Now out in @acs.org JACS Au, the manuscript by #BarbaraTerlouw et al. describing PARAS, a high-accuracy machine-learning algorithm to predict substrate specificities of nonribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) adenylation domains, key for estimating natural product structures from BGC sequence. 1/n

This is a great opportunity! Johannes is a brilliant colleague that does very exciting research in the field of metabolic modelling 👇

📣We have 5 PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry and microbial ecology at the Danish Center for Hadal Research: lnkd.in/eJ6rp_Rk. 📣 Deadline: 4 May 2026 Please share widely! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We're hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! How does Mycobacterium tuberculosis survive drug treatment? You'll use molecular genetics and single-cell approaches to investigate how gene expression variability drives drug-tolerant subpopulations. Full details and application instructions below.

📣 Job Offer: Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Professor of (Bio)Analytical Chemistry @ethz.ch 🗓️ Deadline for applications is May 31, 2026 📥 apply online via www.bi.id.ethz.ch/recruiting_a...

Our perspective “From Molecules to Metabolomes, Understanding Symbiosis through Small Molecules” is part of the special issue “Natural Product Signals – from Microbiomes to the Environment” (many other great papers too!) is available in the Journal of Natural Products pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congratulations to Isabel Rigutto for the KIEM award at #KNVM2026 - best first author PhD publication in environmental microbiology area See their paper: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... PhD supervisor @msmjetten.bsky.social

Save the date 18 september 2026 Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie (KNVM) Early Career Scientists Day in Wageningen #microbiology #phd #postdoc lnkd.in/ezQ3hwYF

‼️ A really good meeting for people working on host-pathogen interactions! Great keynote speakers this year: Raphael Valdivia and Florence Niedergang. Please repost!

A long due overview of our "secret" engine: metabolomics.blog/2026/03/how-... #metabolomics #lipidomics #lcms #compms #masster

We've been we've been working on this for quite a while now (hopefully published soon). Grateful to @proftracypalmer.bsky.social for concinving me & @lislowe.bsky.social that mycobacteria produce inter-bacterial toxins. Team science, led by @sambenedict5.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

All currently approved antibiotics inhibit essential cellular processes. Ever wonder if we could kill bacteria using the opposite strategy? Here, we demonstrate an alternative antibacterial strategy: lethality through pathway over-activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1 out of 3)

🧬 EMBO Workshop – The complexity of mycobacterial infections: from research to real-world impact 📅 14–18 Sept 2026, Paris Tuberculosis & non-tuberculous mycobacteria at the heart of discussions: evolution, host–pathogen interactions, drug resistance. 🔗 meetings.embo.org/event/26-myc...

Our highlight review on recently isolated cyanobacterial metabolites is out @natprodreports.rsc.org !🥳 Covers isolation, structure elucidation (analytical techniques, biosynthesis and total synthesis). Great work with @elisabethjanssen.bsky.social! @chem.uzh.ch pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Most mass spectrometers still analyze molecules one or just a few at a time. Now, a new MultiQ-IT prototype from Rockefeller's Brian Chait can cool, trap, filter, and redirect over a billion ions simultaneously. 🔗: https://bit.ly/47FWUd6

Do uMRM-generated transitions actually work? Yes—and that changes everything. Analytical Chemistry Open Access doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Abi cook did the impossible and measured homeopathic amounts of metabolites in single mycobacterial infected macrophages preserving spatial information.

Please help spread the word about this 3-year postdoc position in my team. If your expertise & interest lie in studying how organisms from different domains of life (Bacteria and Archaea) communicate, come join us this summer in cozy Odense, Denmark. Job post: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Our new paper on the presence of xenobiotics in marine dissolved organic matter just come out. Thanks to Jarmo Kalinski and our awesome collaborators, we were able to reanalyze more than 20 public LC-MS/MS datasets from seawater and ask how many anthropogenic compounds we can detect. rdcu.be/e8q6C

When it rains myco publications in pours myco publications! Now out in PNAS tinyurl.com/2a6833n4 When @zestytoast.bsky.social accidentally isolated the long-chain acyl-CoA carboxylase, we quickly realized we were looking at a fascinating machine essential for building the mycobacterial membrane...

Out now in EMBO J ahead of World #TB day! Our friends at the TB Drug Accelerator identified EtfD as a high-priority target for fast acting treatments so @courbongautier.bsky.social jumped into action. Our EtfD assay & struct are already being used to help find new therapeutics tinyurl.com/3cb2j5k9

Excited to share the upcoming EMBO | EMBL Symposium “Metabolic interactions shape ecosystems” 🧬🌍 📍 Heidelberg & online 📅 21–24 July 2026 Abstract deadline: 14 April! More info & registration: www.embl.org/about/info/c... #Metabolism #Microbiome #SystemsBiology #Ecology #EMBL #EMBO

Our new review article "Microbial secondary metabolites: advancements to accelerate discovery towards application" in Nature Reviews Microbiology is now published! rdcu.be/d6BHX

Very happy to be on the TRICK-TB team with Tiago Beites, who was interviewed on Portuguese TV.

