Mark Mandel
Bacterial geneticist focused on microbe-animal communication. Professor UW-Madison. Messages are my personal views.
- Reposted by Mark MandelGladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Mark MandelPlease share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...
- Reposted by Mark MandelHey all, excited to share this collab w/ @shaunmckinnie.bsky.social TL;DR we combined our expertise to develop and validate a MALDI-tims platform for screening the production of isomeric small molecules (~212 Da) directly from E coli colonies in high throughput www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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- Reposted by Mark Mandel“What she told me is that (the grant) was terminated for violating guidelines that don’t exist...She told me she doesn’t even know if anyone’s working on developing the guidelines.” dailyillini.com/news-stories... #governmentefficiency
- Reposted by Mark MandelWhy rename Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to P. alloputida🦠? This is an excellent example of why taxonomic changes require caution. We shouldn't blindly follow rules while ignoring decades of established practice. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #microbiology @asm.org @microbiologysociety.org
- Congratulations to the @uwmadison.bsky.social Badgers Women's Hockey athletes headed to the Olympics! Representing multiple countries, this is the best of the USA and of Wisconsin.
- Reposted by Mark MandelExcited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social www.grc.org/microbial-to...
- Reposted by Mark MandelWe just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org
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- Save the date... The Symbiosis Gordon Conference is headed back to Tuscany June 20-25, 2027 with @ngerardo.bsky.social as Chair! www.grc.org/animal-micro...
- Reposted by Mark Mandelvery sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
- Reposted by Mark MandelThrilled to share that my first-author paper is now published in Nature Communications! 🎉 Huge thanks to my PI, Dr. Drew Bridges (@bridgesbio.bsky.social), my collaborators, and all the incredible lab members for their support throughout this project www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Mark MandelGrinnell College has openings for two 1-year term positionsto teach microbiology and immunology. More information here: apply.interfolio.com/179939
- Reposted by Mark MandelWe are hiring new faculty!! Come join our amazing community in the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine! The deadline for applications is 2/21, but applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. facultyopportunities.wustl.edu/Posting/Deta...
- Reposted by Mark MandelThe final form of my 2nd postdoc paper with the Bassler Lab! Turns out our favorite quorum-sensing phage isn’t a one-off, but rather a member of a globally dispersed family of phages that sense a universal autoinducer. #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
- Registration is open for September’s Vibrio2026 conference in Berlin! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...
- Maintaining microbiota across diverse symbiotic organs in Euprymna scolopes: Insights into shared immune responses from @nidhivijayan.bsky.social John Briseño, Oleg Simakov, @spencernyholm.bsky.social in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Reposted by Mark MandelSubmit 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...
- Reposted by Mark MandelHey all, I reached out to the PO of my NIGMS MIRA to ask if the gov't shut down, and rescheduling of study sections, might allow for some accommodation to the standard rule that PIs cannot resubmit a MIRA while their MIRA (or other RPG) is under review (waiting in scores or summary statements) 🧪
- Reposted by Mark MandelProfessor 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
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- Reposted by Mark MandelI think some folks might be happy to see this. NIGMS MIRA R35 for EI/NI has been published. PAR-26-121 files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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- Read @jtsangwrites.bsky.social's article about the squid-vibrio symbiosis in the latest @asm.org Microcosm magazine!
- New from @paczkowskilab.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Mark MandelThe new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at BIOEDGE@nsf.gov if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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- This Friday! @torreslab.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Mark MandelCryoET of microbes inside an animal organ? Yes it’s possible! Check out our new preprint showing how we did it! What an amazing collaboration with amazing scientists who made this possible!
- Nanoscale imaging of native symbiotic animal tissue using amultimodal large volume imaging pipeline for cryo-electrontomography biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Through a project at the graduate school I had the good fortune to interact with Dean Scott. She was an incredible visionary, deeply dedicated to graduate education, and also so down to Earth. She will be deeply missed. bsky.app/profile/uwch...
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- Reposted by Mark MandelRegistration 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
- Reposted by Mark MandelHey 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! apply.interfolio.com/176994
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- Reposted by Mark MandelNSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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- Karen Visick starts out the morning at #ASMBiofilms with the Costerton Award Lecture! @microklv.bsky.social
- Congratulations to Drew Hryckowian! @a-hryckowian.bsky.social
- Great profile of @ruthlessruth15.bsky.social www.the-scientist.com/postdoc-port...
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- Congratulations @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social and all!
- Agnès Vallier, @cmonegat.bsky.social , Baptiste Vierne, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , Guy Condemine, Pedro Da Silva, Xavier Jaurand, @yschwab.bsky.social , @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social , Abdelaziz Heddi, and @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/5
- Reposted by Mark Mandel🔬 Applications are now open! Join MBL’s world-renowned Advanced Research Training Courses, where scientists from around the globe come together to explore new ideas, master cutting-edge techniques, and become part of a dynamic network. ➡️Apply today: go.mbl.edu/courses
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- Reposted by Mark MandelR.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).
- Reposted by Mark MandelHeyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social. We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵💫 If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
- Reposted by Mark Mandel@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
- Reposted by Mark MandelOur lab's first paper is out! Led by Jordan Ort, we developed NextClade datasets that enable rapid H5 clade assignment via NextClade. We deployed these during the start of the H5 cattle outbreak, and we finally published the paper in Virus Evolution academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...
