Jake McKinlay

Watch the illustrated journey of an E. coli cell through the human gut, a microbial mat, the sediment, and back again @IndianaUniv Science Fest. Don't forget to fill out the <2min survey on the same page; it helps keep outreach activities like this going. sciencefest.indiana.edu/the-wild-journ…

Come and join us at @IUBloomington @IUBiology! We're hiring across academic ranks in "biohealth informatics" - broadly defined. See app page here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22094 and indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22093

We are hiring faculty at the associate and full professor level in Synthetic Biology. Come join us at Indiana University's beautiful Bloomington campus. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22006

Great work of authors Fultz, McKinlay and Enganti to fully sequence the Arabidopsis NORs (adding the final missing ~9.4 Mbp of the genome), and map the positions of active and silenced rRNA genes within them, is now published, open access ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Transitioning over

Bringing more #phage discussion to the superb This Week in Virology #podcast

Postdoc opportunity in plant-microbe interactions at Oak Ridge National Lab jobs.ornl.gov/job/Oak-Ridge-…

An exciting PhD position is available in my group to work on the evolution of multicellularity in bacteria. Tools: microfluidics, transcriptomics, mutational analyses The project is part of the @spp2389 Deadline: 18.08.2023 Please RT More info👇 uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Indiana University’s Holland Summer Science Research Program (SSRP) came to glorious end, with terrific presentations by our fellows to a packed audience in the Biology Building. 1/4 @IUCollege @IUBiology @NCSE @IUNewsroom

Incredible to witness the mentor-mentee relationship develop over the week. Outstanding job @sheff_olivia and mentee! Find out more about IU's Jim Holland Programs at: biology.indiana.edu/about/outreach…

Had so much fun hosting a Holland Summer Science student this week, a program where high school students join our lab for a week!

“Evolution of a minimal cell” in @Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… Led by @RoyBoy432 with Brent Lehmkuhl at @IUBiology @JCVenterInst collaborators: Lijie Sun, Daniela Bittencourt, Kim Wise, John Glass Along with @dschoolmaster, and Mike Lynch @ASUBiodesign

This past weekend members of IU micro had the opportunity to present their research at #ASV2023

I’m happy to announce that I will join the faculty ranks at Cornell University as a Provost Faculty Fellow on Jan. 1, 2024! Super excited to continue small protein research and look forward to working with my @CornellMicrobio colleagues!

Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding | Annual Review of Microbiology by ⁦@JakeMcKinlay⁩ annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

@chicaScientific @MGSA_IU @chaseabiologist That's just my default sparkling-right-eye N95 smile.

@MGSA_IU @JakeMcKinlay @chaseabiologist @JakeMcKinlay looks super enthused 🤣

Congratulations to our 2022-2023 Outstanding Mentors Ankur Dalia, @JakeMcKinlay, @chaseabiologist, and Chelsea Simpson!! Thank you for all of the support and leadership you provide to the micro department 🤩

@MGSA_IU @chaseabiologist Thanks for the recognition @MGSA_IU. We are blessed with a surplus of outstanding mentors and mentees at all levels.

Over the moon to share that I will be joining the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington @IUBiology as an assistant professor in January 2024!!

Congratulations to @logan_j_geyman for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Holly and @chaseabiologist for honorable mentions! We are so proud of you all and excited to see what you do!

My first postdoc paper is on bioRxiv! We demonstrate that sequence entanglement--in which two genes are encoded within different reading frames of the same DNA sequence--improves the evolutionary stability of high-cost genetic components. Read more here: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Our own Dr. AMilcar Perez is giving a talk at the 4th Fusion conference on Bacterial Cell Biology! #Bacterialcell23