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.