New in JB: LB, or not to LB, Mg2+ is the question! Declining Mg2+ availability uncouples cell division from growth rate @jukebarosh BacillusBaRosh 🌪️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb… ASM JBacteriology Eds

Our work on host-generated tRNA fragments in inhibiting oral pathobiont Fusobacterium nucleatum just came on line Pu-Ting Dong The ISME Journal . The chemical modification improves efficacy at nM range. Works against clinical isolates from colorectal cancer. nature.com/articles/s4139…

Wow - bacterial quorum sensing in the news. Congrats to Bonnie and Pete! Nice combination with Alphafold scientists as well.

Fantastic news Jason! Congratulations!

Congrats to our amazing IU Colleague Xindan Wang, one of this year's IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award recipients! We are so fortunate to have such talented young colleagues such as Xindan in the Indiana Microbiology program. today.iu.edu/live/news/3155…

I had similar experiences editing for Frontiers.

I’m delighted that our paper on the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment (MuLTEE) has, at long last, been published. This paper establishes the foundations of what I’d like to work on for the rest of my career. 1/25 Free, full access link: rdcu.be/dbPA9

This is bad news.

Great representation of IU Micro members past and present!

I actually found this quite good: not nearly as hagiographic as some of the other pieces, and gives a real idea of Nei as a (scientific) person pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Looking forward to the Watanabe Symposium tomorrow (09/30) through the IU Quantitative and Chemical Biology training grant. Quantitative & Chemical Biology-Indiana University iuqcb.indiana.edu/events/watanab…

Faculty position opening in an excellent Microbiology program at U. Montreal, with former IU colleague Yves Brun Brun Lab and a growing cohort of excellent microbiologists universityaffairs.ca/jobs/job-previ…

Looking forward to the IU Biotechnology Joan Woods Lecture this Thursday (10/05, 5:20-6:20pm, BB124) from Dr. Robin Patel Prof. Robin Patel on biofilm-associated infections on prosthetic joints - also hopefully, some insights into Dr. Patel's amazing career path.

We are excited to host Pam Brown Pam Brown today for the IU Micro Retreat! Another terrific IU Micro alumnus to inspire our trainees and faculty.

Also thrilled to be joined today by our newest colleague Nicki Limoli Dominique Limoli for the 2023 IU Micro Retreat! First talk of the retreat!

An interesting piece on the benefits of cooperation in science

A historical sequence deletion in a commonly used Bacillus subtilis chromosome integration vector generates undetected ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Looking forward to a great conference!

Our new paper on pterin-dependent regulatory systems is out with Jen Greenwich 🧫🦠🧬 and our collaborators at Va Tech (Kylie Allen lab), Northwestern (Karla Satchell and colleagues at the CSBID), and Purdue (Arun Ghosh lab), & Fuqua lab alums. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2319903121

Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio