Our preprint on predicting drug resistance in bacteria is now out in @plosbiology.org. We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. Work from @yanyingyu.bsky.social with @nwheeler443.bsky.social.

Yesterday, our #ResearchCareers team gave an online presentation on DFG funding in the Walter Benjamin Programme. If you missed it, don't worry. We have a film about funded researchers and general information on this programme available: www.dfg.de/walter_benja... youtu.be/wLe8xCMSpLA?...

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

🔎 Find us at the 77th #DGHM Meeting in #Jena! Gabriele Pradel, Anja Lührmann, Sandra Reuter, Bärbel Stecher and others are happy to tell you more about our German network for women in infection research! 💜 👩‍🔬@gabrielepradel.bsky.social @sandrareuter.bsky.social @baerboletta.bsky.social

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

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!

🦠 New @nature.com study finds that respiratory viruses like flu & COVID can wake up dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, triggering metastatic growth within days. This IL‑6‑driven inflammation correlated w/ higher metastasis & mortality risk in cancer survivors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ein Team um Johannes Krause vom Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie hat den Ort entdeckt, an dem der Schwarze Tod seinen Ausgang nahm. Diese #Infografik veranschaulicht die Ausbreitungswege der #Pest.

Why is the DFG asking me to provide a review? Our Head Office invites suitably qualified and renowned national and international experts to review proposals submitted on specific research topics. We have compiled key reasons and practical information: www.dfg.de/en/research-...

The field of bacterial immunity is incredibly vibrant with many novel discoveries and fantastic new biology. Here is a nice summary of some of the work done recently! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.

📣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...

Our VP Matthias Koenig took part in @scienceeurope.org conference for the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. His messages to the Commission: To increase Europe‘s innovation and competitiveness we also need a significantly higher investment in excellent and open-topic basic research.1/2

Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!

Die #DFG unterstützt weiterhin promovierte, geflüchtete Wissenschaftler*innen, indem sie kurzfristig in das dt. #Wissenschaftssystem integriert werden. Etwa durch Einbindung in bestehende Projekte oder durch Förderung eigener Forschungsvorhaben (Walter Benjamin-Stelle). ➡️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Der Doppelschlag Die Wissenschaftsminister der Länder fordern Bund-Länder-Programme für #Hochschulbau, für #KI-Infrastruktur und für neue Tenure-Track-Professuren. Realitätsfern? Mutig? In jedem Fall: die Selbstermächtigung der #Wissenschafts-MK. Im WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/01/31/d...

Last work from the lab in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social ! We review the most recent evidence on the strategies deployed by Klebsiella to counteract host defences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The co-evolution with the immune system has taught the bug a couple of tricks!!!

Die DFG-Gremien tagen turnusmäßig vier Mal im Jahr. An folgenden Daten entscheiden sie 2025 über Anträge u. a. in der #Einzelförderung. An gesonderten Terminen wird zudem über Entscheidungen in der #Exzellenzstrategie (EXC), zu #Graduiertenkollegs (GRK) und Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFB) beraten.

Die #DFG ruft zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen für eine Großgeräteinitiative im Jahr 2026 auf. Vorschläge können aus allen Bereichen der #Wissenschaft kommen. Ziel ist, besonders vielversprechender Technologie für die Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Alle Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Publishing Developments - #mikrosky bsky.app/profile/scie...

Interested in predicting AMR in bacteria? We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. With @nwheeler443.bsky.social and former PhD student Yanying Yu. 🦠🧫🧬🖥️🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 Stellenausschreibung: Christina Karsten sucht eine:n wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in für ihre #HIV-Forschung an der Uniklinik Essen! Bitte teilen 👩‍⚕️ karriere.ume.de/job-finder/?...

