Last chance to visit Bakteriopolis at the @tudresden.bsky.social Excellence Days event!

Open #PhD position in the Tschowri lab in Hannover in close collaboration with the Rozen lab in Leiden.If you are excited about understanding the regulation and signalling for the transition from uni- to multicellular lifestyles in #streptomycetes then this is for you! #jobopening #jobfairy

Thursday: time for #MattersMicrobial Episode #81! Dr. Marc Chevrette talks about genome mining, secondary metabolites, and why microbes are the very best chemists. Please share the #GoodMicrobialWord. @profvrr @wildtypeMC youtu.be/QYGiAc4lRsk?...

I am ***absurdly*** excited to announce the launch of a new funding opportunity through Experiment dot com!!! You have one month to pitch something wonderful in the realm of plant biology/biotech research and education. $10,000 max grant. PLEASE RE-POST + SHARE!!! 1/3 experiment.com/programs/pla...

Congratulations to colleagues at University of Oxford who have been awarded £5M to develop new therapies for drug-resistant TB. This multidisciplinary consortium works across five research stages to advance TB drug and vaccine development, addressing #AMR. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2496687...

Während die Welt das 1,5 Grad-Ziel reißt, fanden die Bekämpfung der #Klimakrise und der Schutz von Natur und Umwelt gestern nicht statt. Dabei geht es hier um unsere Lebensgrundlagen. Klimaschutz ist Menschenschutz.

We return after a few months' break the virtual microbiology journal club that I run for a few years now. We had some really great speakers along the years. If you want to be included in the mailing list, please email me to [email protected] The next speaker is Prof. Peter Sebo. Asaf

Dear #Streptomyces community, Jana (@janitensen.bsky.social) and I want to test the evolvability/plasticity of Streptomyces metabolic networks. We plan to use #auxotrophic strains for this. If you have some and are willing to share, please get in touch with us! Thank you!

👋 Hi antiphage defense community, we are soon releasing an update of DefenseFinder. We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things. Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏

And it’s been a while since I dipped my toe into the questions of what ‘species’ might mean for bacteria, and how they relate to ecology. But still interests me! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Natalia now about CglA and LCP-domain proteins: influence on development (almost like bld mutant) including slightly longer spore shape = failures in FtsZ-ring positioning and hyphae are wider of the mutant see their #mBio paper: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #MultiBac2025

Natalia highlights the multicellularity of Streptomyces and continues to describe the role of secondary messengers, like c-di-AMP see their PNAS paper on salt stress and c-di-AMP: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #MultiBac2025

Natalia Tschowri - Revealing the link between cell wall glycopolymers and division septa positioning in multicellular Streptomyces #MultiBac2025

Anti-vaccination logic be like: “I won’t be spending any more money on car maintenance. My car hasn’t broken down in years so I obviously don’t need it….” 🧪🦠

Mitigating genetic instability caused by the excision activity of the phiC31 integrase in Streptomyces journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

We strongly endorse the naming of 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘦 (DSM 3412) in honor of Susan Gottesman #MicroSky #microbiology

To honour Lone Gram’s significant contributions to microbial secondary metabolite research, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces lonegramiae (DSM 41529) after her. Fun Fact: Gram's great-grandfather developed the Gram stain 😉 #herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #microbiology

We strongly endorse the naming of 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘦 in honor of Fanny Angelina Hesse Corrado Nai had highlighted her remarkable achievements here > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

Liebe alle, es ist Infekt-Zeit. Man sollte dringend eine Grippe-Schutzimpfung erwägen, und auch eine COVID-Auffrischung. Meine Familie inklusive der Kinder haben es auch schon. Die fast greifbare Zurückhaltung bei der diesbezüglichen Beratung in der Praxis macht mich fassungslos.

If you or your children haven’t received your flu vaccines this year yet, it’s not too late! Signed, A pediatrician who cared for an unvaccinated child who died from the flu and would like to never experience that avoidable tragedy again.

Prepping for my most depressing lecture of the semester. Today's topic: climate change is real and caused by us, and we can't solve it just by recycling our water bottles.

Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

Aurodox, a polyketide from Streptomyces goldiniensis, inhibits transcription of the type III secretion system of multiple Gram-negative pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.19.589875v1

Atención!Está abierta la 2nda convocatoria del taller de Minería Genómica de Productos Naturales de Latinoamérica🎉si trabajas en Latinoamérica en este tema y eres estudiante de postgrado, postdoc o nuevo jefe de grupo interesad@ en aprender y establecer colaboraciones este taller es para ti!🧫🦠

Spread the word! #MicroSky 🧫🦠 The 2nd LatinAmerican Natural Product Genome Mining workshop is taking place in Guanajuato in August🎉Applications now open to LatinAmerican researchers @ different career stages from postgraduates to PIs. Come to establish new collaborations and learn from each other! 🧬

Please share: The Stubbendieck Lab is hiring a postdoc to study microbial competition & secondary metabolism in human microbiomes. Experience in natural product chemistry or BGCs preferred. For more info and to apply: apply.interfolio.com/141377

This is an excerpt of "Advocating for Scientific Excellence: An Open Letter to the Argentine Government" 🇦🇷

It's World Pangolin Day! everyone post pangolins!

Lovely to write this with @lore-fermar.bsky.social & Arnaud-a reminder that good microbial physiology is vital! Microbial Primer: Bacterial growth kinetics www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... part of @digglelab.bsky.social ‘s Primer collection www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Scientists from Leibniz University Hannover #StandWithScience & #GiveGenesAChance: Dear MEPs vote YES to #NGTs 💚 @JanaStreubel @SkaKeller @micha_bloss @AnnaDeparnay @repasi @Andi_Glueck @Andreas_Schwab @katarinabarley @delarabur @woelken @berndlange @weplanetint @GGAChance @ParliamentEU

"Aber in anderen Ländern ist Patriotismus und Nationalfahnen-Schwenken völlig normal", betrachten lustigerweise genau die gleichen Leute als Argument, die "anderswo gibt es Tempolimits, von Autos befreite Innenstädte und Abtreibungen als Krankenkassenleistung" nicht als Argumente gelten lassen.

Es gibt wirklich großartige Plakate. 👍

In über 3 Wochen sind über 3 Millionen Menschen gegen Rechtsextremismus auf die Straße gegangen! 3 Millionen! Das ist kein Protest mehr, das ist eine Bewegeung, die klar sagt: #WirSindDieBrandmauer! Danke an alle Demokratinnen & Demokraten da draußen & heute 300.000 in Berlin♥️

Ihr seid alle an mir vorbei gelaufen 😪 #SayNoToAfD #PukeDino #Berlin

#wirsinddieBrandmauer ✊🏽🫶🏼

Nürnberg gegen Rechts. 10.000 Teilnehmende wurden heute erwartet. Es sind wesentlich mehr. #niewiederistjetzt

Ich hab eine #UromagegenRechts getroffen bei #b0302 - auf der Wiese vor dem Reichstag, u ich bekam Pipi in die Augen. #WirSindDieBrandmauer #Niewiederistjetzt #Omagegenrechts

Der Widerstand wächst! 😃❤️

Addgene has joined BlueSky! Follow and support this awesome resource.

MGen are looking for editors. Our Ed board is a brilliant and collegiate group. Come and join us! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Fully funded PhD opportunity! 🦠🧫Come to Glasgow to study interactions between Streptomyces and other soil microorganisms. Will be a fun and exciting project! Interested? Check it out and apply here! Deadline 16th Feb. Please repost and spread the word! #microsky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BBSRC NorthWest Bio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme #Studentship with me & @lore-fermar.bsky.social on understanding how antibiotic producing #Streptomyces bacteria adapt to their environment & how reproducible mutations are-Pls share-Details here www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

For decades, scientists couldn't figure out why the measles vaccine didn't just lower death rates from measles, but from other diseases too. Now we know it's because measles causes immune amnesia. Measles resets the immune system. It forgets how to fight every single pathogen it's ever encountered.

Anstieg von Masern um 3.000 Prozent. Danke an alle Heilpraktiker, Homöopathen, Demeter-Gläubigen, Waldorf-Anhänger, Akupunkteusen, Yoga-Akrobaten, Karma-Trullas, Wiccas, Heilstein-Knalltüten, Steiner-Boys und TCM-Fans. Nächster Halt: Polio www.unicef.org/press-releas...

I had a random Adélie penguin show up in camp and poop in front of our snow machines, as if it were giving its unfiltered opinion of us. I feel, a very Adélie thing to do. On brand. 🧪🦑🌎🦉

Our review in Current Opinion in Microbiology is published: Specialised biopolymers: versatile tools for microbial resilience authors.elsevier.com/c/1iDjQ_V8xB... This is my first paper since I started at LUH and am excited about the work we are planning around biopolymers in Streptomycetes.

Happy World Soil Day to all soil microbiologists out there and to my favourite bacterial soil genus the fascinating Streptomyces 🦠🧫 #MicroSky