What did you find in your Easter nest this year? Chocolate, or the next idea that could change the future? If this season has brought new scientific ideas to life, we’d love for you to share them with us at our #Curious2027 Conference in Heidelberg.
Congratulations to Max Planck Research Group Leader Can Aztekin and his team on their new paper in @science.org. They have discovered how oxygen-sensing explains why amphibians regenerate limbs and mammals do not.
Read the full press release here: tinyurl.com/bsuwmek6
Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures?
@oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky
My first self-made Sorbian egg got a special design. Phagetastic Easter everyone!
I will probably be hiring either a PhD or a Postdoc in the near future. If you are interested in deep biochemical history or molecular mechanisms of evolution please get in touch.
How diverse is bacterial immunity ?
We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems.
👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...
Thank you. We will start processing and add it soon!
The PhageExpressionAtlas just made it to bioRxiv. Visually explore the transcriptomes of phage-host interactions or harness the database for analysis across infections! Please leave feedback, which functionalities/data you find missing.
Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#phagesky #microsky
Excited to share the first preprint from the lab! We show that ApeA defends against RNA phage infection by cleaving the phage genome:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🎉 Congratulations to the VAAM PhD Awardees 2026!
🏆 Helena Schulz-Mirbach – Marburg
🏆 Christoph Elfmann – Göttingen
🏆 Frederick V. Schmidt – Marburg
Three outstanding theses, three well-deserved awards. 👏
#VAAM #Microbiology #PhDAward #Science
Excited to decode the intricate language of ubiquitin chains and unravel their role in protein degradation? 🧬🔬
👉 APPLY NOW to join the lab of Dr. Leo Kiss @leokiss.bsky.social @imprs-lm.bsky.social.
#CellularBiochemistry #Ubiquitin #Proteostasis #ProteinDegradation
Only 9 days left to apply for this post doctoral position. Please share and forward to your colleagues.
Grafik mit goldenem, geschwungenem Weg und Bäumen, Text: „Excellent – today and in the future. University of Excellence 2027–2033“.
Grafik mit Text vor grünem Hintergrund: Fünf Ziele in der neuen Förderphase Die in der vergangenen Förderphase begonnenen Projekte werden fortgeführt beziehungsweise weiterentwickelt. Dabei wird die Universität Tübingen mit den Mitteln aus der künftigen Exzellenzförderung fünf Ziele verfolgen: Exzellenz in Forschung und Lehre Aufbau eines integrativen und kooperativen Universitätsumfelds Flexibilität und Anpassungsfähigkeit in einer sich schnell verändernden Welt Globales Bewusstsein und internationale Vernetzung Gesellschaftliches Engagement, Innovation und Ko-Kreation
Logowand: Exzellenzstrategie, Wissenschaftsrat, DFG sowie Förderhinweis mit Logos von Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt und Baden-Württembergischem Wissenschaftsministerium.
Die Universität Tübingen bleibt Exzellenzuniversität! 🎉 Dies hat eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie Vertreterinnen und Vertretern von Bund und Ländern am Abend bekannt gegeben: 👉 uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/… #ExStra #Forschung #UniTübingen #Exzellenzstrategie
We sat down with Anika & Dmitry to discuss the new paper where we use bacterial scRNA-seq for studying bacterial phage infection and defenses. It turns out that bacteria use pre-existing variation in multiple layers of traits to protect themselves from unpredictable phages @isbscience.org
Join us this Thursday for the next exciting talk in our DSSS series by Prof. Dr. Kevin Foster visiting us from Oxford University. Everyone welcome!
▶️More info: tinyurl.com/2s46mtzf
📆: Thursday 19th March at 11am
📍: Max Planck House lecture hall, Max-Planck-Ring 6
#DSSS
What a wonderful project team meeting of the Curious2027 organization team F2F at the Conference Center in Heidelberg.
If you want to join a project team set-up to inspire the world join Future Insight Association today at futureinsightassociation.org
#curious2027 #unitedbyscience
Result of a great collaboration between @unituebingen.bsky.social and @boehringerglobal.bsky.social through the AI & Data Science Fellowship program, where we develop innovative AI approaches with direct implications for pharmaceutical industry.
Do you know bulk transcriptome deconvolution? 🤔
In our preprint we introduce GrooD (GradientBoostedDeconvolution), which employs a holistic view to the deconvolution problem to deconvolve bulk transcriptomes into the underlying cell type proportions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A childhood dream has come true – I was appointed Full Professor for Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Düsseldorf @hhu.de : tinyurl.com/f43s74hp and as Director of the Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology (IMET, www.iet.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/) at FZ Jülich @fz-juelich.de .
@cmfi.bsky.social continues its international conference series: come to Tübingen in 2027!
Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.
Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
Anyone interested among the GBM members?
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.
A jumbo cyanophage encodes the most complete ribosomal protein set in the known virosphere www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📅 Save the Date – CMFI Conference 2027
Feb 17–19, 2027
📍 Tuebingen, Germany
Confirmed speakers:
Benoit Chassaing · Eran Elinav · Neha Garg · Kiran Patil · Bertrand Routy · Nina van Sorge
Subscribe to stay updated and join us in Tuebingen:
www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/en/cmfi2027
➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔
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Great opportunity to work on interesting problems in protein design :)
We're #hiring a new Insect Husbandry Technician (f/m/d) from 50% in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg. Apply today or share this post with your network:
jobs.tue.mpg.de/en/programs/...
