On #WorldHealthDay 2026, we are celebrating the power of scientific collaboration to protect the health of people, animals, plants, and the planet.⚕️ Join researches from around the world for our health related training: www.embl.org/events/ #StandWithScience 🧪🔬 @training.ebi.embl.org @embl.org

🚀 Save the date: Kostenloses Info-Webinar zu den Fördermöglichkeiten der VolkswagenStiftung! 📅 Do. 9. April 2026, 13:00-14:30 Uhr. Keine Anmeldung nötig. Achtung: Live-Event, keine Aufzeichnung Infos: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/live-webin…#VolkswagenStiftungn#Webinara#Förderungn#Forschungng

Less than 24 hours until CauloCon starts! Last minute registration is still open if you want to attend. caulocon.com

With CauloCon coming up in a few weeks, we are excited to share with you the schedule for the upcoming meeting! There will be 3 keynotes and 26 short talks over three days. You can see more information at caulocon.com

CauloCon 2026 is coming! 🔬✨ March 3–5 (fully virtual + free). Keynotes by Yves Brun, Becky Lamason & Martin Thanbichler. Great chance for grad students & postdocs to present their work (work-in-progress welcome!). Submit an abstract by Sun Feb 8. Register + submit: www.caulocon.com

And read the associated Research Briefing here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am happy to share that my postdoctoral work in the @gerlichlab.bsky.social at @imbavienna.bsky.social is finally out 🎉! Our study reveals how cohesin guides focused and accurate homology search. Read more 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Follow along for key insights and updates! 🧵

Happy to share our most recent work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... Here we describe how efficient DNA replication in E. coli is dependent on an interaction between SSB-ssDNA and the DNA polymerase (Pol III). Thanks to all the co-authors for their hard work!

#Prospects for #ECR: Join our online talk on 11 December! Our Team Research Careers provides an overview of all DFG funding instruments and gives advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. The meeting link will be published shortly before start here: sohub.io/e2ad

Congratulations to Celia Municio-Diaz in the lab for this new publication, showing that Cell Wall mechanosensors taken from distant yeast species can still function and detect forces in the foreign cell wall of fission yeast cells! @ijmonod.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social

⭐ NAR Breakthrough! ⭐ 🦠 New study shows phage X1 hijacks Yersinia's enterocolitica flagellum to inject its DNA directly into the cytosol. Yersinia, though, strikes back! 🦠 A fascinating look at the #dualrole of #flagella in #viralentry and #bacterialimmunity. 🧬 Read more: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

'Annual Conference is the UK's largest annual gathering of microbiologists. Register now to secure your spot: microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet 🗓️13-18 September 2026 📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... 👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social #MicroSky

📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" 🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL 📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

James D Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97

📣 Meet the new ERC Synergy Grant awardees! Sixty-six research teams have been selected for funding, bringing together 239 scientists. Congratulations to all! ➡️ buff.ly/PSn3bi9 #EUfunded #HorizonEurope #ERCSyG

🦠🔬🤖🧑‍💻 #mAIcrobe is out! With @pinholab.bsky.social's lab, we launched an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. By rockstars A. Brito & B. Saraiva et al, making #DeepLearning for phenotyping accessible! Easy to use, plus model training 📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Identification of genetic interactions in Bacillus subtilis cell division. Congratulations, Byoung-Mo Koo, Carol Gross, and all involved! @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social #subtiwiki www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Now in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Bacillus subtilis DinG/XPD-like paralogues, DinG and YpvA, have been implicated in overcoming replication stress. DinG possesses a DEDD exonuclease and DNA helicase domains, whereas YpvA lacks the DEDD exonuclease domain www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...

