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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 1d

Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Michael Webster @michaelwebster.bsky.social · 4d

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions

We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025

Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 4d

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions

We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025

Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · 6d

🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 11d

Major advance here for our field!!!

Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · 11d

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

#microsky

Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation - Nature Communications

ParABS systems partition chromosomal DNA and low-copy plasmids in bacteria. Here, the authors elucidate the mode of interaction between ParA and ParB and clarify how ParB stimulates the ATPase activity of ParA to drive the segregation process.

www.nature.com

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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · 11d

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

#microsky

Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation - Nature Communications

ParABS systems partition chromosomal DNA and low-copy plasmids in bacteria. Here, the authors elucidate the mode of interaction between ParA and ParB and clarify how ParB stimulates the ATPase activity of ParA to drive the segregation process.

www.nature.com

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 12d

Xindan Wang has done a lot of Hi-C for Borrelia so she/her group has that skillset.

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Renske van Raaphorst 🟥 @vrrenske.bsky.social · 12d

Jovana Kaljevic (now postdoc @tunglejic.bsky.social ) saw how extremely compact Bdello chromosomes are packed during the non-proliferative attack phase (see pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... ). GFP is excluded from the nucleoid area! 2/n

Chromosome choreography during the non-binary cell cycle of a predatory bacterium

In bacteria, the dynamics of chromosome replication and segregation are tightly coordinated with cell-cycle progression and largely rely on specific spatiotemporal arrangement of the chromosome. Where...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Renske van Raaphorst 🟥 @vrrenske.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to finally show our story of the connection between nucleoid conformation, transcription & predation in our favorite predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. 🧵 1/n

Géraldine Laloux @lalouxlab.bsky.social · 13d

📝New preprint! #MicroSky

🕰️We chart the full, synchronized lifecycle of a predatory bacterium using Hi-C, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq & microscopy.

🧬We uncover dramatic shifts in nucleoid architecture & transcription, tightly coordinated with predation.

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

Dynamics and interplay of gene expression and chromosome organization across a predatory lifecycle

The obligate predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus alternates between a motile attack phase and a growth phase inside another bacterium, during which it undergoes multiple rounds of DNA repli...

www.biorxiv.org

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 13d

Dynamics and interplay of gene expression and chromosome organization across a predatory lifecycle https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678257v1

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 13d

Very creative and clever!!!

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 15d

Dosa: A method to covalently barcode proteinsfor high throughput biochemistry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677650v1

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 15d

Dosa: A method to covalently barcode proteinsfor high throughput biochemistry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677650v1

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 14d

Many congratulations, Y and team!!!

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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · 14d

New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵

Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs

Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav!

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

Engineering Spatial Control of Bacterial Organelles

Bacteria were once thought to lack organelles, but it is now clear they confine cellular reactions using an array of membrane- and protein-based compartments. A central question, however, is how bacte...

www.biorxiv.org

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Shyamal @shyamalm.bsky.social · 15d

Ever wondered how to position organelles in bacteria? Wonder no more!
Happy to have contributed to this fantastic story from @cellforganized.bsky.social' lab.

The avenues this opens in the synthetic biology space are enormous!

Movie: Carboxysomes positioned in E. coli!

Preprint: shorturl.at/D6xVg

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Erin Goley @goleylab.bsky.social · 18d

🚨🚨🚨Calling all Caulophiles and Alpha aficionados - stayed tuned for a virtual CauloCon in early 2026. And HOPEFULLY an in person alpha meeting in 2027!! DM me or @chienlab.bsky.social w questions or to stay in the know.

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ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` you wanna hang out shoot the breeze ''

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 26d

@unibirmingham.bsky.social A nice surprise! Two Vietnamese, Two Perry prize winners from their Birmingham undergrad days, just 18 years apart, met acccidently at the Lister meeting!!!

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 27d

Cool title 🤣!!!

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 27d

On the way to the meeting as well. See you there!

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great news for Antonio whom I know!!!

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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · Aug 27

New opportunity in the lab for a research assistant (technician), to support our BBSRC and @erc.europa.eu funded project @microclockerc.bsky.social on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock. For this, we're looking for microbiology research experience #chronobiology www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...

Research Assistant (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Dodd Group, conducting cutting-edge research into circadian rhythms in bacteria and plants.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social · Aug 26

My MCDB dept is accepting applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level!

Applications Due by October 15, 2025

We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels.

lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...

MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...

lsa.umich.edu

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · Aug 24

Many congratulations!!!

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