Varsha Singh

Peeps who love Pseudomonas, aeruginosa, putida, syringae and others, get ready for 20th International Pseudomonas Conference. We meet in Chennai, India, Dec 13-17, 2026. pseudomonas.io/home Early bird registration June 1, 2026 Email: pseudomonas2026@gmail.com

Very excited to share this finding from my postdoctoral work that is now published in #ScienceAdvances. We show how the gut’s epithelium modifies enteric behaviors during nutritional adversity via distinct peptidergic signaling axes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thread ⬇️ (1/n)

Leishmaniasis is 95% fatal if untreated — yet it’s still overlooked, and media coverage is low. Our new report shows what gets decision-makers to pay attention ⤵️ wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...

Lecturer in Medical Bioscience at Nottingham Trent University. #jobs #microsky Covering topics including: Infectious disease; Clinical and molecular microbiology; Mechanisms of drug action and therapeutic innovations. Contact @jodywinter.bsky.social for full details.

What a nice review. Congratulations.

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Special thanks to Ahna Skop, Morris Maduro, and Curtis Loer for bringing so much joy to the meeting! Also, big thanks to GSA and Anne Marie Mahoney for making #worm25 happen despite the challenging times. Thank you also to USDavis for hosting us and the delicious food.

We are looking forward to the Worm Meeting 2027 and thank Suhong Xu(Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China), Kavita Babu (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), and Erik Andersen (Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, USA) for organising. #worm25

Congrats to the winners of the #Worm25 poster competition! Thanks to all students who entered (285) — such great research! Thanks to all poster judge volunteers who judged presenters (220 postdocs and faculty!) Given >1200 attendees, that’s a high % who participated in this competition!

Wanted to post a video we accidentally forgot to show at the Worm art show #worm25 from the Van Buskirk lab @cswormlab.bsky.social @baristursun.bsky.social Hope you all enjoy! youtu.be/7IMrOsmg5UY

Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay! 🦠 If you are a starter in this field, as I was until recently, here are some highly recommended articles from @natmicrobiol.nature.com that may help you understand, plan, and even improve your microbiome studies - A starter pack you might say! 😊🧵 #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

All fathers need paid time off, to be with their newborn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The flags at our EU office in New Delhi fly at half-mast today in memory of the victims of this morning’s plane crash in Ahmedabad. Europe mourns with India, the UK, Canada and Portugal. This tragedy affects us all.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

How do olfactory sensory neurons manage to express only one odorant receptor? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New review on the ecological and pathogenic versatility of P. aeruginosa: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Keith was a kind and thoughtful scientist. My memories of him as a student in the Harvard BBS program were that he was always thoughtful and even-keeled and cared about students

Several mammal species live in cold-water environments thanks to adaptations like blubber and large size. A notable exception is the sea otter—so how does it stay warm? A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis. Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

We are pleased to launch the KlebNET Genomic Epidemiology Consortium! We aim to build a public metadata repository; systematic risk framework for global genomic surveillance; and genomic epi reviews for high-impact #Klebsiella clones. Join us here: klebnet.org/klebnet-gsp-... #ABPHM25

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Small research grant 10000 GBP for social science and humanities www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Congratulations Alessio!

I hope you are attending Worm2025 in June. Please consider submitting to our awesome Worm Art Show. It is as good as the science. Submissions accepted till June 27, 2025. Started by Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social the event continues to enrich our community. genetics-gsa.org/worm-2025/wo...

Fungarium at Kew gardens. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Unexpectedly challenging conditions on Thursday, with the sun glaring, the water choppy and the dolphins non-committal, but I quite like this set of one above and below the waves at the harbour entrance.

Thanks for the shout out @meera-sundaram.bsky.social ! This was such a fun project! 101 knock-ins and counting and they all had such cool and unique localization pattern and substructures!

Well here’s an exciting opportunity! Who wants to spend 5 years working on S-acylation as part of a fantastic multidisciplinary team? #acylation #cellbiology #glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB111/r...

Great to see the typeset version of this invited review out. Covers pretty much everything we know about metabolites/peptides produced by Klebsiella spp. and how they interact with the host. #microsky #microbiomesky @microbiotaandhost.bsky.social doi.org/10.1530/MAH-...

Maps are everywhere in the brain...and finally we've discovered one in the nose! Led by @davidhbrann.bsky.social, we uncovered the logic that specifies the positions of each of the 1,000 sensory neuron subtypes in the nose and aligns their projections to the brain.👇👃see more details below👃👇

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, who founded an art centre for Indigenous artists #WomensArt

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Now We’re 🦠 🦠 🦠 Talkin’ ‼️ NPR Science Friday Microbiologist Bonnie Bassler has been studying these questions for more than 30 years. She talks with Host Flora Lichtman about the wild world of bacterial communication, and how understanding microbes could help us understand ourselves.

With so much cool microbiology happening all around us, the editors of Nature Microbiology have decided to highlight their weekly pick of interesting microbiology published in other journals as #NatureMicroPicks! #MicroSky 🦠

#NatureMicroPicks Friendly fungus! A fungal isolation chip helped identify a human gut symbiotic fungus Fusarium foetens, which produces metabolites that alleviate fatty liver disease in mice. 🍄🐀 Published in @science.org #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Chicken Lips #Fungus at my hometown in #newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #mushroom Pic from a few years ago in August.

Bloom by Fithie burn in Dundee. #bloomscrolling

Highlights how the AMR crisis is also a cancer research issue Redirecting just a tiny fraction of cancer research funding to AMR would be transformative

The gut-brain axis mechanism of normal appetite induced by kynurenic acid | Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Spring! #bloomscrolling

Enjoyed this thread on multigenic and complex nature of human traits. Thanks for interesting examples.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW ISSUE ALERT!!! Check out the new Research Papers, Review, Perspective and Outlook Articles online now at Genes & Development. Click on the link for more: ➡️ genesdev.cshlp.org/content/curr...

Looking to appoint a new or experienced Postdoc to join my team. Investigating novel therapeutics targeting Crohn's disease associated bacteria. Background in Microbiology, Immunology, Biochemistry or related field. 🦠🔬 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Closing date: 31st May 2025

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant & ECR Visiting Fellowships Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb The next application deadline is 6 June Please repost to spread the word

The neuropeptide FLP-11 induces and self-inhibits sleep through the receptor DMSR-1 in Caenorhabiditis elegans www.cell.com/current-biol...