ASM Division M

Congratulations to Siva Uppalapati of the Vázquez-Torres Lab at the University of Colorado for winning the 2024 @TAMU_CPT award for best overall phage abstract! @meetsivaram @crisprcas10

Congratulations to Kevin Kim of @bollyky Lab at Stanford University for winning the 2024 @Intralytix Award for best abstract related to phage therapy applications! @crisprcas10

Congratulations to Ying-Xing Li from the Pogliano lab at UCSD for winning the 2024 Gisela Mosig award sponsored by @NEBiolabs! @lindayx79 @crisprcas10

Congratulations to Zihao Yu of the Zeng lab at Texas A&M University for winning the 2023 Gisela Mosig award sponsored by @NEBiolabs! @txresearch @TAMUBCBP

Congratulations to @microbial_maeve of @MSU_MMG for winning the 2023 @TAMU_CPT award for best overall phage abstract! Apologies for tweeting out the incorrect award title earlier.

Congratulations to @AustenLee_T of @BCMTailorLabs for winning the 2023 @Intralytix award for best abstract related to phage applications!

Young lab in Center for Phage Technology at @TAMUBCBP @TAMU_Biology seeking #postdoc #academicjobs #sciencejobs #phdjobs #AcademicTwitter @jobRxiv @ASM_DivM @theMaxwellLab @GHatfull @joeBondyDenomy @KimDSeed @phagedirectory @ASMicrobiology @AmerSocVirol @phageassembly @VoM2020

I am so proud of and excited for my lab member, Zahra Zubair-Nizami, on being chosen for the @Intralytix award from @ASM_DivM. She is giving a talk at the DivM mixer Friday 5 pm and will be at her poster Sunday! #ASMmicrobe #ASMMicrobe2022

Excited to talk about how #phages look for their targets on host surfaces, at #Microbe2022 @ASMicrobiology Come to my poster. Pretty please? Poster details follow @VirusOfMicrobes @phagedirectory @ASM_DivM @TAMU_CPT 1/3

Reminder that all are welcome to attend the ASM Division M mixer on Friday June 10, 5:00 PM in Room 103AB of @ASMicrobiology #Microbe2022!

Congratulations to @cydneyjohnson_, winner of the 2022 @NEB Gisela Mosig award for their #Microbe2022 abstract "A Mobile Plasmid Of Enterococcus faecalis Encodes An Anti-phage System". Awards will be presented at the Division M session on Friday June 10, 5 PM.

Congratulations to @CamilladeMattos, winner of the @TAMU_CPT award for their abstract "Bacterial Threat Assessment of Bacteriophage Infection is Mediated by Intracellular Polyamine Accumulation and Gac/Rsm Signaling". Awards will be presented at the DivM session on June 10, 5 PM.

Congratulations to Zahra Zubair-Nizami, winner of the 2022 @Intralytix award for their #Microbe2022 abstract "Glycoside Hydrolases Act Synergistically with Bacteriophage Cocktails and Antibiotics to Disperse and Kill Enterococcus faecalis Biofilms In Vitro".

Reminder that the journal PHAGE is accepting papers for the special issue "Phage/host combat: Phage strategies for taking over the host and host strategies for defense", edited by Deborah Hinton and Paul Turner! Submission deadline is July 1. liebertpub.com/phage

Division M is once again offering travel awards for presenters of abstracts accepted to ASM Microbe. Shoot an email to asmDivM@gmail.com with your name, abstract title and control # to make sure we include it in review!

Janssen Pharmaceutical is looking for a senior scientist with phage expertise to work at its facility in San Francisco, CA. Email Dr. Mayukh Das at MDas26@ITS.JNJ.com for more information.

The journal PHAGE has released a call for papers for a special issue on phage-host combat, edited by Debbie Hinton and Paul Turner. Check it out! liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ph…

ASM Division M meeting is starting now!

@phil_huss will present "Mapping the Functional Landscape of the Receptor Binding Domain of T7 Bacteriophage by Deep Mutational Scanning" as winner of the @TAMU_CPT award for best phage abstract. 7:15 PM ET

@alitaburmeister of @Yale will present "tolC-specific Phage Selection Results in Both Evolutionary Trade-offs and Trade-ups with Antibiotic Resistance Across Eight Antibiotic Classes" as winner of the @Intralytix award for best phage therapy or application abstract 7:00 PM ET