Two preprints from my postdoc are now on bioRxiv! 1/Division of labor during bacterial warfare www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 2/Inherited flagellar structures coordinate the onset of swimming among related E. coli cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are always excited by the success of members of @dunnschool.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to Profs Emma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social and Kevin Foster on their election as members of @embo.org Both are microbiome leaders – and both are stars www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Emma Slack and Kevin Foster elected members of EMBO - Dunn School

Both researchers are leaders in the rapidly growing field of the human gut microbiome.

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👇👇👇 NEW PREPRINT ONLINE 👇👇👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #NewPreprint #Microbiology #Inflammation #GutMicrobiome

The link comes with gorillas! 😂 Persister cells surprising us by forming at peak growth rate. What does this mean for our understanding of their function? tinyurl.com/3r4f97w5 @royalsocietypublishing.org @uphoff.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social @sarandavies.bsky.social

High growth rates can promote persister cell formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Abstract. Bacterial persister cells are characterized by arrested growth and survival in normally lethal antibiotic concentrations. Observations of persist

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Big congratulations to @sarandavies.bsky.social on publishing this work from her DPhil. A dogged and determined and brilliant young scientist. And we couldn't have done it without our wonderful collaborator - @divyach.bsky.social from the @uphoff.bsky.social lab. Big team effort 🫶

Excited to share our latest work with Guanming Zhang and @stemartiniani.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com, where we uncover universal long-range structure in three distinct noisy particle systems spanning soft matter and machine learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergent universal long-range structure in random-organizing systems - Nature Communications

Noise is usually associated with disorder, but it can also generate large-scale order. Here, the authors show that three distinct systems, spanning soft matter and stochastic optimization, self-organi...

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Today's session of YBM starts in 1 hour. Join via this link: nyu.zoom.us/j/9481289609...

Young Biophysicists Meeting@youngbiophymeet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The ninth session of YBM is coming up next week. Join us for two exciting talks on Monday (2nd March 2026) at 11am (EST). Mark your calendars🗓️: tinyurl.com/29b7yk47 Zoom Meeting link: sites.google.com/view/theoret...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria @cp-cellreports.bsky.social Review by @divyach.bsky.social and @maxencevincent.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria

Noise in bacterial stress responses is often dismissed as mere randomness. While true stochasticity exists, much variation reflects hidden variables—cell state, history, and microenvironment—that are ...

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1/ With @maxencevincent.bsky.social, we ask: when single bacterial cells behave differently under stress, is it really just “noise”? Read more @cp-cellreports.bsky.social : Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...)

Submission open for the ninth YBM Meeting (deadline - 19th February)! Abstract submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

We are looking for a motivated Technical Assistant (m/f/d) with expertise in imaging and laboratory management to join the Bacterial Infection Ecology Lab @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social. Apply here (deadline: 12 February 2026): jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...

The eighth session of YBM is coming up next week. Join us for two exciting talks on Monday (2nd February 2026) at 11am (EST). Mark your calendars🗓️: tinyurl.com/29b7yk47 Zoom Meeting link: sites.google.com/view/theoret...

Deadline approaching!

Young Biophysicists Meeting@youngbiophymeet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Submission open for the eighth YB Meeting (deadline - 21st January)! Abstract submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

Deadline approaching! Submit your abstracts here - forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

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Early career biophysicists meetings at the intersection of Biology and Physics. 12 min talks + 5 min for discussion.

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Young Biophysicists Meeting@youngbiophymeet.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Submission open for the eighth YB Meeting (deadline - 21st January)! Abstract submission link: forms.gle/SBeQeAp9MR2U...

Mark your calendars!! 🗓️ The third Young Biophysicists Meeting will be held on the coming Monday (May 5th) from 11am - 12pm EST. We have four exciting talks lined up for you, see you all soon! Find out more : shorturl.at/4oKNe

Very thrilled to receive the HFSP postdoctoral fellowship!! Very excited to be part of the HFSP community and grateful for the opportunity to work on ‘Dissecting bacterial defense to antibiotics’.

Human Frontier Science Program@hfspo.bsky.social · 2y ago

🥳Congrats to the 50 outstanding postdocs from 25 nations awarded 2025 #HFSPFellowships! 🎉These brilliant minds are shaping the future of #LifeSciences!🧪 🏆Are you one of them? Tag yourself & celebrate! 📖 Meet the new fellows: www.hfsp.org/bookletFS2025#book/ #HFSP #NextGenResearchers #sts

🚨 Today, Friday 28/02 at 15:30 EU time, Rinke van Tatenhove-Pel (TU Delft) will present Population dynamics in spatially structured environments at the Population Dynamics Seminars! We are sorry we can't send an email reminder, due to a technical problem

Mark your calendars!! 🗓️ The first Young Biophysicists Meeting will be held on the coming Monday (March 3rd) from 11am - 12pm EST. We have four exciting talks lined up for you, see you all soon! Find out more : shorturl.at/4oKNe

The Oxford U. Foster and Slack labs are hiring! A chance to work in bleeding edge microbiome science with some really great mentors @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social www.fosterlab.uk/vacancies

🚨NEWS! We are organising a new monthly event: The Young Biophysicists Virtual Meetings where early career researchers can present their work in a friendly environment. All the info and abstract submission on our website sites.google.com/view/theoret... Host by Divya Choudhary and Satyam Anand

1/ Excited to share my final PhD work out now! The master regulator OxyR orchestrates bacterial oxidative stress response genes in space and time

The master regulator OxyR orchestrates bacterial oxidative stress response genes in space and time

Bacteria rewire gene expression to survive stress, but the logic of these changes can remain elusive in bulk studies. Using single-cell imaging, Choudhary et al. reveal that the gene expression patter...

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