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Farooq Moin Jalaluddin @farooqmoin.bsky.social · May 27

Impact of tiny anoxic pockets in #Nitrogen loss on sandy shores!!
Our newly developed #microfluidic method revealed #microorganisms on sand grains create anoxic microenvironments allowing #denitrification in well-oxygenated sands

www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-...

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Jul 12

Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social

Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...

Nature should be the model for microbial sciences | Journal of Bacteriology

Historically, our understanding of microbes has been based on laboratory cultures. Much of what we know at a mechanistic level is based on “model organisms” which are species that readily grow in labo...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Jul 7

Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT - Nature Communications

In this study, the authors show that Microbacterium deferre A1-JK, a newly isolated Gram-positive bacterium, simultaneously reduces oxygen and iron under oxic conditions, revealing unexpected microbia...

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · Jun 17

We're hiring! Do you have experience engineering yeast and using CRISPR? Jose Avalos and I are hiring a joint postdoc to work on an exciting fast-paced DARPA project with a great team at Neochromosome, Fermeate, and @joepeterslab.bsky.social

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · May 31

I made a survey over at Mastodon and found that Fusilli are mostly right-handed spirals, but about a third of the brands is left-handed.

So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of.
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#chemsky

Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · May 31

What about pasta salad? Are Fusilli enantiomerically pure? And if so, are there brands which sell D-Fusilli and others that sell L-Fusilli? Has anyone ever researched that?
#chemsky
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Andrew Bissette @andrewbissette.bsky.social · May 27

don’t worry everyone, #chemsky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we simply need to agree whether sandwiches can be "a bit chiral".

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Zach LaTurner @micronaut.bsky.social · May 6

Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in communities using ribosomal RNA barcoding

Bacteriophages (phages) facilitate gene transfer and microbial evolution in all ecosystems and have applications as tools for engineering microbiomes and as antimicrobials. Historic efforts to map pha...

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jared toettcher @toettch.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'd like to share a little bit of happy lab news in these chaotic times: a new preprint, driven by the brilliant Qinhao Cao!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Feb 10

Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences.

F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are!

🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · Jan 16

The Center for Electromicrobiology (@cemau.bsky.social) has just joined BlueSky! This is the @dg.dk Center for Excellence at @aarhusuni.bsky.social. Follow @cemau.bsky.social for news about cable bacteria!

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · Jan 13

Great way to start off 2025. Thanks to @kunjapur.bsky.social for organizing. Looking forward to the next one! #MASBN

Aditya Kunjapur @kunjapur.bsky.social · Jan 9

We're excited to hear about electromicrobiology from @electromicrobe.bsky.social who recently started his lab @princetonupress.bsky.social
#MASBN
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J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org · Dec 13

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Hawaiʻi for the first International SynBYSS Conference! It was a successful and dynamic 4 days filled with insightful science, networking and fun.

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · Dec 4

Could you please add me. Thanks for organizing

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Hiro Imachi @hiro-imachi.bsky.social · Nov 30

Why did an engineer become a researcher in biological evolution? My esteemed research partner, colleague, and friend, Masaru K. Nobu, is sharing some side stories about strain MK-D1 research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Engineering history with Asgard archaea of the kingdom Promethearchaeati - Nature Microbiology

Multiple histories converge in Masaru Nobu’s story of culturing an archaeon closely related to us eukaryotes.

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · Nov 29

The field of "biochemical genetics", as they called it.

Brian Krueger, PhD @h2so4hurts.bsky.social · Nov 29

The field of molecular biology was born in 1941 through the marriage of genetics and biochemistry. 🧪 🧬 #histSci

Molecular Biology is the offspring of biochemistry and genetics

The field of molecular biology was born in 1941 through the marriage of genetics and biochemistry.

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Nov 22

Conversation with the brilliant contemporary microbiologist and molecular biologist—HHMI and MacArthur Fellow Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University

Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing”

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Tapping into Bacterial Conversations | HHMI

Over the course of 30 years, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler has helped usher in a new branch of science centered on quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another and orc...

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