Pietro Cicuta

@infect-net.bsky.social @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social

PhD project on offer - Savannah-on-a-chip - part of the Leverhulme DTC in ecological data science
ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html
at @glasgow.ac.uk

Microfluidics, bacteria and phages. Interactions with eco-epidemiology and physics of life.

Deadline early March - get in touch!

Yes was perfect!

Happy new adventures Leonardo! I fully recommend working with him!

www.icbp2026.org

Transverse section images of cultures from reporter line stained with Haematoxylin and Eosin.

Read our #DMMEditorsChoice highlight on the Research Article by Laetitia Pinte, @martavilagonz.bsky.social, @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social, @andresfloto.bsky.social, @pcicuta.bsky.social, @vallierlab.bsky.social and colleagues.

doi.org/10.1242/dmm....

Expression of nano-engineered RNA organelles in bacteria Designing synthetic biomolecular condensates, or membrane-less organelles, offers insights on the functions of their natural counterparts, and is equally valuable for cellular and metabolic engineerin...

Thrilled to share our latest preprint on expressing synthetic organelles made from RNA nanostructures in bacteria!

1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Photo of a plaque inscribed with this quote: Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. Frontiere? Non le ho mai viste. Ma ho senito che esistono nella mente di alcune persone. Thor Heyerdal In the background is the Mediterranean sea, with clouds on the horizon

Came across this while traveling along the Italian coast:

Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

Thor Heyerdal

#BlueskyArtShow
#TheJourney

and the introduction of a new metric MOR50, based on phenotype and optical imaging, which could really speed up MIC type assays in the context of AMR.

Multipad agarose plate: a rapid and high-throughput approach for antibiotic susceptibility testing | Journal of The Royal Society Interface We describe a phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) method that can provide an eightfold speed-up in turnaround time compared with the current clinical standard by leveraging advances in ...

Featuring an intense use of the recent platform MAP doi.org/10.1098/rsif...

Antibiotics change the population growth rate heterogeneity and morphology of bacteria Author summary Antibiotic drugs affect bacterial cells well beyond their specific molecular targets, and understanding their system-level effects could be key to combating antibiotic resistance. Using...

Happy to announce our new bug paper! From Morten Kals' PhD, doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Expert's Dilemma: the more specialized you become, the less open you are to creative solutions from other fields. But the more you explore other fields, the more you risk losing credibility in your home field.
Interdisciplinary work is still not really embraced by academia.

Top 4 misconceptions about science
1. It fills knowledge-gaps (discoveries are unknown unknowns)
2. It proceeds along a straightforward path (discoveries are not predictable)
3. It looks for answers (new questions are crucial)
4. It is only rational (requires night science leaps)

School of Biological Sciences strengthens commitment to Four new academic positions have been launched in the School of Biological Sciences aiming to recruit outstanding scientists in areas of significant research importance: Associate Professor /

4 New Faculty Positions at Cambridge University in the School of Biological Sciences

www.bio.cam.ac.uk/news/school-...

ooh Bluesky can do videos now... here's an emergency #cilia movie