Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan. Join us in the best city in the UK 😜 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

New in JB: Trottier, Déziel et al. show that despite the conservation of the PqsE sequence of P. aeruginosa and some key conserved functions, including and essential role for HAQ biosynthesis, this protein has different impacts across strains of Pa. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me [email protected]. Thanks!

Join our wonderful #PeerReview team! We’re looking for a Scientific Editor to help uphold rigorous peer review and support our editors, reviewers, and authors. Applications are now open. Apply now 📚▶️ https://ow.ly/RCNQ50XulOF#PeerReview #ScienceJobs #NowHiring

WOW! Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New lab paper! Andrew Frando describes how MexT alters the quorum sensing cascade in P. aeruginosa. /1 With Nicole Smalley; two undergraduates, Jamal Omar and Bobby Parsek; and @dezieleric.bsky.social, @mariecg.bsky.social, and Mylène Trottier at INRS in Montreal journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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New in JB: Déraspe, Roy et al. perform a comparative genomics study of the PA7-clade of P. aeruginosa - now recognized as a distinct species, Pseudomonas paraeruginosa. This analysis revealed 2 sub-clades, the lack of T3SS & multiresistance. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Plus que 10 jours avant la fin des soumissions des résumés pour le BiSP qui aura lieu le 5-6 novembre 2025 à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Nous aurons aussi la chance de recevoir @lalouxlab.bsky.social et @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social Partagez! @micrhub.bsky.social event.fourwaves.com/bispmicrhubs...

Please share - an Assist Prof position in microbiology employmentopportunities.umb.edu/mob/cw/en-us... @asm.org

Interesting: Canada's updated antimicrobial resistance pathogen prioritization list. 🦠📜 "Canada’s 2025 #AMR priority pathogens: Evidence-based ranking and public health implications" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Volatile organic compounds from Bacillus velezensis FZB42 remodel Arabidopsis root architecture by an auxin-dependent mechanism -in Plant Cell Reports (Springer) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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How do bacteria organize? 🦠 @bostonu.bsky.social researchers reveal in Cell Systems that colony shape, metabolism & nutrients drive growth, diversity & striking rings. Learn more: spr.ly/63321AGQbb @dsegre.bsky.social

Pseudomonas aeruginosa senses exopolysaccharide trails using type IV pili and adhesins during biofilm formation by O'Toole, Parsek, & Wong groups www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Primer alert! And now with the correct link, apologies @dezieleric.bsky.social! Microbial Primer on the essentials of biosurfactants. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

What to know more about #biosurfactants but do not know where to start? We are publishing a «Primer» on the topic! Great contribution from PhD student Maude Dagenais Roy www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... Thanks to @microbiologysociety.org

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

fellow microbiologists take note👇 this is comparable to closing down ATCC. go figure! #MicroSky

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

A family of linear plasmid phages that detect a quorum-sensing autoinducer exists in multiple bacterial species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667625v1

Pls share: Kenyon College is looking for "a broadly trained microbiologist whose research focuses on prokaryotes." You can see the full ad here: careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

The 3rd International #Biosurfactants Conference will take place in Aachen, Germany September 8 -10 2025. Academia and industry will discuss the latest developments, and share cutting-edge insight in this exciting field of microbial #biotechnology #microsky biosurfactants.uni-hohenheim.de/en

🎶 Straight from the Lab to the Mic: when a Pasteur scientist turns her thesis into a rap 🎶 #FeteDeLaMusique

Great new resource for Quorum sensing enthusiasts: a database linking LuxI-type synthases to their AHLs journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

New work from the lab! Sometimes going beyond prototypical strains such as PAO1 or PA14 tells a more complex and nuanced story.

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

A natural compound, echinacoside, controls #c-di-GMP levels in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa via SiaD and is proven effective in combinatorial therapy with tobramycin. No doubt targeting c-di-GMP pathways is a nice path to tackle biofilm and chronic infections. See at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbiology Monday: To swim or to swarm? 🦠While c-di-GMP inhibits swimming to promote biofilm formation in E. coli, elevated levels of the secondary message molecule trigger production of a surfactant (colanic acid) that aids swarming. #mBio: asm.social/2pm

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species? How many cells transmit when a strain is shared? Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable? We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper. 🧵[1/10]

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

🔬 Ph.D. position in Environmental Microbiology The LCPME is offering a 3-year Ph.D. position to work on the biology of conjugative plasmids carrying antibiotic resistance genes in environmental contexts. This project will combine bacterial genetics, microcosm experiments, and bioinformatic.

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

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Very proud of this new paper! Biosurfactants (e.g. rhamnolipids) are an attractive substitute for synthetic surfactants. To complement usual optimization strategies, we report a promising directed evolution procedure to select overproducing mutants, based on swarming motility doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Preprints are good for science, but they also benefit authors. Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Call for papers! Pseudomonads are an incredibly diverse group of microorganisms that play critical roles in human health and disease. To highlight new and exciting work in this field, we are announcing a Special Collection: journals.asm.org/journal/jb/p... @asm.org #JBacteriology

The International Workshop on ‘Cell-cell communication in bacteria’ (CCCB25) to be held in Trieste, Italy, October 28-30 2025 is now open for abstract submission and registration www.icgeb.org/cell-cell-co... Some abstracts will be selected for oral presentations. #quorum-sensing

A new line of research in the lab over recent years! We start with a review article, by postdoc Nasim Sedighian as lead author - Ecofriendly Control Strategies Against Clavibacter michiganensis, the Causal Agent of Bacterial Canker of Tomato | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

New paper out! Phenotypic variation is a feature of several Burkholderia species. We found that quorum sensing and adenosine DNA methylation are two antagonistic systems independently controlling phase variation in B. ambifaria. Great work by @pmlcoulon.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Happy to share that my paper on creativity in research labs is out in the "Ten Simply Rules" article series. Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs I hope you find it to be useful. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

One of the kindest and most interesting scientists I have known, Julian Davies, passed away. I had some remarkable conversations with him. Watch this seminar, and you will see what I mean. RIP, Julian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjdb...

Did not realize this address from Trudeau was going to be aimed at us

Ouch. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board just called Trump's new trade war "The Dumbest Trade War in History"