🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Closing out the year strong with our last pre-print of 2025: a multi-step differentiation program in E. coli for self-organized spatial patterning. Congratulations to all authors🎉 @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

An engineered multi-step differentiation program in Escherichia coli for self-organized spatial patterning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695475v1

A Kangaroo at dusk in a Brisbane Conservation park. We often see wallaby's bounding away but not so many kangaroos. It was nice to see them yesterday, they're not as skittish as their smaller cousins. This one kept wandering closer, I guess the grass was greener. #wildoz

🧪 Call for Abstracts open! HFSP awardees and alumni are invited to submit abstracts and present HFSP-supported research at the 25th HFSP Awardees Meeting. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 March 2026 (23:59 CET) 👉 Info & Submissions: zurl.co/f3NtI #HFSPmtg2026 #HFSP #sts

A terrific series of talks looking at how our favourite proteins insert into bacterial and mitochondrial outer membranes

Fantastic MEL-JPN workshop on the intersections between #bacteria and #mitochondria at #Bio21 (very nice lunchtime too). Organized by Takuya Shiota and Rhys Grinter

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Fantastic MEL-JPN workshop on the intersections between #bacteria and #mitochondria at #Bio21 (very nice lunchtime too). Organized by Takuya Shiota and Rhys Grinter

MACSYS was proud to partner with EMBL Australia for the 2025 edition of its flagship PhD training course. As a course sponsor, MACSYS led two dedicated teaching days, introducing participants to our mission of modelling an entire cell. This video📽️explains how: youtu.be/Gsm2taPZffI @emblaustralia.org

Congratulations to the Landsberg lab for a fantastic paper in Nat Comms on the structure of the YenTC toxin. Led by Yu Shang Low and Solace Roche. @dr-berger.bsky.social @sarahjpiper.bsky.social

Ditto, ditto, ditto! We are thrilled this is now available in @plosbiology.org 🎉🎉🎉 Our analysis of metabolic diversity in #klebsiella pneumoniae, showing clone specific metabolism. 🦠 Fantastic work by @bananabenana.bsky.social, summarised beautifully below. 🤩

Well worth a read … www.ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/news/80-year...

Love aquatic research, teaching, and outreach? Want to join us at our terrific field station and live on Yellow Bay, Montana? University of Montana seeks a new Director for Flathead Lake Biological Station. Position details here: apply.interfolio.com/178916

🏖️ 🌊 🤩 Christopher Barnes on molecular characterisation of vulnerable conserved coronavirus antigen:antibody complexes; and Rina Rosenzweig on chaperones recognition and prevention of protein misfolding in neurodegenerative conditions—at Lorne Proteins 2026! 🔗 Register now: www.lorneproteins.org

I liked reading this … “Every day was terrific. Each morning, I couldn’t wait to come in ... Just hours after hearing that he had received a Nobel Prize, Professor Robson was back in the classroom teaching first year BSc students.

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse has spoken out on the challenges currently facing science, criticising those who put ideology ahead of evidence and called for smarter funding of UK science: https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/12/new-president-speaks-out-on-challenges-to-science/

A new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges - from #inequality and cooperation to #conservation and education. Read articles (all #OA): buff.ly/S44vv6l

CARB-X Executive Director Kevin Outterson spoke at the recent High-Level Meeting on AMR in Ottawa, where the importance of public-private partnerships like CARB-X in addressing AMR was recognized. 🔗 Read the meeting summary here: bit.ly/3MbKXnM

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

🛏️ Final call for accommodation! Today is your last chance to secure on-site accommodation at Mantra Lorne. Bookings close at the end of the day - once they’re gone, they’re gone. Don’t miss the convenience (and the view! 🏖️) of staying where the conference action happens. 🔗 www.lorneproteins.org

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing soon 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Opening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...

"The challenges of communicating mathematical ideas to the general public are well-known. But what may be surprising to people outside the field is how little mathematicians themselves understand each other," writes Emily Riehl in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/3K5yukX

Really looking forward to hosting Elisabeth on Monday Dec 1 at @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social for our BIG seminar: 12.15 in Genopode C (note change of room). Open to everyone.

