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@baylinklab.bsky.social
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🦠Enthusiastic microthanatologists (i.e. the study of how to kill microbes) & lovers of redox biology and bacterial chemotaxis🧫 Washington State University - Esch LEAD Professor - Inclusion of Rural Individuals in Science (IRIS) www.baylink-lab.com

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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Early Earth was an anoxic world. How did bacteria first learn to sense oxygen and use it to their advantage? In our new study, we show that bacterial CZB proteins mediate aerotaxis and redox taxis by monitoring extracellular bioavailable Zn²⁺. #microsky 🧪🦠🔬🧫 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tessa Solomon-Lane @tksolomonlane.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Please share! I'm hiring a new NSF-funded Lab Technician, ideally to start in June at the Claremont Colleges. We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a highly social cichlid fish 🐠🧠🧪 +info TessaSolomonLane.com/Hiring
A white, blue, and purple flyer advertising that the Solomon-Lane Lab is hiring an NSF-funded Lab Technician. Apply by May 8th! 

About the Lab
• We study the development of social behavior and its regulation by behavioral, endocrine, and neural mechanisms using a highly social cichlid fish model - Burton’s Mouthbrooder (Astatotilapia burtoni).
• Our lab group is comprised entirely of undergraduate researchers! We are a part of the Department of Natural Sciences of Pitzer College and Scripps College, within the Claremont Colleges consortium.
• We are a welcoming and collaborative group committed to an inclusive, honest, and fair environment for research and learning.

About the Position
• In collaboration with the PI and undergraduate researchers, the technician will be actively involved in all aspects of the research process, from designing experiments to disseminating results.
• Learn key and cutting-edge scientific techniques in behavioral neuroendocrinology.
• Gain experience in mentoring undergraduates, leadership, and research independence.

Job details & eligibility
• Ideal start date in June 2026 (flexibility possible)
• NSF-funded, full-time, 1-year (with possibility for extension) position with benefits. See job ad for pay.
• Bachelor’s degree in neuroscience, biology, psychology, or a related field required.
• At least 1 year of relevant research experience.

