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Antibodies from elite HIV controllers activate the ADCC immune response
Elite controllers are HIV-infected individuals who maintain undetectable virus levels even when not administered antiretroviral drugs. Understanding how the immune system of these elite controllers acts against HIV may help...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Summertime, and the living is easily filled with ticks and mosquitos
Summertime brings people closer to the great outdoors - and to arthropods that can spread disease! In this week's Bugs & Drugs, we emphasize the importance of a full patient...
ASM Communications
Is calcium the key to controlling Clostridium difficile infection?
Intestinal calcium induces C. difficile spore germination. Modulating intestinal calcium levels could prophylactically prevent a dangerous nosocomial infection.
Ada Hagan clostridium difficile
Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis - TWiM 156
The use of microbial genome mining to identify new drugs, and how a bacterial symbiont protects flies against parasitoid wasps.
Vincent Racaniello Microbiology, TWiM, Drosophila, Spiroplasma
Malaria infection decreases immune response to bacterial infection
Children with Plasmodium falciparum malaria are more susceptible to invasive infection with nontyphoidal Salmonella. A new Clinical and Vaccine Immunology report finds that the immune system of malaria-infected children has lower antibacterial...
Julie Wolf
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
When a little bit of blood won't do: detecting bacteremia
Bloodstream infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and identifying the causative organism(s) is critical. Can the most important step in this process really be as simple as...
Matthew Pettengill
Career Advice for Early-Stage Clinical Microbiologists
ASM asked six ASM members included in the ASCP's "40 Under Forty" listing of young, successful scientists,"what advice do you have for those considering a career in clinical microbiology? What...
ASM Careers
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
Honoring ASM members among the ASCP 40 under 40
Several of the American Society for Clinical Pathology's "40 Under Forty" include young, successful ASM members, and we here at Bugs & Drugs reached out to ask them about their...
ASM Communications
Living in the stomach of a cell - TWiM 155
Updates on Legionella in the Flint water supply, and how horizontally acquired biosynthesis genes boost the physiology of Coxiella burnetii.
Vincent Racaniello
Controlling Mosquito Infection by Bacterial Manipulation: Using Bacteria to…
Controlling mosquito-borne diseases comes in many formats, including manipulation of the bacterial endosymbiont found in many insects, Wolbachia. A recent Journal of Virology article reports the ability of different strains...
Julie Wolf
Valuing and Rewarding Intangible Activities in Academic Careers
The success of an academic researcher and career progression depends on quantifiable metrics like the number of grants, publications, presentations, posters, etc. However, researchers also engage in many other, less...
Adriana Bankston
Clinical Microbiology: Bugs & Drugs
C. difficile—Innocent until Proven Guilty?
Accurate diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is challenging for all involved—clinicians, laboratorians, and patients—leaving everyone frustrated. Current approaches to diagnosis of CDI prioritize either detection of the organism itself, or detection...
Nira Pollock
Living Together Brings Couples' Microbiomes Together
Couples who live together share many things: Bedrooms, bathrooms, food, and even bacteria. Microbial ecologists at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, found that people who live together significantly influence...
ASM Communications microbiome, skin, built environment
Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter
Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter - July
Public and Scientific Affairs Board minority
Advancement Paths for Bench-Level Clinical Microbiologists
Bench-level clinical microbiologists serve an important role in a clinical microbiology lab. They are often the first people to identify disease-causing pathogens, which helps medical staff with the treatment of...
Shilpa Gadwal
Coalition Letter on FY 2018 Funding for NSF
The ASM signed onto a letter, as a member of the Coalition on National Science Funding (CNSF), to Congress urging them to maintain federal investments in America’s scientific and innovation...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board Research and Development Budgets
Bioenergy Research Centers Selected for Continued Funding
Department of Energy program to exploit biomass for fuels and biopoducts expanded to 4 centers
Patrick Lacey
Multiplex Array White Paper: Clinical Utility of Multiplex Tests for Respir…
Christopher Doern and Duane Newton, members of the Public and Scientific Affairs Board, Laboratory Practices Committee authored the white paper “Clinical Utility of Multiplex Tests for Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Pathogens.” ...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board Infectious Disease Laboratory Testing, Clinical Microbiology Resources, Clinical Microbiology
ASM Thanks House Appropriations Subcommittee for NIH Funding
The ASM sent a letter to the House Appropriations HHS Subcommittee thanking them for rejecting the 22 percent budget cut for NIH research that was proposed in the President’s budget. ...
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
ASM Thanks House Appropriations Committee for NIH Funding
The ASM sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee thanking them for rejecting the 22 percent budget cut for NIH research that was proposed in the President’s budget. The...
Heather Garvey
Ben tenOever and RNA out - TWiV 450
Ben tenOever joins TWiV to discuss the evolution of RNA interference and his lab’s finding that RNAse III nucleases, needed for the maturation of cellular RNAs, are an ancient antiviral...
Vincent Racaniello Virology
Message Moderates Microbe Mortality - BacterioFiles 302
Filament-forming organisms help bacteria swim through soil and exchange genes with each other! Also, new feature: microbe of the episode!
Jesse Noar Bacteria, viruses, quorum sensing
Biofilms differ in susceptibility to antibiotics
Bacteria in attached biofilms have different characteristics than bacteria in planktonic culture, but neighbors can influence behavior too. A new Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy study reports that bacteria in biofilms...
Julie Wolf
ASM Letter of Congratulations to New CDC Director
The ASM sent a letter congratulating the new CDC Director, Brenda Fitzgerald on her recent appointment.
Public and Scientific Affairs Board
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