Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD
We study quantitative microbial cell physiology.
https://jun.ucsd.edu
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
-African Proverb
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDOut in @physrevlett.bsky.social: @sfuphysics.bsky.social postdoc Antonio Patrón Castro (in tight collaboration with my colleague John Bechhoefer) pushes our information engine to higher dimensions! doi.org/10.1103/xwjd...
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDRead the Save HHS open letter! www.savehhs.org/letter-we-wi...
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDDefending PhD student, looking over their thesis: “If I knew then what I know now, I could’ve done all of this in like 9 months.” A thread about my favorite pioneering cave explorers and why I don’t think AI will ever “solve” biology.
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell
- Excited to announce that our Econophysiology workshop has been accepted at the BIRS in 2027 🇨🇦 Co-organized with Hidde de Jong, Edda Klipp, & Matt Scott, we will bring economists, biologists, and physicists together to build a shared conceptual language across disciplines. Stay tuned! www.birs.ca
- First snow in Greenwich Village, NYC ❄️
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDJust got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University! GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027 GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027 Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists! More details to come! Please repost!
- Excited about our Pew Innovation Fund collaboration with Mike Rust (UChicago). Grateful for the opportunity to push new ideas forward together! www.pew.org/en/research-...
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDWe’re hiring! The Department of Physics @sfuphysics.bsky.social at Simon Fraser U (in beautiful and vibrant Vancouver) seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Experimental Biophysics, encompassing all scales of life from molecules to ecosystems. @sfuscience.bsky.social
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- Autumn in the backyard of the Greenwich School of Music.
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- Been awhile — good to see you, Harvard.
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDRay: Just a note to say STC is officially back up and running!! You can view our new home via smallthingsconsidered.blog
- Autumn is in Greenwich Village
- Academic job applicant from Greenwich Village…
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDWell reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7
- Hardest working people in Manhattan. Hats off to them.
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDGlad to share our paper out today @NatureEcoEvo: “Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #archaeasky
- From the Flatiron Institute’s rooftop — autumn is arriving in Manhattan.
- SJ - I’ve just started my 1-year sabbatical in NYC, splitting time between the Flatiron Institute and NYU Economics to explore “econophysiology,” supported by the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. If you’re in the area and would like to connect or interact with me & my lab, feel free to reach out!
- Must read for graduate admissions committees everywhere.
- SJ - I’ve just started my 1-year sabbatical in NYC, splitting time between the Flatiron Institute and NYU Economics to explore “econophysiology,” supported by the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship. If you’re in the area and would like to connect or interact with me & my lab, feel free to reach out!
- Congratulations to Haochen — one of the rare breeds who did both real experiments and theory. He successfully defended his PhD last Friday and is starting his independent Lewis-Sigler Scholar position at Princeton this week. We’ll miss you!
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDI am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDA show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).
- This is a great piece of work
- New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- If you’re eligible for a Pew Latin American Fellowship, please reach out to Suckjoon Jun (Pew ‘13). We have ambitious bluesky projects planned for the next decade, backed by exceptionally strong funding, and we’d love for you to join us! www.pew.org/en/projects/...
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDProteins of amino acid metabolism form large structures and determine diffusion in the cytoplasm! Our 7-year-long tour-de-force is now out on Bioxriv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks everyone involved! And especially to Jose Losa who pioneered this!
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDWould you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A little thread below 1/n
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- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD🚨HUGE SCIENCE WIN ALERT🚨 NIH Grants to be restored en masse!!! Thank you Judge Young for standing up for science! #StandUpforScience #SummerFightforScience
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDTalked to @KateZernike at @nytimes about my journey and the current moment for scientists in the U.S. “Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.” Read the article here. No subscription required: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDThere are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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- Research Briefing article with Erwin Frey (@physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social) is also out in Nature Physics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Our paper on the E. coli Min system in vivo with @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social & Judy Kim (UCSD) has been published in Nature Physics today. Tight integration of experiment and theory, and physiology and biophysics. Incredible perseverance of our young students. rdcu.be/ekIpO
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDNEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation. Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.
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- Our paper on the E. coli Min system in vivo with @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social & Judy Kim (UCSD) has been published in Nature Physics today. Tight integration of experiment and theory, and physiology and biophysics. Incredible perseverance of our young students. rdcu.be/ekIpO
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSD"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
- @tzerhan29.bsky.social is giving our biophysics forum talk on his collaboration with Hongbo Zhao on… “intelligent robots”!
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- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDCome join us @sfuphysics.bsky.social #SFU on Burnaby Mountain this Saturday May 3rd for our Quantum Canada Open Doors 2025 event. There will be talks about our quantum research, hands-on activities and lab tours. #YVR 🧪 ⚛️ 🎢 🇨🇦
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- Congratulations- can’t believe it took so long
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDIn the hour of darkness and peril and fear, let’s all channel a little Paul Revere. @hcrichardson.bsky.social #paulrevere #boston250
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- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDStanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDHarvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
- SJ – Had a great Pivot Fellows meeting today at @simonsfoundation.org in NYC. One moment that stuck with me: Katherine Arnott shared an African proverb I’ve heard before, but only now feel I truly appreciate: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
- Thought-provoking, must read from Bruno Conti www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- We had a double-feature biophysics forum today, thanks to Vishal Patil (Math) and Christina Hueschen (CDB)! #ucsd_biophysics
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- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDExcited to join @WashUPhysics as an assistant professor in Fall 2025! My group will develop non-equilibrium statistical physics to study criticality in biology—biomolecular condensates, gene regulation & adaptive immune systems. DM for postdoc/grad openings! #myphysicsjourney
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- Ramin Golestanian (Oxford & MPI Göttingen) visited us and gave an inspiring informal seminar yesterday. 🙏🏻
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- Another suit and a great talk: Aman Sharma 😃, this time on yeast mitochondria.
- Haochen Fu from our lab just gave a great talk at the #APS March meeting. He is wearing a… suit!!! 😳
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- Congratulations to Jihyun In, an undergrad student in our lab, who is a de facto neuro/math/physics triple major, for receiving Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence!
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- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDOn January 6th, 1995, my (now ex) wife and I boarded a flight from Heathrow to JFK on a one way ticket. We had two suitcases and about $900 in cash - this was everything we owned and we were moving to the US. We thought it was maybe for 2-3 years. I had visited the US once, for a conference, and
- Reposted by Suckjoon Jun’s lab at UCSDSince writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
