Spring beers with @gruberlab.bsky.social @mblokesch.bsky.social @justinecollier.bsky.social

Super excited to share the final version of our story on how Enterococcus faecalis remodels membrane lipids to protect itself from daptomycin! 🥳 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here’s our third @iubiology.bsky.social public review of the semester! #PreprintReview via @prereview.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social Looking forward to discussion 🦠 🔬 @veeninglab.com @camiloperezc6h6.bsky.social & all authors! #Microsky #Streptococcus
 #cryoEM prereview.org/reviews/1972...

Affiliate @marcrr.bsky.social loves the control bioRxiv affords researchers over the calendar of publication. Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints are posted ~48 hours after submission. #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices

Genome editing of phylogenetically distinct bacteria using cross-species retron-mediated recombineering www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Fluorescent labeling extended to 3 streptococcal species 🧫✨ @veeninglab.com & coll. benchmarked 5 proteins and developed multicolor cassettes enabling triple labeling—expanding tools for gene expression, cell dynamics & infection studies. 👉️ buff.ly/DFMXjE7

Science seems doomed, observes Tim van Opijnen. And that’s not only the case in the US, but in Europe as well. The result? China is overtaking us. “While we’re still debating whether investing in science is even necessary, China is going all-in for the long term.” www.folia.nl/en/opinie/17...

Excited to share our new paper out today in @science.org 🎉 We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae 🤩 Below a 🧵 on key findings incl. background on natural competence in V. cholerae 1/ #microsky #phagesky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to see our work out in Science today! Using machine learning to identify prokaryotic immune systems www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This! AlphaFold is PDB + UniProt + Deep learning. No data sharing, no curation, no data standards, no AlphaFold.

Bacterial networks #EMBOBacNet is open for registration and abstract submission 13 – 18 September 2026 | Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... Submission/registration deadline 15 May 2026

Open postdoc position in my lab on HGT and interbacterial competition. We seek candidates with a PhD in microbiology (or related fields)+ strong 1st-author publications. Curious, highly motivated, and dedicated team players ready to contribute fully are encouraged to apply. Details: tiny.cc/cz01101

🦠 Who gets there first... wins? 🐝 A new study on #honeybee #gut #microbiota shows that microbiome assembly isn’t just about who is present, but when they arrive. Published by @aiswarya.bsky.social @pengellab.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 👉 Read the paper: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Just published! at @narjournal.bsky.social . A new example of how gene order in bacterial genomes impacts cell physiology. Inthis episode we messed up with RNA polymerase genes! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

I just made an account and voted for this biology laboratory made of LEGO to "promote biological research and inspire more people into the world of biology". They need 10K votes. Reposting and/or voting below would be helpful. 🤗 beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

New tools for Streptococcal cell biology! congrats to Johann Mignolet and Virginie Libante! doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Checkout our latest preprint which is a real lab-wide effort to map antibiotic stress signatures across the pneumococcal pangenome. All findings have also been incorporated in PneumoBrowse 2.0. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.

This seems really important........... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool preprint with impressive pneumococcal scRNA-seq data from the Isberg-Cooper-vanOpijnen-Rosch teams. On my reading list: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Great new story from Sophie Helaine and Molly Sargen! www.helainelab.com

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

🎬 When #biology met #medicine... Third episod 👉 Avec trois microbiologistes, Amelieke Cremers, Jan-Willem Veening et Sylvain Meylan Lire l'interview croisée www.unil.ch/news/fr/1768... @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @veeninglab.com #fbm #chuv #infectiologie

Strep/Enterococcal colleagues! Streptococcal Biology GRC/GRS are open for applications. Acceptances are underway and the meeting is on track to fill up. If you’re aiming for a short talk (lots of slots), registering early matters for full consideration. Share widely! www.grc.org/streptococca...

The @dmf-unil.bsky.social is supporting the application of a candidate for the SNSF/ERC Starting Grant (deadline 5th of May). Reach out to me if you are interested. We are collecting CV’s until the 8th of Feb. We can offer a stimulating scientific environment and help with the application/interview.

Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky

📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968 #Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology

Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.

What is better than one? Two connected papers! #NewResearch S protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae activates PBP1a and coordinates with a wider GpsB-associated multi-protein complex to regulate peptidoglycan remodelling and cell division. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NewResearch S protein from Streptococcus pneumoniae activates cell wall repair and modification to promote virulence against in vivo antimicrobial pressures including lysozyme and LL-37 @veeninglab.com #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📰 News Recherche L’équipe @veeninglab.com @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social a mis en évidence chez le streptocoque le rôle central de la protéine S dans l’arsenal de défense de cette bactérie qui peut se révéler très pathogène. ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/fr/1761...

cellwall·abys & pneumo fans take note 👇 #MicroSky

Now online @natmicrobiol.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm not sure what to think about this. Most top open access journals cost more than CHF 3,500 to publish so will not be covered by SNSF funding. It will make it even more difficult for small universities to publish in top journals because of budget limitations.

Coupled to the general budget cuts by both the canton and federal government to our University (and it's happening at most institutes in Switzerland), this would be really bad. The project funding scheme is really the best thing about Swiss science, so please don't touch this!

🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Very pleased to share that our recent article with @veeninglab.com in @natcomms.nature.com was selected for the Editor's Highlights, which aims to showcase the 50 best papers recently published in the area of #microbiology & infectious diseases! www.nature.com/collections/...

New preprint! 🐝 We engineered a bacterial biosensor to reveal micron-scale arabinose gradients in the honeybee gut. Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. Great collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes at @fbm-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are looking forward to sunnier days and some fantastic presentations at our #ProkaryoticCellBio meeting in Portugal next July! Grants, Early Bird pricing and Talk slots close on 12 Jan, register & submit today to join us! 🌞 👉https://bit.ly/48G29dP

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

Cool work from Heath Murray's lab where they use Cas9 nickase to study how ssDNA breaks are repaired in Bacillus subtilis #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Publication! In this collaboration with @veeninglab.com at the @unil.bsky.social, we used multi-omics to examine the response of Streptococcus pneumoniae to infection-mimicking growth conditions, discovering a novel regulator of membrane fatty acid composition. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The hinge bypass gate paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1038/s414... We show how loop-extruding SMC complexes can maintain DNA entrapment while bypassing obstacles on DNA — including transcription machinery & potentially other SMCs. A lucky convergence of 3 projects lead to the initial discovery!

Really cool paper from @vincentdebakker.bsky.social @jonbakerlab.bsky.social now published @natcomms.nature.com #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

First the link to the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀New preprint from our lab! I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡 Continue reading (🧵)

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...