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Check out what ASM has done in the year since signing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… Have ideas for how the society can support the goals? We'd love to hear from you!

How does reinfection impact ongoing pathogen transmission? Using a songbird species & strains of its common bacterial pathogen, scientists find that reinfections may favor more harmful pathogen strains that can better overcome immune defenses. @mSphereJ: asm.social/2kl

L-threonine and L-serine as new players in the bioenergetics of Trypanosoma cruzi. Read more here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Stephanie Langel reflects on how 3 papers made an impact on her by uncovering critical pathways & mechanisms through which gut-derived IgA-secreting cells migrate to the mammary gland & secrete antibodies against intestinal microbes. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Luisa Berná reflects on how advances in three-dimensional genome organization have reshaped our understanding of parasite biology. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: Cell differentiation controls iron assimilation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Pengjie Hu reflects on how three works have impacted his work on the evolution of virulence, resistance, and adaptation in human fungal pathogens. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: Exploring the differential localization of protein kinase A isoforms in Candida albicans. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Meeting Highlight: First-ever ASM Global Research Symposium on Microbes in Human Health in Tsinghua, Beijing, China journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

A call for healing and unity: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… @ASMicrobiology #mSphere

A call for the United States to continue investing in science: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms… @ASMicrobiology #mSphere

#mSphere of Influence: Andrew Swafford reflects on how the simultaneous introduction to the evolution of vision, the sensory biology of chytrid fungi, and a classic paper by Vrba and Gould helped shape his thinking about sensory evolution. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: Detection of chronic wasting disease prions in the farm soil of the Republic of Korea. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: Dysregulation of lung epithelial cell homeostasis and immunity contributes to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease severity. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Ningning Liu reflects on how two papers emphasized the non-negligible role of fungi in the host and demonstrated a connection between fungi and cancer. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Miguel Chiurillo reflects on how two articles made an impact on his understanding of the complexity of the Trypanosoma cruzi kinome and the challenges to unravel it. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Lori Huberman reflects on how an article impacted her by establishing technologies that open realistic possibilities for developing high-throughput screening methods to correlate phenotype to genotype in diverse fungal species. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Jigar V. Desai reflects on how three papers made an impact on his ongoing work investigating the cell-intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of complement and studying its impacts on mucosal and systemic immunity. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere is excited to announce that Senior Editor Ira Blader will be taking the reins as Editor in Chief on July 1. Congratulations, Ira! asm.org/Press-Releases…