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Understanding (or not) microbial communities at the Isaac Newton Institute ! You are not here, but you can still watch the action in real time or retro-respectively at the below link. With huge thanks also to our sponsors Moore Foundation newton.ac.uk/event/umcw06/

Formation dynamics and microbial symbioses in cyanobacteria granules - if that summary makes you curious and if you are looking for a postdoc get in touch to join our Moore Foundation project, -@Cyanotrans . jobs.ac.uk/job/CTX347/res…

Last few days to apply folks!

Working on host-microbe/iome interactions? Looking for your next step after postdoc? Come work with us at UoW based in UK - excellent facilities, good colleagues, and good student base: nature.com/naturecareers/…

If you are interested in #microbiomes for engineering or understanding, you might like these two series of "voices", a CellSystems initiative thanks to @GaalBernadett... Engineering 'voices': cell.com/cell-systems/f… and understanding 'voices': cell.com/cell-systems/p…

Spatial organisation in microbial communities. Two recent review/opinion pieces from osslab and @MicSysEcoLab that might be of interest: doi.org/10.1016/j.cels… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36789239/

What controls metabolic fluxes? Our latest work highlights the relevance of co-substrate cycles as a distinct alternative to enzyme levels: elifesciences.org/articles/84379

A big congrats to our Emily Skates (happiest one in the middle) for her viva success!! Dr. Skates is off to the west coast and looking for postdocs if you are in need of an excellent scientist! Thanks goes to co-supervisor Munehiro Asally 浅利 宗弘 as well as her viva examiners.

Can single cell respiration rate be measured? We think that it is theoretically possible but very hard in practice. If you are intrigued, please read our work with Gabriel Negrão and Pat Unwin using electrochemical probes on bioxriv just out now: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Post-doc quantitative biology symposium at the University of Warwick - combining experiments and modelling.

ThT - a dye used for analysing protein aggregation, can also act as an indicator of mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP). It needs to be used at low concentration though. At high concentration and with high light exposure, it collapses MMP: cell.com/biophysreports…

VACANCY: Interested in biophysics? osslab are looking for a #postdoc to investigate spatial organization and metabolic interactions within a cyanobacterial, structurally organised community. Apply by 2 Jan 2024! bit.ly/417u2Gk Funded by @moorefound

Congrats to Emily Skates, Munehiro Asally 浅利 宗弘 and Dr ZohScho and all others involved in the related work - It is online now - our first cover image! cell.com/issue/S2667-07…

How do cells on a filament coordinate their gliding motility to achieve back-and-forth movement? Our ongoing efforts in collaboration with @PolinMarco, chantal valeriani and Emanuele Locatelli biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How do microbial interactions emerge? In the following, we show that ammonia leakage can underpin a nitrogen-sharing interaction among soil bacteria and fungi. To be tested: Leakage-based N-acquisition could form the basis of loss of nitrate utilisation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#beautifullyWrittenNotSoGoodPapers - you know how to spot them. Can we all (scientists) stop producing them - and editors promoting them - please.

Ammonia can readily be leaked from cells and create a metabolic interaction among microorganisms. Read more here: academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Cells in a filamenteous Cyanobacteria - how do they glide together? Cells are coordinated - until not! Cells rotate during gliding, and when they de-coordinate, the filament twists and form plectonemes! @PolinMarco chantal valeriani Emanuele Locatelli elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Cyanobacteria are never alone in Nature. Which bacteria do they interact with and how? We describe a stable cyanobacterial community reproducibly forming spatial structure and document metabolic interactions/processes within. Read here to learn more: academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…