A few days only until the AMR Conference... 🎤 Our session is at 16:30 on Tuesday - see you there! 🗣️ Our annual networking event is at 16:30 on Monday 👉 If you would like a place at our networking event, just email: [email protected] while we still have public tickets!

🤩 🦠 We are delighted to have sponsored the German version of a comic about antimicrobial resistance for primary children. 👉 bdsalome.com/ebook-antibi... 🙌 Huge thanks to all involved in making this happen! Email to learn more about our school outreach 📫 [email protected]

Also excited to share our latest collaboration with @micsysecolab.bsky.social. Divvya Ramesh showed how spatial structure can limit evolution of metabolic dependencies.

If the hat fits... Jasmin Künnecke is the latest NCCR AntiResist member to win her PhD: "Unraveling the Mechanisms of Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus Antibiotic Survival" 🙌 Congratulations, Dr. Künnecke!

🥳 For the first time, we have a limited number of free tickets for the public to our annual event on AMR research and development. EMAIL 👉 [email protected] Hear from and meet the young people who are shaping the future of antibiotic research and development. See you soon!

📢 The application portal for our NCCR AntiResist EMBO Practical Course is NOW OPEN 🥳 "Human in vitro models to study infection and treatment" will take place in Basel from 6-13 Sept, and features hands-on teaching from leading experts in the field. Apply here 👉 meetings.embo.org/event/26-in-...

📢 👩‍🔬 "Complex, Clever, Captivating: Science that Inspires" Our session at the AMR Conference is on 3 March at 16:30. Moderated by Christoph Dehio, it features: 🧑‍🔬 Jan Rybniker 🧑‍🔬 César de la Fuente 👩‍🔬 Lauriane Cabon We look forward to seeing you there. 👉 Register: amr-conference.com/registration/

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🎩 Hats off to Monica Ortelli, who succesfully defended her PhD thesis "Genome-wide CRISPRi screens in uropathogenic Escherichia coli and characterization of clinical isolates", and whose NCCR AntiResist colleagues provided her with another fine example of millinery! 🙌 Congratuations, Dr. Ortelli!

📢 NCCR AntiResist member Leoni Swart from the Jenal Lab has been awarded a highly competitive research grant from Swiss 3RCC. 👏 We warmly congratulate Leoni for this award and look forward to the results of her work in this important area. 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/2026/01/07/l...

📢 ONE WEEK TO GO UNTIL THE CLOSING DATE! ‼️ The application deadline for our PhD Fellowship and our Fellowship for Clinicians is 15 January. 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/

We have multiple open positions in our lab (www.zampierilab.org). Interested candidates should apply through the University of Basel’s official recruitment portal: www.unibas.ch/en/Working-a...

📢 👩‍🔬 "Complex, Clever, Captivating: Science that Inspires" Our session at the AMR Conference is on 3 March at 16:30. Moderated by Christoph Dehio, it features: 🧑‍🔬 Jan Rybniker 🧑‍🔬 César de la Fuente 👩‍🔬 Lauriane Cabon We look forward to seeing you there. 👉 Register: amr-conference.com/registration/

📢 OUR 2025 FELLOWSHIP CALLS ARE OPEN UNTIL 15 JAN 2026 📢 🎓PhD Fellowship nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ 👩‍⚕️Research Fellowship in Infection and Treatment for clinicians nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

🙌 Congratulations to @atejadaarranz.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social and Jenal Lab for this new @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social paper, another learning step about previously unknown bacterial vulnerabilities. #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR

📢 We are proud sponsors of the @AMRConference26 and are again hosting our networking event on the 2 March. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 "Young Scientists: Building future antibiotic expertise" features four speakers and an apéro. ‼️Don't forget to check the box when registering for the conference ‼️

🎩 Congratulations to @fabi-est.bsky.social on her marvellous new hat! 👩‍🔬 Fabienne defended her PhD thesis "Of Resistance Mechanisms and Prophage Activation: Characterizing the Behavior of Pathogens in Clinical Contexts" on 7 November. All the best in your endeavours, Fabienne, we will miss you!

