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Gerrich
@gerrich.bsky.social
Non-conventional microbes, metabolic engineering and microbial genetics. Bacteria go brrr

Finally, finished with my thesis, now off to new frontiers!

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1949-532X
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We examined ~4,600 FtsZ sequences and found that charge segregation in the disordered CTL appears to correlate with cell width across species: FtsZ from wider bacteria tends to have more uniform charge distribution in the linker, whereas high charge segregation is mostly found in skinny cells.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Absolutely the way to fix peer review is for peer reviewers to do better reviews, not an AI to almost match the current poor level of human review. But maybe if you take away the oppotunity for humans to point out a axis label is missing, they'll find more interesting things to say?
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
To me the difference between a preprint on arXiv and a journal publication is, that experts in the field at least took a look and maybe suggested some changes.
If the new difference would be that an AI took on the role of the experts, the difference would feel like less.

Which might be good or bad.
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#MicroSky job openings
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
How many times has trees and wood (in loose definitions) independently evolved? It must be at least a handful of times?
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM