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Drew Bridges

@bridgesbio.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Department of Biological Sciences. Fascinated by bacterial decision-making. https://labs.bio.cmu.edu/bridges/

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our first paper from the lab! We find that upon exposure to lytic phages, the pathogen V. cholerae rapidly lyses, but then recovers, with surviving cells exhibiting robust biofilm formation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/4)

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · 2d

The Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon is seeking an innovative and accomplished scientist to serve as our next Department Head. Join us in shaping the future of biological sciences in Pittsburgh. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675374/h...

Head of the Department of Biological Sciences - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania job with Carnegie Mellon University | 675374

Head of the Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University 4400 5th Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 The Department of Biological Scienc...

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Anthony Shiver @anthonyshiver.bsky.social · Jul 2

A future perspective article on the next 10 years in microbial molecular biology and physiology is online now.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🧵👇

An exciting future for microbial molecular biology and physiology | mBio

The first two bacterial genomes were sequenced nearly 30 years ago (1, 2). The cost of one of those sequences, that of Haemophilus influenzae, was over 1,000,000 U.S. dollars and took multiple years (...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Apr 8

I'm delighted to share a useful FREE web-based app portal of powerful bioinformatics tools for microbial genomes and shotgun microbiome sequences!

It's called Micromics and is built by Middle Author Bioinformatics, led by co-founder @ironark.bsky.social
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Microbial Omics

A suite of bioinformatics tools for microbial genome and metagenome analysis.

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Jan 21

Congratulations to @vscooper.micropopbio.org on his election to become the next president of the @asm.org!

asm.org/Press-Releas...

ASM Announces New President-Elect and Leadership

A new President-Elect and members of ASM Board of Directors have been elected to ASM leadership. Terms for all new members of ASM’s leadership will begin July 1, 2025.

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Dec 13

Excited to host a session at @asm.org #Microbe2025 in LA. Our session is entitled, "Acting As a Unit: Regulation of Microbial Collective Behaviors From Molecules to Populations." Please join us and submit an abstract!
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20974...

#Microsky

Program Planner

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 26

Thanks @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, hope all is well!

Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 26

We anticipate that the FAP-fluorogen labeling approaches described here will enable research in diverse areas of microbiology. O2 independence combined with far-red spectral properties! Could be used to tag proteins, to label multiple organisms, or to monitor gene expression. #microsky #biofilm

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 26

Using this approach, we characterize biofilm dispersal in V. cholerae. We find that dispersal initiates at biofilm periphery and ~25% of cells never disperse. We define novel micro-scale patterns during dispersal, including biofilm compression and regional heterogeneity in cell motions (see movie).

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 26

Excited to share our latest, "Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes." @plos.bsky.social We developed a cell-labeling strategy using far-red dyes to image dense microbial communities (where fluorescent proteins often do not work well) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Nov 19

Biofilm Starter Pack on the Blue place

go.bsky.app/HF1jeCQ

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 19

Mind adding me?😀

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Nov 16

Has anyone had the time to setup a starter pack for the brave 🙌🏻 early adopter scientific journals that have migrated to BlueSky? 🧪🦠🧬💉🩻🔬🧫

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 15

Leaky ice bucket left on top of lab notebook overnight 😭

Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 13

Congratulations 👏

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 13

I would love to be included, thanks!

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · Nov 9

...and tag your own posts with #MicroSky if appropriate. it helps (=be your own algorithm 😌)

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 9

Has anyone made a microbiology or bacteriology starter pack??

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · Nov 8

Another starter pack of fine fine folks - New PIs! We're all figuring it out together! Please do (self-)nominate

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 9

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Emmy Nguyen @emmynguyen.bsky.social · Nov 8

Thrilled to have presented my research in the lab of @bridgesbio.bsky.social at three conferences this year: Bacteria and Phages, ABASM, and Rust Belt Microbiome. Grateful for the chance to share my work and connect with inspiring scientists. Can't wait to see what future conferences bring!

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Nov 8

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Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social · Nov 7

For those moving from X/Twitter, I just used this excellent tool to transfer 1000+ Followings in 5 min. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store

Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Nov 6

Endorse this outstanding essay by @hormiga.bsky.social written in 2016, republished here:

TLDR:
1. Keep up our research.
2. Teach critical thinking.
3. Advocate publicly for evidence-based decision making.
4. Build diverse and inclusive academic communities

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Being a Scholar in Trumpian times

Some thoughts about doing the right thing as an academic in an autocracy

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Feb 6

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter.

Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪

www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Bluesky is now open. Science Twitter, here’s how to use it!

The once-great science twitter is, depending on who you talk to, either dying or dead. Once a vibrant place for many discussions related to my fields of marine biology, ocean conservation, and publ…

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Drew Bridges @bridgesbio.bsky.social · Mar 6

We determine that additional pathogenic organisms also exhibit multicellular community formation in response to lysis. Given the pervasiveness of lysis in the environment, we propose that lysis sensing is a threat-agnostic mechanism by which bacteria can gauge endangerment. (4/4)