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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · 8d

🎃The annual Biteen Lab continues on a beautiful fall afternoon. 🎃

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · 16d

Thrilled to share our multidisiplinary work on how genome-wide DNA bridging by H-NS reshapes the stationary phase bacterial nucleoid and affects the transcriptional landscape. With Xindan Wang and @meyerroc.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Sep 29

Please do! Let me know if you’d like any additional materials or insight.

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Sep 29

One of my proudest achievements from my time as DGS was designing and implementing a mandatory prof. dev. course focused on writing in the discipline. Daisy Haas @dahaas and I wrote up our teaching approaches and course content, now out in J. Chem. Ed. #chemicaleducation pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Supporting Chemistry Graduate Students’ Academic Writing Practice through a Professional Development Course

Writing is important for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduate students to achieve milestones within their programs and for their future career aspirations. However, although STEM...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Sep 15

Lauren, Lindsay, Xiaofeng et al. coupled live-cell super-resolution microscopy with ChIPseq and Hi-C in starved E. coli to learn that the abundant protein Dps compacts DNA while only minimally affecting other nucleoid properties. XindanWang Lab & @meyerroc.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dps binds and protects DNA in starved Escherichia coli with minimal effect on chromosome accessibility, dynamics and organisation

Dps is the most abundant nucleoid-associated protein in starved Escherichia coli with ∼180, 000 copies per cell. Dps binds DNA and oxidises iron, facilitating survival in harsh environments. Dps-DNA c...

www.biorxiv.org

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Sep 11

The fall semester is in full swing! Welcome to incoming PhD students Yuhan and Lyn! Looking forward to lots of amazing biophysical chemistry. sites.lsa.umich.edu/biteen-lab/p...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Aug 5

We took a day off to enjoy the sunshine ☀️ and the Huron River! We only made a few 🤓 jokes about phase separation and condensates as we tubed in the Argo Rapids.

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jul 31

Same place, new lab photo! We hope everyone's summer is filled with great science :) 🔬🦠🥼🤓

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jul 31

No, but I need this too! @samjlord.bsky.social ?

Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jul 30

A thoughtful Current Opinion from Chris @azaldegui.bsky.social laying out how ParA-type ATPases partition DNA cargos—especially carboxysomes—in bacteria. Fun summer reading for those interested in how bacteria position their contents. @cellforganized.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lWGb4tPFp...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jul 25

Congratulations to 🎓Dr. David Fuller 🔬🦠on his successful PhD defense!

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Lab members enjoyed teaching the WISE GISE campers about fluorescence and microscopy last week—experiments included extracting chlorophyll from spinach and measuring the color with hand-held spectrometers! wise.umich.edu/k-12-familie...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Dan developed two complementary super-resolution fluorescence microscopy approaches (SMLM and SOFI) to visualize curli fibers (the major component of the E. coli biofilm) on living cells! Check out his preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jun 12

New energy in the lab! This summer, the lab feels fresh as we welcome incoming PhD student Lyn Wang, and as our three first-year PhD students (Ruochuan, Ulises, and Sam) settle in after the transition from "rotators" to permanent lab members. A lot of exciting #SingleMolecule science is underway :)

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jun 9

Belated congratulations to Sarah El-Mohri: after a year as an undergrad researcher in our lab, she's earned admission to grad school. We'll miss her, but fortunately, she's not going far: congrats, Sarah, on joining the University of Michigan Chemistry PhD program—we know you'll do amazing! #GoBlue

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congrats to Ruochuan for winning the Krimm outstanding 1st year student award in UM Biophysics!! #GoBlue

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · May 30

Congratulations to Dr. Yekaterina (Kate) Fyodorova on her successful PhD defense!🎉🎓

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · May 21

Thrilled to share our collaborative work with the Kearns Lab at Indiana University. Dan Foust quantified patterning and mobility of flagella on the bacterial surface!

Caroline Dunn et al. "Nascent flagellar basal bodies are immobilized by rod assembly in Bacillus subtilis"
doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · May 16

Congrats Xiaofeng on a terrific presentation at the Agilent Measurement Science Symposium!

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · May 4

The hooding ceremony was a chance to celebrate these 2024 🎓 graduates all over again!

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congrats to Sam Steen on a great presentation at the @umich.edu CHEMBIO Student Poster Session!

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Apr 18

In lighter news, does anyone want to see me get pied in the face for a good cause ❤️? #ProfessorLife

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

At the Tuesday #bps2025 poster session, Ulises will show how he's implemented HaloTag labeling in one of our favorite microbes: Halothiobacillus neapolitanus. See you at poster B540!

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Julie Biteen @juliebiteenlab.bsky.social · Feb 18