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
Save the date! This will be an exciting meeting (+ seminar) for all bacteria lovers!!
Check also out this “Behind the Paper” post, which shares how the project started a few years ago and eventually became this paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/when-c...
This study was a truly collaborative effort with the lab of @sarilog.bsky.social as well as @jennahed.bsky.social, and was spearheaded by PhD student Joel Hallgren.
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...
Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet
🗓️13-18 September 2026
📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
👩🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social
#MicroSky
Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers
Review article published in @natrevmicro.nature.com with @bupbuse.bsky.social, Andriko von Kügelgen and @vikramalva.bsky.social.
S-layers are everywhere!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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