Eric Pollitt

Microbiologist, works on Staphylococcus aureus, quorum sensing, evolution and virulence. Views are my own. I don't always wear the flat cap.

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation - new observations of the S. aureus comets and how to get the assay to work https://t.co/00sQertYvt

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

M. smegmatis uses new types of biofilm to enclose a liquid core and expand outwards in a weird new way.

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

Mycobacterium smegmatis Expands Across Surfaces by Hydraulic Sliding - Environmental Microbiology Reports https://t.co/x6YJqjSiTu... - Our new paper is out!

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

Artistic interpetation of a fluorescently tagged comet... Happy to talk to people about the S. aureus comet motility assay, if they need help with it etc

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

Staphylococcus aureus gliding comets: formation and observation - new observations of the S. aureus comets and how to get the assay to work https://t.co/00sQertYvt

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

S. aureus organises itself differently in motile comet tips and can go uphill

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

@DaviesAntiques looking through the online lists, the anvil mark shows it is by Frank A.C. of Hamburg (cutlery maker)

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Scientists present a soft #biorobotic heart to assess the feasibility and safety of new valve designs and #biomaterials to correct #TetralogyofFallot, offering a reliable model to inform reconstructive heart surgery. @ScienceTM https://t.co/xmNn4d3FfK

[Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @BPoD_s]

Study in #zebrafish shows the #heartbeat's mechanical forces remodel the developing heart's #extracellularmatrix. Image & research by Alessandra Gentile & @MargaAlbu et al @StainierLab @mpi_hlr @GunawanLab @wwu_muenster in @Dev_journal. On https://t.co/nx7xVK9ahK

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

@PulpLibrarian This badger book may be one of the earliest references to the study of bacterial communication (by mistake...)

[Development @Dev_journal]

Llgl1 mediates timely epicardial emergence and establishment of an apical laminin sheath around the trabeculating cardiac ventricle

Read this Research Article by Eric Pollitt @StaphEric, Emily Noël @noelresearchlab and colleagues @ScienceShef:
https://t.co/U5dVuvQS5u

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

@Timchico @Dev_journal @noelresearchlab @deputy_derrick @J_SanchezPosada Thanks! We got there...

[Eric Pollitt @StaphEric]

Llgl1 mediates timely epicardial emergence and establishment of an apical laminin sheath around the trabeculating cardiac ventricle - our new paper in @Dev_journal is out now! https://t.co/6ZGiTsVcxC @noelresearchlab @deputy_derrick @J_SanchezPosada

[Zebrafish Rock! @ZebrafishRock]

ICYMI

[Emily Noël @noelresearchlab]

We hope that many of its features can be utilised to understand morphology beyond the walls of the developing heart - so take it for a whirl, and let us know how you get on.

[Emily Noël @noelresearchlab]

The preprint describing the software, and how we used it to analyse zebrafish heart morphogenesis, are on bioRxiv https://t.co/GfsDgosfMr, while morphoHeart itself is available on GitHub https://t.co/KeNYr7E2BW

[Emily Noël @noelresearchlab]

morphoHeart is live! @J_SanchezPosada developed software for 3D visualisation and morphometric analysis of the heart including negative space segmentation of cardiac ECM volume. All packaged up into a handy GUI. #morphometrics #zebrafish

[Dr Ross McInnes @roscobacterium]

A wee 2024 reminder that I'm looking for a job. Ideally it would be in the UK or Ireland (Scotland would be the dream). Please give me a heads-up if you have an opening coming up or know someone who has. You can check out my interests & CV at https://t.co/EbAliqAGxp Cheers! 😃

[ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET @victornizet]

A real paradigm shift from Astrid Hendriks and @N_van_sorge on how to understand adaptive immunity to S. aureus

IgM (not IgG) to wall teichoic acids predicts protection vs mortality in bacteremia—IgM superior in promoting opsonophagocytosis, including as a monoclonal therapeutic

[70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifi]

Star Wars immunization promotional poster, 1979