Kevin Whitley
@kevindwhitley.bsky.social
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Biophysicist. Lecturer at Biosciences Institute (Newcastle U) doing single-molecule microscopy in bacteria.
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kevindwhitley.bsky.social
Wow this all sounds familiar. Amen to this!
kevindwhitley.bsky.social
If international law were applied evenly, I'm pretty sure Trump and several in his cabinet would be indicted by the ICC for war crimes for what they just did.
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sergeymelnikov.bsky.social
Here, we show that bacterial ribosomes—often viewed as conserved drug targets—actually vary across species due to extensive sequence variation in their drug-binding residues. In some cases, this divergence may lead to intrinsic drug resistance in certain bacterial clades: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
kevindwhitley.bsky.social
Looks super cool! I look forward to reading it (when I actually have time...😭).
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brunlabcaulo.bsky.social
How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species". Happy to see this paper in print @natcomms.nature.com. Nice work by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al. See original 🧵, different colours, same data and conclusions.
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ceesdekker.bsky.social
We have 3 openings for ambitious postdocs or PhD students in our #CDlab - for exciting single-molecule biophysics research on nuclear pores, peroxisomes, or archaeal divisomes.

Check it out and apply: ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/

RT=nice!
kevindwhitley.bsky.social
It's super-cool work. Glad to have been a part of it! 🧬🔬
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isaacli.bsky.social
Check out our recent progress using 🧬 PAINT kinetics to decode molecular tension in super-resolution force imaging! 🔬 Great team effort from Seongho, Adam, Irving, and Kevin! 👏
#DNA-PAINT #tension #integrin #superresolution #adhesion

doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Quantitative Super‐Resolution Imaging of Molecular Tension
Quantitative tension PAINT (qtPAINT) is a new method to quantify molecular tension at super-resolution by exploiting force-dependent DNA oligonucleotide dissociation kinetics. Combining hairpin tensi....
doi.org
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seamusholden.bsky.social
Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy
42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....
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acmedsci.bsky.social
📢 We're making our largest ever investment in early-career researchers

Through #Springboard25, we’re investing £7.6m in 62 researchers to drive innovations that improve health and wellbeing 🔬

Congrats to all 2025 awardees! 🎉

👉 bit.ly/springboard2...

@thebhf.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Three people wearing lab coats and talking to each other while writing on a whiteboard
kevindwhitley.bsky.social
Thrilled to have received the Springboard Award from the Academy of Medical Sciences! (my first grant, actually!) @acmedsci.bsky.social #springboard25

We're gonna answer some key questions on the fundamental biology of TB with super-resolution microscopy. 🦠🔬
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dr-appie.bsky.social
Did you get a chance to read the thread on our new @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on SES yet?

If not, don't worry, I have something better for you!

Check out this comic by the amazing @lizahaart.bsky.social

Complete comic: communities.springernature.com/posts/are-we...

Or in this thread 👇🏾