I am pleased to share my lab’s latest publication - Acinetobacter species lack canonical DNA repair pathway activation mechanisms, and we discovered a conserved transcriptional activator that fills this role: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team.
If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark.
Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Last month, we had the pleasure of celebrating Lars Peter Nielsen's 40-year anniversary at Aarhus University 🎉
The day was celebrated with colleagues, collaborators, friends and family, with music, food and a number of speeches.
Congratulations to Lars Peter on 40 outstanding years👏🥂
Congratulations Lars Peter! @jakemckinlay.bsky.social's cable bacteria poster made a great 40th anniversary present.
Another paper on a topic we never worked on before: a new ribosomal hibernation!
Under the leadership of the super-postdoc Diorge, Davis Lab (ribo-cryoEM master), and @vikramalva.bsky.social (protein-evo whisperer), we identified AHA (not the song, but archaeal hibernation AMPKγ factor).
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Excited to share this new Preprint from our lab led by PhD Candidate Carl Stone (defending Tuesday).
Here we present a framework for longitudinal rbTn-Seq and apply it to the Microbial extended growth curve to resolve the fitness seascape through growth, death, and long-term stationary phase!
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
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3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
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A year ago this week, an Executive Order came out on a Friday afternoon/evening that reduced all indirect costs rate recovery to 15% the following Monday. In this article I discuss what would have happened across the U.S. if this had not been halted. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Our new paper, out today! We resurrected ancient nitrogenases first used by life on Earth 3 billion years ago. We combined synthetic biology and geology & validated their chemical #biosignature in rocks that helps reveal ancient life on Earth!(and beyond!)
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share this detailed biophysical study of #PhaseSeparation in the Pyrenoid, an algal microcompartment that fixes a third of the Earth's #CO2 🌏. We combine methods across scales, in vitro 🧪 and in vivo 🦠
Thanks for the very fun collaboration! 🤗
#PlantScience 🌾 #TeamTomo 🔬 #LivingPhysics 🧬🧶
If you are outside Canada and looking to post-doc in Canada, University of Alberta is currently recrutiing Canada Impact + Research Post-doctoral Scholars. Deadline to submit an Expression of Interest is Feb 9th. 🧪
www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-...
Another product from Dr. Ying-Chih 'Ella' Chuang's time in my lab - bacteria that excrete purines are better equipped to tolerate inhibitory effects of purines, suggesting a physiological basis behind some cross-feeding interactions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Grinnell College has openings for two 1-year term positionsto teach microbiology and immunology. More information here:
apply.interfolio.com/179939
I am beyond excited to announce that the Bisson Lab has a new home!!! Starting January 2026, I will join the Biology Department at Indiana University Bloomington as Associate Professor with tenure.
I am actively recruiting scientists across all levels. More in our website: bissonlab.com/join
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Our manuscript on the microbiome of a stingless bee hive is out! 🦠🐝 So excited! Here’s a short thread with some findings, going from the assembly of a consistent multi-kingdom microbiome to discussions on host traits that contribute to it. Please take a look and share : ) rdcu.be/eVNFJ
Dr. Brittany Mazny's paper on evolved formate assimilation needing a CO2-concentrating mechanism is now available in Current Biology with @blasarre.bsky.social, Alekhya Govindaraju, and Barry Stein.
Free access until Jan 28 at: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mF0A3QW8S...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our recent collaborative paper is now published in the latest issue of Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social accompanied by a cover image highlighting how Bacillus gathers iron in the biofilm for promoting plant growth
www.cell.com/issue/S2211-...
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A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:
Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.
Please RT
Deadline: 12.11.25
More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
Excited that our paper was just published! It's a revised version with new insights compared to the preprint. Thanks everyone from the @carahaney.bsky.social Lab!
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪
Global constraint principle for microbial growth laws
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Visiting UT Austin in Integrative Biology and came across this fantastic opportunity for senior grad students in the life sciences.
Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...
'A Bacterium in Bangladesh' is now available in multiple formats: www.lulu.com/search?contr...
With Appendix: US30, EU29
Appendix-Free: US20, EU19
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Posters (US site; EU site pending): sci-hustle.myspreadshop.com
Vibrio natriegens cultures are known to grow fast, but fermentative cultures also die fast, reaching extinction in < 12 h. A lack of acid tolerance mechanisms is likely the cause. Preprint now available. Congrats to grad student first-author Nick Haas! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share!
Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr...
Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...