Happy to share that my research center at Rutgers NJMS is hiring tenure-track faculty at all ranks! We are broadly interested in infectious disease research from experimental to computational. Please ask questions and join our community! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/139...

I’m pleased 🤗 to share our new preprint exploring the mode of action and resistance of the antitubercular drug pyrazinamide (PZA) 💊 Thanks to everyone who have participated 🙌 We hope these findings will help the fight against drug resistance in tuberculosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very happy to see this out! Great work by @lockwop.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk and first paper on NTMs from the lab! Parise made a set of 12 fluorescently labelled NTMs covering environmental and opportunistic mycobacteria... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An international team of researchers led by microbiologist Martyna Glodowska will use microorganisms to recover scarce metals from electronic waste. 🦠 The research team is receiving a grant of up to €1.5 million from the SPRIND Tech Metal Transformation Challenge. Read more www.ru.nl/en/research/...

#postdoc #job Environ Analytical Chemistry & Toxicology of #benthic #cyanobacteria @eawag.bsky.social Eawag in #Switzerland! Creating knowledge base of benthic cyanobacteria in Switzerland in collaboration with Pilar Junier Uni.Neuchatel. apply by April 8th. apply.refline.ch/673277/1346/...

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Technically this required metabolomics on ~3,000 samples from an arrayed CRISPRi library. The bottleneck wasn’t MS or sampling. It was sequencing the strains after arraying. Paper: www.cell.com/cell-systems...

We are searching for a tenure-track junior faculty member. Join our collaborative research environment in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at WCM. Please see the link to the job posting and distribute among your networks! apply.interfolio.com/181869

🚀 #ESM2026 registration is open! 46th Annual Congress of the European Society of Mycobacteriology. 📍 Verona, Italy | 🗓️ 22–25 June 2026 🔗 www.esmycobacteriology.eu/event-home

Four more days left to apply or share with your network. For the 2 postdoc offers in experimental evolution, apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... For the 2 PhD offers in electromicrobiology, apply here: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Long in the making, great to see the study on line at @femsmicro.org A novel North Sea ammonia-oxidizing archaeon Nitrosarchaeum marinum leverages a high abundance of transport systems to grow over a wide salinity range. #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

OH MY GOSH I JUST FOUND THIS 😃 www.andthemicrobes.org #comic #bacteria #phage #plasmids 🦠

Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.

Beautiful and solid work on trehalose monomycolate synthesis in mycobacteria by @figlegend.bsky.social lab. Check it out folks. Also, for the non-enzymologists, product inhibition is a thing, and actually does matter. 😜 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There are just a few days left to apply. #Tuberculosis 🧪🦠 #TBDrugDiscovery

Hiring: two 3-year Postdoc positions We’re looking for postdocs who can design and run directed laboratory evolution experiments in microbial communities under electrochemical stimulation, and link adaptations to performance using shotgun meta-omics.

Congrats Ruby, Bob, Liz, and team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally out in @nature.com: a new piece of the puzzle of how complex life evolved. Lead by @archaeal.bsky.social & @katyappler.bsky.social. Great collab with @greening.bsky.social and @kassipan.bsky.social. More pieces to follow soon! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OPINIE - De nieuwe strategie van RU is een gedurfde visie die de bescheidenheid van zich afschudt, schrijft Mike Jetten : 'we kunnen het ons niet veroorloven een generatie briljante talenten te verliezen omdat ze te uitgeput zijn door bureaucratie & gebrek aan budgetten www.voxweb.nl/opinie/meer-...

📢 4-year PhD position in my lab at @crick.ac.uk Using active learning & chemical genomics to find new antibiotics with new targets in pathogenic bacteria. Looking for: chemistry / chem bio / comp bio / micro backgrounds with coding interest. Deadline 17 March. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

14 more days left to apply for these two PhD positions in my team. Please share with your network!

Navigating the conjugated metabolome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.06.704496v1

ChemEmbed: a deep learning framework for metabolite identification using enhanced MS/MS data and multidimensional molecular embeddings url: academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

🎉 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥! After 8 months of revision, our work is now online: shorturl.at/WHmFq We uncover a previously unrecognized way that 𝑀𝑦𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑡𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠 survives toxic metal stress during infection. ...