Today I start as an Assistant Professor as the brattonlab opens in @VUMCPathology. My group will be at the intersection of computational biology, biophysics, and microbiology as we understand, manipulate, and leverage 3D organization in bacteria. Lab website coming soon!

Latest work out from the Sabine Petry and Howard Stone collaboration by first author Ya Gai, with help from Brian Cook and Sagar Setru: Confinement size determines the architecture of Ran-induced microtubule networks - now published in Soft Matter pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

A real tour de force by PhD student Matthew Black. A comprehensive study of the rheology and development of active bacterial droplets called fruiting bodies. Check out the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2111.12623

Check out my new NFT on OpenSea! opensea.io/assets/0x495f9… via OpenSea

Ever wonder how chromosomes contribute to the formation of microtubule spindles? Check out our new preprint from Sagar Setru and Bernardo Gouveia , a fantastic collaboration with Sabine Petry and Howard Stone. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new preprint about chromosomal branching nucleation and spindle assembly!

Thrilled to have finally fireworks from their natural substrate to explain how spindles form! Congrats to Bernardo Gouveia Sagar Setru, Howard Stone, Joshua Shaevitz, and Sabine Petry in a our tri-lab, tri-departmental, tri-PI collaboration Princeton University Research

Proud to announce our new paper with @Shaevitz and @Gitai1! We show that bacteria can sense substrate stiffness and reveal an exciting link between bacterial virulence and mechanical properties of the infection site! 1/n pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A year ago we open-sourced #AlphaFold Today we're freely sharing the predicted structures of all 200M+ proteins known to science - almost the entire protein universe! It's our gift to humanity, and a demonstration of the benefits AI can bring to society dpmd.ai/AF-22-LI

What a journey! Glad to see this paper out and so happy to have worked with such a great team of scientists

I think I live in one of these

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

Carter did more to dismantle the regulatory state than any president in history. When he took office, federal agencies controlled pricing/competition in many industries: - price caps on gasoline and nat gas that created shortages - airlines needed permission to start new

under the new EO children of legal immigrants on visas are not citizens 🤔

Trump blocks NIH review. I’m on a study section to review cancer grants but received this email today: NIH has paused all communication, as directed by the new administration (e.g. cnn.com/2025/01/21/hea… ), and that apparently includes a pause for all study section meetings

The uniqueness of 6,174, also known as Kaprekar's constant x.com/i/status/18855…

"Why don't you read the books you already own before buying new books" why don't you eat all the food in the house before going shopping? That's what you sound like. That's how crazy you sound right now

Citi Bike #32606, the most-used bike in New York City, was ridden 8,624 times in 806 days (about two years and two months), averaging 10 rides daily. It covered over 7,000 miles. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

USSR: Grocery store uncut youtu.be/t8LtQhIQ2AE?si… via YouTube