I am so sad to hear about the passing of the great Andreas Engel. Beyond the many scientific accomplishments of his career, he was an amazingly kind person who helped me a lot when I started my own lab. You will be missed Andreas 💔

Visualizing the sarcomere’s molecular architecture in its native state is crucial to understanding the structural changes behind cardiomyopathies. Join the Raunser Lab @raunser-lab.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social to explore heart cells in unprecedented detail using #cryo-electrontomography.

The newly established NeCEN Utrecht is looking for a #cryoEM scientist! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Work with a new Krios 5 + pFIB and support cutting-edge life science research. 📍 Utrecht | 🗓 Apply by 30 April Please share with your network!

I had the pleasure to give a student invited seminar at Imperial today! Thanks for hosting me!

Today @spencernyholm.bsky.social joins the Quality Quorum to discuss his research group’s work exploring how some squid have harnessed microbes to protect their eggs against pathogens! @markowenmartin.bsky.social

Spring moment

fems-microbiology.org/european-aca... I’m so honored to be an elected fellow of the EAM. It acknowledges the hard work of my fantastic team- they do the very hard experiments! To say thank you, we will go buy games for the lab to cover the sometimes long waiting times during microscope sessions!

🚨Come work with us! 🚨 I2BC is recruiting new team leaders in molecular and cellular biology, with special attention to multidisciplinary approaches and computational biology. 🧬🧪🔬👩‍🔬🧑‍💻 We provide a great environment with top-notch technological facilities. 🗓️ Apply by April 22, 2026!

Call for applications: New Director at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at @fz-juelich.de, combined with a joint W3 professorship with @hhu.de in "Microbial Biotechnology". www.academics.de/jobs/direkto...

Titan 5! Including the squid sticker to scale of course ! Thank you @thermofishersci.bsky.social

Let's get ready for a full month of training in image analysis in @pasteur.fr , this summer! Are you interested in learning how to do bioimage analysis? For light microscopy? for cryo-EM? And for cellular cryo-EM? Stay tuned, Pasteur offers access to THREE courses, this June. 👇🎓

We are excited to be recruiting a new tenure track group leader in the Structural Studies Division at MRC LMB! It is an amazing place to start your own lab. @mrclmb.bsky.social Please get in touch if you have any questions. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

It was such an honor and pleasure being the program co-chair for @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social 2026!

Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳 mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

So This is a new one- we get the following reason for bouncing a paper submission: ‚1. We noticed that there are significant overlaps in lines xxx-xxx‘. Now these passages are descriptions of sample prep workflows- cells grown under the same conditions etc… is this due to journal AI use?

Postdoc position available in my lab! Project will focus on how the microbiome-derived metabolite butyrate shapes C. difficile fitness and pathogenesis & will build on our previous/ongoing work in this space. Apply here: hr.wisc.edu/postdoc-and-...

Great work Debnath! 🎉 congratulations to you and your team !

Just came across an email from the late and great Howard Berg, whom was mentioned in many talks at out recent STIM GRC. Miss you Howard!

New Article! Integrated fluorescence light microscopy-guided cryo-focused ion beam-milling for in situ montage cryo-ET

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Reminder with <2 weeks to deadline:

It was such an honor and pleasure to chair the Signal Transductiion in Microorganisms GRC. What a wonderful team - with vice chair Victor Sourkjik and GRS chairs Varun Sridhar and Yajie Xu!

🔬 Postdoc position – Infection Biology & Cryo-ET (Zurich) 🇨🇭 We are looking for a motivated Postdoc to join our interdisciplinary team. 📩 Interested? Check out the job advert: www.imm.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:cb17... 👉 More info on the lab: www.weiss-laboratory.com Please share with interested colleagues!

Structure of a bacteriophage that uses flexible capsid fibers for initial host attachment - fabulous work lead by Willem, Tino and Ouyang and in collaboration with the Scharf lab www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Open #postdoc fellowship in my group. Virus replication and cryo-ET. Projects can be tailored to ambitious candidates with diverse backgrounds, so don't hold back from applying! DM for more info. Deadline 8 Feb. Apply here: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #virus #virology #teamtomo #cryoEM

Just 4 days until our Grants, Early Bird & Talk deadline closes for #ProkaryoticCellBio! Join Heath Murray, Jie Xiao, Marc Bramkamp and Ethan Garner 13 - 16 July 2026 in Portugal, alongside our fantastic speaker line-up! More info on how to register here➡️https://bit.ly/4qCDhtw

Registration is open for September’s Vibrio2026 conference in Berlin! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

Paris in the Snow

A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

We have special ornaments this year 😂

We are looking for a team leader to join the cryo-EM facility work at the new Ernst Ruska-Centre 2.0 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. We have a series of microscopes used by (@irene-vercellino.bsky.social, Schröder, @sachsegroup.bsky.social) and external users. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Just in time for Christmas- a new feisty Squid sticker for the integrative structural cell biology unit, designed by the one and only @verawilliams.bsky.social

Successful Christmas tree hunt of the Integrative Structural Cell Biology unit @pasteur.fr ! Everyone found the tree 🙂

My first science animation was about the flexible kinase domains in the chemoreceptorarray in E. coli in 2020. Now, 5 years later, I have made an updated version of this animation: animini.nl/chemorecepto... Made in the group of @arianebriegel.bsky.social and based on the work of Dr. Alise Muok.

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

CryoET of microbes inside an animal organ? Yes it’s possible! Check out our new preprint showing how we did it! What an amazing collaboration with amazing scientists who made this possible!

Join CSSB! The Sondermann lab is interested in deciphering the molecular processes that determine bacterial interactions in microbial communities. They are looking for a PhD candidate to investigate the bacterial secretion systems involved in these processes. Apply now: v22.desy.de/e67416/recor...

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...

Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Wonderful 8th Austrian Cryo-EM Symposium - so many inspiring cryoEM presentstions! Thank you for the invitation. Can you spot our little lab mascot on the Titan G5?

Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" 🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL 📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

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...

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

It’s complicated! Wonderful podcast with two wonderful microbiologists!

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

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

Interested in bacterial sensing, signaling and regulation? Come join us in January at the GRC in sunny California! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging