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I'm currently advertising a PhD position in my lab, to study the transition from commensal to pathogen in Staphylococcus aureus. Details available here, please share! www.keele.ac.uk/research/pos...

New preprint. I've been chewing on why bacteria have pangenomes for years. Most species carry a distributed gene pool far larger than any one genome holds. E. coli has ~163,000 rare genes across the species. Each individual cell carries about 5,000. Why? A 🧵👇

One of the biggest challenges in microbial biotechnology? Unlocking the potential of non-model microbes and synthetic communities! Glad to share our review @sonjablasche.bsky.social @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social. This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share! Apply: adum.fr

📢 Funded PhD in molecular microbiology & phage biology How do bacterial stress responses control prophage activation and horizontal gene transfer? Join us at St Andrews to dissect Clp protease–mediated regulation in Staphylococcus aureus. Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Last year, we proposed a model of plasmid evolution via fusion and fragmentation (via mge mediated recombination) generating mosaics, by studying historical isolates. Excited to see a MASSIVE paper from @jrpenades.bsky.social , @epcrocha.bsky.social expanding on this www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come and join us @ceplas.bsky.social cluster of excellence @hhu.de 12 postdocs & 7 PhD positions in Düsseldorf www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

Do you have experience in bioinformatics and are looking for a new challenge? To immerse yourself in a group and institute doing highly diverse research? Then come and join our group !

Important cautionary tale on bacterial studying horizontal gene transfer without proper mechanistic or wet lab validation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬🦠𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗭𝗜𝗙/𝗣𝗘𝗚 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴! We are excited to invite you to the joint Annual Meeting of DZIF & PEG: Explore how infection research is evolving in the age of antibiotic resistance, gender medicine, and precision medicine 📅 February 23–24, 2026 📍 Bonn 🔗 Register now: t1p.de/dzif-peg-2026

Important study for researchers of the nasal microbiome 👃🦠 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨We are looking for a coordinator located at @uni-wuerzburg.de for our new excellence cluster NUCLEATE - Cluster of Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies 👇 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03... Deadline: Jan 31 st, 2026

Just a reminder 🔔 that early bird registration for the VAAM Annual Conference 2026 in Berlin ends 📆January 11 Register soon to save your spot and some money. Hope to see you there!

PhD Student in Computational Structural Biology of Pathogen Targets www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #biozentrum #biozentrumbasel #universityofbasel #researchjobs #sciencejobs #basel #job #hiring #recruiting #carreers #research #phd #biology

🚀 We're hiring! We are offering several exciting #PhD & #postdoc positions spanning a range of topics, from jumbo phage biology & phage therapy to programmable RNA therapeutics & Fusobacterium nucleatum research. The application deadline is Jan 11. Learn more: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

🔊 APPLY NOW for our #MarMic #MSc/#PhD program! Come to #Bremen and take an interdisciplinary approach to #marine #microbiology, #molecularbiology, #biochemistry, #evolution and more. ⏳ Open until Feb 28 2026 ➡ marmic.mpg.de #graduatestudents #marinescience #sciencecareer #IMPRS @maxplanck.de

We're advertising for a bacteriology technician and a post-doc to work on AI-guided antibiotic development as part of a large multidisciplinary Fleming Initiative project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Our popular science article (in German) with @simonheilbronner.bsky.social on the commensal and pathogenic struggles of Staphylococcus aureus

if you are interested in a PhD in tuberculosis drug discovery, check out our opportunities 🧪🦠 #Tuberculosis lstm.ac/PhD

Great heroic work by Kevser Bilici demonstrating the import role of biotin for integration of S. aureus into the nasal microbiome.

So happy to share this! Bacteriocins were first discovered over 100 years ago, but what do they actually do? We look at >1000 bacteriocin plasmids and find links to virulence and antimicrobial resistance, and frequent bacteriocin sharing in Enterobacteriaceae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD opportunity with me and @kshbeckham.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@kostchristian.bsky.social has an open PhD position as a part of #SPP2389 ! #microsky #mevosky

Informative overview on the past and presence of bacteriophage research by GF Hatfull: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #SPP2330

🚨 A fantastic opportunity to join HIRI to start your research group on RNA Biology 👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

job alert: @spp2330.bsky.social

wow such a great study

“American higher education has more women enrolled than ever before. More people of color than ever before. An educated populace is a civically engaged populace, a populace capable of critical thinking…that success threatens the wealth and power of those orchestrating these attacks.”

Learn about EMBO Member Ruth Massey and her #research at University College Cork #Ireland: https://www.embo.org/people/thinking-about-the-bigger-picture/#research🧪 #LifeSciences #community #funding #opportunities

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

We have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs. Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to apply👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...

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

Happy to share this new article online at #mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Human nasal organoids (HNOs) are a new model system for studying bacterial colonization and interspecies interactions. A big congratulations to the whole team, especially co-first authors: Andrea Boyd and Leah Kafer

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

I guess such oyster breakfasts should be enjoyed more frequently then

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

Great opportunity to work on an interesting project with caring supervisor👇

Join us at the VAAM Annual Conference🌟 22.-25.3.2026 in Berlin 👥! ✏️Registration is now open - benefit from early bird fees🏃‍♀️! 📝 Submit your abstract & 🎓 Apply for student travel grants until 🗓️ 7 November 2025. All details & more info 👉https://t1p.de/zazfv

A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience

Super high MRSA and VISA rates in Gaza. Multidrug-resistant bacteria amid health-system collapse in Gaza - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

New online! The human skin microbiome: from metagenomes to therapeutics

We are searching for a professor in Biology Didactics (W2) at Osnabrück University. The research focus should be on organismic biology, biodiversity, organismic interactions in ecosystems and human-environment interactions. Link to (German) advertisement 👇 shorturl.at/aKKAB

Happy to share Iván’s first-author pub from the lab! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Metal ions are universally required for life, and many of the foundational principles of metal homeostasis have emerged from studies of microbial systems. In this review, I provide a introductory overview targeted to those new to the field. #MicroSky #Metals rdcu.be/eycU2