Matt Barber

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Associate Professor at the University of Oregon. Microbes, evolution, and infectious disease. Dad and husband. He/him.
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Does choosing one antibiotic impact how resistance to another evolves? Short answer is yes! Was great contributing to this work led by @dralhubb.bsky.social , @blackpassiflora.bsky.social and @bethjames.bsky.social (along with others not on bluesky). www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The effect of antibiotic selection on collateral effects and evolvability of uropathogenic Escherichia coli - npj Antimicrobials and Resistancewww.nature.com npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - The effect of antibiotic selection on collateral effects and evolvability of uropathogenic Escherichia coli

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Anyone in the Boston area looking for a lab tech? I've got a ✨stellar✨ undergrad who graduated & is looking for a lab position (industry or academia). Strong background in microbio, molecular & cell bio. Was in my lab for 3yrs, including 2 summers, and did an REU and an internship. 1/2

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Evolutionary dynamics of genome structure and content among closely related bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Interesting paper looking at bacterial evolution over ~100 years - in E. coli ST131. 1 structural change per 3 core genome SNPs.

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Once again I’m here to say that @support.bsky.team needs to give people the opportunity to lock their accounts, or else we’re just going to constantly lose people to bad-faith pile-ons and then the whole place goes tumbleweeds.

Enjoying new piece by @artologica.net in my office!

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NOW OPEN (please RT): Asst. Prof. Position in Molecular Bacterial Pathogenesis or Cancer Immunology at KU Med. Ctr, KC. Details in ad below. Application deadline Oct. 1, 2024. Job link: kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-j.... Position number JR004886. 🦠 #microbiology #immunology #academicjobs

Interesting paper on mechanisms of dispersal in “non-motile” staphylococci journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Mucin-induced surface dispersal of Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis via quorum-sensing dependent and independent mechanisms | mBiojournals.asm.org Despite lacking classical motility machinery, nasopharyngeal staphylococci spread rapidly in (peri)oral and respiratory mucosa and cause cross-infections. We describe laboratory conditions for the rep...

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Talk schedule for #Evol2024 is now public: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr...

3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology 2024www.xcdsystem.com

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By gutting accreditors, a second Trump admin would remove a credible threat to state-imposed attacks on higher education, eg in Florida

We need the higher ed media to better describe what's at stake here. These are not "reforms," they're an authoritarian takeover. They're not "bold" or "sweeping," they're undemocratic and fascist. These aren't normal policy recommendations, they're a dismantling of higher education!

How Project 2025 could radically reshape higher edwww.insidehighered.com The sweeping conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration would dismantle the Education Department, privatize student loans and end all ongoing Title IX investigations. Critics say it’s a ...

Flamingo chicks for your timeline!

Happy birdday! The fabulous flamingo flock is 5 today 🦩

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We are on the look out for postdocs to join the Lieberman Lab at MIT. Areas include: -Connecting bacterial warfare to strain dynamics in vivo -Evolution and transmission of microbes in humans -Revisiting role of microbes in acne vulgaris Take a look at our recent preprints and reach out!

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Do you want to run a microbial GWAS but are put off by installing a dozen different bioinformatic tools, are unsure about best practices, and how to transform the list of threshold passing variants into a neat annotated table? Then we have just the thing for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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We thank so many of you for attending our session at #ASMicrobe on careers outside of academia. ASM has a webinar series that you might find helpful. Check it out! asm.org/Webinars/Car...

Career Pathways in Microbiologyasm.org Career Pathways in Microbiology is a 3-part webinar series that consists of virtual career panels, featuring diverse scientists in industry/biotechnology, climate change and non-academic postdocs.

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Big Bamboo Brunch

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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers www.nature.com/articles/s41... Yersinia genomes from a plague 5000 years ago:

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Reposting this thread about our new preprint since I posted it during a weekend

Excited to share a new preprint: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... In 2019 we founded 9 whole lake populations of stickleback, as part of a massive eco-evo experiment. Here, we report the first half decade of host-parasite & immune trait dynamics... (thread, 1/N)

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Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biologyaprecruit.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Happy to share our newest preprint from @anukharelab.bsky.social and my first postdoc project: biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Here, we characterized how S. aureus adapts to pyocyanin, an antimicrobial produced by P. aeruginosa. This project was started by...

Mutations in the Staphylococcus aureus Global Regulator CodY Confer Tolerance to an Interspecies Redox-Active Antimicrobialbiorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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New preprint from our lab! We found that Staph aureus evolves tolerance to pyocyanin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa via CodY mutations. Project was started by @saraalexander.bsky.social and then led by @tmartini.bsky.social who tested so many possibilities to pin down the mechanism!

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Super happy to report that registration & abstract submission for our SMBE satellite meeting (Tokyo 26-28th Nov) is now open! Abstract submission closes on 31st August Registration is open until 31st October See our website for full details including confirmed speakers: smbepangenomes.bacpop.org

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

Attempted to teach my kids basic American history before the 4th, got to the Revolutionary War. Kid 3: “Daddy were you little when that happened?” 🫠

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New paper: Antibiotic resistance mutations alter the ability of pathogenic bacteria to compete against commensal competitors. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Resistance is costly, but sometimes allows pathogen to overcome competitors Fun collaboration with Wheatley lab: @rwheatley8.bsky.social

Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade bacteria from the respiratory microbiomeacademic.oup.com Abstract. The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is a global health threat. One important unanswered question is how anti

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"After all our years of sadness, particularly over vaccines, this truly is surreal." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/h... #HIV

New Drug Provides Total Protection From H.I.V. in Trial of Young African Womenwww.nytimes.com An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.

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I'm giving a #sciart presentation this week, so I'll share some images because wowza. Petri dishes in resin by Klari Reis

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Reminder - sessions proposals are open for ASM 2025 ! asm.org/events/asm-m... Come help shape the program of what should be another exciting meeting, by making sure the topics you care about and you find critical to cover are included ! (And as usual, DMs are open if you have any questions!)

ASM Microbe | Overviewasm.org ASM Microbe 2024 showcases the best microbial sciences in the world, and provides a one-of-a-kind forum to explore everything from basic microbiology to translation and application.

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Bacterial pathogens infecting upper airways of persons with cystic fibrosis persist after treatment with latest CFTR corrector drugs. Led by Jen Bomberger's lab, we tracked patient airway microbiome pre/post therapy. Sinus populations change but pathogens persist 🧪 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Cystic fibrosis pathogens persist in the upper respiratory tract following initiation of elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor therapy | Microbiology Spectrumjournals.asm.org Highly effective modulator therapies (HEMT), such as elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI), for cystic fibrosis (CF) have revolutionized patient care and quality of life for most affected individuals...

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My department at U Bath is hiring 6 new posts in Microbiome Research! 2 x Prof; 2 x Asst/Assoc Pof; 2x Prize Fellows www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/jo...

Join the Department of Life Scienceswww.bath.ac.uk We are seeking candidates with an excellent track record of research and teaching to join our highly-rated department.

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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...

New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fallwww.nytimes.com As the virus continues to mutate, scientific advisers to the C.D.C. are urging Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.