“From inventing wi-fi to developing life-saving polio treatment, Australia has made a mark on science and research. But today's researchers are in a glorified gig economy, employed on rolling contracts, and winning grants to secure work … with available funding falling 27% over the past decade”

Congratulations to MACSYS Chief Investigator Adelle Coster for being awarded the Bob Robertson Medal by @aus-soc-biophys.bsky.social! The medal recognises outstanding contributions and service to the field of biophysics in Australia and New Zealand. macsys.org/adelle-coste...

#NewResearch The permeability of bacterial porins is dynamically regulated by periplasmic proton and potassium concentrations, altering antibiotic resistance. #MicroSky #AMR 🦠 @andresfloto.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NewResearch Mathematical representations of overflow metabolism, mixotrophy, exoenzymes and reactive oxygen species detoxification recapitulate dynamics in co-cultures of Prochlorococcus and eight heterotrophic bacteria. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Congratulations to MACSYS Research Fellow Dr Sami Al-Izzi - just awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA): macsys.org/sami-al-izzi... @r-g-morris.bsky.social

rdcu.be/eRxNf here our new study on the characterization of the lipopolysaccharide holotranslocon, LptDE and the newly identified subunits LptM and LptY. Great collaboration with @fronzeslab.bsky.social @pstansfeld.bsky.social @JulienMarcoux @YvesQuentin

Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true? Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.

wondering whether the dish is legendary or whether I would be legendary by consuming it …

The Cost of Forgetting by Chelsi — Vaccines have made a world that is safer and healthier. But, vaccines have made us comfortable enough to forget.

Neoliberalism's toll: "a weakened public school system, financially stressed universities, and a #CSIRO repeatedly stripped of long-term capability." We have lost "depth, continuity, and trust, conditions that science requires but markets cannot provide." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Congratulations to Prof. Adelle Coster, UNSW, to whom I was honoured to present the 2025 Australian Society for Biophysics (ASB) Bob Roberston medal during ASB2025 at @griffith.edu.au. Adelle is pictured with ASB President, @lisannes.bsky.social; inaugural awardee Hans Coster; & myself 2009 medal.

I have a PhD position available on freshwater phage pollution, in terms of AMR impact and persistance of phage used in food and agriculture. #PhageSky #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

went on an amazing Foodie tour tonight in Kuala Lumpur with colleagues and new friends, even learnt how to make Roti from a Roti master … I wasn’t god at it but he fixed my mistakes so that it was delicious. Thanks Get Your Guide, thanks Disha who was a most wonderful leader for the evening

📢PhD Scholarship Opportunity! Join our Centre at the University of Melbourne and work with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, mathematicians and biologists to build experimentally validated models of metabolism. 👉Apply/more info: findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/... #maths #biology

The Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis at the University of Zurich is seeking a new Head: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... It is super fun to work with them, tons of expertise and cutting edge instrumentation in ❄️🔬 Application deadline: December 15, 2025.

Don't mess with Karenia cristata. She's bad news, like her sister in Florida. #HAB 🐟 🌊 🔬 🦠 www.science.org/content/arti...

Born #OnThisDay in 1934 was astronomer, astrobiologist and science communicator Carl Sagan. As well as being one of the world's greatest science communicators, he worked on the Viking and Mariner missions. Listen to his famous 'Pale Blue Dot' monologue: https://bit.ly/2ANRX30

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🕐 One Week Left to Enter the T-Shirt Competition! Time’s running out to design the next official Lorne Proteins T-shirt 👕 📅 Entries close 10 November 2025 👉 Submit your design: docs.google.com/forms/d/1nPy...

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

The MACSYS mission - as told by more than two dozen of our researchers - 📽️VIDEO: youtu.be/JyvifQ41RZU Why it's important, why it's so challenging, and why it's going to take a team of interdisciplinary researchers like the one MACSYS has put together to tackle this challenge.

MACSYS has launched! www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

There’s nothing quite like the energy of in-person collaboration. Last week, MACSYS researchers specialising in mathematical modelling came together for a dynamic, 2-day workshop at UNSW. It focused on exploring new collaborative opportunities for modelling membrane structure, function & metabolism.

Want to explore synthetic circuit modeling but lack programming experience? Meet GRN_modeler: a user-friendly tool with a graphical user interface to design and analyze gene network models, from dynamics to spatial patterns! @dmf-unil.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....