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

🔊 Interested in doing a PhD on RNA-binding proteins in an abundant microbiota species and becoming a member of the German Priority Programme “Illuminating Gene Functions in the Human Gut Microbiome”? Apply here: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

🚀 Ready to explore life science research at the highest level? Then apply for a fully-funded biology #PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Biology @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and Friedrich Miescher Laboratory! Find out about the projects you could be working on: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de #IMPRS

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

Promoting young research talent is something we take seriously at MPI-Bio! This Monday, we opened our doors to 23 class 3e pupils (+ their teachers) from the Lindenbrunnenschule Tübingen for them to learn about bacteria, peer at them under the microscope, and smell some peculiar-scented vials!

Expressions of interest are open for our online course next year learning how to use @nanoporetech.com sequencing to detect DNA base modifications. 🧬 📅 13-14 May 2026 💻 Online ➡️

📢 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

Nice to see today's Google Doodle about our favorite thing in the world: DNA! Btw, if you're interested in learning about DNA and advancing our understanding of how genes work, we're currently accepting applications for doctoral candidates through the IMPRS-BAC program: www.molgen.mpg.de/en/imprs

Microbial enzymes hold the key to greener plastics! Rhodospirillum rubrum can produce ethylene without releasing CO₂. A team @rebeleinlab.bsky.social purified the enzyme and solved its structure, an important step towards #SustainableChemistry.

Mikrobielle Enzyme als Schlüssel zu grünem Plastik! Rhodospirillum rubrum kann Ethylen produzieren, ohne CO₂ freizusetzen. Ein Team von @rebeleinlab.bsky.social hat das Enzym gereinigt und seine Struktur entschlüsselt – ein wichtiger Schritt in Richtung #NachhaltigeChemie.

Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 Please RT!

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

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could help fight antibiotic resistance, but phage–host interactions are not yet sufficiently understood. Researchers from #HIRI, JMU & HZI now successfully interfered with phage reproduction using ASOs. Just out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🚨Upcoming virtual hands-on workshop on Ecological Graph Theory, organised by our postdoc Ata Kalirad for the Methods in Ecology and Evolution and the British Ecological Society. 🗓️ Date: 25 September 🕐 Time: 10am BST 💻 Location: Zoom 📝 Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/mee-...

🧬 & 🖥️ ✨ Secure your ticket for the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2025)! We are excited to welcome you to Düsseldorf starting September 22, 2025. 👉Register now and be part of #GCB2025: gcb2025.de/GCB2025_regi...

Do you love the world of science? Are you a passionate communicator eager to engage others? Put your talents to work as Head of Communications and Social Media in the #PublicRelations team! ❕Apply until: September 19 ❕https://www.mpg.de/25248300/head-of-communications-and-social-media #hiring

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures! 🧵

We wrote a review on the free nucleotide pool as a central playground in human, bacterial, and plant immunity – now out in Nature Reviews in Immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41... Was fun to write this piece with Dina Hochhauser! Here is a thread to explain the premises 1/

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve. Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

A 2-year postdoc position in my lab, under the supervision of P-Alex Kaminski, on Z-DNA phages and the benefit given by ZTGC DNA and the replication machinery, with attempt to create a Z based minireplicon research.pasteur.fr/en/job/a-two...

Congratulations!👏

📢 Congratulations 𝗗𝗿. 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗸𝗲𝗿 for receiving the Otto Hahn Medal and Otto Hahn Award from @maxplanck.de ! 🎉 The honors recognize her exceptional work @georghochberg.bsky.social. 🌟 Exciting times ahead! #MaxPlanck #ResearchExcellence www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1511259/2025...

I had the honor of receiving both the Otto Hahn Medal and Award of the May Planck Society. I am looking forward to transforming this chance into an own research group pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary phage research! Huge thanks to all colleagues, collaborators, family and friends!

YES!!!Excellent initiative #Microbes-for-Climate #M4C🦠FUNDED💲💰☺️🤩 The best?🤔The people❤️ Endless gratitude to Tobi & Anke - amazing role models❤️ Love the "thanks BBQ no matter what" spirit from the "Präsidium"! @unimarburg.bsky.social - sure it tasted better as we got it😉😂 #ProfLife #LovelyMarburg🏰❤️

Excited to share: Phage–phage competition & biofilms affect interactions between two virulent bacteriophages & Pseudomonas aeruginosa academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #phagephagecompetition #biofilm #phagetherapy #pseudomonas @isme-microbes.bsky.social @geraldinen.bsky.social @midna002.bsky.social

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Interested in phages ? Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank . Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...

