New in JB: Pinho, Gotz & Peschel review the history of S. aureus as a model for studying bacterial cell biology and pathogenesis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... This papers is part of the History of Microbial Model collection: journals.asm.org/topic/sss-ta... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Postdoc position (100%, funded) in “bacterial and jumbophage interaction” @yuping-li.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... #phage #jumbophage #barteria #job #research #biology #microbiology #science #basel #recruiting #career

Postdoc position available! This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠 Please re-post 🙏 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠 Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels. Take a look at these four open positions 👇

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria blocks many antibiotics. Our latest work reveals that L-type pyocins bypass this barrier by inactivating the BAM complex, killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa without entering the cell, providing a new blueprint for beating antibiotic resistance.

We discovered a new family of c-di-NMP receptors, widespread in bacteria & regulating🦠motility @pnas.org A great collab. w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨Calling all Caulophiles and Alpha aficionados - stayed tuned for a virtual CauloCon in early 2026. And HOPEFULLY an in person alpha meeting in 2027!! DM me or @chienlab.bsky.social w questions or to stay in the know.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors

CRISPRi on #Bdellovibrio to study essential genes 🤗🤩 #MicroSky

Exclusion systems, far from slowing down plasmid spread, are in fact essential to preserve host cell viability and thereby ensure the successful dissemination of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes. @nfrk92.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

This year’s #PeerReviewWeek theme “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era” asks how tech is reshaping research. PLOS CEO, Alison Mudditt, shares her take on AI, open science, and the future of research integrity in this interview with @authorsalliance.bsky.social. 📖 plos.io/3K9UXwF

Really excited to share my first paper from the Whitney lab, alongside an amazing grad student, Polina. Here we identify a chaperone family required for the folding of a central domain of T7SS toxins, and solve the structure of the chaperone-toxin complex. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Parallel regulatory circuits orchestrate biofilm formation in response to c-di-GMP levels and growth phase [in Vibrio cholerae] #PLOSgenetics from Fitnat Yildiz with David Grainger journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Happy to share the published version of our genetic toolbox, EASY-edit, for simple, flexible and efficient targeted editing in E. coli! Feel free to to try it, we can send strains and plasmids! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstats

Peptidoglycan turnover promotes active transport of protein through the bacterial cell wall https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675941v1

The immune response

We're looking for a technician at Institut Pasteur for experimental work on satellite-phage-bacteria interactions, working directly with @jmouradesousa.bsky.social and myself in the lab of @epcrocha.bsky.social ! ANR funded. Link to the job emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... Thx for sharing!

Registration is open! Come join us at the sensory transduction in microorganisms GRC! Spread the word! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

Rich Losick’s Farewell Publication Reexamines a Molecular Biology Milestone 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social @craigphunter.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardmagazine.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

I wrote a Preview in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social ! A new study suggests that #curli may protect prey from bacterial predators like #Bdellovibrio. Really looking forward to seeing this model confirmed with live-cell imaging and specific reporters! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Delighted to share our recently published work! Ever wondered how Klebsiella (and others) deals with capsule production’s costs ? The paper: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Thread👇

Story on our Asgard microtubule paper by Nikki Greenwood: www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-tubes-r... Thanks to all interviewees🎤

Update: RareFold 🧬 Our AI framework for protein design with 29 noncanonical AAs now shows designed binders (linear + cyclic) are non-immunogenic in patient-derived assays — paving the way for safe next-gen peptide therapeutics. 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654846v2

🚨 We’re hiring! Oxford Biology is recruiting 3 new Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology Join us as we move into our new building with world-class research & teaching facilities. Vacancies 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3 View our video here: youtu.be/TZa1x0oyqA0

Phase separation and coexistence in spatial coordination games between microbes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675176v1

New short paper from our lab @currentbiology.bsky.social, in which we discover of a new mode of cell motility for choanoflagellates: flagellar gliding. www.cell.com/current-biol... - A 🧵

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

📢 PLEASE RT! ❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere 🦠 Microbial survival, activity & dormancy 🧬 Training in fluorescent markers, microscopy, flow cytometry, DNA/RNA extraction, FACS ☀️ Marseille, France Apply by 15 Oct @mioceanologie.bsky.social @reymourot.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest work, driven by my recently graduated PhD student Kaitlyn Barrack, exploring the mechanisms of bacterial dysbiosis in the CF gut - including a role for a colorectal cancer-associated genotoxin in this competition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @kbarrack.bsky.social

Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA): Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

PneumoWiki: A pan-genome-based database for the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674506v1

Super excited to receive the ERC starting grant to explore what phage-bacteria interactions can teach us on host-pathogen conflicts 🤩 I'm immensely grateful to my wonderful team and to present and past mentors 🙏

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Bacterial cell widening alters periplasmic size and activates envelope stress responses Kerwyn Huang, @typaslab.bsky.social et al find that E. coli outer-membrane protein RcsF senses reduced periplasm thickness due to increased cell width, & activates Rcs signaling www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Insanity! 🐜❤️‍🔥👇🏻

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Illuminating the universe of enzyme catalysis in the era of artificial intelligence #microsky www.cell.com/cell-systems...

🚨 Just launched! 📣 Call for Papers on Host-Pathogen Interactions FEBS Open Bio invites submissions spanning the fields of host-pathogen crosstalk, pathogen tolerance and resistance🦠🧬 📆 Deadline: 11th Feb 2026 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/qfAx82d #Pathogens #Immunity##HostPathogenInteractions

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Master 2 Internship-Microbiology-LBCM We are seeking a motivated Master 2 student for a research internship focusing on predatory bacteria for the biocontrol of pathogenic Vibrio species Application deadline: October 17, 2025 Contact: [email protected] #biofilm #biocontrol #microsky

Functional and intricate interaction network connecting Helicobacter pylori Cag Type 4 Secretion System surface proteins with outer membrane proteins HopQ and HopZ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.01.673027v1

📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences! bit.ly/47mmiFF

Does your lab perform killing assays? TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is. Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!  Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... 1/n

🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, [email protected], PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...