Dr. Aisha Burton
@aishaburton.bsky.social
Microbiologist | Educator | Assistant Research Prof @ Cornell Micro | Studying small proteins |💛🐩💙 | burtonlab(dot)com | Views are my own
Non-science related. My baby is in the Baby of the Year competition. This is the first round to make it to the top 20. Will you vote for him??? babyoftheyear.org/2026/uche-cf...
Is Uche Okala the Baby of the Year?
One baby will appear in a national ad campaign with The Honest Company, win $25,000, and be celebrated in Variety Magazine.
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Another question #MicroSky! When presenting growth curves, do we use OD600 or A600. We are technically measuring the Absorbance so….. Let me know what you think. My lab is still new enough to implement the change before we start publishing.
Hey #MicroSky! I’m at Phages and like any great conference, cool science ideas come up. Does anyone have a lead on how I can get the E. coli Keio collection pre-mixed for a screen?? Send me a DM 🙏🏾
Currently in my last week of maternity leave. Excited to get back to work but hate leaving lil man at home.
Final call for early abstracts is tomorrow!
Jennifer Goff, PhD@jlgoff.bsky.social · 2y agoThe call for abstracts is out for ASM Microbe 2025! I am convening a session on metal homeostasis in environmental microorganisms! We have two great invited speakers lined up and room for 3-4 oral abstracts. Please consider submitting to this session!
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Since we have had a big boom to bsky let me reintroduce myself. I am Aisha Burton and a new PI at Cornell Micro. Currently on maternity leave but my two research techs are keeping the research going 🙏🏾. My lab is interested in studying small proteins and how they impact stress responses in bacteria
Here's a starter pack of Black Microbiologists. A work in progress as people are migrating over from other platforms. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/EcYiqNV
I posted this a few days ago on this site, but it was before the great Twitter Exodus of 2024. Lousy timing, I suppose... 😁 Here it is again, for all the #microsky folks who may have missed it. It's a pretty nifty story, >8 years in the making!
Kumaran Ramamurthi@ramamurthilab.bsky.social · 2y agoPhenotypic heterogeneity may be ACTIVELY generated (not just passively by stochastic gene expression) in a population of sporulating #Bacillus subtilis, says Updegrove et al. A new sporulation pathway with 2 proteins of previously unknown function... science.org/doi/epdf/10....
I’ll be there!
Ethan Garner@fleshball.bsky.social · 2y agoRegistration is OPEN for 2025 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology and Development @GordonConf and GRS. This will be oversubscribed, so register ASAP. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and discussion leaders. Apply now - www.grc.org/bacterial-ce... #MicroSky
We're having a bit of a tough quarter over at Skype a Scientist. I'm writing grants nonstop over here but won't know if it's working for a couple months. The collapse of social media has made our business model of many small donors beak. In the meantime, your support is VERY appreciated.
Skype a Scientist@skypeascientist.bsky.social · 3y agoWe serve classrooms with connections to scientists for free. We put science into people's lives with public art & pop-ups. We help scientists connect with their creativity to communicate science. We rely on YOU to do this work. Monthly support keeps us alive ❤️ www.patreon.com/SkypeAScient...
As it’s #BlackinMicro Week let me reintroduce myself: Hi!! 👋🏾 I am Aisha and a 5th year post doc at the NIH and will be transitioning to Assistant Research Professor of Microbiology at Cornell starting Jan. 1st. My research looks at how small proteins help regulate bacterial stress responses.
Enjoyed my time at the #EEJust #UNCFSTEM Celebration of African Americans in the Life Sciences.
Excited to be back organizing a new chapter of Queer Science at GaTech! Loved my team at UMN and have been missing them since moving. LGBTQ+ connections in the greater Atlanta area appreciated for help advertising <3 queerscience.lgbtqia.gatech.edu Art @dazedatmosphere.bsky.social
Philip isn’t on Bluesky yet but is hiring a postdoc 💃🏾 Email him a CV and names of 3 references.
Just found two papers use the same silver stained gel 😬 and sent it to Retraction Watch 👀
Microbiologists, as requested we have a feed: MicroSky! Use this form to sign up: forms.gle/kiPC8vDKGDZV... and then tag posts with #MicroSky (case insensitive) or 🧫 or 🦠 and enjoy! Thanks to @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social for getting this going
I think it would be cool (once I establish my lab ofc) to have a Burton lab meet up with other Burton labs.
It’s a federal holiday and the bacteria don’t care. 🥴🙂🙃
What is the first grant a new PI should apply to? DP2, MIRA, R1, Private funding, all of the above? Any thoughts?
