Yves Brun lab

A study in contrast this morning. Frost, smog, and beach.

Wow, really cool work! Congratulations!

Not funny!

As mentioned, here is the preprint by Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social on the in situ structure of the Tad pilus. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Nice work and great to see that we are seeing the same thing! Our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

Great collaboration with @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social for resolving the Tad pilus machine structure by cryo-ET. Beautiful work by graduate students James Iarocci and Ryu Williston in our lab.

Preprint:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686773v1

More useful with the link #microsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is the link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great collaboration with @guo-lab.bsky.social to determine an in situ architectural model of the Tad pilus machine. Be on the lookout soon for a preprint on the same topic by Grant Jensen and @viollierpat.bsky.social. #microsky

Forgot to post the recently published version of this paper on the role of a minor pilin-like protein in surface sensing journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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.

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Custom Lab Hardware
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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.