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 😍

New preprint from @erdrich-science.bsky.social of our collaborative project with @borjana-a.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de and @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @hhu.de: "Phage biocontrol reduces the burden on plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

*** Only a few days left to apply *** Postdoc position at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes by CTP-switches in bacteria Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Prophage-DB: a comprehensive database to explore diversity, distribution, and ecology of prophages. DOI: 10.1186/s40793-024-00659-1 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39806487/

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

Latest findings on cryptic infection of giant viruses published in @ScienceMagazine. We discovered a large virus hiding within a green algal genome producing virions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It was an honor for my lab and myself to host the meeting on the Immune Systems of Bacteria. Such a high from all the incredible science and sharing with scientists from the whole world the greatness of Paris in the spring. Vive la science, et vive Paris!

@spp2330.bsky.social 👇

Indeed, this community is still in exponential phase! A big Thank You to @audeber.bsky.social and her amazing team @mdmlab.bsky.social. Looking forward to “Bacterial Immune Systems 2026” at Rockefeller University.👇 @spp2330.bsky.social

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Dr. h. c. Thomas Manchot zur Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde der @hhu.de - in Anerkennung seines herausragenden Engagements für die Unterstützung der medizinischen Forschung und des Kinderschutzes. www.moi.hhu.de www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/ueber-das-uk...

Successful Girls' Day at HHU, powered by the Institute of Microbiology & MibiNet! Explored "Fungi as a chemical factory" with enthusiastic young minds. Great questions & future scientists in the making! Hope to see them back at uni someday.🔬👧 #GirlsDay2025 #MibiNet @hhu.de @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social

@audeber.bsky.social opening the EMBO “Symposium of the Immune System of Bacteria” at Institut Pasteur. Looking forward to three days of amazing science!!

An energy-efficient pathway for aerobic production of formate from CO2, the CORE cycle. Could become part of a novel CO2-fixing photorespiration bypass design. Congrats @ari-satanowski.bsky.social

#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...

Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects @naturerevmicro.bsky.social by @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glückwunsch an alle #MaierLeibnitz-Preisträger:innen 2025! 🎉 Besonders freuen wir uns über James Eills von unserem Institut für Biologische Informationsprozesse (IBI) – er wird für seine Forschung an hyperpolarisierter MRT ausgezeichnet. 👏

“Bluesky has won”. Please retweet… 😉

Das Wochenende ist gerettet: Gerade morgen lohnt sich der Weg in den Düsseldorfer Süden, in den Botanischen Garten @hhu.de, den alles sprießen und die Bäume blühen.

You have a strong background in molecular microbiology and look for a PhD position? Join us in #Tubingen in an international, enthusiastic team team, in an excellent research environment of the EU-funded #AUREUS program euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/328844 @cmfi.bsky.social

📣Ausgezeichnet! Diese 10 Forscher*innen stechen mit exzellenten Arbeiten heraus. Die #DFG würdigt das mit dem Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis #HML2025, der Wissenschaftler*innen in der frühen Karrierephase fördert. Die Preise werden am 3. Juni in #Berlin verliehen.👏 1/6 🔽 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

Over the moon 3 days, 12 plenaries, 170 short talks, 350 posters and a fabulous mixer later. Microbes and microbiologists are fun 🤩

Congratulations to Luitpold Fried, winner of the 2025 VAAM Innovation Award✨🥇! At Bind-X GmbH, Fried´s team optimized microbial calcite production for mining, road construction, and agriculture - reducing CO2 emissions and water usage by up to 90%. 🔗https://t1p.de/qe1zk #VAAM2025 #VAAMAward

📣Tomorrow 09:30 a.m. CET: Our colleagues hold an online talk on #Funding Opportunities for #Postdocs. Join our session and get to know the #DFG and its funding portfolio for postdocs. All disciplines are welcome! www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Excited to be at the annual conference of the @vaam-microbes.bsky.social at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. It is wonderful to meet many nice colleagues of the #Microbiology network again 🤗