Our own Dr. AMilcar Perez is giving a talk at the 4th Fusion conference on Bacterial Cell Biology! #Bacterialcell23

Congratulations to Irene Newton Irene Newton—elected to the Class of 2023 American Academy of Microbiology fellows! go.iu.edu/4MJE MGSA at IU 🦠 The College at IU Science @ IU Indiana University Research

My first postdoc paper is on bioRxiv! We demonstrate that sequence entanglement--in which two genes are encoded within different reading frames of the same DNA sequence--improves the evolutionary stability of high-cost genetic components. Read more here: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Congratulations to Logan Geyman for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Holly and Chase Mullins for honorable mentions! We are so proud of you all and excited to see what you do!

It is my pleasure to share our new research now out in mBio . Our analysis approach can be used to focus on phage-encoded auxiliary genes important for manipulation of many host traits. 🧵#phage #sporulation #AMG journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb….

Over the moon to share that I will be joining the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington IU Biology as an assistant professor in January 2024!!

Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding | Annual Review of Microbiology by ⁦Jake McKinlay⁩ annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

I’m happy to announce that I will join the faculty ranks at Cornell University as a Provost Faculty Fellow on Jan. 1, 2024! Super excited to continue small protein research and look forward to working with my Cornell Microbiology colleagues!

This past weekend members of IU micro had the opportunity to present their research at #ASV2023

“Evolution of a minimal cell” in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… Led by R with Brent Lehmkuhl at IU Biology J. Craig Venter Institute collaborators: Lijie Sun, Daniela Bittencourt, Kim Wise, John Glass Along with @dschoolmaster, and Mike Lynch Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

Had so much fun hosting a Holland Summer Science student this week, a program where high school students join our lab for a week!

Incredible to witness the mentor-mentee relationship develop over the week. Outstanding job Olivia Schakel and mentee! Find out more about IU's Jim Holland Programs at: biology.indiana.edu/about/outreach…

Indiana University’s Holland Summer Science Research Program (SSRP) came to glorious end, with terrific presentations by our fellows to a packed audience in the Biology Building. 1/4 The College at IU IU Biology National Center for Science Education News at IU

An exciting PhD position is available in my group to work on the evolution of multicellularity in bacteria. Tools: microfluidics, transcriptomics, mutational analyses The project is part of the SPP2389 Bacteria! Beyond the single cell! Deadline: 18.08.2023 Please RT More info👇 uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Postdoc opportunity in plant-microbe interactions at Oak Ridge National Lab jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridge-…

Bringing more #phage discussion to the superb This Week in Virology #podcast

Transitioning over

Great work of authors Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti to fully sequence the Arabidopsis NORs (adding the final missing ~9.4 Mbp of the genome), and map the positions of active and silenced rRNA genes within them, is now published, open access ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We are hiring faculty at the associate and full professor level in Synthetic Biology. Come join us at Indiana University's beautiful Bloomington campus. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22006

Come and join us at IU Bloomington IU Biology! We're hiring across academic ranks in "biohealth informatics" - broadly defined. See app page here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22094 and indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22093