My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Out now in @science.org
Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why do intrinsically disordered proteins appear larger than they are in SDS-PAGE? We investigate how sequence properties affect SDS-PAGE mobility using synthetic IDRs.
Conclusion: We need to consider both SDS binding and the compaction of protein-SDS complexes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions
📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass...
🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
Darwin, in his "The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects", studied the evolution of orchid morphology and its relationship to insects. This is Angraecum sesquipedale, one of the orchids examined in this study. Fragrant at night attracting a moth for pollination.
Find the hot-off-the-press plasmids here!
www.addgene.org/browse/artic...
For the first time, researchers have simulated nearly every chemical reaction in a living bacterial cell
go.nature.com/4lrAulM
Our paper with @sokrypton.org using AlphaFold2 to predict small-molecule binding sites in proteins is now out in Nature Methods! 🧵
rdcu.be/e7SnX
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Let's get ready for a full month of training in image analysis in @pasteur.fr , this summer!
Are you interested in learning how to do bioimage analysis? For light microscopy? for cryo-EM? And for cellular cryo-EM?
Stay tuned, Pasteur offers access to THREE courses, this June.
👇🎓
The registration is now open for BACELL meeting on 8-9 June 2026 at University of Malaga, Spain.
Register and submit abstract for oral or poster presentation: bacell2026.eu
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2026
Registration deadline: 15 May 2026
Organizer @diegromero.bsky.social
✨ New postdoctoral opportunity in #cell biology at UNIGE!
@sophiemartinlab.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to study cell–cell fusion.
Spread the word and see details below 👇@mocel.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.socia
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
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...
SNIPE is a widespread bacterial defence system that exploits the spatial organization of phage genome injection to specifically target viral DNA, distinguishing self from non-self in prokaryotic immune systems @nature.com @mitpress.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How was the sleeper train to Glasgow? I love sleeper trains but only if they are smooth rides. Did Osaka to Tokyo and that was a dream. Sydney to Melbourne was horrible!
PhD & Postdoc Positions at the Dept of Microbial Population Biology of the MPI for Evolutionary Biology (Plön, Germany) to work on jumbo phages & HGT of genomic islands. An amazing research team led by the one and only Paul Rainey, one of the most hard-core evolutionary micro/biologists of our time!
In recognition of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @plosone.org brings together perspectives from Section Editors and an insightful conversation with @clairebrockett.bsky.social from @sheffielduni.bsky.social on why inclusion matters ⬇️
#IDWGS2026 #WomenInScience
The NUBee lab @Newcastle University have an exciting, fully funded opportunity to study Varroa, a major driver of honey bee colony losses.
The PhD complements ongoing work.
For more info (lnkd.in/eXKTNFcN) or contact Prof. Giles Budge.
Dynamic DnaA–DnaB interactions at oriC coordinate the loading and coupled translocation of two DnaB helicases for bidirectional replication url: academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
Institut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!
Check out these tools to detect co-evolution in protein-protein interactions developed by postdoc @chrislbgraham.bsky.social
Very useful as a hypothesis generator, complementing protein interaction prediction from Alphafold.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Fer’s tour de force in B. anthracis is out! Fer got Tn-seq running, built an ordered knockout library, defined all essential sporulation genes, and found a peptidoglycan deacetylase inhibitor critical for engulfment. Including our first one-by-all Alphafold screen! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@poojag96.bsky.social work on the bioenergetics of spore germination is now published- Pooja had a really nice summary that I've put below but essentially we think the role of bioenergetics in spore germination has been completely overlooked!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I would love to attend this, but as things stand in the USA, I will have to miss it. Shocking incidents in the last couple of days...
Just got word that we are a go for the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRS and GRC at Southern New Hampshire University!
GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027
GRC will be from June 6-11, 2027
Block off your calendars Prokaryotic Cell Biologists!
More details to come! Please repost!
📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology
in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"
🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL
📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
Diagram of an E. coli cell showing polysomes pushing sister chromosomes apart. Bottom heatmaps show cell-cycle-dependent changes in DNA and ribosome density distributions, and constriction formation. The top right corner shows normalized mid cell amounts from these heatmaps (integrated between the dashed horizontal lines).
Our latest work is out in PNAS!🎉
We show that nonequilibrium polysome dynamics help drive sister chromosomes apart. The closing division septum also contributes via steric interactions.👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#MicroSky #Microbiology #Biophysics #CellBiology
