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.

So cool to see this out! Congrats to all authors 🎉

New preprint from @westermannlab.bsky.social about a pair of antagonistic #Salmonella sRNAs. Check it out 👇🏻

New preprint on our #Campylobacter Tn-seq screen in a 3D tissue model revealing a #smallprotein crucial for motility by @monaalzheimer.bsky.social @kathrinfroschauer.bsky.social @campy-bara.bsky.social together with the Beeby & Hendrixson labs: 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @uni-wuerzburg.de

We are happy to share our new paper on the #Campylobacter translatome out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Many congrats to @kathrinfroschauer.bsky.social & @campy-bara.bsky.social and all collaboration partners! #SPP2002 #smallproteins @uni-wuerzburg.de www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58329-w

We are now looking for postdocs or PhD students with expertise in : - metabolomics (Boneca team) - chemical biology and medicinal chemistry (Brönstrup team) - computational biology, AI, physics or related fields (Zimmer team).

Please spread the word or apply with a motivation letter, CV and the contact details of three references. You can also approach us in person at the “AI in Drug Discovery and Biomedicine” in Barcelona until tomorrow.

AI4AMR is a collaboration between the labs of Ivo Boneca (microbiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris), Mark Brönstrup (chemistry, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig) & Christophe Zimmer (computational biology, Univ. of Würzburg and Institut Pasteur).

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

Susan Gottesman and Gisela Storz, pioneers in regulatory RNA research, reflect on their personal scientific journeys and the evolution of their groundbreaking group research in two compelling articles. Gigi: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Susan: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #RNA

It’s an RNA world ☺️

🚀 GSLS Workshop with Dr. Sandy Westermann today! 🎨 Visual Communication - Creating Scientific Illustrations for PhD & MD students. Learn to transform raw data into compelling visuals! Great discoveries need great presentation—engage, inform & inspire! #ScienceCommunication #GSLS

PLOS remains committed to the principles of #OpenScience: integrity, transparency, inclusivity, and collaboration. Recent policy changes in the U.S. raise concerns about the impact on the global research community and scientific integrity. Read the statement: plos.io/3D4O8cH

📣Fully funded PhD position available in our lab at @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social, in collaboration with Dr. Connolly at Newcastle University (@ruamicro.bsky.social). "Dissecting the RNA-centric landscape of microbiota-pathogen interactions in the gut”. 🦠 Apply here: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/karriere/sin...

Still a bit more than a week left to apply! PhD opportunity in the Beusch lab. Please share to anyone interested in RNA biology 🧪 #RNAsky #RNAbiology

We have a new postdoc opening in the lab at the @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social ! See more information in the ad below. You can also DM if you are interested. Please RT #post-doc #RNA #Bacteria

Interested in collecting, sharing, and interacting with large collections of bacterial functional genomics data (RNA-seq, Tn-seq/TraDIS, etc.)? Check out our new web platform, Micromix, with case studies for Salmonella and Bacteroides! 🧫🧬🖥️🧪 Thread 1/n academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

Congrats Elisa and the Vogel team!👌👍🥂 @dfg.de , @spp2002

Now official: We have another opening for a fully funded #PhDposition in the Beusch lab (www.beuschlab.org) at @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social! More details here: tinyurl.com/947xcw85 If you or someone you know is curious about #splicing please apply or contact me for more information! #RNAsky #RNAbiology

🅲🅾🅾🅻 🆃🅴🅲🅷🅽🅾🅻🅾🅶🆈 “Bacterial-MERFISH” provides ~1000-fold volumetric expansion of individual cells, charts gene expression in hundreds of thousands of cells, deciphering bacterial single-cell heterogeneity, intracellular transcriptome organization, and bacterial adaptation to µm-scale niches in vivo

I’m thrilled to share that I've recently been appointed Chair of Intestinal Microbiome at #TUMunich and transitioned to #TUMSchoolofLifeSciences in Freising. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Interested in predicting AMR in bacteria? We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. With @nwheeler443.bsky.social and former PhD student Yanying Yu. 🦠🧫🧬🖥️🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi everyone! 👋 As my first post I want to advertise a position as leader of the mass spec unit at our institute at the University of Marburg. Deadline for application in two days! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/b...

A new paper from the Hoebartner Lab @UniWue @chlab.bsky.social reports the crystal structures of the ribozyme SAMURI, revealing the mechanism of its methyltransferase activity and site-selectivity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our latest work published in @pnas.org In collaboration with @yjchao.bsky.social , we uncovered an RNase III-processed sRNA, ManS, that orchestrates sialic acid metabolism in Salmonella enterica during gut colonization. Link: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Is it anything Hfq-like (RNA chaperone)? Or similar to CsrA (global translation modulator)? We don't know yet. But as it stands, Bacteroidota RRM proteins appear as excellent candidates to map post-transcriptional networks in a substantial fraction of the microbiota. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have another opening for a fully funded #PhDposition in the Beusch lab (www.beuschlab.org) at the University of Würzburg! If you or someone you know is curious about #splicing, please apply or contact me for more information. (Official advertisement tba soon.) #RNAsky #RNAbiology

🧪We are hiring!!!🧪 2 postdocs in #RNAbiology #bioengineering for our @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social funded MOMENTUM project. Join us to study bacterial gene expression with #microfluidics and #microscopy. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03290000/Jobs/2024/1_Postdoc_momentum_Sharma_2025-01_V0.pdf

On December 5, @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social Director Josef Penninger will give a lecture at the HIRI. His talk, supported by Physico-Medica Würzburg, is titled: “RANKL – Bones, Sex, and Mammalian Evolution.” More at: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/events/ev...

Created this starter pack on #microfluidics for all you peeps out there. Let me know if you are also working in that area and I'll add you. go.bsky.app/UFLWFhj 🧪⚛️⚗️🧫

New Salmonella Persister cells Review is just out❗️ Rachel Giorgio & Sophie Helaine overview the physiology & clinical implications of antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella during infection - highlighting important knowledge gaps that need to be addressed… www.nature.com/articles/s41...