
Postdoc @MCDB_Yale @YaleMicroPath | PhD @PrincetonMolBio | BS @umich | Microbiologist, cyclist, horror movie enthusiast
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Joined October 2011
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Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Finally, the preprint on my postdoc work from the past 3 years! With mentorship from @PaulTurnerLab and @EmonetLab, I developed a microscopic technique to measure attachment of viruses #phages to bacterial cells @YalePhage @QbioYale .
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Congrats to my friend and colleague Guosong Hong for his stunning and original discovery, published today in Science, on clearing tissues *in living animals* with a common food dye!
The dye is tartrazine, used in Doritos!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
A last minute addition to your summer reading list... Coleen Murphy's book, How we Age: The Science of Longevity. Murphy's lab is focused on the process of aging, which remains one of the fundamental mysteries of biology. Read an interview with the author: molbio.princeton.edu/news/20…
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
We are very excited to announce the Inaugural Quantitative Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (QFLIM) workshop at NIH in Bethesda co-organized by Jay Knutson (NIH) and Chris Combs (NIH), on November 7th, 2024.
The Inaugural QFLIM Symposium will be held on the campus of NIH in Building 10, Masur Auditorium. FLIM is a rapidly growing technique in microscopy that provides unique and robust information about metabolic state, analyte concentrations, nanoscopic probe flexibility and environments and molecular proximity; it has wide applicability in cell biology and pathology. In this first year, a group of local and international speakers will showcase a variety of applications while discussing the advances made possible by the latest instruments.
The QFLIM symposium will be a one day event (this year) and we are expecting ~150 academic attendees. Attendance will be capped.
Confirmed speakers (with more tbd);
Chiara Stringari (Keynote)
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Paris
David Jameson
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology , John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Ammasi Periasamy
Keck Institute, University of Virginia
Melissa Skala
Morgridge Inst., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Alexandra Walsh
BME dept., Texas A&M
Steve Vogel
NIAAA
Luke Lavis
Janelia Farms, HHMI
Hailey Parry
NHLBI
Rozhin Penjweini
NHLBI/LAMB
Walter Philip Bleicher
NHLBI
Kandice Tanner
NCI
There will be a poster session and a dedicated vendor session. There will also be time for vendor lightning talks. The tentatively, truncated, meeting schedule;
8:15a Registration and breakfast
9a Opening Remarks
9:15a-6:30p Talks, and everything else!
There will be vendor tables available.
Registration will be open by September 1st.
We hope to see you soon!
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Jing Yan has been named a Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution.
To read more, visit mcdb.yale.edu/news/jing-yan-…
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info and to apply, visit: molbio.princeton.edu/graduat…
Congratulations, @zgitai1 !! 🍾🥂
AAAS is thrilled to announce our 2023 #AAASFellows! “This year’s class embodies scientific excellence, fosters trust in science throughout the communities they serve, and leads the next generation of scientists,” said AAAS CEO @sudipsparikh. Read more: brnw.ch/21wIWyv
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Super excited to share my PhD work on 3D diffusion in live bacterial cells!
What does diffusion look like in the crowded bacterial cytoplasm? Is it as weird as people say? Check out our new preprint on 3D tracking of GEMs in live E. coli from @dsvalverdem and @AlpSunol! A fantastic experiment-theory collaboration with @TheZiaLab. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Our notifications are blowing up with basketball tweets, but we are the Yale molecular biophysics and biochemistry account! You might want to tag @YaleMBasketball instead 🏀
Boola boola!
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Can bacterial *mechanical properties* affect virulence? YES!
Excited this is finally out, led by @lttlAFM . "Soft" mycobacteria survive better within macrophages!
Mechanical morphotype switching as an adaptive response in mycobacteria | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Santa (aka my sweet grandma) brought me a microscope for Christmas! What are some cool things I should take a look at? Suggestions welcome!
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Changing our perception of microbial skin ecology!
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Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
Really excited about this work from the lab. @celenagwin, together with @Kuldeep_R_Gupta, worked to understand how mycobacteria create heterogeneity in growth. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Super interesting backstory to some awesome work! Definitely take the “thyme” to read through!
Story time: when I started my postdoc with @WatersLabMSU in August last year, we aimed to use V. cholerae to understand how genetic interactions, including epistasis and pleiotropy, influences its pathogenesis and evolution. 1/18
Ellie Hunter-Acosta, Ph. D. retweeted
"I am strongly against the idea that you need to devote your whole life to your career. You can have a family and a life outside physics and still be successful in your field."
- career advice from 2023 physics laureate Anne L'Huillier
Read more:
physics.aps.org/articles/v15…



























