Joyeux Noël!

Diderm Firmicutes strike again! "The Mla system of diderm Firmicute Veillonella parvula reveals an ancestral transenvelope bridge for phospholipid trafficking" Another beautiful story on the bacterial envelope with @chrisbel70.bsky.social@jmghigolab.bsky.socialrdcu.be/drNQ3#MicroSky

Vampire bacteria strike back in this new inspiring piece by @christophstc.bsky.social@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social#MicroSky

Sstcmicrobeblog.bsky.socialNov 23, 2023 10:15am

A Whiff of Taxonomy – Among Vampires by Christoph   Elio wrote 'A table for Two' many years ago, about the sur­pris­ing ob­ser­va­tion that the Gram‑ne­ga­tive bac­terium Vib­rio vul­ni­fi­cus can be preyed upon si­mul­tan­eous­ly by a bac­terio­phage... Read more > tinyurl.com/4d5d69jc #MicroSky

Access to the lab is getting increasingly dangerous.

🦠 🧫 Halloween preprint 🎃 from our lab! Live-cell + cryoEM imaging of the lifecycle of B. exovorus, a predatory bacterium that feeds on Caulobacter (+ close relatives) while firmly attached to the prey surface. The S-layer does not protect against vampirization… and B.exovorus divides into triplets 😮

BMbiorxiv-microbiol.bsky.socialOct 26, 2023 12:23pm

Lifecycle of a predatory bacterium vampirizing its prey through the cell envelope and S-layer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.25.563945v1

Lifecycle of a predatory bacterium vampirizing its prey through the cell envelope and S-layer https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.25.563945v1

Predatory bacteria feed upon and kill other bacteria in various natural environments. Obligate epibi

Please repost! Deadline Oct. 27. Faculty job for bacteriologists! Join our Department of Microbiology @med_umontreal as Assistant/Associate Professor! #Bacteriology#FacultyJob#AcademicJobs#TenureTrackbit.ly/3LE3fuz

No-groni. Cheers!

Major goal here is to spread all the NSF news and advice I can! First piece of advice .... talk to your Program Director! We are normal people. Most of us are former full-time faculty members who have been in your shoes. We've taught, mentored, done research, written grants, written papers, etc.

Do we do the academic cocktail hour on this ciel bleu platform? Cheers! Also, I have always enjoyed reading about the early 20th century physics revolution, fun to start again.

christoph: trump back on 𝕏 was to be expected. does not damage the site (any more). also, I really don't need to see the mugshot (dall-e?). I can easily go with this...