📢 We are known for our innovative approach to antimicrobial research, but for World AMR Awareness Week 2025, we reached a whole new level - the 🪢 ULTIMATE TUG OF WAR 🪢 was held @biozentrum.unibas.ch 🏆 Who won? 👩‍🔬 Researchers🧑‍🔬 or🦠 Bacteria🦠? 🎞️ Watch and see! 👉 youtu.be/WRL1rEn1v9A #AMR #WAAW2025

🤩 Congrats to the @aharms485.bsky.social lab!

World AMR Awareness Week is a time to learn about the crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections and the urgent need to to end the risks to human life. 📢 Today, government policy. Learn more: 👉WHO site www.who.int/health-topic... 👉Our research www.nccr-antiresist.ch/research/

World AMR Awareness Week is a time to learn about the crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections and the urgent need to end the risks to human life. 📢 Today, diagnosis and prescription. Learn more: 👉WHO site www.who.int/health-topic... 👉Our research www.nccr-antiresist.ch/research/

World AMR Awareness Week is a time to learn about the crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections and the urgent need to to end the risks to human life. 📢 Today, how to use antibiotics safely. Learn more: 👉WHO site www.who.int/health-topic... 👉Our research www.nccr-antiresist.ch/research/

📢 We are very proud to have supported @la-meirelles.bsky.social work here at @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social and to see him fly the nest to continue his great work is a huge pleasure. 👉👨‍🔬And he's hiring! Details below. ✈️ Bon voyage and all the very best, Lucas!

🎩🙌 And @ayaiizuka.bsky.social brings another stupendous hat for the shelf, with her PhD in hand, "Intracellular Survival and Adaptive Evolution in Staphylococcus aureus: Genomic Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance". 🎉 Huge congratulations, Dr. Iizuka! #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR

📢 The calls for poster abstracts and applications for the start-up pitch at the annual AMR Conference in March 2026 in Basel are now OPEN! 👉 amr-conference.com/call-for-abs...

💉 News recherche Des microbiologistes de @unil.bsky.social ont développé une technologie qui ouvre la voie à de nouveaux vaccins contre des maladies pour lesquelles il n’existe encore aucune protection. www.unil.ch/news/fr/1759...

The new @who.int Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report: 🦠 1 in 6 bacterial infections causing common infections were resistant to antibiotics in 2023 ⬆️ 2018-2023, resistance rose in 40+% of pathogen-antibiotic combinations, an average annual increase of 5–15% www.who.int/news/item/13...

😍 Great video about our HQ host! @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026 For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026 ➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw

📢 OUR 2025 FELLOWSHIP CALLS ARE NOW OPEN 📢 🎓PhD Fellowship 👉 nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ 👩‍⚕️Research Fellowship in Infection and Treatment for clinicians 👉 nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

‼️ 🎓 Our two fellowship calls open next Monday 6 October! 👉 PhD Fellowship: www.nccr-antiresist.ch/education/ph... 👉 Fellowship for Clinicians: www.nccr-antiresist.ch/education/re... 👀 More information, along with the application details, will be released on Monday morning.

🪇We are proud and delighted to announce that @embo.org has approved us to hold an EMBO Practical Course in September 2026, on “Human in vitro models to study infection and treatment”. More 👉https://www.nccr-antiresist.ch/2025/09/30/embo-practical-course-by-nccr-antiresist/

Congratulations to Prof. Urs Jenal, Deputy Director of NCCR AntiResist, who has been awarded a Novo Nordisk Foundation grant. The grant will be shared equally between the Jenal Lab and the Tim Tolker-Nielsen Lab at the University of Copenhagen. Read more 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/2025/09/29/n...

Fantastic day for my annual visit at Pestalozzi Schulcamps to discuss phages with primary school classes ☀️🚆🧬

Are you excited to pursue your own research interests and contribute to our group’s experimental research in the quantitative biology of microbes? We have an opening for a potentially permanent position as research associate. Please repost and notify potential candidates!

#PhD student – Bacterial biofilms The PhD project in @knutdrescher.bsky.social ’s lab will study cellular behaviors in #biofilms during infections and biofilm growth. @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #job #research #microbiology #recruiting #career www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

Wir haben ein Krise von Antibiotika-Resistenzen. Dennoch werden Bakteriophagen - eine Virus-Art, die Bakterien abtöten kann - kaum als alternative Therapieform eingesetzt. Warum? Das erklärt ETH-Forscher Alexander Harms im Interview. (@aharms485.bsky.social) ethz.ch/de/news-und-...

🌍 🤝 NCCR AntiResist Director Christoph Dehio and Deputy Director Urs Jenal today met a delegation from Czechia, including Ambassador Tomáš Jan Podivínský, Hon. Consul Václav Šulista, Deputy Governor Jan Zámečník, Mr. Vilem Guryca, and other industry and academic representatives. #AMR #antibiotics

🔊 Our two fellowship calls will open on 6 October 🔊 👉 PhD Fellowship: www.nccr-antiresist.ch/education/ph... 👉 Fellowship for Clinicians: www.nccr-antiresist.ch/education/re... #TransformAntibioticDiscovery with us!

📢 Announcing a Research Fellowship for Clinicians 🥼 The fellowship supports career development in academic medicine in areas relevant to infection and treatment. 🕶️ The call will open in October - watch this space! 👉https://www.nccr-antiresist.ch/education/research-fellowship-for-clinicians/

Entrepreneurs Club is back! Learn how a TPP guides AMR solution development, why it matters, when to have it, and lessons from real cases. Hear from experts at Bioscience Valuation, Kinvard Bio, PHIOGEN, and Serum Life Science Europe GmbH. Save your spot ➡️ www.eventbrite.ch/e/entreprene...

📢 🚀 We are hiring! 🔎 🙏 Scientific Officer (80-100%) 👉A rare opportunity to play a central part in coordinating the research activities of NCCR AntiResist. Come and join us! 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #hiring #job #science #research

Apply now for the prestigious and independent #BiozentrumPhDFellowships. Great science. Unique rotation-based selection of research group and other incentives. The summer call is open until October 12, 2025. bit.ly/4caiqqX @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #fellowship #PhD#Switzerland

Call for Ambizione Ambizione grants are aimed at early-career researchers who wish to conduct and lead a project of their own. Interested in learning more about this call? Take part in our online info event on 14 August 2025. Submission deadline: 4 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/dDQl9QA

📢 As the next call for our PhD Fellowship approaches, you can get to know our current fellows on our website, and learn about their routes to AntiResist. 👯 Read about them here 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/education/ph...

🎉 Congratulations to AntiResist's Amanzhol Kurmashev from the Hierlemann Lab for surviving his PhD and for his marvellous new hat! He defended his thesis, “Engineering advanced in vitro infection models via microfluidics and transwell-based organoid systems” on 16 June. 👏 Well done, Doctor!

📢 Open postdoc position at the Meibom Lab at EPFL with @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social 👉 Correlated cryo-SEM and CryoNanoSIMS imaging to study antibiotic distributions in bacterial infection tissue models. Learn more 👉https://nccr-antiresist.ch/join-us/ #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR

📢 Congratulations to our prizewinners from this year's NCCR AntiResist retreat... 🗨️ BEST FLASH POSTER TALK: Klara-Isabell Garbe 📜 BEST POSTER: Daria Fleckenstein and Andreas Kaczmarczyk 🗣️ BEST SHORT TALK: Tabea Drewinski #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR

🧑‍🤝‍🧑The NCCR AntiResist annual retreat is ending after three days of great weather, people, activities, and of course great science. The future of our research is in safe hands. 👋 Safe home! Read about our research here 👉 www.nccr-antiresist.ch/research/ #TransformingAntimicrobialResearch #AMR

Antibiotic resistance needs innovative solutions resulting from strong interdisciplinary & interinstitutional collaborations, this is the great strength of @nccr-antiresist.bsky.social ! Thanks for visiting the D-BSSE @ethz.ch and the Cleanroom Facility Basel 🦠