Yves Brun lab
@brunlabcaulo.bsky.social
We like to look at bacteria do the things they do. Université de Montréal.
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Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
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Canada Research Chairs www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...: $1M/year for 8 years, plus up to $6M in CFI infrastructure support. Looking for leading researchers abroad interested in AMR research, antibiotic discovery (Pandemicstopai.ca), phages. Email short vision + CV. Tight deadlines: March 10 & June 15
Thank you for highlighting our paper on how septal PG hydrolysis licenses a second wave of PG transpeptidation during cell separation! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I will do a thread when the page set version is out.
February 18, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Thank you for highlighting our paper on how septal PG hydrolysis licenses a second wave of PG transpeptidation during cell separation! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I will do a thread when the page set version is out.
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The demand for #ProkaryoticCellBio so far has been crazy! We received a record number of abstract & grant submissions, to which the conference chairs are busy reviewing! We predict poster slots & accommodation to begin filling up, don't wait until the deadline to register! More info ➡️ bit.ly/4raYCu
February 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
The demand for #ProkaryoticCellBio so far has been crazy! We received a record number of abstract & grant submissions, to which the conference chairs are busy reviewing! We predict poster slots & accommodation to begin filling up, don't wait until the deadline to register! More info ➡️ bit.ly/4raYCu
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Hey alpha aficionados - it's almost time for CauloCon 2026! This free, virtual meeting will feature talks from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social and @lamasonlab.bsky.social with opps for trainee talks. Register using the link below. 👇
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
www.caulocon.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Hey alpha aficionados - it's almost time for CauloCon 2026! This free, virtual meeting will feature talks from @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social and @lamasonlab.bsky.social with opps for trainee talks. Register using the link below. 👇
It’s warming up in Montreal 🥶☃️
January 24, 2026 at 1:40 PM
It’s warming up in Montreal 🥶☃️
Very excited to be part of the amazing Gr-ADI Consortium to accelerate the discovery of new antibiotics. #microsky nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
January 22, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Very excited to be part of the amazing Gr-ADI Consortium to accelerate the discovery of new antibiotics. #microsky nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
Looking forward to having Dr. Xiaoquian (Annie) Yu join us in Montreal!
So happy to host Dr. Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu - soon starting her lab at University of Montreal! She used population genomics and large data analysis to group gut microbiome into ecological units based on sweep events (major revision at Nature)!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
January 14, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Looking forward to having Dr. Xiaoquian (Annie) Yu join us in Montreal!
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New Microbe Matters!
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
New Microbe Matters!
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@relenski.bsky.social traces the legacy of Escherichia coli and how science is evolving to use this model organism in new ways
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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you may be interested to learn what Elio had to say in 2008 about an experiment he was involved in five decades earlier...
#MicroSky
smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
#MicroSky
smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
A Most Personal Note
by Elio — At the June General Meeting of the ASM in Boston, there was a session called 'From Bacterial Physiology to Cellular Genetics: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Schaechter, Maaløe, a…
smallthingsconsidered.blog
January 11, 2026 at 12:19 PM
you may be interested to learn what Elio had to say in 2008 about an experiment he was involved in five decades earlier...
#MicroSky
smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
#MicroSky
smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
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we are busy tidying up our archives during the winter holidays. we've now worked our way back to 2008, making some 1.800+ posts available again: smallthingsconsidered.blog/page/300/
January 9, 2026 at 10:59 PM
we are busy tidying up our archives during the winter holidays. we've now worked our way back to 2008, making some 1.800+ posts available again: smallthingsconsidered.blog/page/300/
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Ancestral sequence reconstruction reveals CTP-dependent loading of the bacterial centromere-binding protein ParB as an ancient evolutionary feature
Now published:
tinyurl.com/4ddhwbb3
Thanks to the Hochberg and Bange labs for the great collaboration!
Now published:
tinyurl.com/4ddhwbb3
Thanks to the Hochberg and Bange labs for the great collaboration!
January 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Ancestral sequence reconstruction reveals CTP-dependent loading of the bacterial centromere-binding protein ParB as an ancient evolutionary feature
Now published:
tinyurl.com/4ddhwbb3
Thanks to the Hochberg and Bange labs for the great collaboration!
Now published:
tinyurl.com/4ddhwbb3
Thanks to the Hochberg and Bange labs for the great collaboration!
