🕯️🕊️ La Faculté de biologie et de médecine (FBM) s’associe au mouvement de #solidarité national à la suite du #drame survenu à #Crans-Montana. Elle exprime sa profonde sympathie à toutes les personnes touchées par ce tragique événement, aux victimes et à leurs proches. 🤍 ⚫ www.unil.ch/news/fr/1767...

A single DNA methylation site regulates cell fate during Clostridioides difficile sporulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to see our new work published! We have established the evolutionary and ecological context of our favorite model Caulobacter and made some unexpected findings. Who would have thought that close relatives lack dimorphism? And have potential for phototrophy? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The bacterial #SOSresponse unfolds in a defined temporal order, but how does this arise? @adityakamat.bsky.social @anjbadri.bsky.social &co show that intrinsic #promoter strength, modulated by #SigmaFactor usage, governs timing of SOS gene activation in Caulobacter @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oAKf0Q

Two M. tuberculosis RelE toxins don’t cut mRNA, they slice 16S rRNA itself, shutting down translation in a totally unexpected way, new study reveals. A big leap in understanding TB’s survival tricks and new angles for therapies. 📖 shorturl.at/Z8MVX ✍️ @genevauxpierre.bsky.social & coll. #MicroSky

📢 We have multiple open PhD positions to study bacterial immune systems using cutting-edge cryo-EM, microbiology, and biochemistry in our group! Join us and uncover how bacterial defenses eliminate predators and engineer next-gen biotech tools. 🔥 Apply by Jan 8, 2026 Details: phd.pages.ista.ac.at

📢 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

PhD project available in my lab. Email me with CV if interested www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #microsky #bioimaging

The @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social PhD fellowship call is now open! Apply now (deadline 15 January) for a unique PhD Fellowship in Antibiotic Discovery. Our lab will also offer a project that a selected candidate can choose! www.nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/

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

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #microsky

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

🚨🚨🚨Calling all Caulophiles and Alpha aficionados - stayed tuned for a virtual CauloCon in early 2026. And HOPEFULLY an in person alpha meeting in 2027!! DM me or @chienlab.bsky.social w questions or to stay in the know.

I'm very excited to announce that the Worcester State University Biology Department has been approved to hire TWO new tenure-track faculty members to begin September 1, 2026! Here is a link to the job ad and application site: worcester.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Apply now for FBM #PhD #Fellowships in #Life #Sciences – join one of the Faculty’s leading laboratories. 🚨 Application deadline for fellowships: October 6, 2025. ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/en/1756... @unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social @dib-unil.bsky.social #fbm #unil

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

My institution is looking to hire a new microbiologist: apply.interfolio.com/173702. Please share, and let me know if you have any questions about the position or UTA.

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

🤩 Exciting Summer! 🤩 Two of my former postdocs in Switzerland🇨🇭 obtained Lecturer positions (Maîtres de Conférences) in French universities 🇨🇵 : congrats to Antonio Frandi and Florian Fournès !!!! 👏 La relève est assurée! All the best to both of you for this new start. 🤩

Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For those who love bacterial replicons, The ultimate review, from our lab, signed by the master of their evolution. ‪@val-meve.bsky.social‬ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔬 🧫 The Collier lab is hiring a new Postdoc! 🧬 🧪 We are looking for a motivated candidate to study mechanisms controlling DNA replication in Alphaproteobacteria with complex genomes. --> Apply by 30th August 2025 using this link: tinyurl.com/y5e5pm59

One of my favourite serendipitous results from the lab came about because we were long-read sequencing bacterial: Vibrio cholerae, which is "supposed to" have TWO circular chromosomes (3 + 1 million base pairs) often has just ONE fused chromosome (4 Mbp). www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home.... For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

Come join us in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline for applications: August 10th, 2025 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Just back home after a fantastic Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRC conference. Many thanks to the organizers Pam Brown and Ethan Garner. It was fabulous to meet you all again!

Just part of the Caulo crew at BCBD GRC. We would’ve gotten all the alphaphiles but it was too many people to herd into a pic!

Our paper on how integrons are biobanks of novel minimal defense systems is now out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Two main conclusions on this excellent work led by @eloilittner.bsky.social @baptistedarracq.bsky.social 1/n

Job alert 🦠🧪: We are looking for a postdoc (and PhD candidate!) to join our team at UCLouvain/de Duve institute in Brussels, Belgium. You will work on our ERC Starting Grant project aimed at characterizing cell cycle regulation in S. pneumoniae. More information here: dewachterlab.com/join-us/.

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.

Now online @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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!

The BASEL collection of E. coli #phages is limited by its host strain. @humollidorentina.bsky.social @damienpiel.bsky.social @aharms485.bsky.social &co use a modified host to add 36 new phages, revealing roles of O-antigen in recognition & R-M systems in immunity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jirGvX

Happy to share Asha Joseph and Inchara Adhikashreni's latest work from the lab, describing replisome speed variation in Caulobacter! www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

Excited to share our new preprint on an RNA sponge counteracting sibling sRNAs in Caulobacter! Laura Vogt and @mvelascogomariz.bsky.social used RILseq, RNA biochemistry and great commitment to work out this story! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

En mai, relevez le défi Bike to Work avec l’UNIL !

For my first official post on here I have some news to share: the lab is moving! After ~12 wonderful years in the US, Muller lab 2.0 will reopen this summer at the Institute of Microbiology in Lausanne🇨🇭Switzerland🇨🇭! We'll be recruiting at all levels so keep us in mind for your future adventures!

The big picture: Understanding bacterial epigenetics opens exciting doors: which may help improve probiotics, targeted microbiome therapies, etc. BIG congrats to first author @fannimi2001.bsky.social👏 & collaborating labs of @drvaldivia.bsky.social, Martin Blaser, Wenyan Jiang, Lauren Davey! 13/n

- What are the roles of m5C bases in bacterial genomes? - If a DNA methyltransferase is not genetically linked with a restriction enzyme (“solitary”), what is its role? - Are “solitary” Vsr-like proteins functional? --> Insights in our latest Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Looking for a PhD opportunity in Microbiology? Consider joining one of the strongest clusters of microbiology research in UK at @newcastleuni.bsky.social, Biosciences Institute, and @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social. See thread for BBSRC DTP PhD studentships currently advertised.

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

Poste d’ingénieur(e) de recherche CNRS – 18 mois – Marseille Rejoignez notre équipe sur un projet de prématuration du CNRS ! Nous recherchons un(e) ingénieur(e) de recherche spécialisé(e) en microbiologie, biologie moléculaire et en microscopie. 🫵 🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Linear dicentric chromosomes in bacterial natural isolates reveal common constraints for replicon fusion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.23.639760v1

Two more weeks to apply to join us in Paris ! research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

It's really nice to see the huge flow of new people coming here! Maybe it's time for a quick presentation. Hi 👋 I'm Noémie, I love science 🧬 and especially microbes 🔬 I do scientific illustrations for paper, cover or logo. And I'm the illustrator behind the Bacterial World blog: sarahs-world.blog

If you're interested in chromosome biology (DNA folding, gene regulation, replication, polymer modelling and more) we're organising the below this autumn. It'd be great to see you there. Please share if you can. :-)

"The pathway to resolve dimeric forms distinguishes plasmids from megaplasmids in Enterobacteriaceae | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic" academic.oup.com/nar/article/...