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!

Predicting competition & substrate preferences for targeted #microbiome alteration.

Microbial interaction & niche determination (MIND) infers microbial niches from mRNA translation to predict competition & guide interventions.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #microbiota #MicroSky

Plz spread the words
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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

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.

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Nutzpflanzenforscherin aus dem „Klaus Tschira Boost-Fund“ gefördert Die Pflanzenforscherin Dr. Eliza Loo, Arbeitsgruppenleiterin am Institut für Molekulare Physiologie an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU), wird für die kommenden zwei Jahre für ein Projek...

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
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www.hhu.de/en/detail-re...

Congratulations to @ciarankelly.bsky.social for winning a prize for his poster on his @mibinet.bsky.social project describing lichen antimicrobial proteins at the @vaam-microbes.bsky.social annual conference in Berlin!

Dissecting the RNA-binding capacity of the multi-RRM protein Rrm4 essential for endosomal mRNA transport Abstract. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) utilize multiple RNA-binding domains (RBDs) to engage with extensive messenger RNA (mRNA) networks. Understanding the

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/...
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#EMBOrnaLocalization

We Are very happy that our Paper was published. Thank to everyone involved

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Elucidating the itaconic acid pathway dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Itaconic acid, a versatile platform chemical, has garnered significant attention due to its broad use in polymers, resins, and bio-based materials. Al…

New MibiNet paper published! Engineered yeast for itaconate synthesis. Investigated transport between mitochondria, cytosol, and environment. Details here!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#MibiNet #Yeast #MetabolicEngineering

Huge thanks to Prof. Dr. Nick Talbot! We were fascinated by his MibiNet talk, exploring how the appressorium uses turgor pressure to infect rice & how the transpressorium spreads the fungus. Brilliant insights!
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FEBS Press The urgent need for sustainable agriculture places biological nitrogen fixation at the forefront of current biotechnological research. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria play crucial roles in agric...

A small contribution from us & Edi Gerhardt @febsj.bsky.social

Highlighting the recent findings: Structure of the NifL-NifA complex controlling nitrogen fixation gene expression in Azotobacter

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In Vivo Online Monitoring of Intracellular Lipid Accumulation in Ustilago maydis Single cell oils produced in microorganisms constitute appealing alternatives to plant oils. Oleaginous fungi accumulate triacylglycerols in lipid droplets (LD). Their biosynthesis is typically indu...

MibiNet & @ceplas.bsky.social Data Management Team supported this new publication in making its raw data FAIR and accessible in the DataHUB🎉. This is how transparent research is done!
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#FAIRdata #OpenScience #DataHUB #DataPLANT

This is a great opportunity to work with a fantastic supervisor in a great research environmenment on a super-interesting question 👇

Diurnal rhythm causes metabolic crises in the cyanobacterial mutants of c-di-AMP signaling cascade Biological sciences; Biochemistry; Microbiology; PII-like protein SbtB; c-di-AMP signaling; Cyanobacteria; Carbon/Nitrogen metabolism; Redox imbalance; Photosynthesis; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); C...

A bit late 🙃 but happy to share our recent findings on #cdiAMP signaling in controlling #cyanobacteria #diurnal rhythm in @cp-iscience.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

#cdiAMP is involved in almost all cellular processes, explaining it's essentiality in #cyano
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Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

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Long-term homeostasis in microbial consortia via auxotrophic cross-feeding - Nature Communications Synthetic microbial consortia are collections of strains which can segregate metabolic tasks for efficient use in biomaterials, biomanufacturing, and biotherapeutics. Here, the authors present a method to maintain and tune the ratio of two co-cultured bacterial strains via growth medium manipulation.

Very interesting work for maintaining synthetic microbial consortia

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Excited to share our latest work, spearheaded by @gabmrojas.bsky.social!

GPCRs are central sensors in eukaryotes, but little is known about them in fungi. In Ustilago maydis, we now uncovered a host-dependent GPCR mechanism that promotes fungal infection.

Gabriel nicely explains the full story👇

New Insights Into Bacterial Motility and DNA Transfer:
a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure hosting Prof. Edileusa Marques Gerhardt from Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil for our regular @mibinet.bsky.social seminar series @hhu.de

She told us about the recent updates in #PII #Signaling in bacteria 🦠 .... What a beautiful system ;-)

We discovered a new family of c-di-NMP receptors, widespread in bacteria & regulating🦠motility @pnas.org

A great collab. w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Genetic integration is not required for establishing permanent endosymbiotic compartments

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Could be interesting for @mibinet.bsky.social

From @diamondlab.bsky.social
Stable #cyanobacteria communities w/ heterotrophs. An important development for folks working on cyanobacteria, microbial community formation and establishment in lab settings

Could be interesting for @mibinet.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Very interesting!
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www.cell.com/trends/genet...

The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein Cell Discovery - The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein

Happy to share our latest finding @natureportfolio.nature.com on #cdiAMP signaling roles in #cyanobacteria natural competence via #ComFB (a new family of #cdiNMP receptors)
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Cellular organelles interact with each other 🤩 .... Very interesting ;-)

ROS transfer at peroxisome-mitochondria contact regulates mitochondrial redox
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

HHU Research Day on 5.7.2025 was a great success! MibiNet captivated visitors with the "Sweet Secrets – Why Even Fungi Have a Sweet Tooth" experiment. We showed how sugar is broken down in microorganisms – from yeast to the corn smut fungus U. maydis. Big thanks to the team on site!
#MibiNet #HHU

Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses

Very interesting read...

Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus #symbiosis @mibinet.bsky.social

www.science.org/content/arti...

T7 RNA polymerase-based gene expression from a transcriptionally silent rDNA spacer in the endosymbiont-harboring trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei Eukaryotic life has been shaped fundamentally by the integration of bacterial endosymbionts. The trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei that contains a β-proteobacterial endosymbiont, represents an emerging ...

New paper alert: Kröninger et al. (2025) on gene expression in Angomonas deanei in PLoS One! For this paper, an ARC was developed with the support of DataPLANT & CEPLAS. #DataManagement @evanowack.bsky.social @nfdi4plants.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Join us for HHU Düsseldorf Research Day on July 5th! 🔬 Explore diverse research, enjoy presentations, hands-on experiments, lab tours, and delicious food. See science in action. #ResearchDayHHU @hhu.de