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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 2h

#BlackInMicro's Research Symposium is coming this Wedensday. Swipe left to see who's presenting. Come hear from 25 Early Career researchers from around the globe 🌎

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Black in Micro Week 2025 Early Career Research Symposium held on October 15, 2025, from 9 AM to 12 PM EST. Presenters include Katelyn Nicole Ward, Larisa Chila Kiki, Mallory Evans, Savannah Nicole Lewis, Enycé Fairbanks, and Khadijat Oluwapelumi Adefaye. It features six research presentations by early career scientists from various universities, covering topics such as drug repositioning for fungal infections, bacteriophage adaptation to silver ions, inflammasome responses to LPS, NK cell dynamics in malaria, organoid modeling of bacterial toxins, and protein disorder in Hepatitis E virus.

Early Career Research Symposium featuring Aureliana Filomena Chambal Chilengue, Hassan Abbas, Nazik Elmekki, Immaculata Chika Ede, Audrey Randall, and Justin Durunyamunwu. Topics include tuberculosis transmission analysis using reference-free clustering, gut microbiota comparisons in ulcerative colitis, fitness determinants of Phocaeicola vulgatus, wound biofilm modeling, the role of Parabacteroides distasonis in type I diabetes, and microvascular modeling in dengue virus research.

Early Career Research Symposium showcasing presenters howcasing presenters Nadia Holness, Deus Kamya, Trinity Moore, Caitlin Wiafe-Kwakye, Drea Darby, and Teni Shosanya. Topics include the role of Staphylococcus aureus in skin inflammation, the impact of Candida albicans on oral epithelial cells, the role of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron in gut inflammation, the effect of Enterococcus faecalis on colorectal cancer, the influence of Streptococcus pneumoniae on lung immunity, and the use of Escherichia coli in synthetic biology applications.

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 6h

This Thursday - Oct 16 - is COMMUNITY Day 🥳 #BlackInMicro proudly presents Dr. Adekola, Senator Shevrin Jones, Dr. Robinson & Dr. Thompson in a powerful panel. Pre-register today: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro. Donate to support: tinyurl.com/GiveBiM (links in bio)

Announcement for the "Black in Microbiology Week 2025 Panel: Empowering Your Science," scheduled for October 16, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST. Panelists include Josephine Adekola, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow; Senator Shevrin Jones, Florida State Senate; Ashley Robinson, PhD, Founder & CEO of C.H.A.N.G.E. Nonprofit Organisation; and Karl Thompson, PhD, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Director at Howard University.

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Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social · 8h

Recognition of a phytocytokine by the DEPR1-SERK2 receptor complex confers multi-pathogen resistance in wheat #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

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Remington Winter Course in Infectious Diseases @wintercourseid.bsky.social · 12d

One more month to take advantage of early-bird registration specials. 2026 agenda posting soon!

Discounted lodging is open via our group reservation hotline www.wintercourse.org

52nd Annual Remington Winter Course in Infectious Disease - Feb 8-12, 2026 in Copper Mountain, Colorado

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ISNkidneycare @theisn.org · 10h

𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬: Join GlomCon and the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time for an insightful session on
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 11h

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Resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato is linked to variety-specific proteomic changes; the CAPE1 peptide restricts Ralstonia solancearum growth in planta - Zhang et al. 🦠🍅

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Fig. 3.PR1 protein features and alignment. (A) Representation of the tomato PR1 protein domains and conserved features. SP, signal peptide; CAP, cysteine-rich secretory proteins, antigen 5, and pathogenesis-related 1 protein domain, highlighting CAP3, CAP4, CAP1, CAP2, and CBM motifs; CAPE, CAP-derived peptide (Han et al., 2023). (B) Alignment of the representative PR1 proteins across different plant species. Amino acid alignment generated from ClustalO alignment of the representative PR1 proteins from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), potato (Solanum tuberosum), pepper (Capsicum anuum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), and wheat (Triticum aestivum). Red and blue highlighted regions show the last amino acid before the putative CAPE peptide cleavage. The conserved CAPE peptide sequence is shown in red.

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