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Ben Roller

@benroller.bsky.social
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Postdoc, UniWien DOME/CMESS Watching individual bacteria grow and starve he/him

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Martin Polz @polzlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There is a postdoctoral position available in our group: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Please repost.
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University Assistant postdoctoral
University Assistant postdoctoral
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Ben Roller @benroller.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The Polz group @polzlab.bsky.social is planning to get more active here on Bluesky, follow for updates on new work coming from the group, job opportunities, and more from us in Vienna @cemess.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Our latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
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Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation - Nature Microbiology
Without key cell cycle control genes, SAR11 cells experience aneuploidy and growth inhibition when exposed to changes in nutrients, carbon sources or temperature stress, a vulnerability that may repre...
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Martin Polz @polzlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Longstanding collaboration with Scott Manalis where we have developed technology to measure single cell growth rates of bacteria in native seawater with some very surprising results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology! Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com ‬ in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
On the importance of maintaining professional distance in research labs: how much harm in academia (maybe) comes from seemingly good intentions. Recorded spontaneously today in Ishikawa, during a hike, since this has been on my mind. Let me know what you think! #AcademicSky youtu.be/ppbnxMkgo3Q
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Importance of maintaining professional distance in academia: how to avoid harm
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Kerrin Steensen @kerrinsteensen.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Ever thought that only tailed phages really matter? Our latest paper reveals that non-Caudoviricetes prophages could be more important than you'd expect. Curious? Read more here: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Prophages in Vibrio
Abstract. Although tailed bacteriophages (phages) of the class Caudoviricetes are thought to constitute the most abundant and ecologically relevant group o
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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
This is a very good time to be listening to @roseveleth.com's masterpiece podcast, TESTED, about the terrible past and and equally terrible present of sex-testing in sports. www.tested-podcast.com
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TESTED – A surprising history of women’s sports
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
I was going to be very British and diffident about the cancer surgery I'm having imminently, but decided in the end to write this in the hope that it might be helpful for others in similar positions. nautil.us/how-life-rea...
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Shaul Pollak @envsysmicro.at · 27/10/2023
I am looking for multiple Ph.Ds and Postdocs to work on exciting projects at the interface of quantitative microbial ecology and genomics. Applicants with experimental, computational, or theory backgrounds are encouraged to apply! email: shaul.pollak.pasternak@univie.ac.at
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Our new paper is out now in PNAS | Interspecies interactions determine growth dynamics of biopolymer-degrading populations in microbial communities www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #MicroSky
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Ben Roller @benroller.bsky.social · 06/09/2023
Glad to see our paper out after peer review! Bacteria change their mass a lot in batch culture & only achieve their maximum for a short time, even when very dilute. We added new experiments on how fixation impacts mass & with more types of rich media doi.org/10.1128/mbio...
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Single-cell mass distributions reveal simple rules for achieving steady-state growth | mBio
Microbiologists have watched clear liquid turn cloudy for over 100 years. While the cloudiness of a culture is proportional to its total biomass, growth rates from optical density measurements are cha...
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