#CallForProposals The DFG and the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) are pleased to announce its 5th international funding call: Preparing for Tomorrow: Societies and Strategies in Times of Transition. Aim of the call, scope and next steps: www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...

Congratulations to Johannes Hartl, Charité Berlin for receiving the 2026 VAAM Research Award for new research findings into the interplay of genes, the environment, and metabolism in microorganisms! ✨ Find more about his research and VAAM press statement on🔗https://t1p.de/2ghut

Congratulations to Johannes Hartl (Berlin Institute of Health & Charité), awardee of this year’s VAAM Research Award @vaam-microbes.bsky.social!

David Botstein wrote one of the most insightful and inspiring papers I’ve read on the evolution of mobile genetic elements. Still very much worth a reading these days. Hard to find people with such diverse, outstanding contributions. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Call for applications: New Director at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at @fz-juelich.de, combined with a joint W3 professorship with @hhu.de in "Microbial Biotechnology". www.academics.de/jobs/direkto...

Mit der einheitlichen CV-Vorlage ermöglicht die DFG u.a. freiwillige Angaben zur "Besonderen persönlichen Situation", wenn sie die Laufbahn >3 Monate beeinflusst hat (Care-Arbeit, Erkrankung, Flucht, eingeschränkte Mobilität etc). So können Leistungen vergleichbarer eingeordnet werden: sohub.io/wdf5

Very excited to see this work out today! Discovering viral immune antagonists directly from predicted protein structures. 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Huge thanks to the amazing collaborators! 🤗

Amazing resolution of this beautiful mechanism! @spp2330.bsky.social

🚨Preprint! Happy to share the research from my PhD “Genome delivery of a contractile tailed phage and its superinfection exclusion mechanism”. We use cryoEM to study the genome ejection of the phage T4, revealing how the tape measure protein regulates the process. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Welcome to our new colleague Johannes Rebelein, head of the Institut of Sustainable Biotechnology @hhu.de and our new colleague at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 1 @fz-juelich.de. Welcome to @mibinet.bsky.social! www.chemie.hhu.de/en/latest-ne...

Fantastic collaboration w/ @dbikard.bsky.social @audeber.bsky.social @rayanchikhi.bsky.social labs led by @jmouradesousa.bsky.social : We assessed the rates of variation of anti-phage systems in P4-like satellites and P2 helper phages. Quick conclusion: Huge variation! We focus on 4 key questions/5

Save the date for the next International Conference on Gram-Positive Bacteria which will take place between 29 June–2 July 2027. The organizers (@annadragos.bsky.social, @polonca32.bsky.social, and Ines Mandic-Mulec) look forward to welcoming you to Ljubljana, Slovenia

New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.

Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social Application deadline on 15 March 2026 👇 careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

Cell death is a fundamental mechanism of antiviral immunity across diverse organisms, including bacteria. As my final PhD project with @jbdsf.bsky.social, I was curious whether cell death is required for successful immunity with the ancient cGAS pathway known as ‘CBASS.’ Spoiler – the answer is no!

Glückwunsch Lena!

‪ Please RT: Looking forward to our International Symposium on "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities". Highlight of our first funding period of our Collaborative Researc Center @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de www.sfb1535.hhu.de/mibinet @hhu.de , @fz-juelich.de

Lasse presents our CRC1535 MibiNet project at the first RNA confluence meeting at the EMBL. @rhinelandrna.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social

Great opportunity to join the lab of @patrick-pausch.bsky.social ! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Save the date, please RT: Looking forward to an exciting International Symposium @spp2330.bsky.social "New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions". October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus Berlin (Germany). @dfg.de @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de

We Are very happy that our Paper was published. Thank to everyone involved pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @mibinet.bsky.social @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social @frunzkelab.bsky.social

Happy to share our recent preprint: "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hhu.de @fzj.bsky.social

📢Postdoc position available!🧪🧫🧬 Our group is seeking a motivated researcher to investigate the molecular mechanisms driving host–endosymbiont interactions. Full details & application: karriere.hhu.de//index.php?a.... Please help us get the word out!

