Erin Goley

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

From MBoC: How do bacteria control their size? Researchers find that the PTS sugar-import system regulates E. coli cell length and width through distinct metabolic pathways involving cAMP, PEP, and pyruvate. https://www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mbc.E26-03-0129

Incredibly excited about our latest work on R-bodies, 5+ years in the making! These coiled protein ribbons extend into ~10 µm needles in a pH-dependent manner & we caught them springing open inside amoebae after P. aeruginosa gets eaten. (animation: Jegg Yoon)🧵1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I have a sticker that says “something wonderful is about to happen” that I got about 25-30 years ago. I’ve put it above every desk I’ve worked at. A little positivity goes a long way.

🔬 #ImageOfTheWeek | Powered by the #DeepSIM 🧠We're diving into the complex architecture of #neurons & #astrocytes. Explore how DeepSIM #superres advances neurobiology research in our App Note: tinyurl.com/3uc6ry98 #FluorescenceFriday

🏁 Catch me if you can! Happy #FluorescenceFriday! ✨ These primordial germ cells are racing through a developing quail embryo’s bloodstream on their way to the gonads. Blink and you’ll miss them! 🏃💨 📷 Glimpsed by @wangjianxiong.bsky.social🔬

How curious? This myeloid cell, even with its chromatins completely condensed, refuses to complete its mitosis. I thought this was my chance to image its division, but after awhile, it just moved away from me, even with its chromosomes still condensed! 🔵=MLC, 💜=H2B+LifeAct. #FluorescenceFriday

This is one of the best selfies of all time. Original post

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

💥 Post-doc opportunity! 💥 Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the cryo-EM structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. 48 months. Please RT. For more details and to apply: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Duke Biology has two faculty positions we're searching for: 1) Assistant Professor in Cellular and Molecular Systems 2) Assistant Professor of the Practice with a focus on Ecology. See here the following link for more details and how to apply: biology.duke.edu/about-us/jobs

Register for a free scientific storytelling workshop @the-node.bsky.social, @prelights.bsky.social & @focalplane.bsky.social are excited to announce our free half-day workshop on scientific storytelling! Join us on 10 November 2026 from 13:00-17:00 GMT. #ScienceStorytelling #ECR #Scicomm

Well, I'd like to just stay a marine microbiologist, but....my sibling is entering a clinical trial. So any peeps out there who are in biomedical land and want to tell me more about ERAS 0015, I'm all ears. It's a KRAS inhibitor, and he's got a specific KRAS mutation. Fingers crossed. 🤞

They’re both bangers…but you gotta go with “I learned it by watching you”

💡Did you know that on September 28, 1928, a Scottish physician named Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin?

The final version of our manuscript on TnSeq in bacteriophages (“HIDEN-SEQ”) is out today – if you have an interesting phage phenotype and want to know the underlying genetic basis, this one is for you! 1/4

A methanogen hydrolase reveals the structure of archaeal peptidoglycan www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Interested in #archaea, #methane, #cell-envelopes? New paper out @nature.com ! We discovered an enzyme that specifically cleaves the cell wall of methanogens, revealing a new chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan, 50 yrs after its first description www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky 🧵👇

The University of Texas at Austin is hiring: Assistant Professor in Biochemistry #assistantprofessor #metabolism #biochemistry

Nicole Baumgarth, director of the Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute at @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social, gets a lot of emails from aspiring young scientists. Last year, one of them—from a group of Georgia high school students—stood out. Read the article: tinyurl.com/y5e43rxv

The Das lab has 1-2 open postdoctoral positions. Our lab investigates the fundamentals of cell-cycle-dependent cell polarity. Boston College has fantastic resources, including a cutting-edge imaging facility with state-of-the-art microscopes. Please apply here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Major FOMO.

Indeed. Grew up in Rhody. It's the bubbler and grinder that give it away.

Flagellar toxicity: Flagellar synthesis is lytic for Bacillus subtilis in the absence of PBP1 PNAS from Dan Kearns lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #MicroSky

Open your lab here at Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

My behavioral neuroscience lab at Northeastern is looking to recruit two new research techs! Job description and link to apply is here: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Most basic science departments at UCSF are having faculty searches this year. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Microbiology & Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and more. We're looking for new and exciting science and nice people. You'll find them all at aprecruit.ucsf.edu

A nice ecological story from Nancy Moran's lab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My MCDB Dept is hiring, again! Assistant Professor Faculty Search. Please Repost! Applications Due Oct 1st We welcome applications from all areas of cellular/molecular biology in prokaryotes, plants, and animals. More information can be found HERE: jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679540/a...

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Here's a quick and cool cheat-sheet on all the competitions, eligibility, deadlines (just realizing the dates I wrote above were the opening dates, not the deadlines: please consult the links I posted for the correct dates and more details of why you should absolutely apply)

Also, I highly recommend the amazing podcast Dolly Parton's America, which is full of tremendous reporting and unusual insight, as well as a terrific interview with Dolly: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

[Exit Queen.]

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

NIH is proposing changes to how grant scores are reported, replacing individual scores & percentiles with three broad categories. What could that mean for researchers deciding whether to revise and resubmit? Comments due Oct 13. https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/nih-changes-who-sees-grant-scores/

Very excited to attend this EMBO workshop again. Fantastic science ahead!

Honest, i would still recommend this job. I love what i do, and we need good people to keep it going.

Congrats to the newest Goley Lab grad, Dr Isaac Payne!!

Stanford Medicine’s Microbiology & Immunology Department (my home department) opened a job search for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Candidates interested in any and all areas of microbiology and/or immunology are encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

@felixrl.bsky.social told us previously *how* #Staph aureus does orthogonal cell division. In his latest paper he tells us *why*: to arrange cell surface proteins required to form staphylococcal abscess colonies. (Videos S1-S2 are amazing!). 🤯 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times.

NIH Intramural Research Program is hiring via the Stadtman program. Prospective candidates should feel free to reach out to me, and I will be happy to share my experience both as an applicant and a panel member- we are looking for great new colleagues! irp.nih.gov/careers/nih-...