Very proud of our close cooperation partner Dr. Dr. Lena Müller-Heupt of @unimainz.bsky.social University Medicine for winning the “Pioniergeist” award on her start-up and the #microbiome friendly mouthwash “Reparodent”. Congratulations, Lena, well deserved 🥳

Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗

Exciting talk of William Johnston from the @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social Scotland on oral pathogenic bacteria at the @unimainz.bsky.social. Thanks for being here, Will 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Fascinating talk today of @ndominel.bsky.social from @unimainz.bsky.social on staphylococci involved in mycosis fungoides disease at the cell-cell- communication conference in Trieste, Italy 🇮🇹

Excited to be on the international conference on cell-cell #communication in bacteria 2025 at the ICGEB Trieste in Italy 🇮🇹.

Excellent talk on CTLC-associated staphylococci of @ndominel.bsky.social on the Day of the Faculty of Biology at @unimainz-events.bsky.social

Exciting pavilion demonstrating the power of Molecular #Biotechnology organised by @gebhardlab.bsky.social at this year’s open campus day of the @unimainz-events.bsky.social. Thanks to all the student helpers who brought the pavilion to life 🤗.

Excellent PhD defence 🎓 about bacterial secretion systems today by Friederike Pisarz at @unimainz-events.bsky.social. Very proud supervisor moments. Congratulations, Friederike, well done 🥳

SFB 1535 @mibinet.bsky.social goes @vaam-microbes.bsky.social Thanks to @franznarberhaus.bsky.social, Julia Bandow and @dirktischler.bsky.social for the organisation of a fantastic meeting. We are #Vaamily 🥳

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

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 🤗

📢Save the Date📢 17. VAAM Industry-Academia Panel on "Enzymes Tailored to Fit: From Nature to Industrial Application" 📅 Thursday, Feb 20 ⏰ 4 PM, online Register free to get valuable insights from our expert speakers 🖊️https://t1p.de/rqk1z Open also to non-VAAM members

Farewell event of our 3rd student cohort of the international Master degree program in #Microbiology, who are now moving ahead to start their 2nd semester at our #Forthem partner University of Burgundy in #Dijon 🇫🇷. All the best and many new exciting discoveries in science, culture and beyond!

Proud supervisor moments: PhD candidate Fabio Platz from @unimainz.bsky.social was awarded with the best student talk at #Forthem Winter School in Jyväskylä 🇫🇮. Congratulations Fabio 🥳!

Fascinating talk of @ndominel.bsky.social of @unimainz.bsky.social today about #staphylococci involved in mucosis fungoides at #FORTHEM Winter School on Cellular #Signaling in #Jyväskylä 🇫🇮

Starting the day with a wonderful walk over the frozen lake visiting the #FORTHEM Winter School on Cellular #Signaling at #Jyväskylä University in Finland 🇫🇮 with lovely colleagues from @unimainz.bsky.social

Happy to organize the Rhineland-Palatinate Symposium on #Microbiology and #Biotechnology after a 5 years break at the JGU-Biocenter connecting young researchers of @uni_mainz, @rptu_kl_ld and the @IBWF_gGmbH. Looking forward to meet you in #Kaiserslautern next year! 😎

The submission deadline for the special issue „#interkingdom signaling - chemical communication between #bacteria and #eukaryotes“ in @Micro_MDPI was extended until June 30th. Research papers as well as reviews are welcome!