Josh Atkinson
@electromicrobe.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. in Civil and Environmental Engineering & the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton
Programming living electronic materials and microbial communities for sustainability #FirstGen
atkinson.lab.princeton.edu
Programming living electronic materials and microbial communities for sustainability #FirstGen
atkinson.lab.princeton.edu
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Impact of tiny anoxic pockets in #Nitrogen loss on sandy shores!!
Our newly developed #microfluidic method revealed #microorganisms on sand grains create anoxic microenvironments allowing #denitrification in well-oxygenated sands
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our newly developed #microfluidic method revealed #microorganisms on sand grains create anoxic microenvironments allowing #denitrification in well-oxygenated sands
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Impact of tiny anoxic pockets in #Nitrogen loss on sandy shores!!
Our newly developed #microfluidic method revealed #microorganisms on sand grains create anoxic microenvironments allowing #denitrification in well-oxygenated sands
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our newly developed #microfluidic method revealed #microorganisms on sand grains create anoxic microenvironments allowing #denitrification in well-oxygenated sands
www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social
Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...
Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...
Nature should be the model for microbial sciences | Journal of Bacteriology
Historically, our understanding of microbes has been based on laboratory cultures.
Much of what we know at a mechanistic level is based on “model organisms” which are
species that readily grow in labo...
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July 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social
Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...
Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...
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Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT - Nature Communications
In this study, the authors show that Microbacterium deferre A1-JK, a newly isolated Gram-positive bacterium, simultaneously reduces oxygen and iron under oxic conditions, revealing unexpected microbia...
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July 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
We're hiring! Do you have experience engineering yeast and using CRISPR? Jose Avalos and I are hiring a joint postdoc to work on an exciting fast-paced DARPA project with a great team at Neochromosome, Fermeate, and @joepeterslab.bsky.social
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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June 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're hiring! Do you have experience engineering yeast and using CRISPR? Jose Avalos and I are hiring a joint postdoc to work on an exciting fast-paced DARPA project with a great team at Neochromosome, Fermeate, and @joepeterslab.bsky.social
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
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I made a survey over at Mastodon and found that Fusilli are mostly right-handed spirals, but about a third of the brands is left-handed.
So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of.
🧪
#chemsky
So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of.
🧪
#chemsky
What about pasta salad? Are Fusilli enantiomerically pure? And if so, are there brands which sell D-Fusilli and others that sell L-Fusilli? Has anyone ever researched that?
#chemsky
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#chemsky
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don’t worry everyone, #chemsky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, we simply need to agree whether sandwiches can be "a bit chiral".
May 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I made a survey over at Mastodon and found that Fusilli are mostly right-handed spirals, but about a third of the brands is left-handed.
So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of.
🧪
#chemsky
So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of.
🧪
#chemsky
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Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6
t.ly/a8k9O
t.ly/a8k9O
Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in communities using ribosomal RNA barcoding
Bacteriophages (phages) facilitate gene transfer and microbial evolution in all ecosystems and have applications as tools for engineering microbiomes and as antimicrobials. Historic efforts to map pha...
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May 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6
t.ly/a8k9O
t.ly/a8k9O
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I'd like to share a little bit of happy lab news in these chaotic times: a new preprint, driven by the brilliant Qinhao Cao!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?
April 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'd like to share a little bit of happy lab news in these chaotic times: a new preprint, driven by the brilliant Qinhao Cao!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?
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Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences.
F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are!
🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are!
🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
February 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences.
F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are!
🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are!
🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
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The Center for Electromicrobiology (@cemau.bsky.social) has just joined BlueSky! This is the @dg.dk Center for Excellence at @aarhusuni.bsky.social. Follow @cemau.bsky.social for news about cable bacteria!
January 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Center for Electromicrobiology (@cemau.bsky.social) has just joined BlueSky! This is the @dg.dk Center for Excellence at @aarhusuni.bsky.social. Follow @cemau.bsky.social for news about cable bacteria!
Great way to start off 2025. Thanks to @kunjapur.bsky.social for organizing. Looking forward to the next one! #MASBN
We're excited to hear about electromicrobiology from @electromicrobe.bsky.social who recently started his lab @princetonupress.bsky.social
#MASBN
#synbio
#MASBN
#synbio
January 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Great way to start off 2025. Thanks to @kunjapur.bsky.social for organizing. Looking forward to the next one! #MASBN
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A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Hawaiʻi for the first International SynBYSS Conference! It was a successful and dynamic 4 days filled with insightful science, networking and fun.
December 13, 2024 at 8:50 PM
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Hawaiʻi for the first International SynBYSS Conference! It was a successful and dynamic 4 days filled with insightful science, networking and fun.
Reposted by Josh Atkinson
Why did an engineer become a researcher in biological evolution? My esteemed research partner, colleague, and friend, Masaru K. Nobu, is sharing some side stories about strain MK-D1 research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Engineering history with Asgard archaea of the kingdom Promethearchaeati - Nature Microbiology
Multiple histories converge in Masaru Nobu’s story of culturing an archaeon closely related to us eukaryotes.
www.nature.com
November 30, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Why did an engineer become a researcher in biological evolution? My esteemed research partner, colleague, and friend, Masaru K. Nobu, is sharing some side stories about strain MK-D1 research.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The field of "biochemical genetics", as they called it.
The field of molecular biology was born in 1941 through the marriage of genetics and biochemistry. 🧪 🧬 #histSci
Molecular Biology is the offspring of biochemistry and genetics
The field of molecular biology was born in 1941 through the marriage of genetics and biochemistry.
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November 29, 2024 at 4:37 PM
The field of "biochemical genetics", as they called it.
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Conversation with the brilliant contemporary microbiologist and molecular biologist—HHMI and MacArthur Fellow Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University
Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing”
www.hhmi.org/news/tapping...
Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing”
www.hhmi.org/news/tapping...
Tapping into Bacterial Conversations | HHMI
Over the course of 30 years, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler has helped usher in a new branch of science centered on quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another and orc...
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November 22, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Conversation with the brilliant contemporary microbiologist and molecular biologist—HHMI and MacArthur Fellow Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University
Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing”
www.hhmi.org/news/tapping...
Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing”
www.hhmi.org/news/tapping...