Learn more at: TessaSolomonLane.com/Hiring
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Bruce Redden for being accepted into the @harvard.edu Medical School MD/PhD Summer Program! This summer, Bruce will work on a mentored research project at HMS and train with clinicians at Massachusetts General Hospital. www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/heart...
A photo of Bruce Redden
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Lots of great vector-borne disease research in our department here at #WSU in Pullman, WA. Come join the team! Borrelia, Anaplasma, and more! Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology Dept within the College of Veterinary Medicine. #lymedisease #microsky #idsky 🧪🦠🧫
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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
#episky #idsky #microsky #virosky
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Scientists: scale of 1-10 how do you feel about the new required SciENcv biosketch format? 10=love 5=no difference to old 1=deep hatred 🧪🦠🧫🧬
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Enjoying the great science at STiM in Ventura, CA!
Photo of people at hotel.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
12+ years & multiple generations of scientists. We are excited to share a new preprint describing structure(s) of H. pylori transducer-like protein D (TlpD), a key chemotaxis protein and a model for a widespread class of soluble chemoreceptors. ▶️ Preprint: lnkd.in/gUw67dU8 🦠 🧪 #microsky #idsky
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Heading to the Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms meeting shortly - looking forward to hearing the latest and greatest on bacterial motility and #chemotaxis www.grc.org/sensory-tran... 🦠 #microsky 🧪
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2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A little lab holiday spirit
Photo shows the lab with christmas lights
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
First major snowfall of the year in #CougarCountry! Perfect for writing papers and grants.
A view out the windowSnow outside
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A big congratulations to future #IDsky physician-scientist Bruce Redden for his research presentation award at this year's ABRCMS. Lots of time and practice went into that presentation! Such a great meeting for the next generation of researchers to network & share discoveries! 🦠🧪 #medsky #medsky
Photo of Bruce holding his award.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
ASM NW was wonderful this year! In addition to the great science, this trainee-focused meeting plays such an important role in providing the next generation of scientists, microbiologists, and clinicians an opportunity to learn, network, and share their own research. 🧪🦠
Photo of the Baylink lab group that attended ASMNW.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#BLAST A great lab to investigate bacterial locomotion and signal transduction! #microsky #idsky 🧪🦠🧫
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
You’ve heard of #Lymedisease, but have you ever seen the bacteria that causes it? 🦠 Borrelia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped culprit transmitted by ticks, swims with a creepy wriggling motion and uses #chemotaxis to navigate. Both fascinating... and disgusting #Microsky 🧪 #IDsky @shawlab.bsky.social
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Ariane Briegel @arianebriegel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Registration is open! Come join us at the sensory transduction in microorganisms GRC! Spread the word! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
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2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🚨 Postdoctoral Position 🚨 Investigate molecular mechanisms of protein homeostasis in Salmonella during infection! Strong background in biochemistry/molecular biology encouraged. 📩 Send CV, publications, and statement to Eduardo A. Groisman at Yale: eduardo.groisman@yale.edu 🧪 #microsky 🦠 #BLAST
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Link to new article in Nature: Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur 🧪🦖🦕 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Wonderful how Alphafold has opened up protein structure prediction to non-experts but you still have to feed it correct information (like oligomeric state!). A small test case shows AF3 makes excellent guesses on natural variants but inaccuracies occur from dubious user inputs. #microsky #IDsky 🧪🦠
Comparisons of crystal structure and AlphaFold 3 models of KatASS1. (A) Overlay of crystal structure KatASS1 (two chains, yellow) and crystal structures of KatA26659 (light gray, four chains). Variant sites are noted in pink. (B–E) Poses of variant residues within KatASS1, as indicated. KatASS1 crystal structure chains are shown in yellow and KatA26995 crystal structure chains in light gray. Green mesh is mFo-DFc omit map electron density at 3.5 σ averaged over the two non-crystallographic symmetry (NCS) chains, and dark blue mesh is 2mFo-DFc NCS-averaged electron density at 1.0 σ of the final model. (F) Overlay of the KatASS1 crystal structure (yellow) with three AlphaFold 3 models (light blue, blue, and dark blue) using native sequence and tetramer oligomerization as input parameters. (G–J). Overlay of each variant residue comparing crystal structure (yellow) positions to AlphaFold three predictions (blue). (K). Global root-mean-square-deviation (RMSD) values for each structure and model in relation to crystal structure KatASS1 chain A.
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome. 💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia 📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 🌍 Int’l applicants welcome! Application link below. #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
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Smriti Mallapaty @smritimallapaty.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Talent recruitment programmes have enticed many researchers to return to China. But how successful have they been? I spoke with several researchers who have analysed these trends and assessed their impact on China's research ecosystem 🧪
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How China’s bold talent recruitment has shaped science
Many Chinese researchers have received enviable benefits and positions after returning from training abroad.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In our new study in @elife.bsky.social with the cheeky title "Navigating Contradictions" we used these tiny glass needles to study chemotaxis & learn how Salmonella and other gut pathogens make decisions when they encounter conflicting stimuli. #microsky #IDsky 🦠🧪 #gastrosky tinyurl.com/yckdn8v6
Shown is Dr. Baylink holding a tiny glass needle known as a microcapillary. This was used to study chemotaxis by injecting chemical effectors into a pond of motile bacteria and monitoring their responses through microscopy.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity – Rutgers University! Join Ann Stock’s lab to study how Bacteroides regulate fiber and glycan metabolism via hybrid two-component systems. Structural + regulatory biology | CryoEM, crystallography, gene regulation 🔗 Apply | 🔬 Lab 📧 stock@cabm.rutgers.edu #postdoc #microsky 🧪🦠
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And this also biases the directions and priorities of science in ways that don’t necessarily reflect the values of the broader public.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Scientists: anyone else's first draft of manuscript figures look like these? 🧪 #chemotaxis #microsky #motility
