The MicroClock Team had the first retreat in Munich, discussing plans, experimental approaches, data analyses, and allowing trainees to get to know each other

We are grateful to Luis Larrondo @lflarrondo.bsky.social for his recommendations about the MicroClock research plan during the retreat 🙏

Bartje in Munchen for the @microclockerc.bsky.social retreat with the whole ERC SyG team with La Traviata as opening
#BartjeAroundTheWorld

In Munich for our first MicroClock #ERCSyG @microclockerc.bsky.social retreat to meet in person the whole team and discuss the plans for upcoming exciting years ahead of us on bacterial circadian clocks, from molecular mechanism to ecology
#ChronoMicrobiology

#BartjeAroundTheWorld

A new flavor of synthetic yeast communities sees the light | mBio The Earth is populated by a huge diversity of organisms, which rarely exist in isolation. Instead, they constantly interact with other biological agents shaping ecosystems and occupying distinct habit...

Luis describes their super synthetic biology tools for light controled mutualistic interactions (cross feeding) in fungi
=Optoecology

See their mBio:
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Amazing use of light regulated gene expression in Neurospora crassa = live canvas developed by Luis Larrondo’s group

Transcriptional rewiring of an evolutionarily conserved circadian clock | The EMBO Journal imageimageEukaryotic circadian oscillators share a one-step transcription-translation negative-feedback loop (TTFL) circuit design, where a main transcriptional complex drives expression of a negative element that can inhibit its own expression. ...

Luis on creating semi-synthetic oscillators (see their @embojournal.org paper: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....) towards Minimal Synthetic Oscillators (MiSOs)

Luis Larrondo (from Santiago, Chile) at LMU Munich presents their work about light responses and transcriptional circuits in fungi, including circadian clocks and optoecology
- happy to have Luis also attending our @microclockerc.bsky.social retreat this week

Bartje in Rotterdam for the Dutch Chronobiology meeting 2025 #BioClock

My first chronobiology meeting to learn about this scientific field connected to our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG

#BartjeAroundTheWorld

Bartje in Munich for discussing our #ERCSyG @microclockerc.bsky.social for the next 6 years
#BartjeAroundTheWorld

Wonderful to be in Munich for the kick-off meeting of our MicroClock ERC Synergy programme, and have MicroClock cake! @microclockerc.bsky.social @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social #ERCSyG #chronobiology

Jack Dorling from @antdodd.bsky.social lab the second day of #BACELL2025 from the @microclockerc.bsky.social team on
how the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock regulates colony expansion and cell differentiation pathways

BACELL 2025 in the heart of Amsterdam was attracting over 100 participants

2 presentations and a poster from the #MicrobiomeEcology group at #LeidenBiology, Adele Pioppi, @jingtinyc.bsky.social, María Negre Rodríguez, @microclockerc.bsky.social talk by Jack Dorling from @antdodd.bsky.social
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Bartje in Barcelona for the GRC Chronobiology conference, emerging into this new field
@microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
#BartjeAroundTheWorld

We also realized that B. subtilis abundance in soil is variable (by @xinmingxu.bsky.social).

The natural isolates were also used to explore circadian rhythm (with Martha Merrow and @antdodd.bsky.social), now continued within @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG
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Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms Life on Earth evolved in environmental conditions that fluctuate with a daily cycle. Organisms from all kingdoms of life, including plants and their a…

Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms

#CurrOpinMicrobiol by Jack Dorling, Georgia Love, Isobel K. Banks & @antdodd.bsky.social

@microclockerc.bsky.social #chronomicrobiology

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms Life on Earth evolved in environmental conditions that fluctuate with a daily cycle. Organisms from all kingdoms of life, including plants and their a…

Circadian interactions between plants and microorganisms: congratulations to Jack Dorling, Isobel Banks and Georgia Love from the lab for writing this review #CurrOpinMicrobiol @microclockerc.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research Assistant (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Dodd Group, conducting cutting-edge research into circadian rhythms in bacteria and plants.

New opportunity in the lab for a research assistant (technician), to support our BBSRC and @erc.europa.eu funded project @microclockerc.bsky.social on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock. For this, we're looking for microbiology research experience #chronobiology www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...

Join the group of @antdodd.bsky.social to discover circadian interactions between plants and bacteria within out @microclockerc.bsky.social ERCSyG team

How plants and microbes synchronize their daily rhythms to keep fit at John Innes Centre on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - How plants and microbes synchronize their daily rhythms to keep fit at John Innes Centre, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity in my lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social, on circadian interactions between plants and bacteria. Fully funded. Part of @microclockerc.bsky.social in collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social #chronobiology #ERCSyG www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Deadline: 8 May 2025

As part of the @antdodd.bsky.social @microclockerc.bsky.social programme, funded by @erc.europa.eu

How plants and microbes synchronize their daily rhythms to keep fit at John Innes Centre on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - How plants and microbes synchronize their daily rhythms to keep fit at John Innes Centre, listed on FindAPhD.com

Are you looking for a #PhD project at a world-leading, independent research institute? Want to contribute to ground-breaking and innovative science, to help address global challenges?

Look out for opportunities at JIC, such as this project with @antdodd.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Today we start @microclockerc.bsky.social, our ERC Synergy programme focused on the #circadian clock in Bacillus subtilis, with @marthamerrow.bsky.social @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social. Definitely time for lab cakes!! @erc.europa.eu

The birth of @microclockerc.bsky.social today with a cake🎉

@microclockerc.bsky.social officially starts today: 6 years of chrono(micro)biology funded by @erc.europa.eu
-with @marthamerrow.bsky.social, @antdodd.bsky.social, and @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Researcher (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre, working interactions between circadian programs in Bacillus subtilis and plants.

Join us to investigate the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock - post-doc opportunity in my lab, deadline 9 February. Funded by the MicroClock #ERCSyG programme @microclockerc.bsky.social in collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

See our next possibility to join the @microclockerc.bsky.social team as post doctoral scientist to work with @antdodd.bsky.social at @johninnescentre.bsky.social in Norwich related to circadian clocks of bacteria and plants

Application deadline is 9 February

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

9 more days to apply to the #PostDoc position to join our @microclockerc.bsky.social ERC Synergy project if you have background in high throughput cloning and genetic modification of model bacteria
Expertise with liquid handling robots, HTP screening, cloning is preferred!

tinyurl.com/2d2c8fe5

Join the MicroClock team and work on the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock components: #PostDocPosition in Leiden 🇳🇱 via the @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project

Deadline: 17 January

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

please share with your network🙏

Another fantastic post doc opportunity to study the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock, this time in in the wonderful Kovacs lab in Leiden @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG #chronobiology

See the #VAAM website for the @microclockerc.bsky.social post doc advertisement in the group of @marthamerrow.bsky.social
vaam.de/media/postdo...