Anthony Vecchiarelli

Applications are now being accepted for the 2027 Bacterial Cell Biology & Development GRC, June 6–11! GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027 We’ll likely be oversubscribed, so please apply early!

FACULTY POSITION: We are seeking an Assistant Professor to join our growing and vibrant Department of Microbiology at Cornell! FOCUS: Using bacteria to address 21st century challenges. (part of a cohort hire in SynBio). *please repost* academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33098 #MicroSky

𝗖𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗿-𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 please read Sofie van Dorst's 10-part 🧵here on bluesky – or on Nov 02 in our blog: smallthingsconsidered.blog #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #teamtomo #CryoEM #CryoET

My department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Synthetic Biology (broadly defined). Great community here at UIC and Chicago in general. uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

My department at UCSF (Cell & Tissue Biology) is recruiting for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor studying the fundamental cell biology underlying disease. Join us! App due Dec 1. aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF06272

Plasmid copy number control offers a versatile tool in synthetic biology applications doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Insanity

A DTP PhD opportunity in our group: Breaking Code: Deciphering the Biology of the Selfless Virus-like Gene Transfer Agents. Come help us figuring out!!! retweet = nice. Thank you!!! Apply 👉 shorturl.at/1v9ms #PhD #Microsky #phages #GTA #Caulobacter

At the memorial symposium in honor of J. Craig Venter of the @jcvi.org they had an event on the Midway Aircraft Carrier. They had a nice display of Venter achievements / pics on the walk to the deck. I made a gif of some pics I took.

NSF awarded just 91 social science grants in 2026—down 89%. More than 30 research areas got ZERO. This is a crisis for scholarship. #Censorship #DefendResearch #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky www.science.org/content/arti...

New preprint from the Gurney Lab, on bioRxiv: The Phage Time Continuum: Genome Organization Constrains Anti-CRISPR Success. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I think this is one of the cooler things I'll ever do. Work lead by @sczerwinski.bsky.social he coined the term Phage Time Continuum. 1/10

A hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome retaining only its replicative core doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... (image taken from the authors' preprint version available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

🔥🎯 Abdul-El-Sayed addresses the importance of investing our tax $ in the NIH. The NIH was designed to support breakthroughs decades in the making. The current political climate is killing that infrastructure. ‘When you disinvest in science you’re disinvesting literally in the future.” #pinks

Our Biochem Dept is hiring! Come join us! Please Repost! 👍

🫳 Topological, Functional, and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Cell Division Site Selection Protein MinJ of Bacillus subtilis in: Molecular Microbiology | Microbiology Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #subtiwiki #subtilis @molecularmicro.bsky.social

🚨PhD opportunity alert!!! Come work with us on this new cool NERC DTP PhD project Investigate How Bacterial Hosts Control Domesticated Viral Machines to Drive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments. Retweet = nice. Thank you!!! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

And in other news, yet ANOTHER NSF-funded nobel

"groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models!" (or 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪, for that matter)

Birds are starting to head South. Keep your Porch lights off if you can 💚

It was a pleasure to collaborate on this beautiful piece of work led by Susan Mango: nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Happy to share that our paper, where we used single-molecule microscopy to study cell size control in budding yeast, is out in PNAS! This work was led by Huan in my group, in collaboration with Jan Skotheim, @mpswaffer.bsky.social, and Maria Vera. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2607883123

Excited to share our preprint on Ignicoccus cell divison: only the inner membrane divides, progeny cells accumulate in cell clusters and pop-out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work with the labs: @buzzbaum.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social @anja1.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social

I had a great time at this conference last year and now have the pleasure of helping organize the GRS. I would encourage colleagues to apply and spread the word!

Really looking forward to this! It’s going to be a great meeting. Please spread the word!

The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley currently has two open Assistant Professor positions (aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 & aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522). Interested individuals are welcome to apply to one or both searches.

Now on bioRxiv 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cant wait to join! Don’t miss this meeting!

“Bacterial growth is straightforward to measure, complex in origin and exquisitely sensitive to environmental and genetic perturbations.” Fantastic opening sentence to a deeply interesting topic. Never thought about bacterial growth like this before. #MicroSky #Bacteria

Jiri Pospisil (Libor Krasny lab) on The Sweetest Way to Die: The Mode of Action of Sublancin #Bacillussubtilis #EMBOBacNet

Who would not like to start working on bacteriophages after the talk of @aharms485.bsky.social? Brilliant presentation, Alexander!

Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social on the evolution of bacterial resistance to Type 6 Secretion System warfare #EMBOBacNet

Andrew Hogan (from @jordivangestel.bsky.social and @typaslab.bsky.social groups at @embl.org) on Systematically quantifying the spectrum of bacterial defenses against protist predation #EMBOBacNet

That's Billion with a B.. Last night actor Michael J. Fox accepted an Emmys for his contributions to Parkinson’s disease research. To date, his has helped raise 3 billion dollars for Parkinson’s research

Mark your calendars for the next incarnation of the Biology and Physics of the Prokaryotic Chromosome meeting to be held in Paris on July 6-9, 2027. See the web site for further information biophychrom2027.sciencesconf.org

Anthony Vecchiarelli @cellforganized.bsky.social presents: Yes! Bacteria have organelles! How are they organized? #EMBOBacNet

Kathrin Fröhlich @microberna.bsky.social on Global RNA interactomes discover new functions for bacterial small RNAs #EMBOBacNet See their @narjournal.bsky.social paper dissecting the role of AbnZ sRNA and its impact on cell morphology and vancomycin resist: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Coralie Tesseur @coralietesseur.bsky.social (from @lalouxlab.bsky.social) on a polarity-controlled Tad nanomachine enables prey invasion in a bacterial predator See their bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #EMBOBacNet

Martin Thanbichler @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social on CTP switches – a functionally diverse group of proteins ParB, teaser papers from their lab in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... and J Mol Biol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EMBOBacNet