Delighted to share this new preprint from Anjana Badrinarayanan Anjana Badrinarayanan lab. By assessing replication dynamics at the level of single cells, we reveal the intricate relationship between nutrient status and rates of genome duplication in bacteria. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am willing to publish my two 2018 papers on the world first gene edited babies, however it must be published in either Nature or Science. It is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs in history, it deserves the honor to be published in Nature or Science.

Out today at Nature Communications In collaboration with our awesome UB colleague, Sangwoo Shin, we report how ion gradients control the formation, localization, and transport of biomolecular condensates. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy to announce that Petra will be a speaker at the TEDxTUM 2024: Still Charging TEDxTUM. Go to tedxtum.com/events/tedxtum… to find out how you can hear Petra on the important question "Can we create life? Should we?"

Geez, I 100% thought this was just science click bait.

This is really a stunning paper. Cyanobacteria exposed to shorter days (in the lab) "rewire" their membrane lipids to anticipate cold weather. When those cells are plunged into cold water, they have "two or three-times higher survival" than cells exposed to longer days.

Just returned to U-M College of LSA after an incredible year serving as a Special Assistant for Science and Education to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro at the Pentagon. I could never have predicted how transformative the White House Fellowship would be! Can’t wait to share more. #GoBlue #GoNavy 💙💛💙

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The link for the faculty position is now posted! Deadline is October 15th. Please share widely with talented scientists in your network. Come join us at UCSF! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05243

Point of View: Applied research won’t flourish without basic science doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… From leaders at the NIH! This is absolutely true and we need more support from Congress to allow for exploration and fundamental studies.

Boney and Burke putting up a wall late in the first set! #GoBlue

7-0 for Michigan Volleyball! 👏

Edel Pérez-López seriously there is NOTHING WRONG with saying that a manuscript is fine as it is and does not need further changes! I think half the problem with peer review is that we all feel under pressure to find flaws, however minor, to show we are doing our jobs.

Vecchiarelli Lab representatives at #BacNet EMBO meeting in Spain. Feeling some serious FOMO right about now.

Great collaboration DMF UNIL . Turns out that CTP is involved in activation of the integrative conjugative element ICEclc which was studied for a long time by our colleagues Jan van der Meer. Hammam Antar, PhD | همّام عنتر ...gene activation over ~50 kb distance in bacteria....

Check out Isaac Payne’s paper on FzlA conservation, now in published form! journals.asm.org/eprint/YNW7JYA…

Honored to be named a University of Michigan Collegiate Professor, and thrilled that I could name my professorship for Prof. Emerita Janine Maddock MCDB Michigan, a mentor who inspires me as an amazing scientist, educator and colleague. record.umich.edu/articles/regen…

Had a great visit at the John Innes Centre and got to learn so much exciting science there as well as from other speakers of the Early Career Microbiologists Symposium.

From MBoC Anthony Vecchiarelli determined that an invariant tryptophan is necessary for McdB to interact with and position carboxysomes. A similar mechanism occurs in two diverse bacterial cell types, both relying on the invariant tryptophan. doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E2…

Been eating yogurt for more than 4 decades now. Why do I never learn.