Jon Paczkowski🌹
@paczkowskilab.bsky.social
Wadsworth Center|NYS Department of Health
Biomedical Sciences|UAlbany
Founding member of the PacLab (est. 2019)
Using structural biology (@fromme-lab.bsky.social alum) & genomics to decode bacterial chatter (@princetonmolbio.bsky.social Bassler Boys 2.0)
Biomedical Sciences|UAlbany
Founding member of the PacLab (est. 2019)
Using structural biology (@fromme-lab.bsky.social alum) & genomics to decode bacterial chatter (@princetonmolbio.bsky.social Bassler Boys 2.0)
The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence:
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
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#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
albany.interviewexchange.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The University at Albany Biomedical Sciences Department is hiring at the Assistant Professor level. We are looking for researchers at the intersection of infectious disease and artificial intelligence:
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
#infectiousdisease #artificialintelligence
It is rare as an editor to get to take on an article so uniquely in your wheelhouse. Sharing some wonderful work by Guarnaccia et al. from the Perez, Ng, and Neiditch labs. #structuralbiology of #pathogens @plos.org
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Structure-function studies of Vibrio cholerae quorum-sensing receptor CqsR signal recognition
Author summary Quorum sensing, a form of bacterial cell-cell communication, regulates diverse developmental behaviors. This study investigates CqsR, a transmembrane receptor in Vibrio cholerae, the ga...
dx.plos.org
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It is rare as an editor to get to take on an article so uniquely in your wheelhouse. Sharing some wonderful work by Guarnaccia et al. from the Perez, Ng, and Neiditch labs. #structuralbiology of #pathogens @plos.org
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay!
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis
The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a textbook example of mutually beneficial association. In this essay, Mikhail Matz argues for an updated view in which the coral acts more as a farmer of algal cells to support its own growth.
www.cell.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay!
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
I have an R56 that will pay for 1 year of a postdoc that will hopefully bridge us to a 4-year R01. It's not without risk but uh...everything in science feels like a major risk right now. We're in need of a #postdoc w/ #nmr experience. DM or email me for project details.
I am (optimistically) looking for a postdoc with solution state biomolecular NMR expertise to join our group. I can provide access to high-end instrumentation and technical assistance via our membership at the New York Structural Biology Center. #nmr #academicsky #postdoc
August 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
August 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting..
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪
Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Jon Paczkowski
neighbors induce switch
two-faced outcome toggled on
factor protected
#sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025
neighbors induce switch
two-faced outcome toggled on
factor protected
#sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025
August 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Jon Paczkowski
neighbors induce switch
two-faced outcome toggled on
factor protected
#sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025
neighbors induce switch
two-faced outcome toggled on
factor protected
#sciku 🧪🧬🔬🧫🦠 #Phages2025
I am (optimistically) looking for a postdoc with solution state biomolecular NMR expertise to join our group. I can provide access to high-end instrumentation and technical assistance via our membership at the New York Structural Biology Center. #nmr #academicsky #postdoc
July 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I am (optimistically) looking for a postdoc with solution state biomolecular NMR expertise to join our group. I can provide access to high-end instrumentation and technical assistance via our membership at the New York Structural Biology Center. #nmr #academicsky #postdoc
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Our paper reporting a highly conserved mechanism by which arginine positively regulates hypervirulent K. pneumoniae mucoid phenotype is now fully online.
rdcu.be/euiWG
Summary picture is below, but details in the 🧵
rdcu.be/euiWG
Summary picture is below, but details in the 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Our paper reporting a highly conserved mechanism by which arginine positively regulates hypervirulent K. pneumoniae mucoid phenotype is now fully online.
rdcu.be/euiWG
Summary picture is below, but details in the 🧵
rdcu.be/euiWG
Summary picture is below, but details in the 🧵
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺
Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺
May 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺
Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research...
12-month hard salary. 100% focus on research and training. Chance to join a microbiology-focused department (viral and bacterial).
12-month hard salary. 100% focus on research and training. Chance to join a microbiology-focused department (viral and bacterial).
June 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research...
12-month hard salary. 100% focus on research and training. Chance to join a microbiology-focused department (viral and bacterial).
