Rachael Liesman

Clinical microbiologist, amateur baker.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@KarissaPhD convincing us that health equity starts in the clinical lab! #FirstCoast

[PASCV @thepascv]

Registration is open!! The program features practical presentations, engaging debate sessions, and professional development opportunities along the white sand beaches of Clearwater Beach, FL. Attend in-person or virtually! Register at https://t.co/o42M9fJWMb. #mvw23

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@LABRAT270 Cherry jello, grape and strawberry Nerds, and Gushers candy! The Nerds slowly melted over time which made the colonies more ‘mucoid’.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

Happy Halloween! Hoping the microbes are the least scary thing in everyone’s day! Made some edible plates to try today, for those brave enough.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@DavidCGaston Can’t ship plates. Will make you a slant. 😂

[PASCV @thepascv]

What are the challenges and limitations of implementing quantitative molecular tests? Join molecular virology laboratory experts for informal and interactive discussions around quantitative viral molecular testing at #PASCVFall22. Secure your spot today! https://t.co/LuCbdMXEig

[Morgan Pence, PhD, D(ABMM) @Morgan_morganii]

Join us at the SWACM annual meeting September 7-9 in Kansas City! We have an excellent speaker lineup. Full program and registration available at https://t.co/4Ykx4tskIy. @SWACM1 @MidwestMicrobes @DrMattBinnicker @ali_eberly @MMBhattiMD @MicroMeIanie

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

Please remember to collect at least four hot sauce bottles for optimal blood culture sensitivity! 😂🤣

[Corynn Kasap @corynnkasap]

A family member admitted to the hospital for IV antibiotics just told me the RN took "2 hot sauce bottles of blood" which is how i will be referring to blood cultures from now on.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

Not pictured: breakfast from our fantastic ID colleagues. Happy lab week and thank you for supporting the lab year-round! @KUInfectDisease @KUIDfellowship

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

Lab week treats from our favorite Infection Prevention and Control friends! Teamwork makes the dream work! @maggie_reavis @tiffany_horsley @lancescot

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

BCx pos at 4d. This org grew as a thin swarming film on a choc plate, microaerophilic, 37oC.
H. cinaedi is an enterohepatic helicobacter. These organisms are zoonoses and can rarely cause bacteremia, usually in immunocompromised patients.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

Look at these tiny squiggles!
Helicobacter cinaedi from a blood cx
Spirals or gull wings on BCx Gram? Incubate microaerophilic at 42 AND 37oC. Helicobacter and some Campy only grow at 37.
#MicroRounds

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

Found my new intro slide for mycology med school lectures!

[JClinMicro EIC @JClinMicro]

Fun Classifying Fungal Infections: a Micro-Comic Strip

@ASMicrobiology @BurnhamBugDoc @EBabady

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@ElliTheelPhD @SJLovesMicro @MicrobeNat Can’t wait!!

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@DrMattBinnicker @KarissaPhD @KatherineJWu Everything I know about clinical virology, I learned from @DrMattBinnicker, @EmilyFern5 and the rest of the incredible Mayo clinical virology team.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

👇👇👇THIS. Every. Day.

[Katherine J. Wu, Ph.D. @KatherineJWu]

In interviews, so many people told me they loved their jobs. It broke their hearts not to be able to deliver super-fast tests to every single person who wants one. They said they handled every sample because each one was a life: a person's safety, comfort, health. 5/

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

We soldier on "out of sheer will of not wanting to be beaten by this"
Ain't that the truth...

Thanks to the hardworking resilient tired lab professionals who have been at this 24/7 since March.
And thanks @KatherineJWu for seeing and telling this story
https://t.co/FWUrDuKFaJ

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@SBtotheDub @richdavisphd OMG I remember the panic I felt hearing him say that. We weren’t even live with in house testing at that point.

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

What is your least favorite CAP checklist item and why is it comparability testing

[Rachael Liesman @MidwestMicrobes]

@richdavisphd Me, trying to figure out if the aliquot tubes we just bought will fit on the instrument after the previous 6 we’ve used are all unavailable due to backorders: