🔊 New story! This GlmR (of hope) article has it all. Cell shape, cytokinesis, c-di-AMP, and catalysis - the famous 4 Cs 💎? There is also antibiotic resistance, phosphorylation, acetylation, and a (cool) model to explain what shapes Bacillus cells. Excellent group effort. Congrats team! #Microsky

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Our Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF is running a faculty search this year for a new Assistant Professor! Please see the ad below for details. Searching for a great colleague, mentor, and scientist! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05807

cell divisionists & FtsZ fans take note 👇

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

Immunization with peptides can elicit antigen-specific T cell responses, but they're not widely used because they are poorly immunogenic and are rapidly cleared. Domenico D'Atri solves this by using our "SSHEL" platform (synthetic bacterial spores) . journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We are hiring! Please share the news. Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Bacterial Pathogenesis See link below for details. We are a vibrantly growing department with friendly colleagues and supportive environment. Bonus: year-round sunshine in Tampa, FL 🌤🌴 Job Ad: tinyurl.com/USF-Microbio...

So great to see Lucy Shapiro — a scientific hero of mine both for her pioneering work and for her incredible communication skills —honored today www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

"For a 55-year career in biomedical science—honored for discovering how bacteria coordinate their genetic logic in time and space to generate distinct daughter cells; for founding Stanford's distinguished Department of Developmental Biology; and for exemplary leadership at the national level"

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

FYI: Davos Compact on Antimicrobial Resistance 2025 Unified Coalition for AMR Response = UCARE Government and philanthropic organizations commit to create the right conditions for private sector investments to address AMR. See more at link reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_AMR...

A paper cake for 👇🏾 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39602291/ Thanks to my talented and thoughtful wife, this has become a lab tradition. Excellent team effort by @dipanwitab.bsky.social, Asher, @lilymcknight.bsky.social, and Pilar! Congrats! 👏🏾

This is one of my fav bac cell div papers. It's remarkable how much we've learned about cytokinesis in the past decade, and how much we still don't know. This paper harmonizes many of the disagreements in the field, like what limits construction rates (1/4)

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Now published at mBio! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Elio Schaechter was one of my heroes. His 1958 paper with Ole Maaløe and Niels Kjeldgaard (fondly known as “SMK”) is a North Star for so much work in my group. A wonderful scientist, great communicator, and a very kind person. May his memory be a blessing.

Bacterial cell wall & periplasm paradigm shift - important read #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you would like your favorite research topic to be covered at ASM Microbe 2026 in Washington DC, submit a session proposal. Deadline: Aug. 5, 2025 (2 pm US Eastern)

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

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...

Excited to share our latest review! Check it out to see what we know so far about how Staphylococcus aureus coordinates key processes during its cell cycle

Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀

#BACELL2025 website is online: bacell2025.eu, registration will be open in few weeks Join the meeting on Bacillus organized by Leendert Hamoen 17th and 18th of June 2025, Amsterdam, 🇳🇱

Exciting to see so many wonderful scientists, friends and all around amazing people in the AAM Class of 2025! CONGRATULATIONS, all! @ramamurthilab.bsky.social @goleylab.bsky.social @lawrenzlab.bsky.social @kimingeneva.bsky.social Jorn Coers, Fredrik Backhed asm.org/home-page

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

#Microsky *please* use more hashtags, this is not 𝕏

Excited to share this first preprint from Kubra Yigit in my lab. It's a pink phenotype ya'll (pre-Barbie!). Let's see if I can thread about this...

Angelika Gründling’s work from her sabbatical in the Bernhardt-Rudner labs is out. She came with the goal of finding the missing G+ phosphatidylglycerol phosphate phosphatase and found it with time to spare. I can also highly recommend her as a bay mate! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Bacterial cell division folks take note: @eswaralab.bsky.social lab reports that GpsB interacts with FtsZ and stimulates FtsZ GTPase activity in multiple G+ organisms (not just in #staph)! It also serves as an alternative to FtsA in anchoring FtsZ. www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...

Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 13 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky

Latest from Baumeister & @lottesogaard.bsky.social labs: The PomXYZ complex and its role in bacterial cell division. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #teamtomo #cryoET #cryoEM

I had the opportunity to visit the Carter Center when I was in Atlanta for 2024 ASM Microbe. From (literally) peanuts to presidency - what an incredible life! Gift article: wapo.st/3VYcU4C

Published just in time for the holidays! I learned so much while writing about the past, present, and future of E. faecalis research with Gary. Check it out! 🦠🧫🧪🔬 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Great to see this finally out at BioRxiv! #microsky

First ever post here is our work now out in mBio! We show that E. coli is a WEIRDO for not using the RQC pathway to rescue its non-stop ribosomes. Given the chance, E. coli can use this pathway and it rescues the lethality of deleting ArfA and trans-translation! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

ASM Microbe 2025 is shaping up to be great! Excellent lineup of speakers on diverse research topics. Several oral presentation slots will be filled from submitted abstracts. See the link below and be a part of this great community. @asm.org #MicroSky asm.org/Events/ASM-M...

Exciting findings demonstrating a new mycobacterial hibernation factor that blocks the ribosomal exit tunnel on the 50S subunit. 🧪 #MicroSky #RNASky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks to @dipanwitab.bsky.social, Asher, @lilymcknight.bsky.social, and Pilar (a very talented undergrad) for getting this manuscript to the finish line. Thanks to MBoC for the excellent manuscript review experience. Now it is time for turkey, pecan pie, and more.

How do secreted and membrane-localized enzymes get appropriately metalated? ... Bixi He and I tackled this question, with a focus on the cell envelope... Metalation of Extracytoplasmic Proteins and Bacterial Cell Envelope Homeostasis | Annual Reviews - go.shr.lc/3V0lM92

Bacillus on the Blue place, starting small, but hopefully extending to keep the conversation active [it was also gorwing slow on Twitter] go.bsky.app/BfusVyD

The Torres Lab is seeking a Senior Scientist to lead studies focused on understanding the immune response to bacterial infections. Candidates must have extensive postdoctoral research experience in immunology and a strong record of publications. talent.stjude.org/careers/jobs...

Our latest preprint, this one developing a new method for N-Terminomics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Microsky and specifically ASM members--looking for a volunteer opportunity? Abstract reviewers for ASM Microbe are responsible for looking at ~50 abstracts. If you're interested, sign up here by Nov 27. Abstract review takes place Jan 28-Feb 4, 2025. asm.org/Microbe2025-Abstract-Reviewer

Publication Alert! Happy to share our new work published in CellReports of a collaboration with the Zychlinsky Lab (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology). "Histone H1 kills MRSA". cell.com/cell-reports.... Enjoy!