Jay T Lennon
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Jay T Lennon
@jaytlennon.bsky.social
microbiology | ecology | evolution | biodiversity | lennonlab.github.io
Was totally blown away by this paper when it came out!

Recently though, I came across a follow up study, claiming that measure of electrochemical potential is confounded:

"spores lacking proteinaceous coat exhibited memory but did not accumulate thioflavin-T"

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Thioflavin-T does not report on electrochemical potential and memory of dormant or germinating bacterial spores | mBio
Bacillus and Clostridium spores cause food spoilage and disease because of spores’ dormancy and resistance to microbicides. However, when spores “come back to life” in germination, their resistance pr...
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December 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One of @emmiamueller.bsky.social thesis chapters is now posted on @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social:

"The Enterostat: a 3D-printed bioreactor for simulating gut microbiome dynamics" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM