A glimpse of autumn macro world instead of the usual micro

The most colourful season #cycling #PostdocLife

Today I accidentally discovered the ySG podcast "Climbing the Immunological Ladder". Highlight: an absolutely incredible episode with Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social: "Caring about people and caring about their growth ends up being the most impactful thing you can do in science"

We are hiring! 🧫 🧬 🚀 Three PhD studentships with start dates in 2026 available in the Molecular Mucosal Immunology lab at the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering, Basel, Switzerland. See here for details (Deadline: 7th November 2025): join.com/companies/im...

Is SARM1 another cytoplasmic DNA sensor? 👇

#Openpositions #ImmunoSky #MedSky #wearehiring Are you a postdoctoral researcher with an excellent track record in immunology research and/or a related field? Come and work with us in Finland! 👉Read more: bit.ly/43C68Fd#Openpositions

Sounds like a genuinely horrible idea: why the first gets "lesser" score than the last, how does it account for the author positioning differences across disciplines, how is it going to account for the co-first/co-last authorships and why to devalue collaborative research

Over the past few months, I started to curate a weekly issue of the weekly issue of the BioMed News @biomednews.bsky.social on #CellDeath. Highlight of this week: further mechanistic clarification of how viral infections can drive endogenous Z-NA production: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A really interesting new study from Ivan Poon and @someblondesci.bsky.social on the "footprint of death" - apoptotic cell remnants generated following apoptotic cell retraction.

Have you considered submitting a paper to @jhumimmunity.org ? To know more about us, please read our inaugural editorial: rupress.org/jhi/article/...

Considering all the recent cuts in science funding across the globe, a very necessary Nobel Prize:

🔔 Chech out this new cool story on non-canonical inflammasome signaling in NK cells by @protinnimmunity.bsky.social

We hiring! Please share this post with your talented ECRs We're looking for a postdoc interested in the formation and function of tertiary lymphoid structures - project funded by Wellcome Based at @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social at University College London Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD418/r...

#InflammaZoom free Webinar is back on Monday October 20th! With James Murphy (WEHI, Melbourne, Australia) @pseudokinase.bsky.social and Jonathan Maelfait (VIB-UGent, Ghent, Belgium) Register now: bit.ly/4iXGqjw

Starting your own lab is exciting—but challenging. Join our GBM Young Investigator leadership workshop in Regensburg, April 13–16th, 2026. Professional coaching, peer networking & practical tips for new PIs. Apply by Nov 30, 2025. 👉 gbm-online.de/de/young-inv... Pls repost!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

“I was never working alone—there were people all over the world who shared similar ideas,” he said. “I see this award as one that represents all of those people who have contributed to this research alongside me.” Prices go to individual people, but Sakaguchi shows how to acknowledge the field.

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

Full room at the start of the 2nd Immunobiology symposium on pattern recognition receptors! Looking forward to the great programme that we lined up for you together with @brozlab.bsky.social @martinon.bsky.social #ImmunoSky

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 #Job alert! The group of Zeinab Abdullah at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology is looking for a BTA or Biological laboratory technician (m/w/d) Application deadline: October 30 Apply now! More information on our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

Postdoc position (please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert [email protected] #MicroSky

Out in @science.org! We found that the intestine doesn’t just push out cells when crowded. Instead, cells are in a mechanical tug-of-war, and weaker ones are extruded. A new view of how our gut keeps its balance and stays healthy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mast cell subsets respond uniquely to Salmonella infection. Read all about it in our latest paper in EJI. Another chapter in our deciphering of mast cell interactions with enterobacteria, driven by Chris von Beek. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Vote now in our image competition with the 2025 @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course! Check out these stunning images and pick your favourite: thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-you... #FluorescenceFriday

Really nice work, once again highlighting that biological systems are extremely adaptable and lack of phenotype in a genetic model does not always equal lack of function (in a specific pathway / context):

