Isenberg, PhDPlease RT, to support #BLACKandSTEM scientists. 🧪 One of the Fall #CrowdfundUCDavis projects is a fellowship for HBCU students to participate in mentored summer research @ucdavis and build a peer cohort through @CaroleHom's professional dev workshops. crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/38402
