Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

The @embo.org self-leadership for women scientists course focuses on 4 pillars of experience as a human being + researcher: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-management + self-growth. Places still available on 14-16 October online course: www.embolableadership.org/course/self-... #SelfLeadership

New in JB: DiMaggio, Yeo & Brinsmade show a link between nucleotide metabolism and the activity of the Sae two component regulatory system via SaeS kinase activity and membrane integrity in S. aureus journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Spending some time collecting memories of Harry today 🥺 - this is when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. If anyone in the #glycotime universe has pictures or memories of Harry Gilbert they want to share please send them my way 💚

We will have soon an Open position for a PhD thesis position to work on bacterial secretion systems ! Stay tuned !!

Magnificent old oak tree, Raby Castle

Happy to share our work on a T6SS effector with ADP ribose cyclase activity, published in JBC @asbmbjournals.bsky.social Great work of Julius Martinkus @jmartinkus.bsky.social and (always) great collaboration with @dukasju.bsky.social and @laurentterradot.bsky.social www.jbc.org/article/S002...

A global view of morphogenetic peptidoglycan synthases across the domain Bacteria Open Access @femsjournals.bsky.social microLife by Francisco García-del Portillo et al academic.oup.com/microlife/ad...

Exciting postdoc opportunity with a fab PI in beautiful Basel

#NewResearch Nasal colonisation by S. aureus is linked with depression in a human cohort and shown in a mouse model to cause decreased serotonin and dopamine in the brain #MicroSky #Depression www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint! t.co/962Kj9pt6F

Our microbes in health and disease research theme @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give us a follow to hear about our exciting science!

Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

Big thanks to the postdocs in the group! You are very much appreciated @ellieboardman.bsky.social @augustsilale.bsky.social @flissaki.bsky.social @sambenedict5.bsky.social and those I couldn’t find on Bluesky Amy Tooke, Elizabeth Chan, Rowan Walters, Nicky Mietrach and Yaping Yang ❤️

It's 2040 and the sector has cannibalised. There are now 4 universities remaining in the UK: Oxford, Cambridge, the Russell University, and the Great British University.

There is a new position open in the Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes! This is for someone in the area of microbial genomics 🧬 Please re-post and send to people, thank you! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Fortunate to have a guest seminar by Professor Qi Huang from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China (hosted by @proftracypalmer.bsky.social) as part of our microbes in health and disease theme 🦠 @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

Lecturer in Medical Bioscience at Nottingham Trent University. #jobs #microsky Covering topics including: Infectious disease; Clinical and molecular microbiology; Mechanisms of drug action and therapeutic innovations. Contact @jodywinter.bsky.social for full details.

📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7

🚨 Job alert 🚨 I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2 Deadline: 21st September.

A new methods paper from us, this time with a focus on reliable monitoring membrane potential and cell lysis at different growth stages and cell densities. Also, note the surprisingly high level of background lysis in seemingly healthy B. subtilis cultures. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Come be my colleague! We have three open positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for candidates in all areas of the biological sciences. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere. But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.

Closing date for applications is the 19th August

Outstanding Faculty opportunity in the broad area of 'life sciences engineering' @EPFL School of Life Sciences, open to both junior and senior researchers. We may prefer metabolism-centric applications but remain open to outstanding applications across domains: www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

📢Our review of the impact of bacterial purine synthesis on antibiotic tolerance and resistance expression is now out! A lot of food for thought and contrasting data from E. coli and S. aureus... 🤔 Read it here: rdcu.be/ezfQ7

The wonderful dynamics of (p)ppGpp, big thank you to everyone involved with this story www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Absolutely delighted to share the labs latest work. We identify and characterise two pathways for D-ribulose utilisation in pathogenic EHEC and Citrobacter.

Congratulations to 2025 GRC Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction Poster Award Winners!! 🎆🥂🙌 Thank you @cp-cell.bsky.social and @femsmicro.org for sponsoring! From, Your secret judges 🤫

*JOB AD*: interested in doing a postdoc in microbial metabolomics? Passionate about natural products mass spec? Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome! Closing Date: 19 August 2025 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Congratulations to Mason Clark who won the @fems MicroLife poster prize at the Microbial Adhesion and Signal Transduction GRC!

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

Fab postdoc job opportunity!

Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social ! www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

Farewell drinks with this guy. @wragbags.bsky.social we will miss you

Super proud of amazing lab alumnus @mbottery.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious @wellcometrust.bsky.social fellowship to grow his lab @officialuom.bsky.social studying the evolution of fungal pathogens! Mike has multiple postdoc positions available on his exciting project (details 👇)

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

A periplasmic protein complex mediates cell envelope integrity and intrinsic multidrug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663683v1