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We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbeโmicrobe & microbeโhost interactions.
In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland๐๏ธโต
@dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
Apply by 24.05.2026 ๐
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Boosts appreciated!
It looks like there will be an open postdoc position in my lab soon. I'll be looking for someone with substantial wet-lab experience in microbiology / microbial ecology / evolution / physiology. If everything goes well, an ad will be coming. But if you know someone, ask them to reach out already.
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The impact of bioRxiv in numbers
@richardsever.bsky.social
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๐ณ Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey ๐ฒ
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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
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We are excited to be recruiting a new tenure track group leader in the Structural Studies Division at MRC LMB! It is an amazing place to start your own lab.
@mrclmb.bsky.social
Please get in touch if you have any questions.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! ๐จ
Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!)
Sharing is appreciated ๐ ๐งต๐
doi.org/10.1093/fems...
I'm hiring a technician! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
An 80% role in a 4-yr BBSRC project and hopefully beyond. Looking for someone to support the @socialfluids.bsky.social ๐งชour ants ๐ and our projects.
Looking for someone kind + conscientious + reliable who takes pride in a job well done.
Everyone knows that space and spatial structure is super important in shaping the Microverse ๐๐๐ Check out this amazing review where @marcelbaecker.bsky.social and @bramvandijk.bsky.social et al bring together a huge body of knowledge @microverse.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social
Worried you might miss the EMPSEB 31 abstract submission deadline? Fret not, because we have decided to extend the deadline!
Send us your abstracts till February 15, 2026! Mark this one on your calendars so you don't forget!
Feel like doing a SynBio PhD in Spain? Check this offer, many fellowships available ๐๐ป lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris)
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606
We are hiring for group leaders again โ EBI is a great place to start your research group!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
New paper out in @pnas.org, and it made the cover! ๐๏ธ
We represent plasmids as circles and mutations as dots, resembling an eye, because in this paper we literally ๐ค๐๐ก๐โ plasmids evolve.
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Registration is open for the inaugural GRC conference in the Function of Evolving Systems. Aug 9-14, 2026, Waterville Valley. Truly stellar speaker lineup. Student/postdoc fellowships are available! Please come join us! www.grc.org/function-of-... @joybergelson.bsky.social
Microbiology is seeking Editors to help ensure the publication of high-quality research and to foster engagement across the microbiology community.
Expertise in biotechnology, regulation, sensing, signalling or AMR is especially welcome.
๐๏ธ Apply by 16 February: https://microb.io/4qKdgJ6
We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link:
jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...
These results are in line with the corresponding experiment using disassembly selection www.nature.com/articles/s41... and in both papers we propose the way forward. Happy reading and thank you to funding from @erc.europa.eu and the NCCR microbiomes @snsf.ch
The idea of disassembly selection is to slightly alter the composition of winning communities at each round of selection to gradually approach the optimum. This works well for finding a good species combination but not necessarily for favoring ecological or evolutionary stability.
Artificial selection is a very promising way to improve the function of microbial communities, as has been done with breeding in other fields. We compared the performance of different artificial community selection methods using computer simulations, and proposed a new method: disassembly selection.
Thrilled to see this paper finally out! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... It was a difficult story to communicate and took us a while to get right. Big congratulations to @wbjorn.bsky.social, Pablo Guridi and Flora Arias-Sanchez!! And thank you the reviewers who helped improve it. Keep reading...
2026 has just begun and we are looking forward to welcoming you to EMBL for another year of groundbreaking science.
Our programme now features even more events, check it out โก๏ธ s.embl.org/2026-poster
๐ฃ Please spread: weโre hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, weโre looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere.
๐ Apply here ๐ recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
New preprint from the lab!
Stress-Induced Cooperation Promotes Tolerance in Resource-Limited Auxotrophic Microbial Consortia.
Great and long journey with great collaborators.
A photo of the Quadram Institute with a quadrangle and the text "Group Leader, with a research focus on microbiome, modelling and host-microbe interactions."
๐ Vacancy! Weโre looking for an ambitious and collaborative Group Leader or Career Track Group Leader to pioneer the development of next-generation microbiome assays and model systems
๐ท Competitive
๐๏ธ Apply by 15 February 2026
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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 CVโs until the 8th of Feb. We can offer a stimulating scientific environment and help with the application/interview.
This is happening later today!
Love microbes & omics? ๐ฆ ๐งฌ
Weโre hiring a Postdoc in Public Health Genomics at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Work on cutting-edge research with wonderful people! @wvschaik.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @scalene.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social
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Closes 4th Feb
My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses.
Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important.
The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you ๐ซต
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#microSky #phagesky #UTIsky
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