Michael Connor

Do science they said... microbiology they said..

Institut Pasteur
Chromatin & Infection Unit

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

Woot woot! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who gave feedback! I'm stoked for this award funding this project! *Beastie Boys Sabotage intro music* @AgenceRecherche

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@ATinyGreenCell I feel you there. I find when I do miniprep that I feel something of this nature has to have a simpler way to get plasmid or this is my most efficient practice ever conceived by man. "Why can't we trigger plasmid go into supernatant *pouty anger face"

[Evgenii Protasov @protasov_evgeni]

Yersinia actively downregulates type III secretion and adhesion at higher cell densities
#yersinia #pathogens #microbiology
@PLOSPathogens
https://t.co/mEKykw0auu

[Andrey Tvardovskiy @ATvardovskiy]

https://t.co/n1rr4BmoQs

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

A systemic screen using programmable antisense oligomers to silence genes of DNA and RNA phages identifies proteins essential for phage propagation. This tool offers potential for optimizing phage therapy. #NBThighlight https://t.co/k6s20OzO7w

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@Milan_Gerovac get it brother! Cool paper!

[Milan Gerovac @Milan_Gerovac]

No Genetics? Try ASOs – A non-genetic approach to silence genes at the phage-host interface. We use it to study jumbo phage biology and anti-phage defence. @Joerglab @Helmholtz_HIRI @Uni_WUE @Helmholtz_HZI published now in @Nature
https://t.co/bvutFHnIzx

[Pedro Hernandez @zebragut]

🚀 Hiring in Paris: 1 PhD + 1 Postdoc on an ANR gut–brain project in zebrafish (imaging, optogenetics). Leads: P. Hernández (Curie) & G. Sumbre (ENS-IBENS). Start flexible 2026. Also M2 internships (Jan–Feb 2026). See call for details. #PhDposition #Postdoc #Paris #Zebrafish

[Karin Albornoz @KarinAlbornoz3]

🥬🍃The Postharvest Lab at Clemson University is looking to fill a GRA position at the PhD level.
The applicant will conduct research on Brassica leafy greens spanning from preharvest to postharvest 🥗.
Interested and meet the requirements? Contact me at [email protected] 📧

[Jon Allen @jallen_lab]

DON’T MISS!!!! MMPC 2025!!! Still time to submit an abstract and register!!! Contact me if you have any questions!!!!!!

[Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel]

Genomics job opportunities in Sweden! Our infrastructure has an open position for a postdoc with a focus on long-read sequencing, and a permanent (!) bioinformatician position in ancient DNA. Cutting-edge tech, great environment, work-life balance, nice country. Please RT!

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@ATinyGreenCell It's amazing though. I use a similar one and a flexible one too :)

[Mary Weber (Weber Lab) @MaryWeb15082904]

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
Come work with us at the University of Iowa on Orientia tsutsugamushi—a fascinating intracellular pathogen. Projects include building genetic tools + uncovering how effectors hijack host cell cycle + centrosome function.
Please share!
📩 [email protected]

[Caroline Goujon, PhD @caro_goujon]

We're hiring! If you're an experienced virologist (with a PhD in molecular virology), want to join the Horizon Europe-funded project APPEAL and work with us in the vibrant city of Montpellier, South of France, take a look here for more details: https://t.co/f8x02J7hQl
Please RT

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@JasonSynaptic @PTenigma In general it seems that it's a culmination of accounting # based on estimates - could see the indirect + cost at the non competitive awarded across the 5 year window vs the new awards + indirect in context of the projected budget.

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@JasonSynaptic @PTenigma Aye, just another thought that occurred to me. Can you back calculate the amt in indirects needed to pay out in current FY for the awarded funds? Keeping in mind they might be conserving funds for this expecting a clock run reset?

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@PTenigma @JasonSynaptic Looking at the pg 6 rough math suggests that the non competitive that are retained were actually awarded as n-2

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@PTenigma @JasonSynaptic Since I'm terrible at math I'm guestimating of the non competitive about 6-9% has been committed. Then if they award only 5-8% of new competitive grants by budget allocation they would have wiggle room for carry-over the FY to sustain the non-competitive+ new awards

[Milan Gerovac @Milan_Gerovac]

CURIOUS ABOUT PHAGE BIOLOGY!?
CPIC lab at @Helmholtz_HZI is recruiting in the call
+++ CURIOSITY IS INFECTIOUS +++
https://t.co/E5Y37LcLhv
Did you spot the phage? Please share!

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@JasonSynaptic @PTenigma Exactly. I always assumed it was a sliding window so every 5 years based of % of non competitive ones would pinch a budget line. But if the distribution of non competitive is equally spread across the 5 year window means that target payline could be calculated over a 5 yr window

[Michael Connor @midweekwarrior]

@PTenigma @JasonSynaptic Also, what is the simulation with a lump sum distribution for total award and each fiscal year begins with a full allocated budget?