Super cool chalk talk at #QBioBreakfast by Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. from Yan Biofilm Lab and Hesper Rego! Ellie images 🔬 spatial structure ⛰️ of bacteria 🦠 within mouse 🐁 intestines.

I was invited to write a review article about my PhD work on Topological solitons in chiral liquid crystals. Check it out if you love #topology and #liquidcrystal! tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/10…

Powerhouse of the brain!! 🦠🔌🧠 #QBioBreakfast Garrett Sager from Damon Clark Lab giving a chalk talk about mitochondria in neurons

#QBioBreakfast chalk talk on electron scattering by Charles Lomba, the unsung hero of Yale QBio Charles is a grad student in Alison Sweeney lab Yale EEB YalePhysicsDept

Mortality rate from breast cancer is positively correlated with obesity. Why would that be? Dong Wang from the O'Hearn group giving a chalk talk about how he models the invasion of breast cancer into white adipose tissue #QBioBreakfast

🧬💪🏻 How do proteins find their peaks on the fitness landscape? ⛰️ Brooke Emison from Purushottam (he/him) lab giving a chalk talk about generative models for protein synthesis #QBioBreakfast

#QBioBreakfast today featuring guest star Denis Titov His chalk talk is about regulation of glycolysis 🦠👨🏻‍🔬

Lucy Sullivan from Purushottam (he/him) lab giving a #QBioBreakfast chalk talk on flux balance analysis in immune cells

#QBioBreakfast chalk talk by Karthik Srinivasan from Purushottam (he/him) lab, on coarse-grainability in the microbiome

#QBioBreakfast Chalk talk by Lam Vo Emonet Lab Department of MCDB Topic: how diverse bacterial cells migrate together 🦠🏊🏻‍♂️

#QBioBreakfast featuring chalk talk from Chris Nam Yan Biofilm Lab Chris wears a theoretical/computational hat 🤠 to think about phenotypic segregation in bacterial biofilms.

#QBioBreakfast chalk talk by @00Carltonsmith from Ben Machta, on Violations of the Fluctuation Dissipation Theorem in Nervous Systems

Wouldn't you try to escape if a dragon suddenly appeared? 🐉😱 Natalia Matos from Damon Clark Lab giving a fascinating #QBioBreakfast chalk talk about how she studies the escape response in fruit flies 🪰

People are not the only ones who cheat. Viruses 🦠 do too! In his #QBioBreakfast chalk talk, Asher Leeks from Paul Turner Lab is talking about modeling the emergence of cheater viruses in natural flu infections.

#QBioBreakfast chalk talk by Karah Edmonds, a brave summer undergrad researcher Emonet Lab Karah is talking about the tug-of-war between collective behavior and individuality in a traveling wave of bacterial cells.

First #QBioBreakfast featuring a joint effort from Paul Turner Lab Postdoc Dallas L. Mould and visiting summer undergrad Emma Kane presented a chalk talk on phage-antibiotic combination therapy and environmental factors affecting phage infections. 💊🦠

Arthur MacKeith from Corey O'Hern Group giving a chalk talk on mesophyll development in plant leaves ☘️ #QBioBreakfast

Finally, the preprint on my postdoc work from the past 3 years! With mentorship from Paul Turner Lab and Emonet Lab, I developed a microscopic technique to measure attachment of viruses #phages to bacterial cells Yale Phage Center Yale QBio . biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

proud of gustavo for receiving the Excellence in Service award at the Yale Program in Physical and Engineering Biology/Yale QBio retreat! Gustavo's dedication to outreach and community-building is truly inspiring. Amazing scientist and making a real impact!

This preprint is now an official, peer-reviewed paper 🥳 Microscopic phage adsorption assay: High-throughput quantification of virus particle attachment to host bacterial cells pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Tweetorial at the other place: bsky.app/profile/did:pl…