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Looking into funding my lab with "granty" funding
Bacteria are amazing! The abundant Dps protein binds and protects DNA in stationary-phase cells with minimal effect on chromosome accessibility, dynamics, and organization. Now in NAR doi.org/10.1093/nar/...; I'm really proud of our multidisciplinary team led by Lauren, Lindsay, and Xiaofeng, et al.
Wow, what an honor to be included among the "175 ways URochester makes the world ever better"! You can check out the incredible list of people and accomplishments here:
www.rochester.edu/newscenter/r...
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Our manuscript on Dps:DNA condensates is now live on bioRxiv! With @abbondanzieri.bsky.social @meyerroc.bsky.social
Check it out at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congrats to you all for your awards yesterday!
Just wrapped up the 2025 iGEM Jamboree in Paris, and my team won a gold medal and four nominations for their project to create sustainable materials on Mars! @urochester.bsky.social @igemhq.bsky.social
Ugh sorry to hear that - science is not an easy road!
Tough round of rejections recently? 😭
Excited to share a new preprint from a team of researchers I am part of (funded by an NIH grant). The paper helps us understand a question I have been interested in for a while: why are bacteria so resilient?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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@juliebiteenlab.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our multidisiplinary work on how genome-wide DNA bridging by H-NS reshapes the stationary phase bacterial nucleoid and affects the transcriptional landscape. With Xindan Wang and @meyerroc.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lauren, Lindsay, Xiaofeng et al. coupled live-cell super-resolution microscopy with ChIPseq and Hi-C in starved E. coli to learn that the abundant protein Dps compacts DNA while only minimally affecting other nucleoid properties. XindanWang Lab & @meyerroc.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High genetic complexity!
Our new Science Advances paper is out! 🎉 The Plesa Lab's first, it builds on DropSynth technology as a proof of concept for large-scale synthetic gene libraries, showcasing a synthetic metagenomics approach to studying antibiotic resistance at scale. 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Insulin recombinantly synthesized by Yersinia pestis?
Huge congrats to Dr. Andrew Holston on a successful PhD defense!! Andrew has been working on the large-scale characterization and engineering of chimeric receptor histidine kinases. He’s looking for roles in biotech/academia, let’s connect if you’re hiring! -> @hkalltheway.bsky.social
Bring factory jobs back to the US (United Slugs)!
Busy day on Capitol Hill today meeting with nine of the New York House Representatives to advocate for NSF funding! Thanks to the CNSF for organizing and to @urochester.bsky.social for supporting my trip.
Are you a postdoc/grad student preparing to launch a faculty search? Do you have a track record of excellence in research, leadership, mentorship & community engagement? Apply to the 2025 Next Generation Faculty Symposium: www.berkeleystanfordnextgensymposium.com! Pls repost! (1/3)
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A researcher is a problem solver 🧪
A team of 10 undergraduate students has pioneered a new 3D-bioprinting technology that efficiently replicates useful chemicals found in plants, including those endangered by our changing climate.
#EverBetter #URochesterResearch | uofr.us/4iZo2Xr
Done! Thanks for the advice
My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
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Science News Explores published this fun article about our engineered bacteria that focus light like tiny lenses! This kind of research can be the starting point to develop new technologies, which is why the current freezes on NIH and NSF funding are so damaging.
www.snexplores.org/article/glas...
Wow, amazing news!
I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?
Dear Colleagues: I have been out of town attending a conference and was dismayed to learn from news reports that the visas of six of our international students have been terminated by the federal government. At this time, I do not have information about why these students were targeted, though similar actions are occurring at universities across the country, including Duke and NC State. Since last night, I have heard from many faculty members who are distressed and angry, not only because this has happened, but also because we had to learn about it from media reports. At this point, we have not received any communication from university administration. I have written to Chancellor Roberts and Vice Provost for Global Affairs Barbara Stephenson to request as much information as possible, and that it be provided to us promptly. However, information is not our only need. As a faculty, we also urgently need to speak up in support of our international students and colleagues, who are an integral part of our vibrant academic environment at UNC. They enrich our classrooms, our research, and campus community life with their perspectives, ideas, and experiences. We also must speak up for our values as an academic community, especially academic freedom and free expression, the cornerstones of a thriving institution of higher education.
These values ensure that universities remain spaces where ideas can be explored, debated, and tested. They empower both faculty and students to engage with complex and evolving issues, fostering the environment of intellectual growth and critical thinking that we all cherish. While I do not know why our students' visas were revoked, I know that students at other campuses appear to have been targeted for their speech. UNC has a long history of students and other campus community members expressing their views, and the peaceful expression of viewpoints should never be a ground for removing a person from our community. Indeed, freedom of speech and assembly are enshrined in our country’s Constitution. I will share any information I receive from the administration with you. In the upcoming days, as we learn more, members of faculty governance will be considering potential actions we can take to support these six students as well the hundreds of international students, scholars, staff, and faculty here at UNC who may be affected by these and similar actions taken by the federal government. We will likely be reaching out to many of you for your perspectives and guidance. In addition, the April 25 Faculty Council meeting is a joint meeting with the General Faculty during which we can further discuss and propose action. Thank you for the deep concern and care for our students that I see reflected in your anguished emails, texts and calls. In these terrible times, such collective compassion is uplifting—and essential. In solidarity, Beth Kathryn E. (Beth) Moracco, PhD, MPH Chair of the Faculty
The horrifying actions of ICE, kidnapping immigrants & international students & holding them without charges or trial, have now come home to UNC. aculty Chair Beth Moracco told us yesterday at least 6 UNC students had visas revoked. It's time to act for all of us, or know we remained silent 1/2
This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti...
(Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)