Frank Santoriello
@fsantoriello.bsky.social
Microbial geneticist 🧬🧫| Princeton MolBio Postdoc with Bonnie Bassler
Artist 🎨🖊️ | I like to draw bacteria and dead things
Likes loud music, sci-fi/fantasy/horror, tattoos, and fermented foods.
he/him
https://www.franksantorielloart.com
Artist 🎨🖊️ | I like to draw bacteria and dead things
Likes loud music, sci-fi/fantasy/horror, tattoos, and fermented foods.
he/him
https://www.franksantorielloart.com
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Finally got my dissertation artwork tattooed (art by @fsantoriello.bsky.social)
They're super adorable, based on the Ramones and the colors are the seasons since my work was seasonal changed in wastewater microbiome (red-summer, orange-fall, blue-winter spring-green)
They're super adorable, based on the Ramones and the colors are the seasons since my work was seasonal changed in wastewater microbiome (red-summer, orange-fall, blue-winter spring-green)
August 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Finally got my dissertation artwork tattooed (art by @fsantoriello.bsky.social)
They're super adorable, based on the Ramones and the colors are the seasons since my work was seasonal changed in wastewater microbiome (red-summer, orange-fall, blue-winter spring-green)
They're super adorable, based on the Ramones and the colors are the seasons since my work was seasonal changed in wastewater microbiome (red-summer, orange-fall, blue-winter spring-green)
New short story from my postdoc in the Bassler lab is up on bioRxiv!
Turns out our favorite quorum sensing responsive phage VP882 is a member of a larger family of phages that is distributed across multiple bacterial species and can eavesdrop on a universally conserved autoinducer.
#PhageSky 🦠🧫
Turns out our favorite quorum sensing responsive phage VP882 is a member of a larger family of phages that is distributed across multiple bacterial species and can eavesdrop on a universally conserved autoinducer.
#PhageSky 🦠🧫
A family of linear plasmid phages that detect a quorum-sensing autoinducer exists in multiple bacterial species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667625v1
July 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
New short story from my postdoc in the Bassler lab is up on bioRxiv!
Turns out our favorite quorum sensing responsive phage VP882 is a member of a larger family of phages that is distributed across multiple bacterial species and can eavesdrop on a universally conserved autoinducer.
#PhageSky 🦠🧫
Turns out our favorite quorum sensing responsive phage VP882 is a member of a larger family of phages that is distributed across multiple bacterial species and can eavesdrop on a universally conserved autoinducer.
#PhageSky 🦠🧫
Reposted by Frank Santoriello
This is a very good essay if you, like me, have been grappling with the changing world and what it all means and where we're going. Despite the title and heavy topic, it's actually more hopeful than most things (while still being real).
rojospinks.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...
rojospinks.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...
How I became 'collapse aware'
And started to imagine what comes next
rojospinks.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:03 PM
This is a very good essay if you, like me, have been grappling with the changing world and what it all means and where we're going. Despite the title and heavy topic, it's actually more hopeful than most things (while still being real).
rojospinks.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...
rojospinks.substack.com/p/how-i-beca...
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We’re excited to advertise the Microbial Friends and Foes REU program! Please share info with your undergrads, for 10 weeks paid research experience at Cornell. Apps due on Feb 1. @heatherfeaga.bsky.social
cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...
cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM
We’re excited to advertise the Microbial Friends and Foes REU program! Please share info with your undergrads, for 10 weeks paid research experience at Cornell. Apps due on Feb 1. @heatherfeaga.bsky.social
cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...
cihmid.cornell.edu/academics-pr...
Civic duty done! Now I guess I run a gel and dissociate or something.
November 5, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Civic duty done! Now I guess I run a gel and dissociate or something.
Reposted by Frank Santoriello
Happy to share our work that's now online in Nature Microbiology: Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems are mobile elements rich in bacterial defensive and offensive tools.
If you're interested in Anti-phage, T6SS, Vibrio, or MGE then this is for you. 🦠
rdcu.be/dXMwQ
If you're interested in Anti-phage, T6SS, Vibrio, or MGE then this is for you. 🦠
rdcu.be/dXMwQ
Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems are mobile elements rich in bacterial defensive and offensive tools
Nature Microbiology - GMT-containing genomic islands in Vibrio parahaemolyticus and other diverse bacteria serve as a stockpile of immune and anti-phage defence systems, antibiotic-resistance genes...
rdcu.be
October 23, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Happy to share our work that's now online in Nature Microbiology: Gamma-Mobile-Trio systems are mobile elements rich in bacterial defensive and offensive tools.
If you're interested in Anti-phage, T6SS, Vibrio, or MGE then this is for you. 🦠
rdcu.be/dXMwQ
If you're interested in Anti-phage, T6SS, Vibrio, or MGE then this is for you. 🦠
rdcu.be/dXMwQ
Today I will be doing my first western blot since 2020 (which is when I did my first ever western blot). Pray for me.
October 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Today I will be doing my first western blot since 2020 (which is when I did my first ever western blot). Pray for me.
