We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

Most microbes don't live in shaking flasks; spatial structure shapes how microbes interact and evolve at every scale, as we discuss in our recent review @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @simonvanvliet.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social and others academic.oup.com/femsre/artic... 🧵👇

Wrapping up a productive week: very glad to have contributed to this review on how spatial structure shapes microbial ecology and evolution, led by @marcelbaecker.bsky.social, @bedutilh.bsky.social, @bramvandijk.bsky.social and many others. doi.org/10.1093/fems...

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

Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to finally share the typeset version of our very first venture into microbial ecology! 🤩 Big thanks to @simonvanvliet.bsky.social for a rewarding collaboration within the NCCR Microbiomes. @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social

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...

How does metabolic dependency evolve at the single cell level? 🔄 In our new preprint, Divvya Ramesh combines microfluidics, microscopy and modelling to show that the benefits of gene loss are highly context dependent. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Great to see this out! 🎉 Big congratulations to @type3lab.bsky.social for leading the project and to all involved! "Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and T3SS spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection" 🌱🦠 rdcu.be/egczU 🧵⬇️ #MicroSky #PlantScience

🚨We have a fully funded open PhD position in bacterial synthetic biology available in our lab (www.yschaerli.com) in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social If you are passionate about #SynBio and #GeneCircuits, apply here: tinyurl.com/mry2xwa5

early career researchers: Do not miss this oportunity to present and discuss your work with an expert audience!

Apply now: Eawag Postdoctoral Fellowship 📢💪 The Eawag postdoctoral fellowship is designed for outstanding early-career researchers with innovative ideas 👉 www.eawag.ch/en/about-us/...

This is one of the best features I have seen on blue sky yet- a custom feed of papers from people you follow. I had to un-follow the various biorxiv channels, as it was dominant, but now I am seeing lots of cool papers from people I follow. Great work on this feed, @paper-feed.bsky.social team!

We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!

There is still time to apply to the Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! The deadline has been extended till March 16th. We would especially welcome applications from members of underrepresented groups. Limited travel grants are available. Apply now and join us! almadalcoschool.github.io

Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What determines the spatial structure of microbial communities? In our new review we discuss the factors and feedbacks that affect spatial patterning and methods to study them. Great collaboration w. @saramitri.bsky.social @adelpanta.bsky.social & @micsysecolab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🦠

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal: www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Closing date: 24th Feburary 🧪🧫🔬

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Only 3 weeks left to apply to the first Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! We have a great line-up of speakers and a program designed to maximize interactions between and among speakers and participants. Applications open to all ECRs (PhD - young PIs). More info: almadalcoschool.github.io

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Every two years, ISME celebrates the achievements of scientists who have substantially advanced the field of microbial ecology. If you know of outstanding members of the community worthy of an ISME Society Award, please fill in the nominations ballot by 31 Jan 2025👇🏼 isme-microbes.org/call-for-ism...

Amazing speakers & program at the inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior in Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This interactive meeting focuses on collective behaviour across biological systems. Apply now! almadalcoschool.github.io

Great school one collective behavior in memory of Alma Dal Co next Sept in Venice. Terrific lineup of speakers almadalcoschool.github.io Application deadline Feb 2025, travel grants available

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Excited to share: The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior is coming to Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. 1/12

Very happy to present our latest preprint in collaboration with @simonvanvliet.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes. Estelle engineered uptake and leakage rates in synthetic communities of E. coli amino acid auxotrophs and studied the effects on spatial arrangement and community composition.

Are you interested in mutualisms? Have you always wondered how these cooperative interactions emerge and coevolve? If the answer to these questions is YES, then please consider joining my vibrant group as a PhD student. Please RT. More details👇 shorturl.at/5ZP7R

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

#Cluster #hire @Eawag in Zurich/Switzerland!🇨🇭 4 Tenure Track Group Leader Positions on Climate Change Adaptation w/ specific focus on alpine #biodiversity & other aspects of #climate #change adaption in #aquatic systems. 🔬🧬🐟🦠🌊🐡🏔️ Apply here & share widely! apply.refline.ch/673277/1169/...

Opening for a postdoctoral researcher at the Slack lab (Molecular Mucosal Immunology) in Oxford!🧪🧬🦠🧫 Come and join our team to work on sampling of gut antigens for IgA priming. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... www.slacklab.ethz.ch Please share widely!

Almost a decade after proposing this experiment in a grant application, we have a preprint! A huge experiment by Philippe Piccardi with many helping hands to generate and analyze the data especially genomic & transcriptomic analysis by Eric Ulrich! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us for the 2nd LS2_Systems_Biology *Theory across Biology* workshop #TaB2024 in Bern on 14 June 2024. From molecules to ecosystems. No PPTs, black board only! Flipcharts instead of posters! For theorists *and* experimentalists. shorturl.at/hDST1

Two PhD positions available in our lab @FBM_UNIL. We are looking for microbiologists interested in microbiota-host interactions, symbiosis, metabolomics, and social bees! Lausanne is amazing: Vibrant scientific environment & high quality of life 🇨🇭🚞🏂🌄🧪🐝🦠 shorturl.at/ptyOT shorturl.at/dipvA

Great opportunity to go work with Markus Arnoldini in the @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social group on a compuational project for gut bacterial population dynamics. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

One-week international workshop on evolution June 22-29 in the Swiss Alps for Master's & early PhD students. Application due 28 January 2024. I've co-taught the course several times (but not this time), and it's a terrific format and beautiful location. www.evolution.unibas.ch/teaching/gua...

Please spread! We are looking for someone who knows how to build microscopes for cheap and control them by software. Building on #openuc2 and squid-imaging.org. Pre- or postdoctoral level. 6-9 months. Decent salary. Beautiful mountain close to lab. jobrxiv.org/job/univerit...

Please spread! We have two openings for #PhD students interested in Developmental #Systems #Biology using #Celegans, #microscopy, and computers. Building on our recent paper in @NatureComms (rdcu.be/dscNm) to study Organ Growth Coordination. jobrxiv.org/job/univerit...

For microbiologists seeking faculty jobs: Rutgers has 4+ faculty searches in microbiology right now! Please share widely and see below for details and links on the individual positions 1/5

Checkout this cool R-shiny app, BactEXTRACT, made by Julien Dénéréaz! It's very handy to plot your microtiterplate data. Comments/suggestions more than welcome. The app is available veeninglab.com/bactextract. A preprint describing the tool is here: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Super stocked to see this out now: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦠 Do microbiomes have their own microbiomes? 🦠 Well... kind of. Much smaller than bacteria, there is a whole zoo of Darwinian entities that depend on microbial hosts. We could call these collectives "nanobiomes", and there's much to explore! 🧵 A thread (originally on Twitter, now on Bsky) ⬇️

Excited to see the main chapter of my PhD published! This was a huge team effort - the experimental setup alone took years to complete and none of it would have been possible without my colleagues Konstantin Neuhaus and Kazuki Nosho, as well as of course my supervisor Knut Drescher and many others!

Last year we lost our dear friend and colleague Alma Dal Co. Last week, we had to honor of hosting many of Alma’s former co-workers. Together, we commemorated and celebrated Alma’s life by doing what she did best: connecting people across disciplines, countries, and career-levels [1/3].

New collaborative review by our NCCR Microbiomes network covering the N+1/N-1 concept we are working with accross diverse microbiomes 🦠 "From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

🔔 I will start reviewing applications next week - now is the time to apply! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any question on the position, I'll be happy to chat about 🦠📈

Two more days to apply to the Ph.D. position on microbial ecology and evolution in our lab. Please share with any interested students!