See our new latest pre-print for a study led by grad student Ian Reynolds, with current and former undergrads Isabel Westin and Caleb Wood in the lab. A study that goes to show how so many cell surface processes are connected to each other in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives. She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM

Latest from the lab! Analysis of everyone’s favorite regulatory mechanism in bacteria — the RF2 programmed frameshift! Likely present in the ancestor of bacteria, use of this mechanism is influenced by stop codon usage! Big congrats to @cassidyprints.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Interesting MS on Agrobacterium cooperation and antagonism as well as development of dual binary system that mitigates plant immune antagonism. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share a new publication on a collaboration with Xindan Wang and @fuquaclay.bsky.social labs. We identified and characterized naturally occurring Agrobacterium strains with fused chromosomes. Did mobile genetic elements play a role in fusion? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A day ago at this hour of the evening, I was presenting our biofilm topics at #Biofilminar… today a pistachio creme brûlée with raspberry sorbet as a treat

Proud of IU Micro for showing up in force at the Stand Up for Science rally yesterday (03/07) on a gray and chilly day in front of the statehouse in Indianapolis. Our pro-science, pro-research, pro-people, pro-fairness messsage was delivered loud and clear.

A very thorough and authoritative* overview of bacterial metallostasis (metalloregulation, trafficking, metalation) from the Giedroc and Capdevila labs! *58 figures and almost 1000 references! wow! #MicroSky

See the URL below for a great summer 2025 REU opportunity at Binghamton University in biofilm research. Let your biofilm-interested undergraduates know! www.binghamton.edu/centers/biof...

• Author accepted manuscripts (peer reviewed articles) must be made available in Pubmed Central WITHOUT EMBARGO upon the official date of publication. • Policy effective date is Dec 31, 2025 (no end date).

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds @cathleenogrady.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...

Check out the ASM 10th Conference on Biofilms Bluesky page @asmbiofilms2025.bsky.social

Happy to be switching from X to Bluesky. Looking forward to using this alternative platform to connect to the community.