And here's the setlist of amazing talks from the Joshua Shaevitz group at American Physical Society March Meeting! 🔥

I resemble that remark! 🎺

What does diffusion look like in the crowded bacterial cytoplasm? Is it as weird as people say? Check out our new preprint on 3D tracking of GEMs in live E. coli from Diana Valverde Mendez and Alp Mehmet Sunol! A fantastic experiment-theory collaboration with The Zia Lab. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super excited to share my PhD work on 3D diffusion in live bacterial cells!

Thrilled to share our preprint from my Ph.D work! A big shoutout to Joshua Shaevitz and The Zia Lab for the amazing collaboration and to my co-first author Diana Valverde Mendez.

Valuable combo of rapid 3D spt in bacteria with extended timescale coarse grained simulations. Useful and perhaps pleasantly not intuitive results about the prevalence or not of anomalous diffusion

Phages snap TFP to prevent further infection! Cool collab with labs of Lanying Zeng and Junjie Zhang TAMU BCBP, Yiruo Lin Texas A&M University, Yinghao Wu Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Official, Joshua Shaevitz and zgitai Princeton MolBio CPBF, and our lab TAMU Biology science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Check out our newest preprint: P. aeruginosa uses pilus-mediated motility to invade and disperse S. aureus biofilms, rendering Sa cells susceptible to Pa antimicrobials. Without invasion Pa restricts Sa expansion forming dense Sa colonies with altered physiology Andrea Sánchez Peña

Want to run your own session at the 2025 APS March Meeting? Help build the DBIO program by (i) leading an existing session or (ii) submitting a proposal for a new session (see links below, due 5/16). Postdocs & early-career researchers: this is a great way to get involved!

🎉 new preprint posted of potential interest, lead by talented masters student Cyril Achard: 🔥fully unsupervised 3D cell segmentation that is as good (or better) than leading supervised methods, with napari🔬 integration! 👏 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… ➕new 3D GT dataset ⬇️🧵

I’m excited to be joining PRX Life, which has the potential to be an outstanding journal in the field of biological physics. Experimentalists (!) and theorists alike, send us your most exciting work. I look forward to working with you through the review process.

How do bacteria grow and move in large groups where cells appear adhered to each other but can move freely? Using capillary forces from thin layers of water! Check out our new preprint with Matt Black, Chenyi Fei, Ricard Alert Zenón and Ned Wingreen: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share my lab’s first preprint! We found that increasing DNA binding by type IV pili in an Acinetobacter pathogen can boost its natural transformation rates by ~100-fold, demonstrating that DNA binding is rate-limiting for natural transformation. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Come join the PRX Life team!

So excited to announce our new method for multiplexed RNA imaging in bacterial cells: bacterial-MERFISH! A huge congratulations to the team of Ari Sarfatis, Yuanyou Wang, and Nana Twumasi-Ankrah! Check out the following thread or our bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) 1/12

Interested in helping us making big things happen here at Princeton? The Office of the Dean for Research is looking to hire at a senior level in research development. This is a great opportunity to work with fantastic faculty to drive important projects! main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19177/sen…

Excited to see this fantastic study in print. The Physics of Zebrafish fighting in gory detail. In time for Halloween. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstra… Greg Stephens

The Princeton Brass Band is off to the National Championships again, but we need your help! Running a world-class band, from music and instruments to rehearsal space and free concerts to our education and outreach, is not cheap. Please consider donating! raise.snap.app/donate/princet…

So happy to see this out. What a great collaboration!

Check out our new paper which describes large scale 3D simulations of M xanthus colonies. We recapitulate many features from experiments and learn some new things as well! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…