I'm super excited to share my 1st first-author paper now out in @ScienceMagazine, where we tackle an age-old question in microbiology: How do dormant spores decide to wake up? Turns out that they can count in their sleep using electricity!😴⚡️
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Bacterial spores are a special type of cell that look and function like microscopic plant seeds: a hyper-resilient DNA bunker that aims to weather bad conditions and reemerge in a better future. They are metabolically dormant, and by all practical means, pretty much dead.