New preprint! Cell division has to happen at the right place but how Archaea pick that place is unknown. We now identified a three-protein system, Dip, that positions the divisome at midcell in H. volcanii and is broadly conserved across Archaea. A thread 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Discussion Meeting of the VAAM special group "Microbial Cell Biology" October 5–7, 2026 | Marburg, Germany More information: mcb2026.eventbrite.com

Out now in @science.org Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Now available as a Version of Record. Thanks a lot again to everyone involved in this project! doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Happy to share part of my postdoctoral work at the @lucas.farnunglab.com lab. Great collaboration with @voslab.org and @andersshansen.bsky.social. “Structural basis for CTCF-mediated chromatin organization” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

SAVE THE DATE! The next instalment of the long-running Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Division Conference will take place at www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels..., Italy from the 20th to 23rd of April 2027. Organisers: me, @s-lab.bsky.social, @awehenkel.bsky.social. More info soon. #MicroSky

Ancestral sequence reconstruction reveals CTP-dependent loading of the bacterial centromere-binding protein ParB as an ancient evolutionary feature Now published: tinyurl.com/4ddhwbb3 Thanks to the Hochberg and Bange labs for the great collaboration!

📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📅 January 7, 2026 Please RP🙏thx!

📢 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

📢 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

We are happy to share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A great collaboration with Waldemar Vollmer’s group, along with our fantastic proteomics and metabolomics facilities. @synmikro.bsky.social

new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.

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

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Now published as a Version of Record, with various new results compared to the initial preprint: Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin Available at: elifesciences.org/articles/100... @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵 Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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We're hiring a DFG-funded PhD student (TVöD E13, 65%) at Max Planck Institute, Marburg to study quorum sensing in Klebsiella & host–pathogen interplay. 3 yrs, start flexible. Apply by Sep 30, 2025 (rolling). Send 1 PDF to [email protected]

Talk slots full but we can take late breaking poster abstracts until August 7th. Hope to see you in York to hear about your chromosome story 🧬🦠🧫 www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f... @vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint! Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀Women in STEM: Are you a late-stage PhD student or postdoc in the life sciences? The September Science Academy in Marburg offers talks, lab tours, workshops – and the chance to present your own research! Apply now 👉 www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1489492/Sept... #LifeSciences #AcademicCareers

Congratulations to Rebecca Hinrichs on her first senior-author paper! @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species". Happy to see this paper in print @natcomms.nature.com. Nice work by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al. See original 🧵, different colours, same data and conclusions.

A new study from the Takacs lab, showing that bactofilins are essential for viability and critical for cell shape in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

*** Only a few days left to apply *** Postdoc position at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes by CTP-switches in bacteria Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

Learning the dynamic organization of a replicating bacterial chromosome from time-course Hi-C data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647011v1

#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...

New postdoc position available at IBVF!

Interested in the bacterial ParABS DNA segregation system? Then have a look at our latest preprint... 🧬 Thanks to the Hennig and Bange groups for the great collaboration! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Want to lead a research group at a Max Planck Institute – with a #tenuretrack position & substantial resources? Apply for the Lise Meitner Excellence Program by @maxplanck.de. The program aims to promote exceptionally qualified #WomeninScience. Deadline: April 8, 2025 www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...