Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells. See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...

The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26

New paper from another great collaboration with @rachel-darnell19.bsky.social on Enterococcus faecalis developing cross-tolerance to multiple cell wall antibiotics during prolonged teixobactin exposure! 🦠🧫🔬

Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue. DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.

🚨Job claxon 🚨 University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153

New group photo time with all new team members now arrived in Mainz. The new succulents house of @unimainz.bsky.social makes for a perfect backdrop on a foggy November day 🤩

Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores

Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬 Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more! #PlantScience

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...

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬 Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎

Microbiology Outlooks joins our portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our community, amplifying the voices of members across disciplines to advance understanding and address global challenges. Find out more in the blog: microb.io/4e4oe6W

Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy! Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further. If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product Please RT🔬🦠

Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study 1. initiation of DNA replication. 2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance. Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists. Deadline 3 August 2025. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to [email protected]. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.

Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab #BACELL2025

Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳

Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay! Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.

Big thank you to @jeaninerismondo.bsky.social for the invitation and a wonderful day in Göttingen full of science and cake and coffee! Also thanks to @joergstuelke.bsky.social for the night tour of the city. Very glad I finally got to visit this hot spot of Science past and present 🧫🦠🔬

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩 Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭! Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

In B. subtilis, TerC proteins function in Mn export to support the metalation of exoenzymes. MeeY is also required (directly or indirectly) for production of surfactin, a lipopeptide required for swarming motility! (collab. with Dan Kearns' lab @IU). #MicroSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford Please apply and share this post: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...

Whoohoo, new paper just published! New insights into the metabolic processes leading to bacterial biomineralisation 🧫🔬 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Much happiness in the team 😇🥳

As a not-for-profit, the Microbiology Society has invested in research for 80 years. By publishing with us, you help ensure the continued success and development of the microbiology community. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...

Having a great time @vaam-microbes.bsky.social. Wonderful to catch up with friend @gebhardlab.bsky.social (thanks for the invite) and opening for the Evolution of Regulation session was a thrill.

Key perk of international collaboration: research projects brainstorming on the beaches of Perth, Australia 😎

We are searching for a new professor in genetics (W3) at Osnabrück University. Come and join us. 👇 www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet...

Excited to share! @yeshapatel.bsky.social and I report... Mutations in RNAP confer antibiotic resistance via transcriptome remodeling. Repression of branched chain amino acid and Pyr pathways increases β-lactam resistance in B. subtilis. #MicroSky #AMR #antibiotics www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Big News (a bit late 🙃): my group is moving to Düsseldorf @hhu.bsky.social Looking for next adventure w awesome colleagues @frunzkelab.bsky.social @kedrov-lab.bsky.social @apmweber.bsky.social Plz RT, positions available for #PhD & #postdoc w focus #CryoEM & #cdiAMP www.hhu.de/news-einzela...

Two lovely efflux papers just out in npjAMR! 1. Everything you ever wanted to know about TolC from @geocox44.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... and 2. Everything you ever wanted to know about efflux regulation in Acinetobacter www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Lovely stuff!

Please RT: 📢📷Official Jobopening #PhD position @SYNMIKRO within the LOEWE cluster #RobuCop 📷📷 at Anke Becker's Lab. Please apply when you are interested in #geneticengineering, using #syntheticbiology stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2... stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

We are recruiting!! PostDocs and PhD positions open for an exciting project on immunometabolism. In my lab, I am looking for a PostDoc, willing to work with microbiome metabolic modeling and archaea in beautiful Graz! Check it out: www.immunometabolism.at/job-openings/ #microsky #archaeasky

New paper alert! Pseudomonas aeruginosa metabolises sphingosine, reducing its inhibitory effect. @microbiologysociety.org @wargolab.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Finally updated the lab website: www.medicinesfromthesea.com

It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

Great to see @microbiologysociety.org now joined the fun in the blue place! Taggable for all things microbiology 😊🧫🦠🔬

Wenn Mikrobiolog:innen die Weihnachtsbeleuchtung aussuchen dürfen... 😉🦠 In Ljubljana werden Wissenschaft und Kunst auf kreative Weise zusammengebracht. Welche wissenschaftlich inspirierte Weihnachtsbeleuchtung würdet ihr gerne in eurer Stadt sehen?

Finland downgrades MDPI and Frontiers – will others follow suit? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/finland...

Read about our potential breakthrough in oncology - restoring wild type p53 function with ASTX295. This molecule was co-developed with Astex Pharmaceuticals, and is currently showing great phase I trial readout! #cancer #medchem #clinicaltrials www.linkedin.com/posts/cancer...

So happy our pre-print on daptomycin mechanism of action is now out! Here, we present three main findings: i) daptomycin does not form large membrane pores in either B. subtilis or S. aureus, (1/3)

At npjAMR we are looking for an early career researcher to take on a dual role of Social Media Editor and Trainee Associate Editor. Lots of training and support provided to develop skills in editing. Details, contact info and how to apply in the link below.Pls repost! www.nature.com/npjamar/edit...

PhD student Ioanna Kontou is presenting her work on how DNA damaging agents impact fibroblasts and consequently promote cSCC at this year's "Skin @Bath" conference @uniofbath.bsky.social @walkolab.bsky.social