Delighted to be able to share my work from my first postdoc in the @krijonas.bsky.social group at Stockholm University. With thanks to my wonderful colleagues and our fantastic collaborators! Here we show an essential role for PolyP during recovery from starvation in Caulobacter.

Excited to see our new work published! We have established the evolutionary and ecological context of our favorite model Caulobacter and made some unexpected findings. Who would have thought that close relatives lack dimorphism? And have potential for phototrophy? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales - Nature Communications

This study maps out the diversity and evolution of the bacterial order Caulobacterales, including the model organism C. crescentus, which reveals widespread phototrophy and illuminates the evolution o...

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Hot off the press, a fantastic new review from my colleagues on infection management and bioelectronic materials and devices! A wonderful meeting between microbiology and material sciences! analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transforming Infection Management with Organic Bioelectronic Materials and Devices

Conducting polymers bridge the gap between abiotic and biotic environments by using ions and electrons as charge carriers. In this review, we explore their roles in infection modeling, where conducti....

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The preprint of my software Met-ID is out on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Met-ID: An Open-Source Software for Comprehensive Annotation of Multiple On-Tissue Chemical Modifications in MALDI-MSI

Here, we introduce Met-ID, a graphical interface software designed to efficiently identify metabolites from MALDI-MSI datasets. Met-ID enables annotation of m/z features from any type of MALDI-MSI exp...

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GpsB interacts with FtsZ in multiple species and may serve as an accessory Z-ring anchor -in Bacillus subtilis #MolBiolCell from @eswaralab.bsky.social www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

GpsB interacts with FtsZ in multiple species and may serve as an accessory Z-ring anchor | Molecular Biology of the Cell

Bacterial cytokinesis commences when a tubulin-like GTPase, FtsZ, forms a Z-ring to mark the division site. Synchronized movement of Z-ring filaments and peptidoglycan synthesis along the axis of divi...

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Our recent preprint on the regulatory RNA SSR42 in Staph. Wonderful to see the arc of this story, starting out with past lab members Andy Weiss & Brooke Tomlinson before @mejobson.bsky.social came along and made it her own. Hope to have this one over the line soon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SSR42 is a Novel Regulator of Cytolytic Activity in Staphylococcus aureus

SSR42 is the longest noncoding RNA in the S. aureus cell and the second-most abundant transcript in the stationary phase transcriptome, second only to RNAIII. It is highly conserved across strains and...

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Small but mighty list of folks who admire one of my fave bugs... lmk if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/8psj99U

Bacillus on the Blue place, starting small, but hopefully extending to keep the conversation active [it was also gorwing slow on Twitter] go.bsky.app/BfusVyD

Elucidating the spatiotemporal dynamics of glucose metabolism with genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Bacterial cell surface starter pack ! Trying to make it easier to find people with the same love for bacterial membranes and whatever goes in and through them. Leave a comment if you want to be added go.bsky.app/KfHSqvt

Sugar phosphate-mediated inhibition of peptidoglycan precursor synthesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623475v1

Sugar phosphate-mediated inhibition of peptidoglycan precursor synthesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.13.623475v1

Antibiotic tolerance, the widespread ability of diverse pathogenic bacteria to sustain viability in

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I am so happy to be here. What I loved about Twitter was learning about new science and scientific insights from the people doing it. It’s great to have a place where those conversations can take place (and be found). 🧪

Disappointing to have to dump the bird app. But so wonderful to be connecting with so many more scientists across the globe here! #microsky

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’m doing my best to keep Microbial Cell Bio Starter Pack updated. I’ve added some new people recently—so now’s a great time to update your follows and stay connected. If you’d like to be included in the pack, feel free to DM me! #Microsky go.bsky.app/L3L2iFz