📌 Schon in den Kalender eingetragen? 📅 Jeden Monat informieren wir über die verschiedenen DFG-geförderten Kongresse und Tagungen zu wissenschaftlichen Themen – nun stehen die Termine für März. Die wichtigsten Infos gibt es hier: 👇 www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

ESKAPE pathogens are outsmarting us. Our latest paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social reveals alarming ease of resistance evolution to antibiotics in development. Collaborative work with @csabapallab.bsky.social‬ and Kintses Lab

📣Our latest paper is out now in mSystems: Not quite as it may seem - investigating #plasmid diversity and evolution in #Klebsiella pneumoniae at a single institution over time. A short thread 🧵 @zaminiqbal.bsky.social

The German Research Foundation also moved from X to Bluesky - great to meet you again here

💊🦠OUT NOW - comprehensive analysis of the propensity of ESKAPE pathogens to evolve resistance to new and in development antibiotics by Csaba Pal, Balint Kintses, Balazs Papp and colleagues. Dive in here... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#WeekendRead! Ahn, Arthur &co show @CellHost&Microbe that pathogenic E. coli produce a metallophore that sequesters zinc in macrophages, stabilizing HIF1a & driving fibrosis in #IBD mouse models and Crohn Disease patients! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emerging models to study competitive interactions within bacterial communities @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More than 60 research institutions and universities from Germany left platform X today!! nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...

Another newly discovered mechanism of bacteria inhibiting competitors - increasing their sensitivity to phages - fascinating www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Peptidoglycan as danger signal promotes biofilm formation - great article by the Drescher lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

new very interesting paper about plasmid-chromosome crosstalk in Enterobacteriaceae www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to the Papenfort group and collaborators for this intriguing work uncovering the role of ProQ and its associated sRNAs in Vibrio motility! Grateful for the opportunity to be part of this discovery! academic.oup.com/nar/article-... #RNA #RIL-seq #Motility

microLife Webinar on Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria Originally broadcast on 29 February 2024, dive into the microscopic realm of bacterial nucleotide second messengers.

This is a fantastic opportunity to start your independent career! Lots of support and a welcoming and collaborative environment!

New paper from the Faber lab in @plosbiology.org characterizing the C. difficle ncRNA ModT, with effects on sporulation and the transition into stationary phase, evidence for RBP association -- and similar abundance to some ribosomal RNAs! 🧫🦠 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We uploaded the sequences of the Y. pestis Pestoides genomes we had in the freezer to NCBI. Check them out if you are interested in Y. pestis evolution. Another small paper on these sylvatic strains will be coming in near future.

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

Enjoy one more week to send us your application! Deadline extended to next Tuesday, the 17th of December 23:59.

Forschende werden mit je 2,5 Millionen Euro ausgezeichnet#Leibniz-Preis#Auszeichnungen#Naturwissenschaften

Resistance to one antibiotic can make bacteria resistant or sensitive to another antibiotic, opening paths for combinatorial treatments. A study in Nature Microbiology presents an approach to systematically discover and understand such antibiotic relationships. https://go.nature.com/49of3Mk 🧪

How to write a research paper @science.org “It is damn frightening to state something incorrect.” Especially if you are a newcomer, “one always feels like there is something one doesn’t know, or that your words are not the best.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Metals increase binding of many metalloregulators to DNA, and the converse is also true. As a result, cells benefit from facilitating mehanisms to help proteins dissociate. Peng Chen et al. describe how collaborating regulators can facilitate repressor dissociation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists around Yvonne Mast at @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social described 20 new strains of #actinomycetes and named them all after female microbiologists. DSMZ now features portraits of these women that we want to share with you. A great way to increase recognition of #womeninscience 💜👩🏾‍🔬🧫🦠 #microbiology

📖 New paper from the Pamer lab! Qiwen Dong and collaborators showed that the avirulent C. difficile isolate ST1-75 outcompetes virulent C. difficile to protect mice from colitis, likely by depleting amino acids. ST1-75 has biotherapeutic potential for recurrent CDI! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

To honour Jane Hinton’s contributions to microbiology, especially the development of the Mueller-Hinton agar, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces hintoniae (DSM 41014) after her. #herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #streptomyces #microbiology