We are happy to announce that the 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms will be held in Portland, Oregon, from Nov 9-13, 2025. We look forward to gathering the biofilm community for what should be a fantastic meeting. See the ASM website for details. asm.org/Events/ASM-Bio…

We're still pretty excited about all the new insights gained from this scRNAseq study of Enterococcus faecalis wound infection, now up on eLife - the journal ! 🤓😎 A super awesome collaboration with Cenk Celik, Guillaume Thibault, and more. 🤠 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Mark your calendars - 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms (2025) - November 9-13. We will communicate the location for this conference in short order. #Biofilms2025

Reminder to sign up for the 2024 Streptococcal GRS and GRC!

Interactions in microbial communities can be of competitive or beneficial nature.

Kimberly Kline 🏔 and Patrick Hsien-Neng Kao explain on the #FEMSmicroBlog how two human pathogens interact and impact each other in infection sites. #FascinatingMicrobes

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PhD project - genetic dissection of the competitive interactions between P. aeruginosa and E. faecalis, a collaborative project with the fabulous Kline Lab (Kimberly Kline 🏔).
Interested? --> DM me, earliest starting date April 2024

Out today! A Comment article in Nature Microbiology on #antibiotic discovery using in vitro models that mimic in-patient conditions 🤒💊

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2023 was a (mostly) good year to us. I am so grateful to work with such a smart, inspiring, kind, and fun group of people. I can't wait to see what 2024 has in store for this team!

📚🌐Thrilled to share our newly published paper in Nature Microbiology in which we unravel how plasmids can tip the scales in microbial war and peace.🪖🦠 Big thanks to Gur's lab The Elia Lab Jens Walter Explore the threads below for key findings (1/6):
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As Jan-Willem Veening mentioned: the 2024 Streptococcal Biology GRS will be happening Aug 10-11, 2024!

We the excellent speakers Dr. Jessica Scoffield UAB Microbiology for the keynote address and mentoring session led by Kimberly Kline 🏔!

Very excited to announce the 2024 Streptococcal Biology GRC (11-16 Aug) and GRS (10-11)! Co-organized with Michael Federle Kimberly Kline 🏔 Jose Lemos 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Kristin Krohn Huse Luke Joyce

Great line up of speakers and discussion leaders!

Registration: grc.org/streptococcal-…

Happy to share this breaking story from my work in the Kline Kimberly Kline 🏔 and Chen labs! This preprint article is part of our endeavor to repurpose compounds and reprogram macrophages to treat bacterial infection. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AMR_IRG_SMART NTU Singapore Université de Genève Claudia Stocks

Excited to share the latest from Alex Smith out in mBio today!! Alex shows how Enterococci take advantage of C. diff toxin-mediated damage to thrive in the gut. Fun collaborative study with Daria Van Tyne Prentice Lab UF Ahmed M. Moustafa and team! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Happy to finally see this out in mBio . 🤩 Purine and carbohydrate availability drive Enterococcus faecalis fitness during wound and urinary tract infections. Great work from Casandra Tan and colleagues! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Happy Friday! Excited to celebrate #TGIF by sharing work led by the amazing Dr. Belle Sharon published in mBio. Come for the high quality urinary E. faecalis genomes, stay for the insights into genotypic and phenotypic differences across niches! 1/ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

The latest preprint from the lab is up. Here we asked how the cell responds when pilus biogenesis goes off the rails in E. faecalis. 😱 Come for the chaperone/protease action, stay for the WEIRD morphologies & two component system induction. 👇

Our first foray into Enterococcal-neutrophil interactions, led by brave former PhD student Patrick Kao!🤠We found that E. faecalis suppresses S. aureus-induced NETosis and promotes bacterial survival in polymicrobial infections. FEMS Microbes FEMS academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes/a…

In our ongoing efforts to understand Enterococcal pathogenesis in wound infections, we teamed up with Cenk Celik and Thibault Laboratory to dissect the host response at single cell resolution. New insights abound! 👇🤩