Very happy to See This Published!!!! Thanks for the collaboration link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @soreklab.bsky.social Sorek lab does it again! Such a cool signal to specifically detect the event of genome degradation by a phage

Another fantastic SPP 2330 meeting! Thank you all for three inspiring days of science, collaboration, and novel ideas. See you next year at our international symposium in Berlin, October 5–7, 2026! @dfg.de @fz-juelich.de @hhu.de

That was a phagetastic @spp2330.bsky.social meeting again! Thanks to everyone to your excellent presentations. Keep the spirit ☺️ @dfg.de Already looking forward to our International Symposium in Berlin next year (October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus)

Please RT: We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/... Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details. @spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

Video compilation from our #türenauf mit der Maus Tag today! #outreach #chemsky @hhu.de @sophieguti.bsky.social @joguti.bsky.social @markussuta.bsky.social @chemiehhu.bsky.social

Just returning from a fantastic symposium celebrating my former postdoc mentor, Julia Vorholt, on receiving the Novonesis Biotechnology Prize! Huge congratulations to Julia — and to the Novo Nordisk Foundation on an outstanding choice!

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis please share these with your network! 🙏 links below👇 [1/3]

Congratulations to Rebecca Hinrichs on her first senior-author paper! @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Exciting news!! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @natmicrobiol.nature.com We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✨ Still excellent ✨ @ceplas.bsky.social ✅

Die Förderentscheidungen der #Exzellenzstrategie sind da! 🎉 Wir gratulieren allen Universitäten mit erfolgreichen Clusteranträgen – und freuen uns, an Clustern der @rwth.bsky.social, @unibonn.bsky.social, @unicologne.bsky.social, @hhu.de, @tu-dortmund.bsky.social und Uni Siegen beteiligt zu sein.

Both Jena Clusters got funded!!!! 🥳 The emotions are overwhelming!!! Here's to amazing future science with this incredible team and the amazing people that made it possible!!!

📢 Wir sind stolz und freuen uns, dass unser Exzellenzcluster Microbes-for-Climate (M4C) in der Exzellenzstrategie 2025 ausgewählt wurde! 🌟Wir freuen uns gemeinsam mit @unimarburg.bsky.social auf spannende #Mikrobenforschung - stay tuned ! @unimarburg.bsky.social @maxplanck.de‬ @synmikro.bsky.social

🎊 We made it!! @dfg.de has just announced that we have been successful with our CEPLAS III proposal in the current funding round of the Excellence Strategy! Many thanks to all our supporters! @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social

🎉Doppelerfolg für die #UniMarburg in der Exzellenzstrategie! 🎉 Zwei Cluster zu Klimawandel und menschlicher Wahrnehmung sichern sich Förderung. Marburg beweist Forschungsstärke und Innovationskraft.🚀 @proloewe.bsky.social @synmikro.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @jlugiessen.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Die zukünftig geförderten #Exzellenzcluster werden bekannt gegeben! In ca. einer halben Stunde startet unser Livestream auf Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRVw... @wissenschaftsrat.de

Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of @dzif.bsky.social‬ and @cmfi.bsky.social ! Please send your application or forward to colleagues! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here: ➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

I feel we just scratched the surface of 🌱 #immunity response to #phage #biocontrol against pathogens🦠. doi.org/10.1101/2025... But this is such a cool team to work with👇 and I am looking forward to do more. 🧪 #PlantScience #PlantResearch #microbiology #PMI #PlanMicrobeInteractions

Do you want to join the team? I just got awarded a 2 year fully funded Postdoc position to investigate the metabolism of anaerobic pathogenic bacteria. If you have a strong background in protein biochemistry or anaerobes shown by solid publications, reach out. Job add follows, please repost.

One of the largest open questions in anaerobic metabolism solved. The best work of my lab yet, performed by the incredible hard working, talented and motivated coworkers: @fidelormz.bsky.social , @sophia-pa.bsky.social and @rnfr2d2.bsky.social. I am a proud PI today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Springtime at Jülich Biocampus @fz-juelich.de: Flowers and goslings 😍