Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce that the team’s website is now live santinlab.weebly.com 🥳🥳 I would also like to take this opportunity to let you know that, I am recruiting a junior postdoc to start on 1 January 2027. For further information, please feel free to contact me.

Santin Lab

Home page of the Santin Lab website.

santinlab.weebly.com

Le 5 août, je vous retrouve chez Ernest pour un Game of Thrones version bactéries!

Frédérique Le Roux@fredoleroux.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mercredi 5 aout, c'est au tour de Marie de nous raconter guerre et paix chez les bactéries: Café Chez Ernest, 18H

🧵 Proud to present a tour de force by postdoc @gregbwhitfield.bsky.social solving the mystery of how bacterial Tad pili can extend and retract with a single motor ATPase. Great collaboration with Lynne Howell, @dr-lori-burrows.bsky.social, @ianyyen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

With CauloCon coming up in a few weeks, we are excited to share with you the schedule for the upcoming meeting! There will be 3 keynotes and 26 short talks over three days. You can see more information at caulocon.com

Last chance to submit an abstract! With @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social, @lamasonlab.bsky.social and @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social as keynote speakers!

Marie Delaby@mariedelaby.bsky.social · 8mo ago

CauloCon 2026 is coming! 🔬✨ March 3–5 (fully virtual + free). Keynotes by Yves Brun, Becky Lamason & Martin Thanbichler. Great chance for grad students & postdocs to present their work (work-in-progress welcome!). Submit an abstract by Sun Feb 8. Register + submit: www.caulocon.com

CauloCon 2026 is coming! 🔬✨ March 3–5 (fully virtual + free). Keynotes by Yves Brun, Becky Lamason & Martin Thanbichler. Great chance for grad students & postdocs to present their work (work-in-progress welcome!). Submit an abstract by Sun Feb 8. Register + submit: www.caulocon.com

CauloCon 2026

A free, 3-day virtual meeting on all things Caulobacter and Alphaproteobacteria

caulocon.com

CauloCon 2026 is coming! 🔬✨ March 3–5 (fully virtual + free). Keynotes by Yves Brun, Becky Lamason & Martin Thanbichler. Great chance for grad students & postdocs to present their work (work-in-progress welcome!). Submit an abstract by Sun Feb 8. Register + submit: www.caulocon.com

CauloCon 2026

A free, 3-day virtual meeting on all things Caulobacter and Alphaproteobacteria

caulocon.com

Caulocon is coming back this year! From March 3rd-5th, we will be hosting a free virtual meeting on all things on all things Caulobacter and Alphaproteobacteria. Keynote speakers will be Dr. Yves Brun, Dr. Becky Lamason, and Dr. Martin Thanbichler. Visit caulocon.com for more details.

Great collaboration with @guo-lab.bsky.social to determine an in situ architectural model of the Tad pilus machine. Be on the lookout soon for a preprint on the same topic by Grant Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social. #microsky

#MICROBIOLOGY Scientists at @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social find "new points of fragility" in how bacteria cell walls expand, and this "could be exploited to develop new #antibiotics.” @mariedelaby.bsky.social ‪@natcomms.nature.com nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

How bacteria grow: evolutionary differences point to new ways to combat infection

Discovering unsuspected flexibility in bacterial elongation, UdeM microbiologists rethink approach to fighting resistance to antibiotics.

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Excited to share that I have been appointed F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate to launch my independent research group at the University of Namur! We will study the diversity, regulation & environmental control of bacterial cell elongation. More soon- new projects, collaborations & opportunities ahead!

Exciting news! My work with Liu Yang in the @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social, “Phenotypic plasticity in cell elongation among closely related bacterial species”, has been selected as an Editors’ Highlight in @natcomms.nature.com under Microbiology and infectious diseases! Check it out here:

Excited to share that my postdoc work with Liu Yang, from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social lab, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com ! How does your favourite bug grow? Elongation modes vary even between close relatives. We tracked PG insertion and uncovered surprising diversity within the Caulobacteraceae.

Phenotypic plasticity in cell elongation among closely related bacterial species - Nature Communications

Multiple types of cell elongation have been described in bacteria, but little is known about how these strategies vary across species. Here, the authors use fluorescent D-amino acids to track the spat...

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Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to ML.Antibiotics@gmail.com. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

Excited to share our Cinqascience.bsky.social and our sites.google.com/view/cinq-a-... where you’ll find all details about our activities in Montréal and Québec! A huge thank you to Mafar (from @svanteeffelen.bsky.social sky.social lab) for supporting our communication 💙 #CinqAScience #5AScience

Cinq à Science (@cinqascience.bsky.social)

On se retrouve autour d’un verre, on écoute une présentation, puis on échange de manière informelle. Lien: https://tinyurl.com/4t7nvz6y

cinqascience.bsky.social

How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species" by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al https://buff.ly/48Kw96x. How do cells elongate, all over, poles, middle? Close species do it the same way right? Not quite! #Microsky

#JobAlert for (Asst/Assoc) Professor in #bacteriology in our Department of Microbiology at the @UMontreal. Join our increasing group of bacteriologists including recent hires of @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social, Frederique Le Roux and myself. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/664282/a...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Bacteriology - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with University of Montreal | 664282

Université de Montréal (UdeM) is looking for an Assistant or Associate full-time professor in the field of bacteriology.

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Excited to share my postdoctoral work from the Brun Lab @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social ! Together with Liu Yang, we uncovered surprising diversity in bacterial cell elongation within the Caulobacteraceae family—from unidirectional to polar elongation 🧵1/5: buff.ly/48Kw96x

Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species

Cell elongation is a fundamental component of the bacterial cell cycle and has been studied over many decades, in part owing to its mechanisms being a target of numerous antibiotic classes. While seve...

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