I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻 Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share! 🙏

Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧵 New pre-print out from my time at @mib-wur.bsky.social showing how the titration of the initiator protein DnaA on the chromosome of E. coli can generate stable DNA replication @hohlbeinlab.bsky.social @nicoc-micsynmet.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...

Come and discuss with us about #PhD #Supervision Quality in the #Netherlands at the Profkip Symposium by De Jonge Akademie in the Trippenhuis on May 18th. You will have the chance to engage with members of De Jonge Akademie, @hetpnn.nl, @postdocnl.bsky.social and @apnet.bsky.social.

Hoeveel waarschuwingen zijn er nog nodig? De rijken worden rijker, de rest van NL betaalt de rekening. Hoogste tijd voor een forse koerswijziging van dit rechtse beleid!

What we do in the Lab and what we ambition to happen in the (near) future 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Duidelijk, toch? Stem vandaag #GroenEnSociaal 💚❤️

Mooi zo! Nieuwe MacBook is simpel te repareren, met dank aan de EU www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

Ok, ik geef toe, ik was Bluesky even vergeten. Maar jullie moeten niet de Night Run Wageningen vergeten. Inschrijven kan nog steeds: nightrunwageningen.nl #wageningen #hardlopen #5km #10km #kidsrun

"My motto is: just do it!" We love this interview w/ Maren Nattermann, Research Group Leader @ Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, on Marjory Stephenson (1885–1948), pioneer of chemical microbiology as well as her own path into science www.mpg.de/26210626/mar... #IWD2026

💡 We are inviting you to nominate a woman in microbiology whose work or impact deserves to be seen. Selected nominations will be featured on the FEMS website and across our social media channels on International Women’s Day, 8 March. 👉 Who inspires you? Nominate them by 4 March . buff.ly/AKyMbQD

rust in de portemonnee (geen inkomen)

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

The Laboratory of Biophysics at Wageningen University & Research (NL) is looking for a new chair! Details here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

So when we want Dutch government to leave X (I do), we'd better follow them here. A starter pack! Nederlandse overheden: ministeries, provincies, gemeenten Aanvullingen welkom go.bsky.app/V4Bf6mB

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Time to leverage SynBio for tacking environmental pollution. But releasing bioengineered microorganisms still raises alarms. A new narrative is badly needed: bacteria for bioremediation are not alien intrusions but laboratory-trained extensions of life’s creativity link.springer.com/10.1038/s443...

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it. PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

For all PhD candidates interested in #syntheticbiology consider our #EMBOSynBio course! Applications open!

Our new paper is out: we present a quantitative framework to assess how (bio)tech interventions in plant agriculture could meaningfully contribute to climate mitigation. This may be the most important paper I ever publish #SyntheticBiology #ClimateAction #Agriculture #Biochar doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Opportunity to join the lab of @ettema.bsky.social in our department as postdoc! 👇

Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great to see our MOSAIC story about an easy, cloning-free efficient protocol for mutating plasmids using recombineering is out now officially and the cover story of ASC Synthetic Biology pubs.acs.org/toc/asbcd6/1... ! Great shoutout to Marijn van den Brink, Tim Althuis and Christophe Danelon!

'hey mela' is the first vegan pregnancy test in the world. Now available in Germany. What could be vegan about it? These tests are based on antibodies that are usually farmed from small rodents kept in cages, infected with hybridoma cells. This test is based on AB expressed from algae!! 🧪

Archaeal Virus Ph.D. project! (With Tessa Quax) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Please repost! Postdoc in adaptive laboratory evolution and C1 synthetic metabolism! Location: DTU Biosustain 🦠🧬🔬 Starting in 01/2026! Fell free to reach out if you have questions! efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Fijn dat het deze verkiezingen een keer over belastingen gaat. Nu nog zorgen dat de feiten het winnen van de framing. De middenklasse in NL betaalt de belastingkortingen van de allerrijksten. Hoe rijker je bent, hoe lager je belastingdruk. Dit komt door politieke keuzes. Ga stemmen 29 oktober.

🧵 Our study on the elusive titration control mechanism of the replication initiator DnaA in Escherichia coli is now out on @natcomms.nature.com‬! @stephkoe.bsky.social @hohlbeinlab.bsky.social‬ @nicoc-micsynmet.bsky.social @ettema.bsky.social‬ @mib-wur.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

New paper from our lab on synthetic genome work in yeast is out - Iterative SCRaMbLE for Engineering Synthetic Genome Modules and Chromosomes. Exciting project led by Jane (Xinyu) Lu in our group, now online. t.co/0LuGwgAWlA

Outstanding Faculty opportunity in the broad area of 'life sciences engineering' @EPFL School of Life Sciences, open to both junior and senior researchers. We may prefer metabolism-centric applications but remain open to outstanding applications across domains: www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

#Growth-coupled #selection just got an update ! In the last years, E. coli selection strains for #central , #amino #acid and #energy metabolism intermediates were created by the community. So, we compiled them and revisit the core concepts of growth coupling. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proteins of amino acid metabolism form large structures and determine diffusion in the cytoplasm! Our 7-year-long tour-de-force is now out on Bioxriv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thanks everyone involved! And especially to Jose Losa who pioneered this!

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

Bachelor open avond Wageningen Universiteit: 5 juni van 16-21h www.wur.nl/nl/onderwijs...

New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

Very nice lab to do a PhD

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/mo...

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

>4 megabase synthetic genome assembled in E.coli with 7 of life's 64 codons removed throughout. A new landmark for synthetic genomes. I wonder how well this little cell grows...

We have 3 openings for ambitious postdocs or PhD students in our #CDlab - for exciting single-molecule biophysics research on nuclear pores, peroxisomes, or archaeal divisomes. Check it out and apply: ceesdekkerlab.nl/come-join-us/ RT=nice!

Wij zeggen: Er is wél een rode lijn. Onze advertentie, vandaag in het AD, Trouw en de Volkskrant. Deel dit statement en help ons om meer partijen te overtuigen! 👇🏼👊🏼

✨ Our #SynBio map is growing! 🌍🔬 Excited to welcome 3 new labs to the #EUSynBioMap, connecting #SyntheticBiology labs and associations across Europe! Find out more here 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/eusynb... ⭐️ Want to add your lab? Contact us!

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ee...

NTR weg......? Het lijkt wel alsof we ook een DOGE hebben. Teken de petitie als protest. Heb ik ook net gedaan.

Sam Lovat, Elad Noor, Ron Milo run the numbers on #VerticalFarming to get ⚡️ cost ≈$10/kg dry plant matter. Which explains why it's viable only for high-value 🥬 ('fru-fru baby lettuce') Vertical farming limitations & potential demonstrated by back-of-the-envelope calculations doi.org/10.1093/plph...

During our recent consortium meeting in Marburg, we visited the cutting-edge research facilities at @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social. Thank you, Nicole Paczia & Timo Glatter, for showing us around your Metabolomics and Proteomics installations! 🧪 #Microbiology #SynBio #SolarFuels #HorizonEU

Our partners @w-u-r.bsky.social and @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social demonstrated how synthetic metabolism can outperform the Calvin cycle—nature’s mechanism for CO2 fixation. Read the full, open-access Nature Microbiology article at doi.org/10.1038/s415... #SyntheticBiology #MetabolicEngineering

📢 Preprint alert! In this study we provide new genomic insights into #CupriavidusNecator for #C1Biomanufacturing: - Genome assemblies for more strains - Species definition refined - Traits & methylation systems explored Great job by @magnusgj.bsky.social and team www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...