Judith Berman
Candidologist. Savtah. Own views.
- Reposted by Judith BermanAs of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.
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- Reposted by Judith BermanSharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever. "We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research." elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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- Candida albicans Goliath cells pioneer biofilm formation | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Congratulations Iana and Duncan on your beautiful paper! Goliath cells could be the key to many processes that we don't understand well.
- Reposted by Judith BermanExcellent thread. If you're American, you are literally safer from violence and theft than your parents or grandparents were. But almost no one realizes that.
- Reposted by Judith BermanToday, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
- Reposted by Judith BermanI'm excited to announce our new biorxiv preprint, wherein we investigate the evolution of the weirdest genetic locus I've ever seen! Behold the tgr genes of the social amoeba, which mediate self/non-self discrimination during facultative multicellularity 🐅 🧵 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Judith BermanTo all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept @embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
- Reposted by Judith BermanExcited to report that Joy Bergelson (bergelsonlab.org) and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the Function of Evolving Systems in the summer of 2026. The 2028 one will be chaired by Mikhail Tikhonov (physics.wustl.edu/people/mikha...) and @asanchezlab.bsky.social! Stay tuned!
- Fungus among us
- Reposted by Judith Berman𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗠𝗥 Staphylococcus aureus evolves antibiotic resistance rapidly in diabetic mice, as hyperglycemia aids the expansion and takeover of resistant mutants VISA strains have a large fitness defect in control mice but not in diabetic mice ➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- doi: doi.org/10.1038/d415... How Weizmann Institute scientists are moving forward. Resiliance at its best.
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- The new reality for American academia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Judith Berman🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.
- Reposted by Judith BermanWho does that? We rented a train JUST for the conference, that will take the participants from Prague to the woods of Bohemia. There'll be talks ON THE TRAIN. In Prague we'll have 5 locations with different atmospheres. #theconferencetoendallconferences Register now: woodstock.img.cas.cz
- Nice writeup on the TAU postdoc-club kickoff--a Night Science workshop—with special guest Itai Yanai @Itaiyanai.bsky.social. Thanks to Shmunis School, Safra Bioinformatics Center, Center for AI & Data Science, and Lowy International School—all at TAU. international.tau.ac.il/postdoc-club...
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- Reposted by Judith BermanNight science is all about facilitating the import and export of ideas between scientists. Today at the workshop in Tel Aviv University we encouraged an open mind and an improvisational attitude to enthusiastically apply ‘night science’ thinking tools to our problems. 🙏 @judithberman11.bsky.social
- Thak you @itaiyanai.bsky.social for a wonderful Night Science retreat at TAU. Looking forward to continuing this Post-doc club process.
- Night science is all about facilitating the import and export of ideas between scientists. Today at the workshop in Tel Aviv University we encouraged an open mind and an improvisational attitude to enthusiastically apply ‘night science’ thinking tools to our problems. 🙏 @judithberman11.bsky.social
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- Don’t miss this wonderful Post-doc club ‘Night Science' workshop at Tel Aviv University with the amazingly creative Itai Yanai! Register now at forms.office.com/r/xVhzcHTy1t Senior PhD students are also welcome.
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- Reposted by Judith BermanCheck out my latest paper on fitness costs and benefits of hosting a killer virus if you're a yeast in the forest! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Judith Berman📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨🔬👩🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
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- A call for the United States to continue investing in science | ASM Case Reports journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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- Nice perspective in Science of work that my great collaborator and TAU colleague, Prof. Micha Fridman, an amazing medicinal chemist, who makes it possible to visualize and think more deeply about antifungal drug interactions with their fungal targets. www.science.org/content/blog...
- nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Cool! Fungi use RNAi on plants.
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- Reposted by Judith BermanOn January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and
- Reposted by Judith Berman#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵
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- Reposted by Judith BermanIf you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.
- Reposted by Judith BermanFailure is always in the background of any creative project; when the experiments are not working or the results don’t seem to make sense. But for discovery, you can’t deny yourself the permission to fail, and we should better teach failure in all its glory.
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- Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis is on the move—endemic to the SW USA, but with increasing hot, dry conditions its being found farther north! Nice story on it in Science www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
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- Reposted by Judith BermanI can’t love this more.
- Reposted by Judith BermanI have read few papers as immediately useful and important as this one on Cacio e Pepe phase behavior. Tl;dr: the starchy pasta water is absolutely critical to avoiding “mozzarella phase” arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
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- Virtual science buddies? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/s...
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- Reposted by Judith BermanExcited to share my postdoc work now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We discovered a non-genetic drug-adapted state that emerges frequently in the the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans. 1/6
- Reposted by Judith BermanCan't wait for this new meeting on drug resistance and tolerance across species and diseases. A principle revealed in one system – maybe using different terminology – could be the big new idea when imported to another! Abstract deadline in January! s.embl.org/ees25-01 @EMBO/@embl.org