🚨 New in The EMBO Journal! Loss of BBS8 disrupts ciliary Hedgehog signaling, switching adipocyte precursors into fibrogenic cells—remodeling adipose tissue before obesity begins. 🔬 #BBS #cilia @for5547.bsky.social @sfb1454.bsky.social @batenergy.bsky.social 📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

🧪 Amazing study describing a workflow that will help us better understand the lipid biology of mammalian cells. Check out this very informative 🧵⤵️

There's one week left to apply for postdoc positions in my group. Links to apply below! #academicjobs #researchjobs #immunosky

The „every day is a helmet hair day“ season

Looking for a #fellowship for an independent #PhD at one of the best places for life sciences in the world? The summer call at @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch is open until October 12, 2025. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/phd/internat...

10 things you wish you knew about inflammatory caspases: a holistic review of their biochemistry, activation, and signalling - Journal of Biological Chemistry www.jbc.org/article/S002...

💡 Always a good time to be reminded: "if you fuse your protein of interest to GFP or EGFP to study the protein's behavior ... you are using a tag with a serious drawback." Same goes for anything that doesn't have 'm' in its name (looking at you, dTomato and StayGold)

Recharging body and mind for a big push before the autumn deadlines: a 900+ km bikepacking adventure from Bonn to the Baltic sea

🚨Registrations are open🚨 Join us in Lausanne Switzerland October 1-2 for an exciting symposium on innate immunity with oustanding invited speakers, short talks selected from submitted abstracts and poster sessions. Attendance is limited to 150 participants!

We are looking for a new editor for a report on #inflammasome and #infection. You would screen a ranked list of abstracts on this topic. Take a look at the report so far, it has been active for almost 2 years. Let us know if you are interested or have any questions biomed.news/bims-inflin

Review: Optogenetic engineering for precision cancer immunotherapy www.cell.com/trends/pharm...

Our latest work combines human gut epithelial #organoid culture with experimental #Shigella #infections, transposon mutagenesis, and statistical modeling. This has led to the mapping of the comprehensive geneset that drives Shigella epithelial colonization. Out @natgenet.nature.com: rdcu.be/eqGgf

🥼 We’re looking for a #MSc student to work in our lab as part of their MSc thesis or internship on an interdisciplinary project @dzne.science, in Germany! 🧠 If you’re interested in #neuroinflammation and innate immune signalling in #alzheimersdisease, check out our ad👇 jobs.dzne.de/en/jobs/1014...

Register for this exciting meeting on Innate Immunity coming up in Switzerland! 🇨🇭

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I really like the idea of the contribution table like this for the papers with many authors. Makes it much easier and more intuitive to recognise who was responsible for which part of the work then the standard format of the Author contribution sections

We are looking for a new colleague in the biology department at Saarland University! We are looking for excellent Cell Biologists / Cell Physiologists for a W2 tenure track W3 professorship in 'Dynamics of Biological Systems'. Please share! jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w2-prof...

📢 We are #hiring a #PhD student to work on an interdisciplinary, collaborative project @dzne.science in Bonn, Germany! 🧠 If you’re interested in western diet-induced #neuroinflammation and innate immune signalling in #alzheimersdisease, check out our ad below 👇 jobs.dzne.de/en/jobs/1014...

Postdoctoral position in Computational Biology open ! Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases More info 👇 : lnkd.in/dQZq55nv lnkd.in/d6sbw59P

Excited to share our new work demonstrating a role for astrocytic inflammasome signaling in modulating hippocampal plasticity. @cp-immunity.bsky.social All credit to Kristine Zengeler, who was the brains🧠 and muscle💪 behind this project and is a wonderful collaborator. www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Antibodies don't work. NLRP3 is by far the most studied inflammasome — yet <30% of commercial antibodies were specific. Only 4 of 14 tested antibodies detected NLRP3 specifically. Antibodies must be validated before use. Full report by @ycharos.bsky.social : zenodo.org/records/1162...

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.

A really exciting new insight into #inflammasome biology 👇

I was going through some of the older data and accidentally stumbled at this portrait of immortalized mouse macrophages with the particularly spiky actin cytoskeleton (stained with phalloidin):