A proteostasis clock underlies the timing of bacterial dormancy and antibiotic tolerance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

(bacterial) chromosome segregationists take note 👇 membrane-anchoring of the 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘊 region to ensure proper daughter chromosome segregation after replication initiation – proposed decades ago but never substantiated... 👉now shown for 𝘚. 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴 by mariana pinho's lab

10 years of massive Asgard undertaking, masterly summarized!

Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Great to see this amazing resource finally published ! MicrobeAtlas - 2.4 million SSU rRNA gene sequence datasets systematically analysed against an extensive full length reference database enabling tracking of OTUs at global scales! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

We are thrilled to announce the newest study from our lab (and great collaborators) is out now in @nature.com We show that #coral #microbes are untapped "biosynthetic reservoirs", full of unique natural products. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

By combining the ecological and evolutionary analyses, we present a Heimdallarchaeia-centric model for the origin of eukaryotes, based on our expanded genomic catalogue. #eukaryogenesis 9/12

Objective method to estimate the duration of the DNA replication cycle without perturbation in Escherichia coli www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

Most importantly! Thanks a lot team! @greenwoodbritt.bsky.social , Pratixa, @hasrari.bsky.social , Carmen, Kate and Rui👏

This paper originated from a simple idea: Since we want to study SAR11 growth physiology, let’s look at how one SAR11 bacterium becomes two SAR11 bacteria, inspired by the quote from François Jacob, “The dream of a bacterium: to produce two bacteria”.

It has been such a long journey! It feels somehow surreal that in 2020 I barely knew about bacterial cultivation and flow cytometry🥹.

Funded postdoc + PhD opportunities in marine microbial ecology! Please share with folks that might be interested. Start date is flexible (fall 2025 to summer 2026) More about the lab + applying (Postdoc rolling, PhD apps due Oct/Jan): sites.google.com/uncc.edu/mic...

Bacterial symbionts enjoy their seasonal produce! Our new work shows how chemosynthetic symbionts adjust their energy sources during seasonal upwelling in the Tropical Eastern Pacific, highlighting the resilience of animal-microbe partnerships to environmental change journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

So proud of our student’s presentations at #ASMicrobe. Great to meet a bunch of new folks and talk shop with friends. See you all again soon! @astrobio-agb.bsky.social @oceancait.bsky.social

Hope to see all new and old faces🥳

Hey all - check this post if you’re at #ASMicrobe this weekend. Let’s have a meet up tomorrow for a photo op of microbiologists on @bsky.app who are at #ASMicrobe! Be there at 3 PM at the main entrance giant ASM sign! In person meetups are super fun - please be there! And plz repost!

My talk at #ASMicrobe ! Looking forward to this!

Our latest, and a tour de force by postdoc Brittany Bennett! Polyhydroxybutyrate production in freshwater SAR11 (LD12) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another genome resource from our collection- a very common freshwater bacterial group that has very few published genomes: Draft genome sequence of the BAL58 Betaproteobacteria representative strain LSUCC0117 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs