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Current Biology
Plant biology: Peering deeply into the structure of the onion epidermal cell wall
January 18, 2022
Featuring: Nicolas et al. (2022) Current Biology
Leiden University News
Dangerous microbes in lower level safety lab? A new technique could make it possible
January 18, 2022
Featuring: Depelteau et al. (2022) Communications Biology
Small Things Considered Blog
Grant’s Anatomy
December 9, 2021
Featuring: The Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure
Thermo Fisher Scientific Blog
Open Access: Cellular Cryo-Electron Tomography Education
March 13, 2021
Caltech News
Announcing Caltech Library’s Publication of the Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure
March 9, 2021
F1000
Article Recommendation – ✭✭
January 21, 2021
Featuring: Nguyen et al. (2019) Nature Communications
Trends in Neurosciences
Local sourcing of secretory proteins in faraway places
June 13, 2020
Featuring: Carter et al. (2020) Science Advances
Caltech News
The evolution of a bacterial navigation system
June 8, 2020
Featuring: Ortega et al. (2020) Nature Communications
MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences
Shoot Out: Details of the machinery some bacteria use to inject toxins into host cells
June 24, 2019
Featuring: Ghosal, Jeong et al. (2019) Nature Microbiology
Trends in Microbiology TrendsTalk
What career advice do you give your grad students or postdocs?
April 25, 2019
Nature Behind the Paper Blog
Legionella Dot/Icm type IV secretion system: A molecular machine gun
April 22, 2019
Featuring: Ghosal, Jeong et al. (2019) Nature Microbiology
Nature Behind the Paper Blog
Modeling the mesoscale of bacterial cell division
March 19, 2019
Featuring: Nguyen et al. (2019) Nature Communication
Science
Microsolution for macromolecules
February 15, 2019
Featuring: Martynowycz et al. (2019) Structure
Caltech Magazine
The Inside Story: A Q&A with Cryo-electron Microscopist Alasdair McDowall
Spring, 2018
Small Things Considered Blog
Pictures Considered #46. Fairy Lights (nanometer scale)
May 21, 2018
Featuring: Subramanian et al. (2018) PNAS
Cell Press CrossTalk
Nobel Symposium on Protein Folding: Thoughts, impressions, and zingers
August 2, 2017
Science News
Scientists spy on the secret inner life of bacteria
June 22, 2017
Featuring: Dobro et al. (2017) Journal of Bacteriology
Caltech News
Scientists Learn Secrets of Deadly Bacterial Toxin Gun
April 17, 2017
Featuring: Ghosal et al. (2017) EMBO Reports
NPR – The 90-Second Naturalist Podcast
Tubeworms
April 15, 2016
Featuring: Shikuma et al. (2014) Science
Nature Reviews Microbiology
ECT joins the rotary club
April 12, 2016
Featuring: Chang et al. (2016) Science
and Beeby et al. (2016) PNAS
Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
An astounding nanoscale magnified view of bacterial ‘motors’
March 30, 2016
Featuring: Chang et al. (2016) Science
and Beeby et al. (2016) PNAS
Caltech News
An Up-Close View of Bacterial “Motors”
March 17, 2016
Featuring: Chang et al. (2016) Science
and Beeby et al. (2016) PNAS
Small Things Considered Blog
Ostreococcus tauri, the smallest known eukaryote
February 19, 2015
Featuring: Henderson et al. (2007) PLoS One
Scientific American Blog
Bacterial motors come in a dizzying array of models
December 16, 2014
Featuring: Chen et al. (2011) EMBO Journal
Structural Biology Knowledgebase
Correlative microscopy on ice
August 2014
Featuring: Chang et al. (2014) Nature Methods
Nature Methods
Super-resolution CLEM
December 30, 2014
Featuring: Chang et al. (2014) Nature Methods
Small Things Considered Blog
Self-assembly for me
August 27, 2014
Featuring: Chen et al. (2011) EMBO Journal
Small Things Considered Blog
The tale of a tubeworm and a biofilm
April 22, 2014
Featuring: Shikuma et al. (2014) Science
F1000
Article Recommendation – 2✭
February 19, 2014
Featuring: Briegel et al. (2013) Molecular Microbiology
F1000
Article Recommendation – 2✭
February 11, 2014
Featuring: Pilhofer et al. (2012) Nature Communications
Caltech News
Bacterial “syringe” necessary for marine animal development
January 14, 2014
Featuring: Shikuma et al. (2014) Science
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Diffusion barrier segments the stalk
February 2013
Featuring: Schlimpert et al. (2012) Cell
F1000
Article Recommendation – ✭
February 11, 2013
Featuring: Abrusci et al. (2012) Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
F1000
Article Recommendation – 2✭
January 4, 2013
Featuring: Swulius et al. (2012) Journal of Bacteriology
Journal of Bacteriology
The price of tags in protein localization studies
September 7, 2012
Featuring: Swulius et al. (2012) Journal of Bacteriology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Highly sprung secretion
April 2012
Featuring: Basler et al. (2012) Nature
Caltech News
Some bacteria attack using spring-loaded poison daggers
February 27, 2012
Featuring: Basler et al. (2012) Nature
Caltech News
Understanding bacterial sensors
February 29, 2012
Featuring: Briegel et al. (2012) PNAS
Nature Chemical Biology
Bacterial outer membrane evolution via sporulation?
January 2012
Featuring: Tocheva et al. (2011) Cell
Small Things Considered Blog
Microtubules in the verrucomicrobial closet
January 30, 2012
Featuring: Pilhofer et al. (2011) PLoS Biology
Microbiology’s Platypus Blog
Bacterial origin to our cytoskeleton?
December 8, 2011
Featuring: Pilhofer et al. (2011) PLoS Biology
Caltech News
Caltech group applies new techniques and sees surprises in cell division
September 8, 2011
Featuring: Gan et al. (2011) Current Biology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Bacterial pea shooters
August 2011
Featuring: Shetty et al. (2011) PLoS One
Nature Cell Biology
A metabolic assembly line in bacteria
August 2010
Featuring: Ingerson-Mahar et al. (2010) Nature Cell Biology
F1000
Article Recommendation – 7✭
August 9, 2010
Featuring: Ingerson-Mahar et al. (2010) Nature Cell Biology
Caltech News
Caltech scientists get detailed glimpse of chemoreceptor architecture in bacterial cells
September 11, 2009
Featuring: Briegel et al. (2009) PNAS
Molecular Microbiology
Looking inside the box: bacterial transistor arrays
May 14, 2008
Featuring: Briegel et al. (2008) Molecular Microbiology
F1000
Article Recommendation – ✭
November 12, 2007
Featuring: Iancu et al. (2007) Journal of Molecular Biology
Caltech News
Structural biologists get first picture of complete bacterial flagellar motor
August 4, 2006
Featuring: Murphy et al. (2006) Nature