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Fun fact: We have been in the seventh cholera pandemic since 1961, and it's still going strong. Global cholera deaths are surging, WHO says www.cidrap.umn.edu/cholera/glob...
Global cholera deaths are surging, WHO says
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Fun fact: We have been in the seventh cholera pandemic since 1961, and it's still going strong. Global cholera deaths are surging, WHO says www.cidrap.umn.edu/cholera/glob...
October 22, 2024 at 1:47 PM
October 21, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Artist, QRP your 2 sides.
October 19, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Artist, QRP your 2 sides.
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🚨We are also hiring a postdoc to work on our newly funded Lyme disease phage project at Montana State!
Are you a spirochetologist interested in phage biology? Come work with us in beautiful Bozeman, MT!
Apply here:
jobs.montana.edu/postings/43811
🧫🧪🦠
Are you a spirochetologist interested in phage biology? Come work with us in beautiful Bozeman, MT!
Apply here:
jobs.montana.edu/postings/43811
🧫🧪🦠
October 19, 2024 at 1:26 AM
🚨We are also hiring a postdoc to work on our newly funded Lyme disease phage project at Montana State!
Are you a spirochetologist interested in phage biology? Come work with us in beautiful Bozeman, MT!
Apply here:
jobs.montana.edu/postings/43811
🧫🧪🦠
Are you a spirochetologist interested in phage biology? Come work with us in beautiful Bozeman, MT!
Apply here:
jobs.montana.edu/postings/43811
🧫🧪🦠
Reposted by Frank Santoriello
Welcome refugees from X! Follow microbiologists and more in the @binningsingletons.com and Friends Starter Pack!
go.bsky.app/H5k2p2g
go.bsky.app/H5k2p2g
October 17, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Welcome refugees from X! Follow microbiologists and more in the @binningsingletons.com and Friends Starter Pack!
go.bsky.app/H5k2p2g
go.bsky.app/H5k2p2g
It’s been a couple months, but I never posted about it. The final form of my first postdoc paper is out! Really excited to keep digging into this whacky phage that we love so much. #MicroSky 🦠
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
The LuxO-OpaR quorum-sensing cascade differentially controls Vibriophage VP882 lysis-lysogeny decision making in liquid and on surfaces
Author summary Bacteria in nature often exist in surface-associated communities including sessile biofilms and highly motile swarms. Thus, bacteriophages can encounter their hosts in structured commun...
journals.plos.org
October 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
It’s been a couple months, but I never posted about it. The final form of my first postdoc paper is out! Really excited to keep digging into this whacky phage that we love so much. #MicroSky 🦠
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
October 19, 2024 at 3:40 PM
If anyone is feeling like an imposter today…I present you with this thing.
I am a postdoc who has been doing PCR for 12 years. Sometimes it just be like that.🧪
I am a postdoc who has been doing PCR for 12 years. Sometimes it just be like that.🧪
October 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
If anyone is feeling like an imposter today…I present you with this thing.
I am a postdoc who has been doing PCR for 12 years. Sometimes it just be like that.🧪
I am a postdoc who has been doing PCR for 12 years. Sometimes it just be like that.🧪
It’s been a year since I’ve posted new art on the internet. Let’s get back at it.
Death head phage #1
Death head phage #1
October 18, 2024 at 10:21 AM
It’s been a year since I’ve posted new art on the internet. Let’s get back at it.
Death head phage #1
Death head phage #1
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New! a couple of cool bacteriophages in ink on yupo (poly paper) artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠
June 21, 2024 at 5:44 PM
New! a couple of cool bacteriophages in ink on yupo (poly paper) artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🦠
Nobody tells you just how sweaty Lexapro is gonna make you.
May 22, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Nobody tells you just how sweaty Lexapro is gonna make you.
New preprint from my postdoc with Bonnie Bassler! We show that phage VP882 responds to different host factors depending on the environmental context of the infected host, highlighting the need to study phage-bacteria interactions in relevant contexts to get the full picture. #MicroSky 🦠
April 3, 2024 at 10:57 AM
New preprint from my postdoc with Bonnie Bassler! We show that phage VP882 responds to different host factors depending on the environmental context of the infected host, highlighting the need to study phage-bacteria interactions in relevant contexts to get the full picture. #MicroSky 🦠
If you see this, post something toothy
(Some oldies of mine)
(Some oldies of mine)
February 13, 2024 at 11:41 AM
If you see this, post something toothy
(Some oldies of mine)
(Some oldies of mine)
The Genewiz pickup person is the molbio equivalent of the tooth fairy.
January 4, 2024 at 10:20 PM
The Genewiz pickup person is the molbio equivalent of the tooth fairy.
Rude of StoryGraph to call me out like that.
January 1, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Rude of StoryGraph to call me out like that.
Very happy I decided to play, and make something like nothing I’ve ever made before.
‘Blue Light’ (2023)
‘Blue Light’ (2023)
November 13, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Very happy I decided to play, and make something like nothing I’ve ever made before.
‘Blue Light’ (2023)
‘Blue Light’ (2023)
