I had the privilege of hooding two amazing scientists this last weekend. I am certain the best is yet to come for both of them, and I cannot wait to see all their achievements and discoveries in the next chapter of their lives! Congratulations, Dr. Zytnick, and Dr. Govindaraju. Go Bears!
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#StandUpForScience Berkeley - great turnout and fantastic talks! Science makes sense of the world, saves lives and shapes policy (not the other way around)
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It is important at this pivotal moment to @standupforscience.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing my thoughts on why this should be a national priority at tomorrow’s rally in SF:
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Join
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Consider this conference! It is a great experience for students and postdocs!
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Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
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Metals in Motion: Understanding Labile Metal Pools in Bacteria
Metal ions are essential for all life. In microbial cells, potassium (K+) is the most abundant cation and plays a key role in maintaining osmotic balance. Magnesium (Mg2+) is the dominant divalent cation and is required for nucleic acid structure and as an enzyme cofactor. Microbes typically require the transition metals manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn), although the precise set of metal ions needed to sustain life is variable. Intracellular metal pools can be conceptualized as a chemically complex mixture of rapidly exchanging (labile) ions, complemented by those reservoirs that exchange slowly relative to cell metabolism (sequestered). Labile metal pools are buffered by transient interactions with anionic metabolites and macromolecules, with the ribosome playing a major role. Sequestered metal pools include many metalloproteins, cofactors, and storage depots, with some pools redeployed upon metal depletion. Here, I review the size, composition, and dynamics of intracellular metal pools and highlight the major gaps in understanding.
What do we mean by "labile metal pools"?
Their properties depend primarily on the identity of the cation (are are conserved across species).
This review is part of a special issue dedicated to my post-doc mentor Chris Walsh.
#MicroSky
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Two chelators are shown. The ventraö citric acid mojety is highlighted in yellow, the two chelator arms bear either a phenol unit (for MLL) or a 2,3 dihydroxy benzene unit (for RPB B)
#ChemSky This Preprint by @sophieguti.bsky.social has got it all: Natural Product synthesis, Chelators, Ln, Curium luminescence, mass spec methods, bacteria! doi.org/10.26434/che... Comparative Binding Studies of the Chelators Methylolanthanin and Rhodopetrobactin B to Lanthanides and Ferric Iron.🧪🧵
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Undergrads are presenting their awesome work today in lab meeting! It calls for a rehearsal of Thanksgiving food!
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could I be added?
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Professor of Molecular Therapeutics and Metabolic Biology at UC Berkeley; Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology. Lipid droplets, ferroptosis, ubiquitin, drug development.
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. We want to understand how the genome works and how it is regulated, especially during embryonic development & disease. Imprint: https://www.molgen.mpg.de/impressum
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Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility
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Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance. Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham. Director University of Birmingham Doctoral School. Editor in Chief of npj Antimicrobials and Resistance.
Professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the Life Sciences Department at the University of Bath. Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow. Children's author evolution/genetics. Mum.
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Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Mostly about bacterial gene/protein regulation & function, esp. with Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease. Professor at U Kentucky, views are my own. He/him
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🇧🇷🇺🇸Evolutionary Cell Mechanobiology of Archaea. Assistant Professor at Brandeis University. Standing tall on the shoulders of tiny (salty) bugs.
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We like to look at bacteria do the things they do. Université de Montréal.
Bacteriophages, dormant bacteria, and bacterial immunity. Assistant Professor of Molecular Phage Biology at ETH Zürich.
Associate Professor at Montana State University. Studying bacteria and their viruses with a focus on phage-host-microbe interactions.
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