📍Our paper is out!📍 Here, we show the development of a GC-MS/MS method for the quantification of 120 compounds produced by gut bacteria, including short-chain fatty acids, indols, nucleotides, organic acids, and amino acid derivatives. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Greetings from the TREC Symposium, which gathered people from EMBL and beyond to share collected results and data! Lot's of interesting science has already been shown over the past days! Our lab presented work on marine chemical pollution. We are excited for the talks today! @embltrec.bsky.social

Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, will deliver the 2026 EMBL Kafatos lecture. The lecture will explore how traces of Neanderthal DNA might shape human biology and health today. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

It’s not only medications—environmental chemicals can also inadvertently harm our gut microbes. Excited to have contributed a bit to this important study!

Next week at #microbiome (a symposium exploring the critical role of the microbiome in health, disease, and therapeutic innovation) in Frankfurt 🇩🇪 Nicola Segata will talk about the microbiome in nutrition and cardiometabolic health. Full program here: gsh.idloom.events/microbiome/p...

Are you a chemical biologist? Meet experts and peers at 'Chemical biology 2026' to discuss topics ranging from tool development to biological applications and from computational protein design to new drug modalities. ⚗️🧬 #EMBOChemBio 📅 8 – 11 Sep 📩 Submit abstract by 2 Jun: s.embl.org/chb26-01-bl

Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...

You only have one more week to submit your abstract for 'Collectivity in living systems: emergence, function, and evolution' 👉 s.embl.org/ees26-01-bl Don't miss #EESCollectivity which will explore how collective behaviours arise from fundamental principles across biological systems🦠🐒🧬

Happy to see our HT-PELSA paper now published in @natsmb.nature.com 🎊 Big thanks for the constructive review process! 📖Read the manuscript here (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) & check the thread for additional information ⬇️

🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

Proud to announce a new preprint of our lb - deep dive into #immune #metabolomic mode of action of the #vaginalmicrobiome - thanks to Isala! Great collab with @zimmermannlab.bsky.social & almost entire PhD of @carolinedricot.bsky.social combined in one manuscript www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are very happy to share a new preprint 🎉 Congratulations to everyone involved! @carolinedricot.bsky.social, @denisemselegato.bsky.social, @sarahlebeer.bsky.social and co. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

After exploring Europe’s coastlines, EMBL’s TREC expedition is moving inland! 💧 The new Traversing Ecosystems phase focuses on freshwater habitats – studying how human activity and environmental change affect life at the molecular level. www.embl.org/news/science...

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…

This semester, we also welcomed Luka, the newest PhD candidate of the Zimmermann group! Luka is coming from Montenegro and will work on high-throughput exploration of the metagenomic sequence space. Welcome🎉🎊

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

We would like to introduce Daniel who has just started his PhD with us, in which he aims to accelerate high-throughput metabolomics method development to uncover bidirectional interactions between drugs and the human gut microbiome in the context of health and disease. 🦠 Welcome to the team! 🎉

Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sneak peek: 2 weeks ago, our team presented the GUT-BASE: our new atlas mapping how gut microbes transform drugs. We profiled thousands of microbe–drug interactions across gut species as a first step toward understanding — and eventually predicting — how the microbiome shapes drug metabolism.

📍Paper alert 📍 Our new preprint is available on: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... Here, we show the development of a GC-MS/MS method for the quantification of 120 compounds produced by gut bacteria, including SCFA, indols, organic acids, and amino acid derivatives.

Job Alert! 📍Postdoctoral Fellow - NMR-based metabolomics📍 The Metabolomics Core Facility (MCF) is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to expand our expertise in NMR-based metabolomics and contribute to both service provision and method development. Info: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

We are hiring! 📍Scientific Officer - Metabolomics Core Facility📍 The MCF at @embl.org Heidelberg is seeking a new team member to support both routine metabolomics analyses and the development of new protocols and workflows. Info: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d... Closing Date: 29/09/25

Do you have experience in metabolomics/lipidomics/exposomics? Check out the EMBL ARISE2 Fellowship Programme! 🔗 www.embl.org/training/ari... 📩 Contact: Juan Antonio Vizcaíno — Team Leader, EMBL-EBI 🔗 www.ebi.ac.uk/people/perso... 📌 Applications close soon! 📆 30/09/2025 More info below👇

Wrap up on #EESMicrobiology @embl.org | @embo.org last week: grateful for the chance to give a talk and share some of our latest work — amazing science and even better people 🧫✨

Come check out the talk from Mariia, postdoc in our lab, at #EESMicrobiology today!

🎓 Congratulations to Dr. Amber Brauer on successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Metabolic Interactions in the Entero-Hepatic Cycle,” supervised by Dr. Michael Zimmermann and Prof. Dr. Anne-Claude Gavin. Thesis Committee: Prof. Pascale Vonaesch and Prof. Mirko Trajkovski. #Metabolomics #Microbiome

Call for #ARISE2 Fellowship Programme! The Metabolomics Core Facility at EMBL Heidelberg is looking for a highly motivated person interested in developing computational pipelines for metabolomics data analysis and open data sharing. www.embl.org/training/ari... Call opening: 30 June

Our group postdoc @zmahnoor.bsky.social, was invited as a guest on "The Knowledge Catalyst" podcast to speak about her experience with Reproducibility in Metabolomics Computational Workflows and the Implementation of the FAR principles. Check out the episode at: www.embl.org/about/info/o...

Today, at the MSB unit seminar, our MSCA postdoc Anoop Singh spoke about quorum-sensing mediated bacterial interactions and biofilm formation in CRC-associated bacteria. His findings aim to provide insights into CRC development and aid in developing therapeutics against pathogenic biofilms.

Bacteria can influence how sugars modify proteins in the brain – shown for the first time by EMBL researchers. In their study, the scientists describe a new method to study glycosylation systematically & quantitatively, leading to new biological insights. 🧪🧠📈 www.embl.org/news/science...

Curious about how gut bacteria can modulate signatures in the brain? Check out our new collaboration paper that shows how gut bacteria can influence the molecular pattern of glycosylation! All data can be interactively explored 🖥️ apps.embl.de/glycoapp/.

Welcome onboard Leyla! Leyla is our new master's student and she will combine public untargeted metabolomics data & machine learning to predict potential drug biotransformation in gut microbes by highlighting key metabolic interactions.

We have one postdoc position open with the Alliance Interinstitutional Postdoc Program. 🎈Details and applications here: 👇 health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie... 🎈Deadline: March 28, 2025, 5 pm CET. 🎈Project #128

Congratulations to Lenard, our first-year PhD student, for winning one of the poster prizes at the EMBL PhD Symposium! Lenard is off to a great start in his PhD journey! 🚀 @embojournal.org

Zimmermann Lab is now on BlueSky! We are #microbiome #research lab @embl.org using high-throughput MS, bacterial genetics, gnotobiology & computational models to study metabolic interactions in #microbial ecosystems 🦠 🧫 Follow to learn more about our work, publications & job openings! #science