New paper out by @aliciamv.bsky.social 🤩🥳 …where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...

Brilliant #DailyShow life yesterday in NYC hosted by Jon Stewart 🤩! Good to see voices raised Jon Stewart to Los Angeles: ‘Is Your City Ever Not on Fire?’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/a...

Join us for the next edition of this wonderful conference series in 2026! The last editions were very well received by all participants! Great speakers, setting and atmosphere.

I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!

My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

If you are in #Groningen tomorrow, don't forget the upcoming YAG's Pub Lectures: * Clemens Mayer: Evolution as an all-purpose problem solver * Corina Prent: Innovation and imagination 📅 16 April 🕔 17.00-18.00 📍 Café de Toeter

Can expression of a peptide lead to antimicrobial resistance? Yes it can! We discovered this for a toxin we work with and started exploring how #peptides, #antimicrobialresistance and de-novo gene birth can come together. @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Amazing work by @rianneprins.bsky.social

Great opportunity at a great place to work!

LIVEBLOG in English: The University of Groningen is on strike on Tuesday, March 18, due to the looming budget cuts in higher education. In this live blog, we will follow the strike, which is unique in the university’s history, hour by hour. ukrant.nl/marathonstak...

Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag. #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social ukrant.nl/marathonstak...

🟥 Solidarity with my colleagues in the Netherlands, striking today (and in the coming weeks) to resist outrageous budget cuts proposed by the far-right-led government. 💪

Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by @rianneprins.bsky.social and @billerbecks.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Join us @apnet.bsky.social to build a strong network of Assistant Professors in the Netherlands. www.ap-net.nl/register

For yeast and fungi fans: I’ll be speaking about our work on the yeast toxicome on March 13th. Hybrid attendance possible. www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18820...

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792

Hi Skeeps, if you are in the London area and would like me to speak at your university or company, I will be in London on Thursday April 10 and Friday April 11. Looking for talks that can offer some travel/lodging reimbursement.

Here the correct link ☺️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For those working with antifungal yeast, we consolidated protocols to test for killing, immunity and suicidal phenotypes by @_rprins 🥳🥳 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out now! We consolidated >600 Dutch yeast and characterised their activity against spoilage yeasts and relevant human and plant pathogens, focusing on yeasts that secrete antifungal proteins. Great resource for biocontrol and beyond. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/

Big day! New year, new job 🤩. Settled into my new office and visited the partly original DNA helix model by Watson and Crick in the London Science Museum next door. Fully inspired for 2025 now 😆!

Best farewell gift by @dirkscheffers.bsky.social ! 2025 Discovery walks and runs in my new home fixed 😁. Meanwhile saying good bye to pretty Groningen in Christmas lights.

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨 Join the Molinari Lab @UMD_BioE as a Postdoctoral Associate or Staff Scientist and help shape the future of engineered living materials! 💡🔬 📅 Apply today by sending your CV and cover letter at [email protected] #syntheticbiology #ELMs

Christmas lab dinner with this lovely bunch ☺️

💥💥💥 !!! Please re-post !!! 💥💥💥 Hello Community, We’re excited to announce that we’re moving to Groningen in January 2025 to embark on a new chapter in our research careers. For this, we need a house/flat and we hope to find a nice place with your help.

Great day at the #Westerdijk learning new things about fungi 🤓 and sharing some of our yeast work at #KNVMmycology. Especially happy to have learned about #Starship giant transposons and a new sticker.

Reminder, if you are yeast biologist (species agnostic, just need be single celled and a fungus) please let me know and I will add you to this starter pack. go.bsky.app/PyUwqLU

New preprint from the group of @billerbecks.bsky.social!

NAPIC website is now live!: www.napic.ac.uk

If you are an Assistant Professor (or equivalent) in the Netherlands, check out @apnet.bsky.social and help us to build a strong network of Assistant professors by following our bluesky account and ideally becoming a member: ap-net.nl/register/

Currently in Delft for the microbial biotechnology conference MB10.0, having a blast! The first conference that I visit that's hosted at a cinema! Thanks @billerbecks.bsky.social for organizing such an event!

With renewd energy we will protest against the draconic budget cuts on higher education in 🇳🇱 on 25 november 13u Malieveld the Hague 🟥 Stop the budget cuts 🟥 In the meantime you can support us and sign the petition campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...

Application deadline has been extended to January 10, 2025...

I currently have a funded vacancy (24 months) for a post-doc to work on strain engineering projects in the area of yeast biotechnology. You can find more details about the post and how to apply on the UCC jobs portal or LinkedIn Sept 5th deadline).

Happy to see our perspective on KillerYeast and SynBio and Wine out in TrendsinBiotech. Fantastic collaboration with @synbioroy.bsky.social and Sakkie Pretorius that started during a visit in Sidney @macquariemuseum.bsky.social _Uni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Faculty Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824 Candidates w/ broad expertise in mycology including host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis biology, metabolism and biotechnology, development/morphology, ecology/climate change, and evolution. 🍄