Yves Brun lab

Light reading to distract me from the news. Yet it is strangely familiar.

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Why do we always submit grant proposals at the last minute? This never ceases to amaze me.

Please repost: PhD position with my lab and @weisslab.bsky.social in a great collaboration on bacterial adhesion #microsky. See drive.google.com/file/d/1GJD4...

As I was saying, happy to be back home! Cheers!

Désolé, c’était un peu la folie à la fin du séjour.

Congratulations Marie! Immensely proud! Looking forward to seeing where you take your project on evolution of bacterial elongation.

Sabbatical is over! I really enjoyed my time in Marseille for 10 months @lcbofficiel.bsky.social but very happy to be back in Montreal and with my lab. Also, the view from my office 😀

Excited to see our automated HT growth/microscopy screening platform coming together. Pictured: the intermediate version to screen 5-10,000/day unattended. Diagrammed is the full platform due next summer after renovations @ 20,000/day and integrated with our colony picker.

Exciting news!
My work with Liu Yang in the @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social, “Phenotypic plasticity in cell elongation among closely related bacterial species”, has been selected as an Editors’ Highlight in @natcomms.nature.com under Microbiology and infectious diseases!

Check it out here:

How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species". Happy to see this paper in print @natcomms.nature.com. Nice work by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al. See original 🧵, different colours, same data and conclusions.

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Does it make you feel young or old? 🤣

Excited to be in Grenoble surrounded by mountains to give a seminar today at the IBS where I was on sabbatical 10 years ago.

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.

Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design

Please repost for reach 💚

Dream team!

A classic!

I have this picture in a seminar I am giving in less than an hour!

Indeed, please also check the paper on the same topic by
@lowlab.bsky.social published a few months ago in the same journal.

Great to see @ianyyen.bsky.social's first paper in print! He deserves major congratulations for driving a stimulating collaboration: he determined structures of the Tad pilus ATPase CpaF from Caulobacter and proposes how CpaF employs a rotary mechanism of catalysis to drive pilus assembly #microsky

Bagel?

This is why the new threat against university funding in Canada is concerning, clearly a fraction of the population here do not understand either how things work and universities contribute.

Carboxysome Shell Protein CcmK2 Assembles into Monodisperse and pH-Reversible Microparticles Synthetic nano- and microparticles have become essential tools in biotechnology. Protein-based compartments offer distinct advantages over synthetic particles, such as biodegradability and biocompatib...

New paper from the Vecchiarelli Lab! 🧵
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

In collaboration with Lu-Ning Liu lab.

Congratulations to first author Claudia Mak!
@claudiamak.bsky.social

P.S. Claudia is looking for postdocs in protein biochemistry!

Pls ReSkeet

Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...

>1900 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine issued a statement supporting science for the benefit of all citizens, and ... 1/2
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1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com

Camino for a cause – Prof. Ian Henderson’s journey to fund IMB cardiovascular research Professor Ian Henderson, Director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, is taking on the epic Camino Francés, a nearly 800km trek through rural Spain. With each step, Ian will raise vital funds t...

I am walking 800km of the Camino de Santiago to raise funds for cardiovascular research—the world’s largest killer! ❤️‍🩹 This journey is not just a personal adventure, but a mission to make a real difference in fighting heart disease. Check out the link to learn more www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...

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Funding curves for K and F mechanisms

(Warning: the new F mechanism "curve" is a lot)

Terrific set of perspectives and opinions by several researchers, including me, on how to process and respond to attacks on US science specifically, and science writ large.