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Anthony Vecchiarelli
@cellforganized.bsky.social
How do bacteria organize their innards?
Associate Prof at UMich
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📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology

in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"

🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL
📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025

Please repost. #Postdoc
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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PSA for people with NIH grant periods starting January 1st (including most NIGMS MIRAs): your RPPR is due Saturday, but they haven’t sent out the usual automated reminders, presumably due to the shutdown
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Canadian Premier Soccer final is the most bad ass soccer game I've seen.
soccer players are playing in the snow with a sign that says season tick
ALT: soccer players are playing in the snow with a sign that says season tick
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Friday means a new #MattersMicrobial podcast. This week, Dr. Hannah Ledvina joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about how bacteria can shield themselves against Bdellovibrio attack! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv

youtu.be/n31kkw576GE?...
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I had the most awesome time recording next week's #MattersMicrobial podcast session with Dr. Hannah Ledvina of the University of Michigan. Her work on the "shield" that E. coli can make against Bdellovibrio attack was amazing. Plus, we share many common enthusiasms. It was a proper nerdfest.
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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LA Dodger’s Freddie Freedom speaks about his Canadian Mom.

He seems like a really nice guy, I hope his team comes in 2nd place.

#Canada
#TorontoBlueJays
#LADodgers
#WorldSeries
October 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Complete nonsense.

My advice to post-graduate researchers is to always preprint their work, as it will improve their visibility while the manuscript is going through a (frequently very long) peer review process.
We have senior people in our department telling PhD students not to post preprints as journals will refuse to publish due to prior publication. Is there anywhere in health this is actually true? Genuine question, but I doubt it?
October 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Always read @jtemple.bsky.social, especially when he quotes me. 😆

R&D on CO₂ removal (CDR) should be funded and led by governments, like the Manhattan Project minus the nuclear bomb. That way we can figure out what works and what doesn't technologically, environmentally, socially, etc.
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Thrilled to share our multidisiplinary work on how genome-wide DNA bridging by H-NS reshapes the stationary phase bacterial nucleoid and affects the transcriptional landscape. With Xindan Wang and @meyerroc.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Bacteria use paralog teamwork to survive stress.
H-NS forms fluid condensates; its partner StpA forms rigid fibrils. Together, they balance flexibility & stability to keep genes properly regulated under pressure.
#PhaseSeparation #Bacteria
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paralogs with distinct phase behaviors broaden the in vivo stress response range of condensates
Paralogs are widespread, but their physiological roles are often masked by redundancy. H-NS, a nucleoid-associated protein in Gram-negative bacteria, typically coexists with paralogs such as StpA, who...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Hello! The Jacobs-Wagner lab is finally on Bluesky. We’re excited to celebrate science (and scientists!), share our research, and interact with the community. We look forward to connecting with friends and colleagues across the world.
October 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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We’re excited to announce the incredible speaker line-up for the Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference! Join the leading researchers as they explore the latest advances in Nanoimaging, Cell Growth and Cellular Structures.
Join our speakers & register today! ➡️https://bit.ly/47rtkbw
#ProkaryoticCellBio
October 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Our paper on chromosome segregation in the archaeon Sulfolobus Acidocaldarius has been published in PNAS! This has been a great collaboration with @joeparham19.bsky.social and the rest of @buzzbaum.bsky.social's team. Stay tuned for more to come!😉 @istaresearch.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Temporal and spatial coordination of DNA segregation and cell division in an archaeon | PNAS
Cells must coordinate DNA segregation with cytokinesis to ensure that each daughter cell inherits a complete genome. Here, we explore how DNA segre...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Interested in bacterial sensing, signaling and regulation? Come join us in January at the GRC in sunny California! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available!

Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word!

hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
hofstra.peopleadmin.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
MCDB Assistant Professor Faculty Search. Please Repost!

Applications Due Oct 15th (TOMORROW!)

We welcome applications from all areas of physiology and neuroscience - spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal levels.

More information can be found HERE:
lsa.umich.edu/mcdb/news-ev...
MCDB Opens Search for Faculty | U-M LSA Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
MCDB welcomes applications at the Assistant Professor level from outstanding biological scientists in all areas of physiology and neuroscience, spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal le...
lsa.umich.edu
October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Made some mugs

Word cloud made from 100+ different obituaries of exemplary scientists

Obituaries were submitted by 1st yr grad students for a course I teach on scientific values (5 yrs total)

No menchie indirects, awards, or impact factor...
October 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
Versatile NTP recognition and domain fusions expand the functional repertoire of the ParB-CTPase fold beyond chromosome segregation
Nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-dependent molecular switches regulate essential cellular processes by cycling between active and inactive states through nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. These mechanis...
www.biorxiv.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Hey Americans! How’s that baseball series going?
October 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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October 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵

Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs

Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Engineering Spatial Control of Bacterial Organelles
Bacteria were once thought to lack organelles, but it is now clear they confine cellular reactions using an array of membrane- and protein-based compartments. A central question, however, is how bacte...
www.biorxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM