We’re hiring a Junior Group Leader - AI in immunotherapy - to join our team at the earliest possible date. The position is embedded within my Chair and the Chair of Cellular Immunotherapy (Michael Hudecek), and connected to CAIDAS center for AI. med.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03...

Live-cell study at the molecular level is essential for understanding the complexities of bacterial systems and protein functions in vivo. Explore recent progress on imaging probes and modalities in #MMBRJournal:

Very grateful to receive the Deutscher Krebspreis 2026 (Experimental Cancer Research) together with Marcus Conrad. This recognition reflects the incredible efforts of our teams and collaborators over the years @uni-wuerzburg.de

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New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.

We have an open position for a #PhD student (last week to apply!) & a lab technician/TA. For more information see: www.beuschlab.org/join-us Interested in understanding post-transcriptional regulation and how #RNA #splicing decisions are made? Then take a look or share with people who might be! 🧪🧫

Like bacteria, phages use sRNAs to regulate gene expression! Out today in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social, @mvelascogomariz.bsky.social and I highlight a recent RIL-seq study from the @saharmelamed.bsky.social lab that looked into posttranscriptional regulation of lambda! tinyurl.com/lambda-RIL-seq

Looking for a truly unique PhD programme on RNA drugs and therapeutics? We have just opened the call for the second cohort of RNAmed-Future leaders in RNA-based medicine. More details under www.rnamed.de Please spread the word.

🧬 Shape the future of #RNA-based infection research! We are inviting applications for @helmholtz.de Junior Research Group Leader Positions (f/m/d). 👉 Apply by February 15 at www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale... (1/2)

Out Now! The building blocks of one of the most complex flagellar nanomachines #MicroSky

Our first paper is out today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We introduce a prostate organoid model and show that UPEC invades prostate cells via FimH binding to the prostate-specific protein PAPP. A step toward targeted therapies against bacterial prostatitis. 🎉 #UTI #UPEC #Organoids #AMR

🎉 Welcome to HIRI! 🎉 @cciollimattioli.bsky.social will start her new research group “Systems Microbiology of Intracellular Pathogens” at HIRI in February. Together with her team, she will investigate the molecular mechanisms that shape interactions between intracellular pathogens & their host cells.

Let’s get this started and on an RNA high 😅

Würzburger Forscher entdecken neuartige Entzündungsfunktion von Blutplättchen Ein Team der Würzburger Universitätsmedizin hat das Verständnis der Thrombozytenbiologie grundlegend geändert. Es zeigt in Science, dass das Oberflächenprotein... weiterlesen

Wir haben eine Promotionsstelle im Bereich Infektionsbiologie/Parasitologie zu besetzen!

RIL-seq boosts the study of sRNAs. Here comes its first application to intracellular bacteria. Plus, 10 years after its characterization, we now present an RNA sponge of Salmonella PinT. Congrats to @kooshapour.bsky.social & great collaboration w/ @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Grateful to be among the 25 inspiring women featured in @zeit.de as part of the #Zia fellowship for Visible Women in Science. Thanks to @uni-wuerzburg.de for their support and to everyone involved for making scientific work by women more visible. Honored and proud to be part of this initiative ☺️.

#MachineLearning methods are used to predict #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR from genomic data. @lbarquist.bsky.social &co show that sampling biases driven by population structure severely undermine the accuracy of AMR prediction models even with large datasets @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4iZ0zXQ

A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10 2025 go.nature.com/4q9upvr

Today, Minister-President Markus Söder awarded @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social the Bavarian Maximilian Order. Presented every two years, the award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in science & the arts and is regarded as one of the state’s highest honors. Congrats on the “Bavarian Nobel Prize”! 👏🎉

#MicrobiologyMonday: The bacterial flagellum is built through a hierarchical assembly process and powered by a dynamic motor capable of astonishing speeds. What's new in our understanding of these complex nanomachines? Find out in #MMBRJournal: asm.social/2HB

Check this out! A napari plugin for AI-based analysis of microbial bioimages! 🔬🦠💻

🦠🔬🤖🧑‍💻 #mAIcrobe is out! With @pinholab.bsky.social's lab, we launched an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. By rockstars A. Brito & B. Saraiva et al, making #DeepLearning for phenotyping accessible! Easy to use, plus model training 📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What an incredible weekend at the kickoff meeting of the @zeit.de #Zia programme for #VisibleWomenInScience. Deeply grateful to the organisers and the many inspirational women, who shared their stories and energy. Looking forward to the fellowship year ahead with this exceptional group of women!!!

JB Editor's Choice: Waller, Ribardo & Hendrixson show that flagellar length impacts function, with short flagella slowing swimming and reducing host colonization, indicating the important of regulating the lenght of the filament. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Die Bayerische Staatsregierung und die @maxplanck.de wollen den Wissenschaftsstandort Würzburg stärken. Ein heute unterzeichnetes Memorandum of Understanding legt den Grundstein für den Ausbau der Forschung in der Biomedizin. Auf eine starke Partnerschaft! 📸 Axel Griesch

Are you interested in studying RNA phages? We are looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to join the lab! For more information and how to apply, see below 👇 Please RT!

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 👇)

Glucose capping of 5'-mRNAs in E. coli 😱, presumably is installed during transcriptional initiation #MicroSky #RNASky www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

Disruption to the gut microbiome by non-antibiotics is linked to infection risk http://dlvr.it/TN9lNG

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

PhDs & Postdocs of @uni-wuerzburg.de struggling to finish a project? Join our Long Night Against Procrastination! ✅ Tips on motivation & writing ✅ Pizza & plenty of coffee ✅ Work through the night with peers from all disciplines 📅 Oct 23, 2025 | 5pm–midnight 📍 Graduate Schools Building

Out yesterday. Using a translation reporter on a mini-tn5 transposon, and high freq. mutagenesis, we looked at translation on whole genome scale independently of genome annotation. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

1/16 New pre-print from the Sternberg Lab! We uncover how temperate phages can use RNA-guided transcription factors to remodel the flagellar composition of their bacterial host and enhance their fitness. Find the preprint and full story here: tinyurl.com/mshwjd77

Finally out! A small screen helps understand a little more about how E. coli regulates major transporters, and reveals how caffeine induces phenotypical antibiotic resistance. Huge thanks to collab @andrenmateus.bsky.social (Umeå) and Christian L. Müller (Munich)! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

How are bacterial transport machineries regulated by external cues? @brochadolab.bsky.social &co identify environmental chemicals that regulate #transporter transcription, identifying the TF Rob as a key modulator of #EffluxPump expression in #Ecoli #AMR @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46pUM9Q

🧪We are hiring #MicroSky🧪 Postdoc position in #microbiology #bioinformatics for our @volkswagenstiftung.de funded MOMENTUM project. Join us to study bacterial gene expression with #microfluidics and #microscopy. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03290000/2025/Postdoc_MOMENTUM_Sharma_2025-08.pdf

🎉 Congratulations to @angelifriedmann.bsky.social‬ on receiving an @erc.europa.eu Proof of Concept grant! With his project “SulFex”, he is working on a new strategy for treating a specific form of lung cancer #ERCPoC 📷Andreas Heddergott go.uniwue.de/poc-grant-an...

#NewResearch 🚨Out now In situ sub-nanometre structure of the Campylobacter jejuni flagellar motor revealing the periplasmic scaffold and basis for torque generation @beebylab.bsky.social #MicroSky🦠🧫 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share the preprint from here in Shanghai, together with @danielfalush.bsky.social, as well as with team Zhizhou Jia, Huqi Wen, and Zhe Xie! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The study was published in the journal @cp-cellreports.bsky.social‬: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study with an organoid model uncovering the role of tRNA modifications and codon usage in Shigella infection 🦠 #rnasky #microsky 💫💫 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats @mldm.bsky.social

Into the Nucleoid: Single-molecule localisation 🔬 and live-cell imaging reveal fine details of chromosomal organisation in the bacterium E. coli 🦠 @michriscopy.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @heilemannlab.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social #microbiology

Erfolg auf ganzer Linie: zwei Exzellenzcluster für Würzburg! 🥂🚀 Im Rahmen der #ExStra wird nicht nur der Quantenphysik-Cluster ctd.qmat weiterhin gefördert. Mit NUCLEATE, einem Forschungsprojekt zu Nukleinsäuren, kommt noch ein zweiter Cluster hinzu! ➡️ go.uniwue.de/xstra25

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

With great sadness and deep regret, we have to inform you that our department director and highly esteemed colleague Philippe Bastiaens @maxplanck.de passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 15th of May.

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in Würzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods.... weiterlesen

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.