Assistant Professor @wakeforestmed | Postdoc @AgaisseLab | PhD @UWyonews | MSc & BSc @itu1773 | Interested in bacterial pathogenesis
Winston-Salem, NC
Joined November 2016
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Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
🧬 We're hiring! The Dept of Microbiology, Immunology & Cancer Biology at @UVA School of Medicine is searching for a Virologist — any rank (Asst/Assoc/Full Prof), any research focus.
Fantastic department and fantastic place to live!
🔗 apply.interfolio.com/191946
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Excited to share new work from my lab showing that early-life colonization with C. difficile reshapes the developing infant gut, published today in @ScienceMagazine! This study was co-led by two truly amazing scientists: @HaiderSManzer and @_alexafluor.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Change the textbooks. Trans-splicing as a means to diversify the proteome. Many congrats to Ruaidhri Jackson and Olivia Venezia on this remarkable discovery.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
A new PAMP, a new innate immunity principle and a new preclinical application. I am so pleased to share our study on STING activation mechanisms in health and disease. Led by the fantastic Stephanie Ragland, follow the summary below for all we learned.
cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
PhD opening in my lab
@HumboldtUni
Join our DFG SPP 2389 project on bacterial biofilms & multicellularity.
Study how F-pili conjugation shapes biofilms using genetics, microfluidics & 3D imaging.
📅 Apply by 3 June 2026
🔗 hu.berlin/SPP2389-PhD
#PhD #Microbiology #Biofilms
🤖 Made with AI
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
I am incredibly honored to be selected as a 2026 Helen Hay Whitney Fellow. This fellowship will support the next stage of my research and growth as an independent investigator. I am also grateful for Ting Wang’s mentorship and support. @twang5 genetics.wustl.edu/turan-tuf…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
A Salmonella T3SS-2 mutant grows fine in spleen macrophages, contradicting tissue culture dogma (PMID:23236281). This was ignored, but adding certain carbon sources rescues growth in cultured macrophages, hinting T3SS-2 may do something different in vivo. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
WHO study lists top endemic pathogens for which new vaccines are urgently needed @WHO who.int/news/item/05-11-2024…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Host PIK3C3 promotes Shigella flexneri spread from cell to cell through vacuole formation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_micrbio
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
For night 11 of #31NightsofHalloween #MicrosCreepy
Here are some pathogenic E. coli infecting intestinal epithelial cells!
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Light-sheet imaging of biofilms at the air-liquid interface. Check out the distinct cell layers and bacteria zipping around like comets in the liquid 💫. Honored to be part of this amazing study by Raju Tomer’s lab and collaborators. Now published at rdcu.be/dTyun
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Brat summer is never ending! I’m proud to announce the release of my thesis project on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
In this paper, we unravel the mysterious roles of RickA and Sca2 in cell-to-cell spread and pathogensis during infection with R. parkeri.
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
#PLOSBiology: Salmonella Typhimurium exploits host polyamines for assembly of the type 3 secretion machinery dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Structural and functional characterization of the IpaD π-helix reveals critical roles in DOC interaction, T3SS apparatus maturation, and Shigella virulence - Journal of Biological Chemistry jbc.org/article/S0021-9258%2…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
We will soon have a 3-year open position for an engineer, funded by the@FRM_officiel, to develop a multidisciplinary approach with the aim to understand the architecture and the mechanism of action of a bacterial secretion system.
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
High-content high-resolution microscopy and deep learning assisted analysis reveals host and bacterial heterogeneity during Shigella infection
elifesciences.org/reviewed-p…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
We are hiring!
Adlilab.org has open positions (postdocs or research scientists/professors) in both wet lab and computational/bioinformatics.
The positions are for NIH-funded awards.
For more info or to apply, email [email protected].
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
The great escape: a Shigella effector unlocks the septin cage
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
The Cliffe lab is hiring a lab specialist or technician. Our current technician is leaving for grad school 👏. The post is well-suited for anyone who would like a few years of experience before grad school or for someone who would like to stay in a position for longer.
Pls RT
Volkan K. Koseoglu retweeted
Two are better than one....
Here, we show that Klebsiella pneumoniae has two distinct genetic loci for ethanolamine metabolism, each contributing to its success in the GI tract.
journals.plos.org/plospathog…
