Interested in the mechanisms driving subcellular organization in bacteria? The Vecchiarelli lab has a postdoc position available! docs.google.com/document/d/1jH… Plz RT!

Do you want to learn about Figure Making Best Practices? Join Christopher Schmied & Jan Brocher for checklists & demo, hosted by BINA #EarlyCareer WG & members of QUAREP WG 12. ⭐March 5th, 12 - 1:30 Central Time ⭐ (1 hour seminar + 30 min Q&A) Register at: tinyurl.com/figure-making

Cells are fast and crowded places. Numbers help us make sense of them. Here are five of my favorite "bionumbers." 1. ATP synthase spins 134 times/second. That is much faster than the propeller on most piston airplanes, and about half the r.p.m. of a Boeing 737 jet engine.

My new book, "Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change" is now out. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Nice feature article just out in nature with focus on our lab's condensate tech (optoDrop, Corelet) & its application in finding treatments for disease. Thrilling to see our spinout Nereid Therapeutics & other companies moving toward the clinic! nature.com/articles/d4158…

How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… Bo Xia

Hey MI Microbiologists! Registration and abstract submission for the 2024 MI-ASM meeting taking place 4/6 in Ann Arbor is open for one more week. A great meeting-especially for trainees (and UGs!) Please RT! mi-asm.org/currentmeeting…

How do you, as an ECR or new PI, get started with peer reviewing? Start reviewing preprints. Why & how? A🧵

Taking postdoc applications till the end of March. One week left to submit. Please RT!

Postdoc position available at MSU to study #cryoEM of bacterial microcompartments and assemblies. Come science on our beast of an Arctica and soon-to-be-installed Krios/Hydra instruments. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/5181…

⚠️New preprint alert✨ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Condensate's function relies on how well it can retain a biomolecule, which is governed by diffusion. However, intra-condensate diffusion remains largely unknown, especially for RNA in RNP condensates. Here, we used full-length

From Texas to Maine, today’s #SolarEclipse2024 passed through 15 states. Here in Ann Arbor, we were lucky enough to experience 99% coverage from @umich’s Central Campus. Here’s a quick timelapse and composite taken from outside of the Michigan Union today.

Finally published! Congrats once again to co-first authors Dr. Y Hoang (Y Hoang) and Chris Azaldegui (Christopher Azaldegui)! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Wonderful to see Christopher Azaldegui and Y Hoang's experimental framework to assess biomolecular condensates in bacteria with quantitative microscopy, #superresolution imaging, and cell biology out in Nature Communications today. Anthony Vecchiarelli, it's been a wild ride! rdcu.be/dELa6

Obsessed with microscopy and looking for the next step in your career? I'm searching for a postdoc to join the Advanced Microscopy Fellowship program in my core! More information below. Please share! microfellows.hms.harvard.edu/apply/

Positioning of cellular components by the ParA/MinD family of ATPases sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It was a lot of fun convening the in-depth symposium « Decoding bacterial behavior and physiology using AI » yesterday. I will be presenting my research at 2:45pm room B303 today. Come see how we can spatially control many kinds of compartments inside bacteria! #ASMicrobe2024

It was such a pleasure convening a bacterial/archaeal cell biology session at #ASMMicrobe featuring incredible talks on bacterial/phage vesicles, carboxysome trafficking, and archaeal decision-making by The Pi Lab Emily Armbruster Y Hoang and priyanka - mind-blowing work!🤯

Hey SciTwitter! I am collecting papers and PREPRINTS for my "Building a Synthetic Cell" course this fall. Please reply with your suggestions and RT!

#Phages2024 is an excellent meeting. Can’t wait for the next one!