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

If you're interested in developing an open-source image analysis platform/plugin to profile bacteria with deep learning while living in the beautiful city of Paris 🇫🇷, check out this job ad from the @chzimmer.bsky.social lab @pasteur.fr research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/open-...

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.

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