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Just 4 days until our Grants, Early Bird & Talk deadline closes for #ProkaryoticCellBio!
Join Heath Murray, Jie Xiao, Marc Bramkamp and Ethan Garner 13 - 16 July 2026 in Portugal, alongside our fantastic speaker line-up!
More info on how to register here➡️https://bit.ly/4qCDhtw
Join Heath Murray, Jie Xiao, Marc Bramkamp and Ethan Garner 13 - 16 July 2026 in Portugal, alongside our fantastic speaker line-up!
More info on how to register here➡️https://bit.ly/4qCDhtw
January 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Just 4 days until our Grants, Early Bird & Talk deadline closes for #ProkaryoticCellBio!
Join Heath Murray, Jie Xiao, Marc Bramkamp and Ethan Garner 13 - 16 July 2026 in Portugal, alongside our fantastic speaker line-up!
More info on how to register here➡️https://bit.ly/4qCDhtw
Join Heath Murray, Jie Xiao, Marc Bramkamp and Ethan Garner 13 - 16 July 2026 in Portugal, alongside our fantastic speaker line-up!
More info on how to register here➡️https://bit.ly/4qCDhtw
Please repost. #microsky
Canada Research Chairs www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...: $1M/year for 8 years, plus up to $6M in CFI infrastructure support. Looking for leading researchers abroad interested in AMR research, antibiotic discovery (Pandemicstopai.ca), phages. Email short vision + CV. Tight deadlines: March 10 & June 15
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca
January 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Please repost. #microsky
Canada Research Chairs www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...: $1M/year for 8 years, plus up to $6M in CFI infrastructure support. Looking for leading researchers abroad interested in AMR research, antibiotic discovery (Pandemicstopai.ca), phages. Email short vision + CV. Tight deadlines: March 10 & June 15
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Canada.ca
www.canada.ca
January 8, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Canada Research Chairs www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...: $1M/year for 8 years, plus up to $6M in CFI infrastructure support. Looking for leading researchers abroad interested in AMR research, antibiotic discovery (Pandemicstopai.ca), phages. Email short vision + CV. Tight deadlines: March 10 & June 15
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We just launched the web site for our consortium to accelerate antibiotic discovery by combining high throughput, high content approaches and AI, PandemicStop-AI. Check it out: pandemicstopai.ca
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We just launched the web site for our consortium to accelerate antibiotic discovery by combining high throughput, high content approaches and AI, PandemicStop-AI. Check it out: pandemicstopai.ca
We just launched the web site for our consortium to accelerate antibiotic discovery by combining high throughput, high content approaches and AI, PandemicStop-AI. Check it out: pandemicstopai.ca
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
We just launched the web site for our consortium to accelerate antibiotic discovery by combining high throughput, high content approaches and AI, PandemicStop-AI. Check it out: pandemicstopai.ca
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We are looking forward to sunnier days and some fantastic presentations at our #ProkaryoticCellBio meeting in Portugal next July! Grants, Early Bird pricing and Talk slots close on 12 Jan, register & submit today to join us! 🌞
👉https://bit.ly/48G29dP
👉https://bit.ly/48G29dP
December 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We are looking forward to sunnier days and some fantastic presentations at our #ProkaryoticCellBio meeting in Portugal next July! Grants, Early Bird pricing and Talk slots close on 12 Jan, register & submit today to join us! 🌞
👉https://bit.ly/48G29dP
👉https://bit.ly/48G29dP
A study in contrast this morning. Frost, smog, and beach.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A study in contrast this morning. Frost, smog, and beach.
Wow, really cool work! Congratulations!
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Wow, really cool work! Congratulations!
As mentioned, here is the preprint by Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social on the in situ structure of the Tad pilus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Nice work and great to see that we are seeing the same thing! Our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky
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
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
As mentioned, here is the preprint by Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social on the in situ structure of the Tad pilus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Nice work and great to see that we are seeing the same thing! Our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky
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Great collaboration with @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social for resolving the Tad pilus machine structure by cryo-ET. Beautiful work by graduate students James Iarocci and Ryu Williston in our lab.
Preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686773v1
Preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686773v1
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Great collaboration with @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social for resolving the Tad pilus machine structure by cryo-ET. Beautiful work by graduate students James Iarocci and Ryu Williston in our lab.
Preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686773v1
Preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686773v1
More useful with the link #microsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
More useful with the link #microsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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