PhD opening in my lab @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social: using AI to predict how phage enzymes break down bacterial capsules — joint work with ML group GMUM and Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa's phage lab (Wrocław), spanning genomics, AI & evolution. mostowylab.com/job-phd-ai-d... Deadline: 15 August 2026

I'm very grateful to receive the Supervisor of the Year award from our graduate school (>350 PIs). This really means a lot to me! Big thanks to my great lab, and I look forward to the coming years of exciting science with everyone 🙂

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Ilya Osterman is opening a new lab at EMBL Hamburg and is now hiring. Highly recommended - a fantastic opportunity to do top-notch science in phage biology and bacterial immunity

Only one month left until registration closes! Don't miss the opportunity to be part of the 2026 International Symposium on "New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interactions" in Berlin. Secure your spot today! 👉 spp2330.de/symposium-20... We look forward to welcoming you to Berlin!

We are looking for a motivated PhD student in phage genomics! Please find the details attached. Application deadline 24/07. Don't hesitate to spread the word!

Take a look at this new preprint led by @fanny-wodrascka.bsky.social on tension-driven cell extrusion! Using optogenetics, she studied how tensile stresses can influence fate (alive or dead) and direction (apical or basal) of extruded cells. Happy to have contributed a bit to this nice story!

Organisationstalent gesucht! Werden Sie als Assistenz des Betriebsrats Teil unseres internationalen Teams am Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Tübingen. Bewerben Sie sich bis 12.07.2026: jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/277

🧬🖥️ Call for Posters! 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! Deadline Poster: 6 Aug 2026 👉 gcb2026.de

The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...

Folddisco is now published @natbiotech.nature.com. It’s a fast motif search for similar 3D DISCOntinuous residues like catalytic sites or zinc fingers across the entire protein universe. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💾 folddisco.foldseek.com​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🌐 https://search.foldseek.com/folddisco

Now out in @pnas.org 🥳 "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" --> bad timing can kill you, even as a virus. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de

Phages invented sgRNAs before humans!! 🧬 Obviously, for mischief… 😈 Loved seeing this story unfold!

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has elected Susana Coelho as a new member. Many congratulations! www.bio.mpg.de/523647/susan...

📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

Amazing piece from @science.org and @richardastone.bsky.social on our field and the growing connection between human and bacterial immunity! #microsky #virosky #immunosky www.science.org/content/arti...

A nice piece at @science.org covers the exploding field of bacterial immunity, and how it led to the understanding that components of the human immune system evolved from bacterial defenses against phage www.science.org/content/arti...

For me, this comes with many firsts: 1st co-first author publication with Vanessa Arnold, 1st project with my own funding @jherzstiftung.bsky.social, my 1st publication together with @maiktungsten.bsky.social, talk about couple goals, & my 1st co-last authorship with @lisasevenich.bsky.social.

Happy to share our new review on biophysical principles of cell competition and elimination: www.cell.com/trends/cell-... With @bladoux.bsky.social and @rmmege.bsky.social, we discuss mechanical fitness, how loser cells are removed through various strategies and how forces can effect their fate

📢 Registration for our International Symposium on “New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interactions” is now open! 🗓️ 5–7 October 2026 📍 Harnack House, Berlin, Germany ➡️ Information and registration: spp2330.de/symposium-20...

What an incredible Open Day! Hundreds of visitors explored our labs, talked with researchers, tried hands-on experiments, and discovered how fundamental research works behind the scenes. Thanks to everyone who joined us on the Tübingen Max Planck campus on Saturday! #OpenDay #MaxPlanck

Re-posting this as we’ve still not found any parallels #MicroSky

You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

#joboffer #Germany plz spread it I'm hiring a Junior leader (E13; 100% for 3-5 y) to start own independence w/ focus on #CryoEM SPA or ET Ideally 1-2y postdoc experience Plz get in touch, if you are interested in #Structural biology & #MicroBiochem @sfb1381.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social

What did you find in your Easter nest this year? Chocolate, or the next idea that could change the future? If this season has brought new scientific ideas to life, we’d love for you to share them with us at our #Curious2027 Conference in Heidelberg.

Congratulations to Max Planck Research Group Leader Can Aztekin and his team on their new paper in @science.org. They have discovered how oxygen-sensing explains why amphibians regenerate limbs and mammals do not. Read the full press release here: tinyurl.com/bsuwmek6

Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures? @oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky

My first self-made Sorbian egg got a special design. Phagetastic Easter everyone!

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