Rojas Lab

Dylan makes the cover of Biophysical Journal!

Dear Twitter, Dylan (@DylFitzmaurice) made a very nice paper that dissects the molecular basis of outer membrane mechanical properties!

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792

Dear Twitter, The NYU Biology and Physics Departments have a joint tenure-track position open. Please re-post and pass the info along to anyone that might be interested to apply! apply.interfolio.com/155417

Excited to finally share our recent work, "Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis by paving cell wall microstructure", available now on bioRxiv! @TheRojasLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wall teichoic acids regulate peptidoglycan synthesis by paving cell wall microstructure biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Lactate is an important substrate🍔for P. aeruginosa in infection sites. We show that PA’s “redundant” lactate dehydrogenases are used by different biofilm subpopulations and contribute to survival within macrophages🦠Great work by @Lindsey_Florek& collabs.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.0…

🔬🦠 Read our latest review tinyurl.com/2y9ebsgl in @PLOSPathogens on bacterial condensates, their role in stress sensing and response, and potential for influencing host-pathogen interactions. Fun project with the @ChildersLab. Congrats to @moeka_sasazawa and @DylanTomares

Are you looking for a biology postdoc position in New York City? Come visit us for a one day minisymposium for postdoc applicants as part of the emerging scholars program! Please RT! as.nyu.edu/departments/bi…

Dear Twitter, @maximohairwe made a really cool paper on how an instability (bifurcation) the fitness landscape of fungal hyphae leads to a strict constraint on their shapes! nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

And a shout-out to all bacteria and archaea cytosleleton folks - we want to grow in participation in the following years. I have only great interactions with our fungi and plant colleagues.

Come hear Maxim (@maximohairwe ) headline an all-star lineup at the Grad Center this Friday!

Dear Twitter, Guy Mason (@Imnotyourguybud) made a very nice paper about how bacteria survive bacteriophage if you squish them! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb… See also related work by Nassos Typas and @ProfCJHernandez :) 10.1101/2022.07.26.501644 and 10.1038/s41598-023-40897-w

🚨 Sunrise NYU just won divestment at New York University! This is a huge win for climate justice! Congratulations to every student organizer who made this happen. #DivestNYU #ClimateJustice theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s…

My first paper ever is live on biorxiv! We @TheRojasLab modeled all the shapes that are physically possible for a tip growing cell and compared those to what is observed in nature. Surprise! Not all possible shapes are occupied and a mechanical instability may govern this

New @bioRxiv preprint! tinyurl.com/mr4yxsxb @Ying_Xie_ found that polysome collapse & mRNA condensation fluidizes the cytoplasm. This helps assembly of another membraneless stress organelle: Q-bodies! P-bodies and SGs tune the physical properties of the cytoplasm! RT plz!

Join us March 20 for NYU's annual Darwin Lecture! Featuring Carl Zimmer! This talk is open to the public but you have to register: eventbrite.com/e/2023-darwin-…

Take a handful of bacterial genetics, a bit of biochemistry, and a twist of microscopy and you get the latest Bernhardt lab story led by @EFivenson on the shape determining role of the Gram-negative OM. #LPS #elongasome #teammicroscopy 🧫🦠🔬

Excited to share our preprint on multimodal single-cell sequencing to characterize antigen-specific CD8+ T cells across COVID vaccination and disease. We also release datasets profiling ATAC, RNA, protein, TCR and MHC dextramers at single-cell resolution: biorxiv.org/content/early/…