Great opportunity for those interested in doing a PhD in microbiology. Please spread the word!

JB Editor's Choice: Panich, Wadhwa et al. describe a new type of motility in Salmonella they refer to as "swashing", which does not appear to require active propulsion. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Last call! Want to be considered for a short talk at the upcoming stim grc? Apply today to be considered! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

Oferta para solicitar un contrato Juan de la Cierva. Únete a un laboratorio líder en el estudio de señalización bacteriana. Please resend.

Interested in microbial sensing, signaling and regulation? Don’t miss the 2026 GRC! Submit your abstract to be considered for a short talk! I hope to see you in sunny Ventura in January! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2) 🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl 📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

EVENT - Centre for Microbial Interactions Annual Conference 2026 Register now to attend in-person or virtually @norwichmicro.bsky.social 🗓️ 4-5 March 2026 📍John Innes Conference Centre, NR4 7UH ⏰ Deadline for registration - 25 February 2026: okt.to/16MLmH Full programme: okt.to/YF8TVe

Registration for January 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction In Microorganisms is now open: www.grc.org/sensory-tran... The meeting will be led by Ariane Briegel and Victor Sourjik. There is also an accompanying Gordon Research Seminar on Sensory Transduction In Microorganisms!

Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

Happy to share our latest preprint! Oscillators as building blocks: we model how intracellularly coupled oscillators interact and predict complex behaviors, from beats to chaos, guiding the next generation of synthetic biological circuits. @dmf-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15. www.mskcc.org/research/ski...

Pls share: A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)

🚨 #WeAreHiring a facility manager to lead our state-of-the-art research infrastructure at PoL! 🔬 Please share with your scientific network. What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics. Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy 🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.

Pls share: Secchi group at ETH Zürich is recruiting two fully funded, four-year PhD positions for an SNSF-funded project investigating the nonlinear rheology of bacterial biofilms. Deadline: 30 November 2025. Full advert and submission details: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Oh! Highly recommended, please consider applying! 👇🏻🤩

Interested in #PhilosophyOfBiology? Check out the new Cambridge Elements on "The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking" by @thomasreydon.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #evobio

We’re excited to announce the incredible speaker line-up for the Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference! Join the leading researchers as they explore the latest advances in Nanoimaging, Cell Growth and Cellular Structures. Join our speakers & register today! ➡️https://bit.ly/47rtkbw #ProkaryoticCellBio

Everyone interested in bacterial signal transduction, environmental sensing and motility, don't miss this conference organised by Ariane Briegel @arianebriegel.bsky.social and myself! We have great invited speakers and a number of slots allocated to short talks: www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

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?...

Starting your own lab is exciting—but challenging. Join our GBM Young Investigator leadership workshop in Regensburg, April 13–16th, 2026. Professional coaching, peer networking & practical tips for new PIs. Apply by Nov 30, 2025. 👉 gbm-online.de/de/young-inv... Pls repost!

Are you a rising start—or know one? Check the *Rising Stars Symposium* organized by the IBFG (Salamanca) to identify & attract young researchers—mainly postdocs—who could join the institute in the future or establish their own research groups here. Check readymag.website/u1842310954/... for info 👇

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

Expanding the range of stimuli for the model signaling pathway: Our short paper showing that E. coli exhibits a highly sensitive chemotactic response to pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides has just appeared in Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/eprint/JMVHA...

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

Professorship in plant genetics. The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See: www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

Happy to share as my first Bluesky post: Our newest paper describing a beautiful example of surprizing evolutionary innovation: Control of flagellar gene expression by a chemotaxis receptor-like regulator in pathogenic Escherichia coli | The EMBO Journal www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....