Victor J. Torres

Skin androgens regulate Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity via quorum sensing dlvr.it/TRCQqx #MicroSky

📷Jose Lemos 🇧🇷📷@josealemos A reminder that abstract submission and applications for the Streptococcal GRC/GRS are open, and the meeting is on track to fill quickly. If interested in presenting, note that early registration is important for consideration for short-talk slots.

Beyond thrilled to finally see my postdoctoral work with @Horswill_Lab published in @NatureComms. Here we report how the absence of the surface associated collagen binding adhesin causes visibly worsened skin infection. Bacterial deception at its best! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to announce the upcoming 2026 Microbial Toxins and Pathogenicity GRC and GRS meeting taking place July 12 - 17, 2026 at Waterville Valley in New Hampshire. This meeting will be chaired by yours truly and co-chaired by @SunnyShinLab grc.org/microbial-toxi…

Excited to share our study resolving the GTP-induced activation of the mu-opioid receptor-Gi complex with different agonists using cryoEM and MD simulations is live now @Nature, with additional MD sims, fluorescence work, and more! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Researchers have revealed a hidden intermediate state at the center of Src kinase function. This fleeting state is vital for rapid cell migration and T-cell activation, opening new possibilities for targeting kinases. ow.ly/HWe450XLHbg

Innate Immune Memory Meeting 2026 |Sep 23-25| Montreal, Canada. Registration and abstract submission are now open. Join us in Montreal for cutting-edge science on innate immune memory, from evolution to vaccines. Register today! event.fourwaves.com/ti2026meeting/…

nature.com/articles/s4159… Huge congrats to our collaborative team for their success achieving "Parallel stopped-flow interrogation of diverse biological systems at the single-molecule scale" rdcu.be/eS2ps An advance in experimental throughput and sensitivity that revealed unexpected results!

Excited to finally share this new paper from @TheBlanchardLab. This paper is the result of a highly productive intra- and inter-group collaboration of people studying different systems using single-molecule FRET. doi.org/10.1038/s41592…

Join us for our last seminar of the Fall semester on Friday December 5!

@UWMadisonMMI Looking forward to the visit!

Welcome to the new 2025 class of #MacFellow @macfound macfound.org/programs/award…

A community-acquired #MRSA strain emerged ~2009 in Brooklyn, New York that has become a major cause of skin infections in the US. @robulrichID & team @nyugrossman now discover a prophage-encoded methyltransferase that increases bacterial virulence by promoting biofilm formation in a mouse infection model: jci.org/articles/view/… The figure shows the effect of phage adenine methyltransferase on biofilms from mouse skin abscesses after infection with S. aureus strains empty vector or pamA, stained with DAPI (blue) and 5-methylcytosine (green).

Delighted to announce that The Vibrio Conference will be back next year! The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be held in Berlin in September 13-16, 2026. See you there Vibriologists! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/pag…

The Host-Microbe Interactions Dept. representing @StJudeResearch at the amazing Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response meeting at @cshlnews

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been named to Forbes' 2025 list of America's Best Employers for New Grads. Proud to have a workplace where new grads can excel and make a difference. ow.ly/nozt50WKgEV

Join the CHOP Microbiome Center as a Research Technician IV! We are seeking a motivated individual with hands-on experience in next-generation sequencing (NGS) to support our innovative microbiome research. careers.chop.edu/us/en/job/1017…

Our #CryoET story on how a top antimalarial drug candidate perturbs the native malarial translation machinery is out @NatureSMB🥳rdcu.be/eBbrH Massive team effort led by @leonie_anton @mehsehret @Wenjing_Cheng_ in collaboration with @DziekanJerzy @CowmanAlan #teamtomo

Our NoA just dropped for our NIGMS MIRA (R35), we are hiring a postdoc at @StJudeResearch Interested in antibiotics or covalent inhibitors then contact me at Daniel.Blair@stjude.org with a CV and cover letter. Prior work : nature.com/articles/s4158… chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

📢 Job alert! The Structural Microbiology Laboratory (albesalab.org) has two new openings! We are looking for a PhD student and a Research Technician to join our team. Project: "Structure-function studies of Type VI secretion system toxins". biofisika.org/en/join-us