I'm super happy to be on this year's list of new American Physical Society Fellows, and I am super grateful for the people who made this possible (all but one of whom were not me). aps.org/programs/honor…. APS Division of Biological Physics American Physical Society

I am going to tell a story on Kristin ✨🔬 She joined my lab. I told her to do biofilm rheology. We had never done any kind of rheology. We didn't have a rheometer. Then I disappeared for 6 months to go on bed rest and have a baby. People like her helped me get this.

So now we are famous, for some very, very small value of famous. cns.utexas.edu/news/research/…

A team of researchers at UT Austin & other institutions have unlocked a clue about how bacteria form biofilms—an increasing danger believed to cause millions of infections every year. Vernita Gordon UT Physics npj Journals #biofilm cns.utexas.edu/news/research/…

One of the best things my students do is to prove me wrong. Here's an example. Also, Hailey Currie is great and you should recruit her into your PhD program. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Check out our latest work, led by Anna Hancock: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…!  Here, we show how changes in the mechanical properties of bacterial habitats change how resident cells grow — in a manner that can be predicted using ideas from rheology! 🦠⏳ Tweetorial follows... [1/7]

Here's a Behind the Paper piece on our recent work on bacterial mechanosensing. communities.springernature.com/posts/sticking…

Marilyn Wells and Michelle Mikesh developed this improved approach to preserving biofilm structure so that interactions with immune cells can be more clearly visualized using SEM. It is great to work with such great people. UT CBRS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/N…

We are excited to share our latest preprint , led by Tony Cordova, in collaboration with the Vernita Gordon Lab, where we introduce a novel method for observing nucleoid condensation, and subsequently identify novel proteins involved in these processes! 🤘🏾 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredibly excited for my 1st(!) first-author manuscript to be out on bioRxiv. We are very excited to share this work, & look forward to seeing it published. Big thanks to the Vernita Gordon & Jude Phillip Labs for their invaluable contributions. #whatstartshere 🤘🏾

We've been working on a cool project with Contreras Group at UT . Thank you AFOSR for supporting this! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My student Hailey was featured on APS TV for March Meeting. youtu.be/tpqKXyFSN4s?si… I'm going to miss her a lot next year.

Every time I get my teaching evaluations I get super depressed. Guess what I got today?

Very excited to have my first, 1st Author publication, officially published! Big thanks to the Vernita Gordon Lab for their invaluable contributions! This has been a very exciting journey, and I am eagerly looking forward to sharing my upcoming projects! #whatstartshere 🤘🏽

If you happen to find yourself at ASM Microbe 2024, come by posters MBP-606 (Tony Cordova) and MBP-643 (Alex Lukasiewicz) during today's sessions to learn more about the amazing work occurring in the Contreras Group at UT! #ASM #ASMmicrobe #whatstartshere 🤘🏾

We published a paper with Contreras Group at UT Tony Cordova on Deinococcus radiodurans. It's our first paper ever on this organism and I think possibly our first paper where we got to spend a lot of time thinking about circles and ellipses. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…