Excited to share the lab’s first paper! 📷📷 Hopanoid lipids in Bradyrhizobium soil #bacteria promote their #symbiosis with soybeans. Work led by postdoc Huiqiao Pan Huiqiao Pan with great work from grad student Matt Lubin and former lab tech Ashley Shim journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11…

ICYMI - Check out our review on bacterial membrane biophysics to see if your favorite bacteria/lipids got a mention 😉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Conference szn kept us apart but we’re so back 💪

🔬The Fritz-Laylin lab is hoping to hire a microscope specialist in the fall of 2024. We are seeking someone with experience in light microscopy and quantitative image analysis. EM experience would be a plus! If you are interested, please send me your CV and a cover letter.

#MBLSYM2024 is a wrap! We had a great course this year! Thank you to Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Moore Foundation and all the awesome students and instructors. If you love symbiosis, consider joining us next year!

Last chance to apply! Postdoctoral position in root nodule symbiosis @UNIL, Switzerland🇨🇭. Please RT #PlantSciJobs. Deadline: 06.09.2024. Please apply via the portal. career5.successfactors.eu/career?company…

Preprint available now for our latest project with our collaborator Noah Ollikainen at NIH on the origin of hopanoid biosynthesis, where we also discover a few new hopanoid-associated gene families. Check it out and let us know what you think! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…