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Now out! Migrating populations of bacteria shape their own phenotypic composition to navigate through new environments. Awesome experiments by Lam Vo, Fotios Avgidis, Karah, Isabel, and Ravi. W/ Emonet Lab, Tom Shimizu AMOLF, and Barbara Kazmierczak pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our Phage infection/T6S story is finally out The EMBO Journal ! "Surface-mediated bacteriophage defense incurs fitness tradeoffs for interbacterial antagonism" Led by my wonderful team 中央研究院 Academia Sinica IMB Academia Sinica embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

Finally out! An analytical method for deriving diffusion coefficients of bacteria in disordered media, by compressing the dynamics to “surface states.” pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Join us at the Quantitaive Microbiology Symposium next Mon and Tue at Academia Sinica in Taipei! sites.google.com/view/qmicrob20…

A new theoretical model developed by #FlatironCCB scientist Henry Mattingly predicts how bacteria disperse in crowded spaces, opening the door for strategies to control their spread. Read more: simonsfoundation.org/2025/03/21/new… #science #biology

Graduates of US universities: Interested in a postdoc studying cephalopod brains, on a tropical Japanese island, well funded by the Japanese government and CZI? Apply here, and please spread the word. chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/global-sci…

We are happy to share our new preprint reporting Opto-p53, an optogenetic system that activates the p53 pathway with light! Opto-p53: A Light-Controllable p53 Signaling for Regulating p53-Dependent Cell Fate.

Excited to learn that our story on characterizing an interbacterial protease toxin is finally out PLOS Biology "An interbacterial cysteine protease toxin inhibits cell growth by targeting type II DNA topoisomerases GyrB and ParE". Led by my wonderful team 中央研究院 Academia Sinica IMB Academia Sinica

To bacterial motility fans: check out this great read! communities.springernature.com/posts/to-swim-…

A vital and very enjoyable component of my academic work is teaching students at all levels how to extend the frontiers of knowledge. So I’m pleased to announce a set of Jupyter notebook tutorials organized around our ideas for “physics of behavior”: github.com/oist/Physics-o…

Happy to share our article on engineering of motile minicells for cargo delivery Motile and Chemotactic Minicells and Minicell-Driven Biohybrids Engineered for Active Cargo Delivery | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

📢 #AcademicJobs Tenure-track faculty positions in plant biology and plant-related microbiology Intramural funding, core facilities, generous startup, and a vibrant research environment at IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) 中央研究院 Academia Sinica #Taiwan recruitment.ipmb.sinica.edu.tw 🗓️ Deadline: Aug. 31, 2025

When we came to see our destroyed labs hit by an Iranian missile, we found that a piano had survived Weizmann Institute

Seeking postdocs and/or PhD candidates to study microbial behavior and information processing using quantitative approaches. More info: sinica.edu.tw/Recruitment_Co…

Open faculty positions at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, across several fields in physics, including biophysics: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/AS/IoP/IOPF

＠KuoHuaHuang1's team used #VR to show that depth perception can enhance or suppress #zebrafish #socialbehavior under different contexts, offering insights into how the brain integrates social and depth information. Cheng-Yu Chen (Joey) Current Biology ＠IMBSinica sinica.edu.tw/en/news_conten…

Exciting news! I am launching the Lab of Polymicrobial Interaction & Evolution IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) 中央研究院 Academia Sinica! 🎉 Our brand-new website is live: labofpie.org 🥧 We’re recruiting at all levels—if you're curious about how fungi and bacteria compete and co-evolve, come join us!

Just published: Bacterial chemotaxis has always been assumed to require short-term memory. We experimentally evolved bacteria to navigate environmental gradients without memory: doi.org/10.1371/journa… Congratulations to all involved!

(1/4) I’m happy to introduce our new work led by phd student Akira Kawano (not on X), which explores social behavior as mutual prediction, quantified by the decomposition of information (PID) between the past and future of a multi-organism system: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

📢 We are hiring! The Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, is inviting applications for open-rank faculty positions in various areas of physics. 📝 Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30190 ⏰ Deadline: September 1, 2025 We're looking forward to your application!