hand drawn science diagrams
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
At @wsuvetmed.bsky.social we are launching a new program to help students bridge the gap to careers in the biomedical industry. What skills and experiences should we focus on to better prepare and connect our trainees with industry opportunities? 🧪🦠 #microsky #medsky #WSU
a crowd of students and mentors at the Esch LEAD advisory retreat
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
June is #NationalCancerSurvivorMonth. Thanks to cancer research, millions of people in the U.S. and worldwide are living with, through, and beyond a cancer diagnosis. Test your knowledge with our Cancer Survivorship quiz. www.aacr.org/Pages/NCSM-Q... #CelebrateSurvivorship
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Like watching Salmonella swim around? We do! In our revisions for our study in @elife.bsky.social we saw that #salmonella tolerates indole as long as nutrients are around, but the degree of their attraction depends on [indole]. Study: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... 🧪🦠 #Microsky #IDsky #Gastrosky
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12/06/2025
A paper in Nature reports the discovery of a new species of tyrannosauroid — the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. This discovery sheds new light on the evolution of wider tyrannosaur species. go.nature.com/4jM0KVo #Paleosky 🧪
Khankhuuluu in the timeline of tyrannosaurs. Credit: Jared Voris
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I've got some expanded thoughts on yesterday's State of the Science event.
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Ariane Briegel @arianebriegel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Interested in the microbiome? Don’t miss this meeting at CalTech in September!
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🧪 #microsky 🧫🦠
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BLAST Meetings @blastmeetings.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
And if you are interested in the "behind the paper" story... urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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To swim or not to swim during starvation
During carbon starvation, motility may help bacteria to swim out of trouble, but at great energetic cost. Marine bacteria have developed two strategies in response: keep searching or stay home.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🔊To chemotaxers, biofilmers, twitchers, swarmers, and swimmers, please consider nominating a deserving colleague for an ASM award! ➡️Due July 1st. asm.org/academy/acad... 🧪🦠🧫 #microsky #IDsky @blastmeetings.bsky.social
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ASM Awards and Prize Program
ASM is a nonprofit professional society that publishes scientific journals and advances microbiology through advocacy, global health and diversity in STEM programs.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We are "microthanatologists" and we are getting better at killing our microbes of interest! Micro: small Thanatology: the study of death 🧪🦠🧫 #IDsky
An agar plate with antibiotic-soaked discs that kill nearby bacteria.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
First gen proud! Nice to see an analysis from the chemistry PoV
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
🧪🔬🧫We have to watch this TONIGHT! Francis Collins will sit down for an interview on 60 Minutes and will outline the impacts of cuts to the NIH. Tune in! www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...
Francis Collins, the former director of the NIH will sit down for an interview tonight with 60 Minutes to discuss the impact of cuts by the Trump administration on the NIH.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is such a cool tool and exactly how we should have framed NIH research all along: Taxpayers fund scientists to understand disease and discover new treatments—and we deliver. It’s public investment that saves lives and improves health for everyone. Direct ROI. 🧪🧫 #IDsky #GastroySky
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So excited to visit Indiana University next week! Looking forward to learning about the incredible science happening there & and sharing some of what our lab's been up to. 🧬🔬 I am bringing lots of visual aids for the talk 😁
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Citrobacter swims, drawn to rich, liquid feces— a feast fuels its harm. 🦠🧪🧫 #chemotaxis
Citrobacter koseri strain 4225-83 response to liquified human fecal treatment, injected into the center of the video with a glass microcapillary.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Bringing you your weekly update of chemotactic creepy crawlies. Here is a strain of E. coli isolated from a urinary tract infection being attracted to human 💩. Yummy! Each white dot is a bacterium. Interestingly the cells shaped like long pool noodles seem less interested. 🦠🧫🧪 #IDsky #gastrosky
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025
Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...
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Northwestern University to self-fund research despite Trump administration freeze
While university officials said they’ve still not received official word of such action, they acknowledged receiving about 100 stop-work orders from the federal government on roughly 100 fede…
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
When E. coli gets a whiff of fresh 💩 it’s game on. They use chemotaxis to swim towards the source and enjoy the buffet of tasty L-serine, L-aspartate, glucose & other nutrients. Bacteria do this inside your intestines everyday! 🧪🧫🦠 #IDsky #gastrosky #chemotaxis
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Check out our recent review of clinical translation in the human microbiome field 💩🦠⚕️ 👇
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🧪🧫 Which of these new putative drugs is more likely to make it to clinical trial? Your choices are a golden yellow powder or a lovely amber orange powder. Taking bets now - will reveal the answer in 5-10 years.
A picture of two bottles of chemical powders, one yellow one orange.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🌄🧑‍🌾People from rural & remote areas are underrepresented in science but their impacts have been profound. Dr. Maurice Hilleman, raised on a Montana farm, developed vaccines for mumps, Hep B, and more that may save 8 million+ lives a year. #Ruralinclusion #Vaccines 🧪 🦠 🧫 See👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
Photo of Dr. Maurice Hilleman.
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Can any marine biologist identify? Found washed up on beach on Oregon coast. 🧪 #marinebiology #oceanography 🐟
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
And I will vouch that Dr. Monica Gerth would be a fun colleague :)
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Baylink Lab @baylinklab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🧪This mesmerizing green and purple cloud happens inside our gastrointestinal tract everyday! Swimming bacteria use chemotaxis to rapidly find nutrients. Takes only a few seconds. WAY faster than phagocytes (~20 min). Bacteria will literally swim circles around them 🦠💨 #MicroSky #IDSky #GastroSky
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
take a deep breath of O₂! #MicroSky
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