Now published as a Version of Record, with various new results compared to the initial preprint: Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin Available at: elifesciences.org/articles/100... @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

That’s a wrap for The Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII 2025. A big thank you to all those who attended 🧪 #BioPhyChrom2025 #BiochemEvents

Are you planning to apply for an ERC grant? Do you need some guidance? This hands-on session is for you! On 24 September, ERC representatives will guide you through the changes in the 2026 calls for the Starting, Consolidator & Advanced Grant. 👉 europa.eu/!hMhKRn

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

In @elife.bsky.social: Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

⭐ SAVE THE DATE ⭐ 📍 21st VAAM Industry Academia Panel - Bridging Academic and Industry Research: 📅 September 18th, 4:00 PM 💻 Via Zoom 🎯"In vitro Microbiome Models" Speakers Philippe Ulsemer, Acaryon GmbH Michael Schloter, Technical University Munich ✔️Registration: t1p.de/y70py

During the 5 day #EMBLFluorescenceLifetime course, participants get hands-on training every afternoon on our state-of the art microscopes 🔬 Practicals include Halo-tags & FLIM, Multiplexing with FPs and FLIM on STELLARIS 8 STED, as well as FLIM analysis including ML and AI on STELLARIS Cryo 🤩

Really excited to share this Perspective from John Danial covering how technology is moving the field of fluorescence microscopy toward structural biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally published! Many thanks to the reviewers and editor whose comments & suggestions improved this work significantly more than the first preprint version!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

InterPro just got one of its biggest updates ever. Now with 1.8 billion AI-driven protein annotations, AlphaFold-based TED domains, and viral proteins from the Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD). See it all at www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro 🖥️🧬 @interprodb.bsky.social

📢 We are proud and delighted that our Microbes for Climate (M4C) Cluster of Excellence has been selected for the 2025 Excellence Strategy! 🌟Together with @unimarburg.bsky.social, we look forward to exciting #microbe research – stay tuned! @unimarburg.bsky.social @maxplanck.de‬ @synmikro.bsky.social

#NatMicroPicks 🦠⚕️🦀Bacteria for cancer treatment A comment discussing the status of engineered bacteria being deployed for clinical cancer therapies. #MicroSky @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The EMBO Young Investigator Network PhD course 2025 has begun! 38 #PhD students are joining us in Heidelberg, Germany from 18–23 May and online 26–30 May. Our Young Investigators and trainers will be hosting sessions on #ScientificWriting, #GrantWriting, #MentalHealth, #ResearchIntegrity and more.

Deadline for the #BiozentrumPhDFellowships Summer Call: May 18, 2025 Don’t miss your chance — submit your application now and start your scientific journey @biozentrum.unibas.ch! 👉 Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4caiqqX

Postdoc position available! This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠 Please re-post 🙏 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

"Phollow" the link to our May issue to read about... 💥lysing bacterial pathogens ⛽microbial alkane oxidation 🌱importance of seed-borne bacteria 🙅‍♀️protective antibodies for norovirus 🚰E. coli in urban drinking water ...and more!👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell wall changes in response to growth or perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today is exactly 4 years since we started #MicrobesAndUs 🙌 🎉 Here's to 32 Episodes of fascinating microbiology conversations since we started on 26 April 2021! 🦠 🍷 🧬 🏔️ 🔬🌍 Browse the whole list and find a subject right for you:

📖 New publication from the TacC team at MMSB! Congratulations to Nathan Fraikin et al.! @nfrk92.bsky.social @agathe-couturier.bsky.social

Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging by François St-Pierre and team: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

wonderful! great clip 👏 had never before seen 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳 competing with 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 for rosette formation. no clear winner 🤩 #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642875v1

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

#IWD2025 is an important day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural & political achievements, but it's also a good occasion to call for gender equality. The #SheFigures report on R&I describes the challenges women researchers face, but also highlights ideas to help them. 🔗 buff.ly/3EJDkB4

On 12 March, universities and funding institutions will share everything you need to know to do your PhD or postdoc in Germany Register now! lnkd.in/eYtFnG_H

The deadline to apply for the MBL Physiology course is fast approaching, January 27th! Consider applying to this amazing, life-changing research discovery experience in Woods Hole! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Exciting opportunity! Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology is looking for a Head of the DNA-Biofoundry MaxGENESYS. Join us in vibrant #Marburg - apply by 15 February 2025. #ScienceJobs #SyntheticBiology #Biofoundry @maxplanck.de

Our January issue is now live! 🎉 nature.com/nmeth/volume... On the cover, gene-level alignment of single cell trajectories is helping the Human Cell Atlas generate reference maps of the body. Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... Cover artwork by Dinithi Sumanaweera & Su Min Suh.