Kommt und diskutiert mit! BOKU Future Conference:
Recycling mit Biotechnologie, neu gedacht + neu gemacht!
20.5.2026 an der BOKU Wien

🎓 Bursaries available for #PYFF9!

Join the yeast & fungi community in Valencia and get support to attend.

📢 Apply early
🔗 yeastfungi.efbiotechnology.org/bursaries

#Biotechnology #LifeSciences #EarlyCareer
@pyff-9.bsky.social

A pain viennois style bread in the shape of a budding yeast cell

Happy Yeaster!

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions:

🔬 Postdoc
🧪 Research associate

We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms.

Come join us!

Details and application links 👇

Please repost

Sogar Grießkoch. Just saying

📢 Good news! The abstract deadline for #ECB2026 has been extended to 29 March.

You can submit for:
• Invited talks
• Flash poster presentations
• Poster presentations

Share your work with the biotech community in Antwerp (28 June–1 July 2026).

🔗 www.ecb2026.com

#LifeSciences #CallForAbstracts

🎤 Keynote Spotlight at #PYFF9!
We’re thrilled to welcome Paola Branduardi (Univ. Milano‑Bicocca), a leading expert in microbial #biotechnology, #synthetic biology & #biorefineries.
Don’t miss her keynote in Valencia!
#Valencia2026

There is still a bit of time to apply for a PhD position @bokuvienna.bsky.social for project “Targeting interactions of enzymes on cell wall polymers”. Become part of the doctoral programme @biotop-phd.bsky.social !

biotop.boku.ac.at/application2...

The John Innes Centre in Norwich seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher in molecular microbiology. Salary: £37,500 - £45,350, closing date: March 25, 2026. Apply at: http://jobs.jic.ac.uk #postdoc

It's really cool work, so important to speed up our development processes! I'm happy I could contribute a tiny piece to it!

Und jetzt bitte alle ganz stark sein: gut, dass Fleisch nicht dabei ist

Stimme 100% zu. Just to say, wir alle essen v.a. Grundnahrungsmittel. Drum heissen sie auch so. Ich denk mal, alle die kochen können, kochen v.a. mit Grundnahrungsmitteln. Warum soll man das verblödeln?

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Spitzenforschung lebt von #Kooperation - darum dreht sich heute alles beim 3. #ThinkBeyondSummit. Axel A. Brakhage, Dorothea Ringe und Christof Gattringer diskutieren die Chancen und Herausforderungen kooperativer #Spitzenforschung. @dfg.de @jherzstiftung.bsky.social 🤝

www.fwf.ac.at/entdecken/di...

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Think Beyond Summit 2026

Beim #ThinkBeyondSummit holen wir Österreichs #Exzellenzcluster auf die Bühne. In diesen 9 Forschungsnetzwerken arbeiten hunderte Forschende an neuen Wegen in der #Grundlagenforschung. 🤝

@michiwagner4.bsky.social @timcrane.bsky.social @microbesplanet.bsky.social

Mehr👉
excellentaustria.fwf.ac.at

Roland Ludwig of @bokuvienna.bsky.social explains how the Excellence Cluster Circular Bioengineering fosters collaboration between universities, and with industry.
Key take home: empowering the next generation of researchers is a central outcome of @fwf-at.bsky.social funding!

✨ We’ll soon announce the plenary speakers for #PYFF9 in #Valencia!
🔍Which topic interests you?
• Fungal physiology & metabolism
• Fungal evol
• Pathogenesis & resistance
• SynBio
• #Fermentation
• #Fungi as cell factories
• #Bioeconomy
• Data science in fungal #biotech
👇 Tell us your favourite!

Please share!

PhD position at the University of Copenhagen. Start date: 1st of June!
 
The project integrates field work, RNAseq, MALDI-MSI & FISH to explore composition, regulation, and resilience of termite host-gut symbiont metabolism.
 
👉 employment.ku.dk/phd?show=156...
 
⏳ Deadline 23/2/26

PhD opening
Join a collaborative, interdisciplinary project the Excellence Cluster Future Forests @uni-freiburg.de, working on CRISPR/Cas in poplar to understand how trees cope with climate stress.
Apply here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
@dompsfr.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social

I hope you are looking into yeasts also! We would love to learn more on leaf yeast microbiomes

IMPRS PhD Program The IMPRS-EBM is an international PhD program that lies at the intersection of Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism. It integrates strategies from molecular biology and biochemistry with biophysical...

Open PhD position – join our lab in Freiburg

Through the IMPRS (Max Planck) program, we are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in signalling, and developmental mechanisms.

Be quick - deadline is tomorrow!

www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...

Ein geöffneter Joghurtbecher, dessen Deckel auf der Innenseite komplett von einem flauschigen Belag in den Farben beige, weiß, grün und gelb überzogen ist. Auch der Rand des Bechers ist entsprechend verschimmelt. Zwei runde und ein mittig darunter liegender breiter heller Schimmel am Deckel sehen wie Augen und Mund aus. Darüber steht der Text "#MibiFlausch AGB. Foto von @Malo82

#MibiFlausch AGB
Ihr wollt Bluesky mit euren flauschigen mikrobiologischen Kunstwerken beglücken? Sehr gut! Flausch Dimitri hier erklärt euch ein paar wichtige Punkte, die ihr dabei bitte beachten solltet 🧵

Greetings from the other side - Pichia pastoris a.k.a. Komagataella phaffii
But have to admit that correcting taxonomy and regrouping/renaming genera made a lot of sense in the yeast field

The deadline for the submission of papers to the special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025 has been extended to 31 March. Papers should be connected to one of the meetings listed below. Hurry up and don't miss this chance!

More information at:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Please 🔁

My group at UBC received an allocation from the school to apply for the Canada Impact+ Training Awards (postdoc). Everything is moving fast but please email me in 48 hours with a CV if you are outside Canada and interested😎
Yachie lab: yachie-lab.org
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

Next level Kundenservice, braught to you by Ryanair & Co

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.

(my translation)
Each year, about 40 people fall off great height or into deep water while taking selfies.

This is my Nobel prize medal. I gifted it to myself two years ago.

Bin beruhigt, der Öffi Verkehr in Wien ist wieder im Takt.
9er fährt den Fahrgästen der S45 in Gersthof wieder verlässlich vor der Nase weg

Bin beruhigt, der Öffi Verkehr in Wien ist wieder im Takt.
9er fährt den Fahrgästen der S45 in Gersthof wieder verlässlich vor der Nase weg

Happy New Yeast! 🎇
To all who bake, and everyone else!!