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.
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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...
Triple labeled Streptococcus salivarius
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New tools for Streptococcal cell biology! congrats to Johann Mignolet and Virginie Libante! doi.org/10.1093/fems...
Big congrats to @bevikas.bsky.social
@axeljanssen.bsky.social @vincentdebakker.bsky.social Amelieke Cremers and the entire lab!
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.
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...
