It was a good pleasure to host Annegret Wilde @freecyano.bsky.social from @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social and @sfb1381.bsky.social
To our INSPIRE seminar series @hhu.de with a close interaction between @mibinet.bsky.social and @ceplas.bsky.social
Thanks to @mibinet.bsky.social for hosting this edition of INSPIRE with Prof. Annegret Wilde @freecyano.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de! At INSPIRE, a collab between CEPLAS, MibiNet and @trr341.bsky.social we invite women scientists to share their research and personal career journey. Great talk!
👋 It’s been four weeks since our fantastic SFB 131 symposium, which featured an amazing line up and great participants.
🎬 Watch the video to relive the vibe!
Enantiomer sensing enables social avoidance by bacterial spores
(of Bacillus subtilis)
@cp-iscience.bsky.social from Gürol Süel
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms
A wonderful prospective by @kostchristian.bsky.social & colleagues
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
#joboffer #Germany
plz spread it
I'm hiring a Junior leader (E13; 100% for 3-5 y) to start own independence w/ focus on #CryoEM SPA or ET
Ideally 1-2y postdoc experience
Plz get in touch, if you are interested in #Structural biology & #MicroBiochem
@sfb1381.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social
Plz spread the words
@mibinet.bsky.social
@gasb-synbio.bsky.social
@gdchbiochem.bsky.social
@claudialudy.bsky.social
@febspress.bsky.social
@gbmev.bsky.social
@embl.org
@femsmicro.org
@ceplas.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social
@biochemsoc.bsky.social
@sebiology.bsky.social
#joboffer #Germany
plz spread it
I'm hiring a Junior leader (E13; 100% for 3-5 y) to start own independence w/ focus on #CryoEM SPA or ET
Ideally 1-2y postdoc experience
Plz get in touch, if you are interested in #Structural biology & #MicroBiochem
@sfb1381.bsky.social @vaam-microbes.bsky.social
Overview of key research directions using Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 as a model cyanobacterium. Summary of the main structural, physiological, genetic, and behavioral characteristics that have established Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 as a leading model organism for cyanobacterial research. Core cellular functions include oxygenic photosynthesis, carbon, and nitrogen metabolism. Emerging research directions focus on primary metabolism and regulatory and adaptive processes, such as stress responses, circadian clock, behavior, and biotechnological applications.
Cyanobacteria are an ancient clade of phototrophic prokaryotes. But out of all the cyanobacteria available, why did Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 become the default laboratory model? This #JBacteriology review offers insights: asm.social/2TD
𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 🔬
Kai Papenfort, PI in our #ClusterOfExcellence at @uni-jena.de, has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Microbiology. His work on small RNAs reveals how tiny molecules shape microbial life.
Congrats! 👏
Read more:
www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/kai-...
Opening Slide - Microverse meets MibiNet
#ThrowbackThursday to #VAAM2026 in BER! 🧫
“Microverse meets MibiNet” drew 80+ participants—one of our highlights. Chaired by Kirsten Küsel & Julia Frunzke, keynote by Leo Eberl.
Thanks to everyone for inspiring exchange!
🤝@vaam-microbes.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social &@kuesellab.bsky.social
"Research is often described as ‘basic’, but there is nothing basic about it. The links between discovery-based research and downstream applications aren’t always clear at the outset. Although a translational output may require years to achieve"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
History in the making! 🎓 Huge congratulations to Nora Zöllner, who successfully defended her PhD - earning top honors!
Nora is the very first graduate of our MibiNext cohort. We couldn’t be prouder! A massive achievement for her and a major milestone for the entire network.
#MibiNet #MibiNext
Congrats Eliza!
Huge congrats to Dr. Eliza Loo! The associated MibiNet researcher has secured a "Klaus Tschira Boost Fund" grant to explore targeted programming of plant microbiomes. Fantastic news for @hhu.de and the MibiNet team!
#MibiNet #HHU
@elizaloopi.bsky.social
www.hhu.de/en/detail-re...
Our traveling exhibition Bakteriopolis is in the Cosmo Wissenschaftsforum this month! 🦠🔬
Come talk to scientists, learn about fermented foods, see the microbe of the year Penicillium up close and much more!
Every Tuesday - Thursday
13:00 - 18:00
Schloßstraße 2
01067 Dresden
Our new preprint on detailing the molecular mechanisms of how the carbonic anhydrase activates it's activity upon encapsulation into alpha-carboxysomes is now live. Congrats to Nikole and @guillawme.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy !
Congrats 🎉 🎉 for both of you!🎉🎉
What's your opinion on that?of mysterious nanotube components?
Our new book chapter has just been published! "Computational approaches for protein complex modeling for intermediate resolution cryo-EM maps" We introduced our recently developed tools available on the EM server (em.kiharalab.org).
You can read it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...
A great team effort w/ @freecyano.bsky.social on c-di-NMP signaling via ComFB in #cyanobacteria
ComFB sequesters TFs (CRP1/2) & keeps them inactive. High #c-di-GMP breaks the complexes & TFs become free to act on their targets @hhu.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Breakthrough article 😊
Joint effort of teams Zarnack & König & Feldbrügge clarifies how multiple RNA-binding domains cooperate to identify functional important binding sites in vivo
doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
@zarnack-group.bsky.social
@könig-lab.bsky.social
@mibinet.bsky.social
#EMBOrnaLocalization
Tell him congratulations from me!
You'll have some fun with him ;-)
New in JB: Guo, Zhang et al. review recent advances in synthetic biology that allow for the use of methylotrophic bacteria as "cell factories" as a path to sustainable biomanufacturing.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
@asm.org #JBacteriology
with wonderful contributions from bsky-less Cheng-Cai Zhang and Yiling Yang in China...
ComFB or called CdgR is part of new family of c-di-NMP receptor proteins, widespread in bacteria
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A great team effort w/ @freecyano.bsky.social on c-di-NMP signaling via ComFB in #cyanobacteria
ComFB sequesters TFs (CRP1/2) & keeps them inactive. High #c-di-GMP breaks the complexes & TFs become free to act on their targets @hhu.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🫵 Post-translational modifications of GlmR integrate metabolic and stress signals to maintain cell envelope homeostasis in Bacillus subtilis:
👇👇👇
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
@cdiAMP #subtiwiki
Prof. Dr. Dieter Jahn is a Professor at Braunschweig University of Technology & a Handling Editor for FEMS Microbiology Letters highlights why society journals matter: the income generated by these journals does not simply disappear, it goes back into supporting the scientific community.
Rektorin Steinbeck mit Professor Doktor Gordon Awandare
Neue Wege für die HHU: Erste Universitätspartnerschaft im Globalen Süden
HHU-Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck hat in Ghana wichtige Kooperationsvereinbarungen im Rahmen einer Delegationsreise unterzeichnet.
🇬🇭 University of Ghana
🇬🇭 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi
