I will probably be hiring either a PhD or a Postdoc in the near future. If you are interested in deep biochemical history or molecular mechanisms of evolution please get in touch.

How diverse is bacterial immunity ? We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems. 👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie... Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...

The PhageExpressionAtlas just made it to bioRxiv. Visually explore the transcriptomes of phage-host interactions or harness the database for analysis across infections! Please leave feedback, which functionalities/data you find missing. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phagesky #microsky

Excited to share the first preprint from the lab! We show that ApeA defends against RNA phage infection by cleaving the phage genome: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎉 Congratulations to the VAAM PhD Awardees 2026! 🏆 Helena Schulz-Mirbach – Marburg 🏆 Christoph Elfmann – Göttingen 🏆 Frederick V. Schmidt – Marburg Three outstanding theses, three well-deserved awards. 👏 #VAAM #Microbiology #PhDAward #Science

Excited to decode the intricate language of ubiquitin chains and unravel their role in protein degradation? 🧬🔬 👉 APPLY NOW to join the lab of Dr. Leo Kiss @leokiss.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social. #CellularBiochemistry #Ubiquitin #Proteostasis #ProteinDegradation

Only 9 days left to apply for this post doctoral position. Please share and forward to your colleagues.

Die Universität Tübingen bleibt Exzellenzuniversität! 🎉 Dies hat eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Bund und Ländern am Abend bekannt gegeben: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/…#ExStrar#Forschungn#UniTübingene#Exzellenzstrategieie

We sat down with Anika & Dmitry to discuss the new paper where we use bacterial scRNA-seq for studying bacterial phage infection and defenses. It turns out that bacteria use pre-existing variation in multiple layers of traits to protect themselves from unpredictable phages @isbscience.org

Join us this Thursday for the next exciting talk in our DSSS series by Prof. Dr. Kevin Foster visiting us from Oxford University. Everyone welcome! ▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2s46mtzf 📆: Thursday 19th March at 11am 📍: Max Planck House lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6 #DSSS

What a wonderful project team meeting of the Curious2027 organization team F2F at the Conference Center in Heidelberg. If you want to join a project team set-up to inspire the world join Future Insight Association today at futureinsightassociation.org #curious2027 #unitedbyscience

Do you know bulk transcriptome deconvolution? 🤔 In our preprint we introduce GrooD (GradientBoostedDeconvolution), which employs a holistic view to the deconvolution problem to deconvolve bulk transcriptomes into the underlying cell type proportions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A childhood dream has come true – I was appointed Full Professor for Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Düsseldorf @hhu.de : tinyurl.com/f43s74hp and as Director of the Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET, www.iet.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/) at FZ Jülich @fz-juelich.de .

@cmfi.bsky.social continues its international conference series: come to Tübingen in 2027!

Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader @luisapallares.bsky.social in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉 The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies. Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...

Anyone interested among the GBM members?

New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.

A jumbo cyanophage encodes the most complete ribosomal protein set in the known virosphere www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📅 Save the Date – CMFI Conference 2027 Feb 17–19, 2027 📍 Tuebingen, Germany Confirmed speakers: Benoit Chassaing · Eran Elinav · Neha Garg · Kiran Patil · Bertrand Routy · Nina van Sorge Subscribe to stay updated and join us in Tuebingen: www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/en/cmfi2027

➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔 🧵👇

Great opportunity to work on interesting problems in protein design :)

We're #hiring a new Insect Husbandry Technician (f/m/d) from 50% in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg. Apply today or share this post with your network: jobs.tue.mpg.de/en/programs/...

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏 www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Are you interested in working with a fresh team on cutting edge protein design? We're hiring a Technical Assistant for our protein design team at DKFZ Heidelberg: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1683... Please share!

