Gc Rox
Hank Seifert is a Professor at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. I'm interested in everything, particularly bacteria, but our group studies the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus—antigenic variation and functions.
- Reposted by Gc RoxPeptidoglycan architecture dictates protein interactions, tissue tropism, and arthritis in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Exciting new research from @jutraslab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen... #MicroSky
- Reposted by Gc RoxExcited 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...
- Oxford Press just sent an email to print a Reviewer Certificate. My response, "Please, this offer is tone deaf. I review as a professional duty, even though journals make money whenever I publish or read. A certificate is neither valuable nor appreciated." #AcademicSky
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- Northwestern Microbiology-Immunology Annual Faculty Dinner. Good times, good colleagues.
- Reposted by Gc RoxIt is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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- Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants url: academic.oup.com/jid/article/... @iboiko.bsky.social and Selma Metanne
- Iryna Boiko and Selma Mettane show that most gonococcal genomic sequences are from nonpiliated bacteria, even though clinical isolates are piliated. Publicly Available Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Genomes Predominantly Represent In Vitro-Derived Nonpiliated Variants: academic.oup.com/jid/article/...
- What you get if you stay in academics a long time and volunteer to participate in the important things.
- We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783
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- Reposted by Gc RoxWe're just 6 months away from @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Beyond #Antibiotics : Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection, May 2026 in Breckenridge! 👉Scholarship and short talk abstract deadlines are Jan 7! 🧐 keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
- A new article by @husonfirst.bsky.social about Neisseria Flavin pathways and pilus phenotypes : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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- Microbiology Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position in Chicago will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested, please get in touch with Hank Seifert h-seifert@northwestern.edu
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- Reposted by Gc RoxWe're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783
- Reposted by Gc RoxUChicago 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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- Opening session for the 2025 Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference.Going on with Year 31 of this great get together. @ #mmpcconference
- Reposted by Gc Rox🎙️ Job Announcement: Penn State is seeking an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in MICROBIOLOGY (any subdiscipline) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Learn more and Join the Microbiome Jubilee: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
- Postdoc position (please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert h-seifert@northwestern.edu #MicroSky
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- Postdoctoral Position (Please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert h-seifert@northwestern.edu
- Reposted by Gc RoxOur latest efforts to understand Enterococcal wound infection. In long-term collaboration with @gthibault.bsky.social, we discovered how E. faecalis makes extracellular ROS - via EET!⚡️Which in turn dysregulates host UPR to delay wound healing. Led by @aarontan.bsky.social - his videos below are 🤩!
- Reposted by Gc RoxI am really excited to see this article on basic experimental design principles published. Definitely will be mandatory reading for incoming graduate students in my lab. Maggie Wagner who led this article did an amazing job with the illustrations of basic principles www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Please contact Congress ASAP to raise awareness of this accounting plan.
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- Northwestern Micro representing at the 2025GRC MAST conference in beautiful Newport. Great science, collegial people but there’s a cloud hanging over us all. ☁️
- Reposted by Gc RoxHere's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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- Goodbye and good luck in graduate school, Kabita Kunwar!
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- Reposted by Gc RoxNEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...
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- Comprehensive reporting of issues with US science funding. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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- All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!
- Reposted by Gc RoxNorthwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
- Nice final pub from Dr. Wendy Geslewitz to finish her dissertation work. CRISPRi-mediated repression of three cI repressors induces the expression of three related Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteriophages | Journal of Bacteriology journals.asm.org/eprint/6C2IM...
- Congratulations to Eric Skaar and all of the new National Academy Members. www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
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- Congratulations to Wendy Geslewitz for defending her PhD work.
- In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third…
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- Coverage of the Stand up for Science protests is horrible. There are local news reports of individual gatherings but no national coverage I can find at NPR, WP, CNN.
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- New paper from Kathleen Nicholson and Shaohui Yin showing that natural products can inhabit piliation. doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
- Please consider communicating with your representatives and senators. No NIH study sections or NIH funding councils have met because the meetings are not published in the Federal Register. This Federal Register block has the same effect on blocking NIH funding despite a court order.
- Reposted by Gc RoxASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...
- Reposted by Gc RoxThe Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
- Reposted by Gc RoxErasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
The NIH 6 months ago, vs the NIH now. 🧵 Video 👇🏼 NIH 6 months ago. A hallway full of colorful posters profiling women and POC researchers. Shared by @amritalaxshmy.bsky.social on the bird site. 🧪
- Reposted by Gc RoxGet in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.
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- Reposted by Gc RoxAmerican health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...
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- Please contact ASM and tell them you will resign your membership if they do not restore diversity statements. They are not a government organization and their removal is volunteers and not supporting their membership or mission.
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- Reposted by Gc RoxThis account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.
- I hate to say this, but if you're submitting a new NIH proposal, consider whether you need to cite WHO data.
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