12-month hard salary. 100% focus on research and training. Chance to join a microbiology-focused department (viral and bacterial).
The Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, is currently recruiting for a Research Scientist 5 (Assistant/Associate Professor equivalent) to lead an independent research program focused on zoonotic and/or vector-borne pathogens (viral and bacterial).
June 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, is currently recruiting for a Research Scientist 5 (Assistant/Associate Professor equivalent) to lead an independent research program focused on zoonotic and/or vector-borne pathogens (viral and bacterial).
Baseball, and why it's the most beautiful sport ever created.
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
April 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Baseball, and why it's the most beautiful sport ever created.
The meme channel in our lab Slack should be re-named the PI roast channel.
March 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The meme channel in our lab Slack should be re-named the PI roast channel.
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March 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Philly is out in full force to Stand Up for Science!!
March 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Philly is out in full force to Stand Up for Science!!
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
March 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!
Science not silence!
March 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!
Science not silence!
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Getting ready to #StandUpForScience in Washington, DC
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Getting ready to #StandUpForScience in Washington, DC
Looking for a postdoctoral position in mycobacterial cell-cell contact communication? Look no further! Join my colleagues, Todd Gray and Keith Derbyshire, at the Wadsworth Center:
healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Ca...
healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Ca...
Research Affiliate I (Post Doctoral)
Applications to be submitted by March 14, 2025 Compensation Grade: P99 (Research Affiliate I) Compensation Details: Minimum: $61,008.00 - Maximum: $61,008.00 Annually Department (OPH) WADS - Wadsworth...
healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Looking for a postdoctoral position in mycobacterial cell-cell contact communication? Look no further! Join my colleagues, Todd Gray and Keith Derbyshire, at the Wadsworth Center:
healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Ca...
healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HRI_Ca...
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
A Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Genome-wide CRISPRi Screen Reveals a Role for Type 1 Fimbriae in Evasion of Antibody-Mediated Agglutination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628777v1
December 18, 2024 at 12:20 PM
A Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Genome-wide CRISPRi Screen Reveals a Role for Type 1 Fimbriae in Evasion of Antibody-Mediated Agglutination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628777v1
Long shot (feel free to share), but are you or someone you know an engineering student in the Albany area looking for work? @sianowen.bsky.social and I are hiring someone to do a custom instrument build and a little microbiology with us. Part-time, hourly work that fits your schedule this semester.
Hourly Laboratory Technician I
Applications to be submitted by January 06, 2025 Compensation Grade: H96 Compensation Details: Minimum: $17.85 - Maximum: $17.85 Hourly Department (OPH) WADS - Wadsworth Center Job Description: Respon...
healthresearch.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Long shot (feel free to share), but are you or someone you know an engineering student in the Albany area looking for work? @sianowen.bsky.social and I are hiring someone to do a custom instrument build and a little microbiology with us. Part-time, hourly work that fits your schedule this semester.
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
Very glad to see our story on the choreography of #ESCRT proteins in #archaeal cell division finally published in mBio - Junfeng Liu et al "A relay race of ESCRT-III paralogs drives cell division in a hyperthermophilic archaeon" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
December 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Very glad to see our story on the choreography of #ESCRT proteins in #archaeal cell division finally published in mBio - Junfeng Liu et al "A relay race of ESCRT-III paralogs drives cell division in a hyperthermophilic archaeon" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
Published in March, this video comes from research that aimed use #CryoET to demonstrate how FtsZ filaments are recruited into a ring or “toroidal” structure as part of a bacterial cell’s division machinery. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3BBCDIY
https://buff.ly/3BBCDIY
December 21, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Published in March, this video comes from research that aimed use #CryoET to demonstrate how FtsZ filaments are recruited into a ring or “toroidal” structure as part of a bacterial cell’s division machinery. #12DaysOfeLife
https://buff.ly/3BBCDIY
https://buff.ly/3BBCDIY
Reposted by Jon Paczkowski🌹
Check out the ASM 10th Conference on Biofilms Bluesky page @asmbiofilms2025.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Check out the ASM 10th Conference on Biofilms Bluesky page @asmbiofilms2025.bsky.social