It was a good pleasure to host Annegret Wilde @freecyano.bsky.social from @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social and @sfb1381.bsky.social
To our INSPIRE seminar series @hhu.de with a close interaction between @mibinet.bsky.social and @ceplas.bsky.social
Congratulations Florian!!
@mibinet.bsky.social
Very proud of this work and all the efforts from my team and collaborators on this! You can now use DGRs for in vivo targeted hypermutagenesis in E. coli. We also included some early proof of concept in Yeast thanks to @seth-shipman.bsky.social !
#CallForProposals The DFG and the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) are pleased to announce its 5th international funding call: Preparing for Tomorrow: Societies and Strategies in Times of Transition. Aim of the call, scope and next steps:
www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
Congratulations to Johannes Hartl, Charité Berlin for receiving the 2026 VAAM Research Award for new research findings into the interplay of genes, the environment, and metabolism in microorganisms! ✨
Find more about his research and VAAM press statement on🔗https://t1p.de/2ghut
Congratulations to Johannes Hartl (Berlin Institute of Health & Charité), awardee of this year’s VAAM Research Award @vaam-microbes.bsky.social!
David Botstein wrote one of the most insightful and inspiring papers I’ve read on the evolution of mobile genetic elements. Still very much worth a reading these days. Hard to find people with such diverse, outstanding contributions. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Call for applications: New Director at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at @fz-juelich.de, combined with a joint W3 professorship with @hhu.de in "Microbial Biotechnology".
www.academics.de/jobs/direkto...
Logo mit verschiedenen Bubbles und Schriftzug: DFG Chancengleichheit, sowie Hinweis auf den Kurzlink www.dfg.de/chancengleichheit
Mit der einheitlichen CV-Vorlage ermöglicht die DFG u.a. freiwillige Angaben zur "Besonderen persönlichen Situation", wenn sie die Laufbahn >3 Monate beeinflusst hat (Care-Arbeit, Erkrankung, Flucht, eingeschränkte Mobilität etc). So können Leistungen vergleichbarer eingeordnet werden:
sohub.io/wdf5
Very excited to see this work out today!
Discovering viral immune antagonists directly from predicted protein structures. 🤩 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Huge thanks to the amazing collaborators! 🤗
Amazing resolution of this beautiful mechanism!
@spp2330.bsky.social
🚨Preprint! Happy to share the research from my PhD “Genome delivery of a contractile tailed phage and its superinfection exclusion mechanism”. We use cryoEM to study the genome ejection of the phage T4, revealing how the tape measure protein regulates the process.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Welcome to our new colleague Johannes Rebelein, head of the Institut of Sustainable Biotechnology @hhu.de and our new colleague at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 1 @fz-juelich.de.
Welcome to @mibinet.bsky.social!
www.chemie.hhu.de/en/latest-ne...
Fantastic collaboration w/ @dbikard.bsky.social @audeber.bsky.social @rayanchikhi.bsky.social labs led by @jmouradesousa.bsky.social : We assessed the rates of variation of anti-phage systems in P4-like satellites and P2 helper phages. Quick conclusion: Huge variation! We focus on 4 key questions/5
Save the date for the next International Conference on Gram-Positive Bacteria which will take place between 29 June–2 July 2027. The organizers (@annadragos.bsky.social, @polonca32.bsky.social, and Ines Mandic-Mulec) look forward to welcoming you to Ljubljana, Slovenia
@spp2330.bsky.social
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.
Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social
Application deadline on 15 March 2026
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careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
Cell death is a fundamental mechanism of antiviral immunity across diverse organisms, including bacteria. As my final PhD project with @jbdsf.bsky.social, I was curious whether cell death is required for successful immunity with the ancient cGAS pathway known as ‘CBASS.’
Spoiler – the answer is no!
Glückwunsch Lena!
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Looking forward to our International Symposium on "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities".
Highlight of our first funding period of our Collaborative Researc Center @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de
www.sfb1535.hhu.de/mibinet
@hhu.de , @fz-juelich.de
Lasse presents our CRC1535 MibiNet project at the first RNA confluence meeting at the EMBL.
@rhinelandrna.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social
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Looking forward to an exciting International Symposium @spp2330.bsky.social "New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions".
October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus Berlin (Germany).
@dfg.de @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de
Congratulations! Nice to see this published!
We Are very happy that our Paper was published. Thank to everyone involved
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
@mibinet.bsky.social @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social @frunzkelab.bsky.social
Great collaboration with @hoeferlab.bsky.social, @aharms485.bsky.social, @pozhydaieva.bsky.social, @usadellab.bsky.social, @vivienrosenthal.bsky.social
This shows that "abortive infection" phenotypes are not neccessarily in all cases a "last line" of defense, but may be the consequence of mechanisms interferring with early steps in the phage life cycle.
We further show synergy of daunorubicin with RM systems targeting the FST region T5 phages.
Happy to share our recent preprint:
"DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hhu.de @fzj.bsky.social
