📢 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

Our latest work is out in PNAS!🎉 We show that nonequilibrium polysome dynamics help drive sister chromosomes apart. The closing division septum also contributes via steric interactions.👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #MicroSky #Microbiology #Biophysics #CellBiology

📢 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!

Identification of genetic interactions in Bacillus subtilis cell division. Congratulations, Byoung-Mo Koo, Carol Gross, and all involved! @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social #subtiwiki www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Cryo-EM identifies F-ENA of Bacillus thuringiensis as a widespread family of endospore appendages across Firmicutes @natcomms.nature.com Mike Sleutel et al from Han Remaut w/ Marina Aspholm @jerryknowsnothing.bsky.social @mkrupovic.bsky.social @dbaquero.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Metals are essential for life, but they can also be toxic. Here, @johnhelmann.bsky.social gives an excellent overview on bacterial metal physiology! @natrevmicro.nature.com #SubtiWiki www.nature.com/articles/s41...

once upon a time "...the bacterial ribosome was thought to be composed of a fixed set of ribosomal proteins (RPs) and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), ensuring precise translation" ribosomologists take note: the role of heterogeneity of the ribosomes in the bacterial stress response 👇 #RNASky #MicroSky

Nice to see many aspects of my team's research in this review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to see our collaborative work on the contractile injection system (CIS) in Streptomyces published. We show that the membrane protein CisA gives Streptomyces CIS a licence to kill. @pilhoferlab.bsky.social & Bastien Casu, @joesallmen.bsky.social #MicroSky elifesciences.org/articles/104...

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...

Checkout the latest paper from our lab in PLOS Genetics: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... Thanks to our wonderful collaborators, @sgribaldo.bsky.social, @cavalab.bsky.social, @perbullough.bsky.social and Cecile Morlot.

Our paper on the E. coli Min system in vivo with @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social & Judy Kim (UCSD) has been published in Nature Physics today. Tight integration of experiment and theory, and physiology and biophysics. Incredible perseverance of our young students. rdcu.be/ekIpO

How do intracellular #bacteria breach vacuoles to enter the host cytosol? @leaswistak.bsky.social @matthijnvos.bsky.social @enningalab.bsky.social &co show that #Shigella uses its T3SS system to damage endomembranes via mechanoporation to initiate cytosolic access @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4jXrr9Z

Checkout out our computational framework for studying toroidal membranes of biological dimensions, present at division and fission sites. We studied lipid behaviour at these sites but also simulated membrane fission. Collaboration with @chrislbgraham.bsky.social and @pstansfeld.bsky.social

The unique #CellEnvelope of #corynebacteria: @tbharat-lab.bsky.social &co map the C. glutamicum cell surface, revealing a patchy S-layer & specific assembly of the PS2 protein, thereby informing our understanding of cell envelopes that contain #MycolicAcids @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Y6JNgw

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

The preprint is out now - we describe how Bacillus spores restart energy metabolism as they exit dormancy! Dormant spores are dehydrated, very robust for long periods, but when they sense nutrient availability, they can germinate rapidly to make the most of the favourable environmental conditions 1/

Easter is approaching but so is the abstract deadline for the Great Wall Symposium: May 1st! If you want a chance to present at the best conference, focused on the Bacterial Cell Envelope, crack on! Sicily, September 15-17th 2025 thegreatwall-symposium.org

Happy to share Asha Joseph and Inchara Adhikashreni's latest work from the lab, describing replisome speed variation in Caulobacter! www.cell.com/current-biol...

How do SMC complexes capture DNA? 🧪 Led by Frank Bürmann, Jan Löwe’s & Mark Dillingham’s groups have identified the directional loading mechanism the bacterial SMC complex MukBEF uses to capture & ingest DNA, & found a phage inhibitor to this pathway. Read more: tinyurl.com/4s8nrrkk #LMBResearch

Competent streptococci release hydrolases associated with fratricide (bacteria kill closely related cells to release DNA). The ScrI protein substitutes Thr for Ala in peptidoglycan cross bridges to confer immunity! #MicroSky #Peptidoglycan #Competence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bacterial growth under pressure: the surprising role of membrane microdomains Behind the paper by Dennis Claessen on their recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication communities.springernature.com/posts/bacter... Kitasatospora viridifaciens

The term "reviewer fatigue” has become familiar in scientific publishing. In this Editorial, @droutledge.bsky.social & @npariente.bsky.social discuss how we can make the peer review system more sustainable & ways that PLOS Biology is already helping to ease the burden on reviewers🧪 ▶️ plos.io/41YKIRa

Have you ever seen such a huge biofilm deficiency with bslA mutant of 3610, @bacteriacities.bsky.social?

Not. Going. To. The. US.

SubtiToolKit: a bioengineering kit for Bacillus subtilis and Gram-positive bacteria @cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social Research Article by @jcaro-astorga.bsky.social et al from @proftomellis.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/biote...

Bacterial ABC peptide transporters are involved in processes like nutrient uptake. This study solves #cryoEM structures of the #Ecoli dipeptide #transporter DppABCDF in both apo & ATP analog-bound forms, providing insights into assembly & import mechanism 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DxP8pU

Chromatin aficionados take note: Second of two special issues on Prokaryotic Chromosome Organization now published! (6 review/perspective articles and 2 research articles) Guest edited by @damelab.bsky.social #MicroSky #Chromatin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652958...

New features in #AlphaBridge implemented by @alvarezsalmoral.bsky.social 🟥 Customisable cutoff-level for filtering on weak (0.5) or strong (0.9) interactions. 🟦 Displaying the ipTM score, and the brand-new "Contact-ipTM and #AlphaBridge scores. 🟧 Per-interface #AlphaBridge scores.

A really nice tool, like others that Artyom has produced. Highly recommend.

Join us at the next Science on the Hill event on Tuesday 25 February. We’ll delve into how different biological systems combat attacks from other organisms - highlighting the human and plant immune systems. Find out more and book your place bit.ly/435PAGo

All you wanted to know about chromosome segregation in Staphylococcus aureus and were afraid to ask - check our new preprint! A great collaboration with Xindan Wang´s lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...