Jessie Malit
@team1rocket.bsky.social
Formerly mining bacterial DNA for medicine 🧬💊 now @pilhoferlab.bsky.social tilting and looking at frozen cells at 64000x magnification ❄️🔬 UPD 🇵🇭 / HKUST 🇭🇰 / @ethzurich.bsky.social 🇨🇭
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Jessie Malit
@team1rocket.bsky.social
· Nov 22
It’s wildin’ out there in the microbial world 💀🦠 - with Aureispira grappling and stabbing 🔪🩸 and Yersinia sacrificing themselves 🫥🤕 Now, it’s time we expose the violent tendencies 🥷 of a salty 🧂 #archaea in our new paper in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/5 #cryoET #teamtomo
My first paper with the @pilhoferlab.bsky.social and my first post here in Bluesky! 🤩🦋
Reposted by Jessie Malit
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
Reposted by Jessie Malit
Asgard archaea were first found in mud at the bottom of the North Sea. Today, cellular biologists Martin Pilhofer and Christa Schleper are exploring one of their more elusive structural elements: a totally tubular system that looks a lot like our own.
www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
September 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Asgard archaea were first found in mud at the bottom of the North Sea. Today, cellular biologists Martin Pilhofer and Christa Schleper are exploring one of their more elusive structural elements: a totally tubular system that looks a lot like our own.
www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r...
Reposted by Jessie Malit
Check out 🧐 our new preprint 📜:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats🎉 to @vasilgaisin.bsky.social and Corina Hadjicharalambous, who studied contractile injection systems directly in hot spring♨️ bacterial mats🦠
#microsky #teamtomo #Chloroflexota
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats🎉 to @vasilgaisin.bsky.social and Corina Hadjicharalambous, who studied contractile injection systems directly in hot spring♨️ bacterial mats🦠
#microsky #teamtomo #Chloroflexota
August 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Check out 🧐 our new preprint 📜:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats🎉 to @vasilgaisin.bsky.social and Corina Hadjicharalambous, who studied contractile injection systems directly in hot spring♨️ bacterial mats🦠
#microsky #teamtomo #Chloroflexota
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats🎉 to @vasilgaisin.bsky.social and Corina Hadjicharalambous, who studied contractile injection systems directly in hot spring♨️ bacterial mats🦠
#microsky #teamtomo #Chloroflexota
Reposted by Jessie Malit
Exciting Aug 1️⃣ for two incredible people- Gregor Weiss and Jingwei Xu! Both are starting their independent labs 🔬🧪 TODAY 🥳
I am incredibly thankful 🙏 for their contributions to the lab and that I could be part of their journey
-Martin
@xujwet.bsky.social
@weiss-lab.bsky.social
It was a wild ride👇
I am incredibly thankful 🙏 for their contributions to the lab and that I could be part of their journey
-Martin
@xujwet.bsky.social
@weiss-lab.bsky.social
It was a wild ride👇
August 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Exciting Aug 1️⃣ for two incredible people- Gregor Weiss and Jingwei Xu! Both are starting their independent labs 🔬🧪 TODAY 🥳
I am incredibly thankful 🙏 for their contributions to the lab and that I could be part of their journey
-Martin
@xujwet.bsky.social
@weiss-lab.bsky.social
It was a wild ride👇
I am incredibly thankful 🙏 for their contributions to the lab and that I could be part of their journey
-Martin
@xujwet.bsky.social
@weiss-lab.bsky.social
It was a wild ride👇
Stoked to see the total syntheses finally out for those wild neuroprotective diketopiperazines we talked about before! 💊🧠✨ Here's the one for cyctetryptomycin:
Concise Synthesis of Cyctetryptomycin A and B Enabled by Zr‐Catalyzed Dimerization
A concise synthesis of cyctetryptomycin A and B employing a zirconium-catalyzed dimerization and CttpC-catalyzed oxidative macrocyclization is presented, including in-depth mechanistic analysis of th...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Stoked to see the total syntheses finally out for those wild neuroprotective diketopiperazines we talked about before! 💊🧠✨ Here's the one for cyctetryptomycin:
wooooow 😲😲😲
In a new Science study, cryo–electron tomography captures the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, illuminating how the coordinated action of molecular machines drives life’s fundamental energy conversion.
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/3FA3Ygq
March 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
wooooow 😲😲😲
In a new episode of do we come from Asgard archaea?? -- microtubules!! 🚇 Congrats dream team @florianwollweber.bsky.social and @xujwet.bsky.social!!
Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6
March 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In a new episode of do we come from Asgard archaea?? -- microtubules!! 🚇 Congrats dream team @florianwollweber.bsky.social and @xujwet.bsky.social!!
Reposted by Jessie Malit
Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A little thread below 1/n
A little thread below 1/n
Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria
Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...
www.biorxiv.org
February 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A little thread below 1/n
A little thread below 1/n
Reposted by Jessie Malit
Closing out our winter premier, @florianwollweber.bsky.social will tell us about his investigations into the elusive cell biology of Asgard archaea using state-of-the-art imaging techniques! Show your love for archaea by tuning in on WEDNESDAY! Remember, they're everywhere, always watching 👀
February 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Closing out our winter premier, @florianwollweber.bsky.social will tell us about his investigations into the elusive cell biology of Asgard archaea using state-of-the-art imaging techniques! Show your love for archaea by tuning in on WEDNESDAY! Remember, they're everywhere, always watching 👀
My first paper with the @pilhoferlab.bsky.social and my first post here in Bluesky! 🤩🦋
It’s wildin’ out there in the microbial world 💀🦠 - with Aureispira grappling and stabbing 🔪🩸 and Yersinia sacrificing themselves 🫥🤕 Now, it’s time we expose the violent tendencies 🥷 of a salty 🧂 #archaea in our new paper in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/5 #cryoET #teamtomo
November 22, 2024 at 8:07 PM
My first paper with the @pilhoferlab.bsky.social and my first post here in Bluesky! 🤩🦋