Guten Morgen! ☕ Normalerweise startet mein Tag mit zwei wachen Kindern – unserer Tochter & unserer jungen Hündin. Heute ist nur eine davon da. Das nehme ich zum Anlass, über etwas zu sprechen, das mich täglich begleitet: 👶🏽👩‍🔬 Kind & Karriere in der Wissenschaft

@maiktungsten.bsky.social & ich bekommen das hin – mit viel Organisation. Aber: Es darf nicht vom persönlichen Kraftaufwand abhängen, ob Vereinbarkeit gelingt. Wir brauchen endlich strukturelle Lösungen – nicht stille Kompromisse. #SciMom #DualCareer #ForschungUndFamilie

Eine kontroverse Frage, die mich selbst regelmäßig beschäftigt: 🧠 Ist Forschung an cerebralen Organoiden – also Mini-Gehirnen – ethisch verwerflich? Ich habe dazu einen klaren Standpunkt – glaube aber auch, dass wir als Wissenschaftler:innen die ethische Relevanz nicht ausklammern dürfen.

Damit verlasse ich jetzt meinen Arbeitsplatz: das M3 Forschungszentrum am UKT. 🚲 Ich radle nach Hause – dort warten schon @maiktungsten.bsky.social ❤️ und unsere Hündin Théa 🐾. Unsere Tochter ist gerade bei ihrer Oma in Berlin. Das ist der Grund, warum ich heute so lange im Labor sein konnte.

[Admin] Mini-Gehirne für die Krebsforschung! Begrüßt unsere neue Kuratorin @annawolfram.bsky.social! realscientistsde.blogspot.com/2025/05/mini...

🧠 Heute möchte ich euch mein zentrales Forschungsmodell vorstellen: cerebrale Assembloide. Das klingt technisch – ist aber ein großer Schritt in Richtung realistischer, tierversuchsfreier Krebsforschung. Was das genau ist, wie es funktioniert & warum es wichtig ist – darum geht's hier. ⬇️

👋 Hallo! Ich bin Anna Wolfram – Neurowissenschaftlerin 🧠, Chemikerin ⚗️, SciMom 👶 & diese Woche eure Kuratorin bei @RealScientistsDE. Ich freue mich, euch in den kommenden Tagen in meine wissenschaftliche Welt mitzunehmen – mit ehrlichen Einblicken, kritischen Fragen & einer Prise Alltagswahnsinn. 💬✨

🐁 Jetzt wird’s kontrovers – Tierversuche. In der Medikamentenentwicklung sind sie noch immer Pflicht: Sowohl die EMA (Europa) als auch die FDA (USA) verlangen präklinische Daten aus Tiermodellen, bevor Krebsmedikamente in klinische Studien dürfen. Ein paar Gedanken & mein persönlicher Standpunkt.

🧠 Warum forschen wir eigentlich am Gehirn? Weil Hirntumoren besonders schwer zu behandeln sind – und häufig übersehen werden. Heute ein Thread über Glioblastome, Hirnmetastasen & warum unsere Modelle dringend gebraucht werden. ⬇️ #NeuroOnkologie #RealScientistsDE

🖼️ Auf dieser Slide aus Leonies Vortrag sind die zentralen Probleme noch einmal gut zusammengefasst – denn trotz intensiver Bemühungen scheitern viele Medikamente lange bevor sie je eine Klinik sehen. Warum das so ist? Ein Blick in die Struktur der Forschung hilft. ⬇️ #TranslationalGap

Huge congratulations to our #Phagebuster Nadiia for winning this year's #MarBinaMarburg Prize for Biotechnology and Nanotechnology! We are so entirely proud! Her work was also part of the @dfg.de funded SPP 2330 programm @spp2330.bsky.social @pozhydaieva.bsky.social #proudPI

Die #Forschungsfreiheit in den USA steht unter Druck – mit Folgen für die #Wissenschaft weltweit. Gerade jetzt braucht es offene Zusammenarbeit. Wir stehen zu unserer transatlantischen Partnerschaft. Mein Gespräch mit dem SWR dazu ⬇️ www.swr.de/swraktuell/r...

Join our team as a doctoral researcher, impact science and go viral. We illuminate protein-RNA complexes at the interface between phages and bacterial pathogens @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...