I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Time to leverage SynBio for tacking environmental pollution. But releasing bioengineered microorganisms still raises alarms. A new narrative is badly needed: bacteria for bioremediation are not alien intrusions but laboratory-trained extensions of life’s creativity link.springer.com/10.1038/s443...

Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center. We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.

Doing a PhD is - at heart - one long discussion with your mentor. The discussion changes over time - with unexpected turns and ups & downs - but through it all is a pair of people discussing a topic endlessly to make sense of it. PhD students: choose someone you like to talk to!

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 to our esteemed #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social colleague @cuwelte.bsky.social on being the proud recipient of a prestigious @erc.europa.eu consolidator grant on electroANME. All the best with your research. Very well deserved :) erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Let’s run the numbers on this new @ERC_Research “ERC-Plus” scheme. About 30 grants to be awarded, and we’re told “better apply for a regular grant, your chances are 30× higher.” www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Excited to share our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com . We uncover hundreds of inhibitory interactions between common chemical pollutants and human gut bacteria. A thread🧵 (1/10) #microbiomesky #microsky @kiranrpatil.bsky.social lab @mrc-tu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Newest preprint from our lab: a new family of promising synthetic CO2 fixation cycles that may outcompete the Calvin cycle and that Vittorio Rainaldi realized to a great extent in E. coli! Up to 11 heterologous enzymes in a cascade supporting CO2 fixation & growth! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hmmm This work has so many implications on literature 😳😬 Fluorescein-based dyes are not valid reporters of oxidative stress in bacteria, and conclusions based on their use must be reconsidered | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬. The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

Very excited to share our latest work in Science on metagenomic editing (MetaEdit) of the gut microbiome in vivo & directly modifying unculturable immune-modulatory SFB bug in the small intestine. 🦠🧬🛠️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very happy to share our recent work @cultivarium.bsky.social on genetic tools for Ideonella sakaiensis, a (Betaproteo-)bacterium that degrades PET plastic. We identified a plasmid vector for the strain and generated a large RB-TnSeq library, screening for genes impacting plastic degradation.

Prof. Hamilton Smith at J. Craig Venter Institute, a Nobel laureate for discovering type II restriction enzymes, passed away last night. @jcvi.org @nobelprize.bsky.social A huge loss in Science, but his legacy will be remembered. www.jcvi.org/about/hamilt...

Such an honor! Can’t wait to visit Brno next week, the place I’ve been teaching about in Genetics course for years but never visited (I feel like I know the garden and the monastery from what I read).

🔥🔥🔥 Friday Evening, Paper Out, Feierabend 🔥🔥🔥 When evolution and enzyme engineering team up, they can convince microbes to assimilate sustainable carbon substrates preparing them for a life in a circular bioeconomy. doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

Unlike the heart attack of getting a “Decision” email, it’s such a good feeling to get a “Your review is ready” email from qed :)

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body 🧪 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

"Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats, then turned that knowledge into a global movement for conservation." (1/2)

Once upon a time Desk Editors quietly fixed minor issues in accepted papers to ensure format compliance. Now, even the smallest formatting slip sends a ms back to the authors for trivial corrections. Is this really about maintaining standards—or just saving salaries of those used to handle this 🤔?

Diese #Klimademo war laut, bunt, wütend, hoffnungsvoll - ich bin stolz auf dich #Berlin, weiter so 💪🏻

Bio-desulfurization of fossil fuels has been a classic env biotech challenge for decades, but the field became stagnant for a while … until @pglekas.bsky.social et al leveraged SynBio tools to develop superior whole-cell catalysts enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 😱

Very honored to receive the Royal Society Research Culture Award - this represents the work of a great team who've worked non-stop since we launched bioRxiv in 2013 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08... www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-s...

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

#Synthetic C1 #metabolism in #Pseudomonas putida enables strict formatotrophy and methylotrophy via the reductive glycine pathway—led by J. Turlin, M. G. Alván, @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social w/@stefanodonati.bsky.social & @sebwenk.bsky.social @mbio.bsky.social #SynBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A discovery journey of almost 4 years initiated by J. Turlin, and then continued by M. G. Alván, @oscarpuiggene.bsky.social with the precious collaboration of @stefanodonati.bsky.social and @sebwenk.bsky.social! 5/5

Spain is on fire. Italy, Greece, Portugal — all burning. We have had summer fires before, but never like this. This is climate breakdown in real time. It is killing people, animals, and our future. DAMN the climate deniers. DAMN those who know and could do but do NOTHING www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are more than a million Dominicans in NYC, and yesterday on 6th Avenue I felt every bit of that pride. Thank you for welcoming me in to celebrate the vibrant, beautiful culture and community that does so much for our city. 🇩🇴

New paper alert! 🚨 Plasmids promote bacterial evolution through a copy number-driven increase in mutation rate. We combine theory, simulations, experimental evolution, and bioinformatics to demonstrate that mutation rates scale with plasmid copy number. Let's dive in! 🧵👇

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Bacteria poison and eat their neighbors | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are strict with time #TCTeAC

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...

@asm.org and @vscooper.micropopbio.org #ASMMicrobe is there a plan for ASM Microbe next week to guarantee the safety of all attendees? Given there will be hundreds or thousands of international attendees how can they be safe from ICE, the National Guard, and rioters? #microsky 🦠🧪

Mega! Congratulations Dr. Orsi. Looking forward to future collaborations and fruitful exchanges for our quest to sustainable bioproduction ♻️🧪🦠🧑‍🔬

🚨 preprint 2️⃣ this month: our (purely experimental🧪) venture into #ChemBio We prouldy present: ADD-tagging of proteins (or "ADDing") —a super convenient enzymatic technique to install click chemistry handles on proteins. Led by superstar @wahyuwidodo.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A 🧵👇🏽

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

Journal editors are now receiving such letters from the US government. The entire scientific community must unite to support our journals in flatly resisting such illegal interventions.

Define fascism

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

I'm super excited and grateful-yesterday I was appointed full professor at the Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at the University of Heidelberg. I am very grateful to my team, colleagues and mentors who have helped me along the way. I very much look forward to the next phase.

David Baker talks about how the current uncertainty and instability hinder creativity because of the difficulty in thinking long-term. From this week’s Night Science Podcast nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social

8 yr Tomás Jr. celebrates Father’s Day—in Spain, March 19, St Joseph—with this drawing for our lab colleague Tomás Aparicio. We scientists are passionate about our work & that passion is felt (& sometimes endured!) by those around us! See how a SEVA plasmid is about to enter our beloved P. putida 😍!

A call for action by Ken Timmis — Academic institutions worldwide must welcome de-funded US researchers · Read the statement here 👇 iums.org/kenneth-timm...

This 👉🏻 iums.org/kenneth-timm...

Out now! Our latest paper where we show a "one-pot" labelling technique which allows for simultaneous mechanical and fluorescent readouts from a protein (Hsp90): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Congratulations to everyone who worked on this, especially Laura!

This 👉🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 😱

🔥 rGlyP > CBB 🔥 A few letters with a crazy implication. Check out the work of my friend Beau who did an amazing job engineering and evolving C. necator growth on CO2 and formate!!!

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong...."

Hands down meine schöneste Unterhaltung bei BlueSky bisher. Real talk ft. @simonhammann.bsky.social 😎