Sander Govers

Asst Prof at KU Leuven | Subcellular organization of bacterial replication | Interplay between cell morphogenesis and cell cycle progression/regulation

[Communications Biology @CommsBio]

Growth stage and interspecies interactions shape the cell biology and cell cycle characteristics of human gut bacteria Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and Roseburia intestinalis: Communications Biology, Published online: 17 November 2025;… https://t.co/ARaR7i3vpi

[Sander Govers @GoversSander]

Correct link: https://t.co/VdM2O4Zve7

[Sander Govers @GoversSander]

We are looking for a postdoc to strengthen our team! Interested in large-scale microscopy screens across bacterial species? Please apply via: https://t.co/HGjPtBkrqF... #Microbiology #ERC Feel free to share/repost.

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

DNA/polysome phase separation and cell width confinement couple nucleoid segregation to cell growth in Escherichia coli https://t.co/86wpWIab8I #biorxiv_micrbio

[Jarno Mäkelä @MakelaJarno]

📢Job Alert!📢
We are looking for 2 PhD students with biophysics or computational biology background for #SuperResolution #singlemolecule tracking project.
More information: https://t.co/5YGrSFehP3
Apply by 31.10.24. 🦠🔬
Pls RT!

[Masschelein Lab @Masschelein_Lab]

📢 Our lab is hiring! Interested in harnessing the biosynthetic potential of beneficial, human-associated bacteria? We're looking for a passionate #postdoc to engineer gut bacteria for local, in vivo disease detection and drug delivery. Apply now! 👇https://t.co/5L7MgtiGHL

[Sammy Pontrelli @sammy_pontrelli]

My lab is searching for a postdoc in microbiology/microbial metabolomics!

Are you a biologist who is secretly realizing you might be a mass spec nerd? If so, I can relate and I'd love to work with you!

Please check out more details here:
https://t.co/yoFAM8HWiX

[Kevin Whitley @KevinDWhitley]

Fully funded 4-year PhD position using cutting-edge fluorescence and electron microscopy to study the bacterial cytoskeleton. 🔬🦠🦴

Co-supervised by Martin Goldberg (Durham) and Yulia Yuzenkova (Newcastle).

Apply by 22 July!

https://t.co/78qqBkCSUw

[Sander Govers @GoversSander]

@CBCB_Newcastle Thanks for having me!

[The EMBO Journal @embojournal]

Mutational Robustness and the Role of Buffer Genes in Evolvability
@KevinVerstrepen et al use the example of chaperone gene HSP90 to review our current understanding of mutational robustness & the role of buffer genes in evolution
#Weekendreading
https://t.co/gPCR6QzpOX

[Mohammed tawfeeq @Mohammedtawfee4]

Excited to share our review article "Mutational Robustness and the Role of Buffer Genes in Evolvability" published in @embojournal #MutationalRobustness #Evolvability #BufferGenes

https://t.co/5FzE7urdvZ #EMBOJournal #MutationalRobustness

[JacobsWagnerLab @JacobsWagnerLab]

Thrilled to share our latest preprint about asymmetric division in E. coli! Work led by the amazing @ThappetaYashna & @SilviaCanasD. Fun collaboration with the Cegelski lab. https://t.co/xRFGGSTDOZ

[Sangjin Kim @sjkimlab]

Coupled or not coupled? In this preprint, we explored conditions that affect coupling (or uncoupling) between transcription, translation, and mRNA degradation in bacteria.
https://t.co/jXeFPJw23P

[JacobsWagnerLab @JacobsWagnerLab]

Bacterial growth rate modulation is typically associated with genetic or environmental changes. In this preprint, we show that growth rate in Caulobacter varies between daughter cells in the same environment. Led by (brand-new) Dr. @skye_glenn. #ppGpp https://t.co/DFxbvs7AHh

[JacobsWagnerLab @JacobsWagnerLab]

Thrilled to share our latest preprint describing the role of genome concentration on cell growth and proteome composition. Work led by @MakelaJarno with a fun collaboration with @JanSkotheim lab. https://t.co/preqsWHzak

[Anthony Vecchiarelli @CellfOrganized]

Interested in the mechanisms driving subcellular organization in bacteria?

The Vecchiarelli lab has a postdoc position available!

https://t.co/0GW7kzcOu5

Plz RT!

[Sander Govers @GoversSander]

For those interested in automatically curating their bacterial cell detections in microscopy images, we wrote a protocol (+ jupyter notebooks) for how to train a support vector machine to take care of this (otherwise often laborious) task! https://t.co/GNesgeXron @STARProtocols

[JacobsWagnerLab @JacobsWagnerLab]

Happy to share latest paper from our lab. Tour-de-force study led by now-former postdoc @GoversSander, which involved imaging cell cycle markers in E. coli across thousands perturbations. It identified simple population principles of cell cycle control https://t.co/LilkFOpb9a

[Sander Govers @GoversSander]

Again, many thanks to everyone involved, especially @JacobsWagnerLab, @LalouxLab, @ManuelC11175130, and @BhavyaaTyagi!

[Sander Govers @GoversSander]

Happy to have this published! The last from my postdoc time in @JacobsWagnerLab: our efforts to uncover some simplicity and emergent robustness in the control of the Escherichia coli cell cycle
https://t.co/qF8gPHY3va