🧬Call for 11 fully-funded PhD positions in RNA-based medicine! 🧬 The graduate program “RNAmed – Future Leaders in RNA-based Medicine” is recruiting its second cohort of PhD students, starting in 2027: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/... 📅 Application deadline: March 24 🧵 (1/4)

Like bacteria, phages use sRNAs to regulate gene expression! Out today in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social, @mvelascogomariz.bsky.social and I highlight a recent RIL-seq study from the @saharmelamed.bsky.social lab that looked into posttranscriptional regulation of lambda! tinyurl.com/lambda-RIL-seq

Happy birthday to....well, to us, actually! 😉🎂🥳 On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

Das russische Justizministerium hat den @daadworldwide.bsky.social als „unerwünschte Organisation“ eingestuft. Ein Rückschlag für die internationale Wissenschaft. Forschung braucht Offenheit und Austausch – mein Bedauern gilt allen Betroffenen.

#PhDPosition open — #RibosomeBiology & #Translation QC 📍 JGU Mainz, Germany 🗓️ Apply by 10 Mar 2026 (or until filled) 🔗 Full details + project options: 👉 ak-winz.pharmazie.uni-mainz.de/jobs/

We are excited to share that @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will be joining us as speaker at the 2026 International SPP 2330 Symposium. We look forward to meeting you in Berlin! 📅 October 5 – 7, 2026 📍 Harnack House, Berlin 🌐 More information is available at lnkd.in/eeSphFER

(This is coming in a bit late but...) Happy new year, everyone! As I continue planning 2026 travels, please give a shout if you are organizing a microbiology conference this year (or attending one). #microsky

🧬🖥️ Call for Abstracts OPEN! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadlines Workshops: 31 Mar 26 Talks: 3 May 26 Poster: 6 Aug 26 👉 GCB2026.DE

✨Save the Date ✨ Connect with fellow early-career microbiologists & start new collaborations🤝: Meeting of the #VAAM Young Scientist Network: "Establishing Collaborations within the Network" 📆 13.02.2026 ⏲️ 2 pm 🔗https://t1p.de/hmbhw #EarlyCareer #Networking #Microbiology #YoungScientists

Out Now! A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system #MicroSky

Save the date, please RT: Looking forward to an exciting International Symposium @spp2330.bsky.social "New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions". October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus Berlin (Germany). @dfg.de @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de

📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968 #Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology

Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Thank you @pdersch.bsky.social and @effiebastounis.bsky.social for your presentations! A great start for @cmfi.bsky.social into 2026

Available Postdoc position in my lab to advance ASO technology for biotechnology, food production, infectious diseases, environmental microbiology & more. Looking for specialists in these areas with an interest in RNA applications. Involves numerous national & international collaborations.

More PhD projects at IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”! 🚀 Apply by 19 Jan 2026. Research on fungal–prey interactions & transgenerational inheritance (Advisors: Hsueh, Sommer). 📍Tübingen, Germany. 🔗 lnkd.in/gWGf2w2g #IMPRS #PhD #LifeSciences #MaxPlanck

How can genome sequencing training foster more equitable global science? 🌍 An interview with doctoral researcher Catarina Lino on a hands-on plant genomics workshop in Zimbabwe - and what it means for North–South collaboration. 👉 tinyurl.com/9knhj92v #PlantGenomics #ScienceCollaboration #maxplanck

@peterfineran.bsky.social and colleagues develop Tn-seq for phages by leveraging anti-CRISPR (Acr) as a positive selectable marker in the presence of CRISPR-Cas counter-selection, and identify essential genes in phage from non model orgs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bacterial genomes encode a rich repertoire of antiphage systems, but we still know surprisingly little about when these systems are actually expressed. In this preprint, Lucas Paoli et al, ask what shapes antiphage systems expression in native contexts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#microsky #phagesky Expression of anti #phage systems in E. coli www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Environment and physiology shape antiphage system expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.14.694197v1

The next PhD project to be highlighted: 🔬 Novel workflows for identification of intracellular biomarkers by shotgun proteomics. Led by Prof. Boris Macek at the University of Tübingen as part of the IMPRS program ⏳ Deadline: 19 January 2026 🔗 Apply now: lnkd.in/gWGf2w2g #PhD #Proteomics #MaxPlanck

Thinking about a PhD and excited by algal development and evolution? 🌿🧬 Our IMPRS program has an open doctoral position in the department of Susana Coelho. More projects will be posted soon, so keep an eye on the page—or browse the current list here: lnkd.in/gEMXNQY6 Deadline: 19 January 2026