Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others

Small Things Considered
Big Things Achieved

Our group has a SEMM PhD opening in single-cell dynamics and cancer persistence:

www.semm.it/sites/defaul...

We seek outstanding candidates with cell biology expertise and practical experience in microscopy; physics&engineering backgrounds welcome.

Apply here
www.semm.it/education/ap...

Our "Growth Laws Theory Cookbook" preprint is out! 👨‍🍳👩🏼‍🍳🧑‍🍳
arxiv.org/abs/2507.19194
*Learn our hands-on recipes and create your own!*

With Ciandrini and Micali labs
@micalilab.bsky.social

Thanks to Rossana Droghetti for coordinating the heavy lift.

Our work on optimal treatment in presence of cancer persisters is out today in @prxlife.bsky.social 🎉

Alternated drug-release periods may be an advantage due to dose-dependent transition rates and slow death of persisters

journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨
A 2-year postdoc position is now open in our lab to explore the fascinating world of yeast polyploid genomes, their structure, stability, and adaptive potential.

🔗 More info here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please repost!

#Postdoc #Genomics #Yeast #Polyploidy #Evolution

Excellent opportunity for Palestinian 🇵🇸 students looking to pursue Bachelor/Master degrees

- 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities
- Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance
- €12,000/year average scholarship

Inquiry deadline is May 23

Links below, please circulate widely!

Great fun and great science at QMPE 2025 in Shenzhen! www.qmpe.net

It was fun and instructing to host you!

Just out on bioRxiv - spcg collab with Piel lab: growing mammalian cells use two independent systems — one controlling volume, one driving protein synthesis — to control macromolecular density.

Together, they restore dry mass density homeostasis.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spcg preprint with Bertotti lab and @litinice.bsky.social. It took >5y but proud to say it works—and we know why and how. μSeq infers mutation rates from deep sequencing of single clonal expansions, >10x faster than MALs. Validated in cancer organoids and in yeast.

tinyurl.com/4jmk3tkh

New spcg preprint with Bokinsky lab (Milan Lacassin), by Andrea Ripamonti. We model the competition for transcriptional resources, and explain new data on E. coli’s second messengers ppGpp & cAMP reshaping gene expression globally.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New spcg&collabs paper, by Rossana Droghetti: Model for E. coli dynamical balance of amino acid pools, ppGpp signaling, and ribosome allocation to regulate growth, explaining observed damped oscillatory feedback in response to nutrient shifts 🧫 #GrowthLaws

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We just landed from X... almost ready to post about a lot of our recent news!

See here for our old posts x.com/SPCGgroup