Michael Glickman

FACULTY POSITION: We are seeking an Assistant Professor to join our growing and vibrant Department of Microbiology at Cornell! FOCUS: Using bacteria to address 21st century challenges. (part of a cohort hire in SynBio). *please repost* academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33098 #MicroSky

AltORF-encoded microprotein recruits primary-ORF-encoded dehydrogenase to cell poles upon heat shock https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760973v1

Pleased to highlight our collaborative work with Derek Tan's lab at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social examining the diisonitrile chalkophore system in Mtb copper acquistion. Congrats to Pooja Pandya and all coauthors. @wcm-imp.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...

IMO the paper of the year in the gene regulation field - such a clean and clear study, showing how promoter-enhancer contacts mediate transcriptional activation. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread.

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Are you interested in how gut microbes store and use glycogen? Then I have a PhD project for you! 'The Role of Glycogen Metabolism in Survival, Adaptation and Virulence of Human Gut Microbes' warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Co-supervision with @lucyicm.bsky.social at @imibirmingham.bsky.social

Legionella effector protein installs oxo8G modification in host mRNA to promote intracellular replication. #RNASky #MicroSky www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Come be my colleague at UCSF! Our department BTS (like the K-pop band, but aka Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences) is searching for TWO new faculty members. Links, timeline, and why two searches in this thread 🧵

The Lopatina lab is opening in Vienna on Jan 2027. Recommeded!

Are you interested in the immunology of infections, tumors, or autoimmunity? Great! Come be my colleague! We have an open tenure track position for an immunologist in the Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology at UofL. Happy to answer questions. Please repost.

If you're looking for a department with exceptional science and a collegial atmosphere, please apply! Review of applications will start soon.

1/ 🧵 Two classic mitochondrial pathways the TCA cycle and OXPHOS are taught as linked but distinct pathways. I’m happy to share our new work out in @cp-cell.bsky.social showing that in Acanthamoeba they're physically linked—with a TCA enzyme incorporated in ATP synthase. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Considering a PhD in 2027? Applications for Gates Cambridge Scholarships @gatescambridge.bsky.social are now open for October 2027 PhD entry (deadline: 14 October 2026). Learn more about PhD study at the LMB: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Those who had a careful look at the methods section of our work on the #cryoEM structure of the CDK11-cyclin L-SAP30BP complex will have noticed that we added a short peptide to our sample before freezing. If you wonder why...

Yet another opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social! We are looking for an Associate Professor If you have exciting research plans, @dunnschool.bsky.social is a great place: excellent science (and lovely people, obvs) www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

👉 The Niethammer lab has two postdoctoral openings. We’re looking for researchers interested in how organelle mechanotransduction and redox signaling shape early responses to tissue injury. If interested, please reach out to me with a CV and letter of intent written in your own words (🚫 AI).

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

Please share: OHSU is hiring an Assistant Prof. in the Dept. of Chemical Physiology & Biochemistry. We are looking for a chemical biologist who will apply novel chemical tools in physiological systems. Apply online: www.ohsu.edu/human-resour... (Job # 2026-41667).

Bacteria have evolved #ubiquitin regulatory enzymes are distinct in sequence & structure from their eukaryotic counterparts - a new screening workflow established by @jnpruneda.bsky.social and collaborators allows their identification from complex bacterial samples link.springer.com/article/10.1...

TT Assistant Professor position in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease at University of Florida

Virginia Tech has TWO Assistant/Associate Professor positions open in the Department of Biological Sciences targeting fungal and bacterial molecular biologists. Join some great fungal biologists @mycorican.bsky.social and Kirsten Nielsen! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...

FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

GM-CSF signaling on monocytes and monocyte-derived dendritic cells is required for effective pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.22.753578v1

Amazing opportunity for post-doctoral researchers to move to the UK 'MOBILITY offers 6 outstanding postdoctoral researchers a 5-year opportunity to develop their own ambitious research programme at University of Birmingham' www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...

Apply today to be my colleague at Vanderbilt in the Department of Biochemistry! 

Tim Bestor has left us. This obituary captures him well — you always had to be at your intellectual peak with him, while his trainees always spoke highly of their experiences. He made a massive contribution to epigenetics, a giant in our field. www.genetics.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/memoria...

Looking for a faculty position combining research in fundamental cell and molecular biology with therapeutic discovery? Join our amazing faculty at the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32657 Apply by Nov. 15! Please share!

#MicroSky

Proud and excited to share our first preprint 🚀 in which we • create a high-fitness firewalled organism, • that stably colonizes the mouse gut for >100 days, • resists all tested phages in the gut, • and blocks horizontal gene transfer. + A new method: Chimera genomes to tailor existing synthetic

Incredible Harold Freeman, Who Helped Remove Barriers to Cancer Treatment, Dies at 93 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/h...

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My department (Biology at Emory) is hiring for a teaching track position! These are stable, well-respected, long-term positions with a path to promotion and ppl often staying for decades. The dept is wonderfully supportive and filled with amazing humans (faculty + staff) apply.interfolio.com/191814

We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu

Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Interesting article about SigD/RsdA in M. abscesus. Some over lap with TB regulon and function, but also many differences. It will be interesting to see if the proteolytic processing of RsdA is also by a Rip1 S2P. Nice work! 🦠https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1012286

Come be my colleague! Montreal is a great place to live and work! Tenure Track position at @mcgill.ca in quantitative cell biology with a research program to address fundamental questions in biology. @futurepislack.bsky.social mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

For innate T cell enthusiasts, happy to share our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We show that mycobacterial lipid–reactive CD1b-specific T cells transcriptionally resemble conventional CD4 T cells more than other innate-like T cells, challenging how we classify these T cells. #CD1b #GEM

Post-exposure prophylaxis is nearly 100% effective when it is given appropriately before symptoms begin. If your child may have been exposed, this is not the moment for vaccine hesitancy. Call your health department now if you do not want your to watch your child die a preventable death.

Three baby goats from a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina have tested positive for rabies. A fourth is presumed infected. The goats may have had contact with children and families at events across several counties. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New facets of eicosanoid signaling in TB: crosstalk with a specialized population of granuloma-associated fibroblasts. Happy to share new work led by Erika Hughes, with @charliejpyle.bsky.social and many other wonderful collaborators not on BlueSky.