One of the worst parts about moving is knowing that your Tupperware drawer will never be that organized again

On this day in 1861, Charles Darwin was relatable.

"I am strongly against the idea that you need to devote your whole life to your career. You can have a family and a life outside physics and still be successful in your field." - career advice from 2023 physics laureate Anne L'Huillier Read more: physics.aps.org/articles/v15/84

Super interesting backstory to some awesome work! Definitely take the “thyme” to read through!

The resolution from Cryo-EM is just getting so good

Really excited about this work from the lab. Celena Gwin (they/she), together with Kuldeep Gupta, worked to understand how mycobacteria create heterogeneity in growth. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Changing our perception of microbial skin ecology!

Santa (aka my sweet grandma) brought me a microscope for Christmas! What are some cool things I should take a look at? Suggestions welcome!

Can bacterial *mechanical properties* affect virulence? YES! Excited this is finally out, led by @lttlAFM . "Soft" mycobacteria survive better within macrophages! Mechanical morphotype switching as an adaptive response in mycobacteria | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Why is my 8% SDS suddenly crashing out? Is my lab too cold?

Our notifications are blowing up with basketball tweets, but we are the Yale molecular biophysics and biochemistry account! You might want to tag Yale Men's Basketball instead 🏀 Boola boola!

Super excited to share my PhD work on 3D diffusion in live bacterial cells!

Congratulations, zgitai !! 🍾🥂

Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info and to apply, visit: molbio.princeton.edu/graduate/molbi…

Jing Yan has been named a Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution. To read more, visit mcdb.yale.edu/news/jing-yan-…

We are very excited to announce the Inaugural Quantitative Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (QFLIM) workshop at NIH in Bethesda co-organized by Jay Knutson (NIH) and Chris Combs (NIH), on November 7th, 2024. The Inaugural QFLIM Symposium will be held on the campus of NIH

A last minute addition to your summer reading list... Coleen Murphy's book, How we Age: The Science of Longevity. Murphy's lab is focused on the process of aging, which remains one of the fundamental mysteries of biology. Read an interview with the author: molbio.princeton.edu/news/2024/cole…

Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye! The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

“I have concepts of a plan” is my new go-to excuse for when I behind on writing

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…