Quorum sensing seems to have a small but real effect on curvature in late exponential phase but no known QS system is required for the full dynamic range of curvature

The Vibrios evolved a curvature-inducing module that circumvents the cytoskeleton and curves diverse Gram-negatives! Check out the story in our pre-print with Edith Blackman, Benjamin Bratton, and Thomas M Bartlett biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Among the cool things that Pseudomonas aeruginosa does is make a small molecule that disperses Pseudomonas aeruginosa off surfaces. Robert (not on twitter) led a great collaboration between the labs of zgitai and Mohamed Donia. See the preprint at biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited for a great week of talks at #BlackInMicro!

I've used heterologous protein expression a lot during my PhD, but I have to say this is my favorite application so far

I'm excited to present our new paper showing that a surprisingly simple module can induce cell shape complexity in a bunch of different bugs! Thanks to my co-authors for making this paper possible.

Today I start as an Assistant Professor as the brattonlab opens in @VUMCPathology. My group will be at the intersection of computational biology, biophysics, and microbiology as we understand, manipulate, and leverage 3D organization in bacteria. Lab website coming soon!

Today I defended my PhD thesis. It took me about 10,000 bacterial cultures to get here and I have a big ol' ball of tube labels to prove it! Thanks to all the awesome people in my life to helped me get here, especially zgitai for being an awesome mentor.

Bacterial DNA on the skin surface overrepresents the viable skin microbiome biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Hi #ScienceTwitter! zgitai and I are so excited to share our recent preprint with everyone! In this paper, we used a combination of imaging, sequencing, and culturing, and discovered that the skin surface is colonized by surprisingly few viable bacteria.

Happy to announce a new preprint with Joshua Shaevitz zgitai: Pseudomonas distinguishes substrates by stiffness and tunes its virulence to substrate rigidity! Local changes in PilA concentration during TFP extension-retraction are the sensing mechanism. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wrapping up the Lillian Fritz-Laylin and Titus @MBLPhys rotations by looking at the gorgeous microscopy data from Chunzi Liu Nick Martin and manuela Starting a thread to show the setups and the shots! 1. The setup: Nikon Microscope Solutions A1 point scanner:

Who knew? @MBLPhys Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Sam Lord @A_CharlesOrszag

Our preprint on the logic of information transmission through YAP is out! Using optogenetics and live imaging of transcription we show that pluripotency factors differentially decode YAP levels and dynamics. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Weiner Lab on Day 6 of #UAWonStrike UC San Francisco. Grateful to be out here with such a supportive lab. One day longer, one day stronger! #FairUCNow 📷 pm

Those of you at #CellBio2022, stop by my poster (B52) to hear about how I'm studying the interface between cell motility and environmental geometry!

It's that time again- time to register for the Physiology summer course at Woods Hole's Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). I was an instructor last year (and will be again this year), and I can honestly say it was one of the best scientific experiences of my life.

New preprint from the lab. Love this project. Went in thinking we were studying an actin phenotype, but it turned it WASN’T ACTIN!

(1/13) We (Rikki Garner, Tati Beckford, Makaela Weeda, Chunzi Liu, Andrew Kennard, Marc, & Lillian Fritz-Laylin, and I) have a new preprint about osmoregulation! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Here’s the tweetorial & backstory:

Yesterday was the exit talk of the fantastic @JasonPTown ! We will miss you very much, the lab won't be the same without you. Weiner Lab