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Microbiologist, mom, runner w/delusions of completing a marathon. This Week in Microbiology (https://t.co/8BGCzxRqZi). @Redrockcity@mstdn.science
Dec 19, 2020 21 tweets 8 min read
Starving E. coli, serendipitous discoveries, and awesome collaborators: a long thread 🧵 on some of our latest work with @handuo_s and KC Huang @StanfordBioE 1/19

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… To help understand the relationship between the environment & cell growth, PD Corey Westfall & undergraduates Jesse Kao, Montana Sievert, & Jeremy Moore plucked E. coli from cozy carbon rich medium, rinsed, rinsed, rinsed & resuspended in minimal salts. And got a surprise... 2/19 Image