Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky
Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells.
See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
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New paper from another great collaboration with @rachel-darnell19.bsky.social on Enterococcus faecalis developing cross-tolerance to multiple cell wall antibiotics during prolonged teixobactin exposure! 🦠🧫🔬
Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
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University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
New group photo time with all new team members now arrived in Mainz. The new succulents house of @unimainz.bsky.social makes for a perfect backdrop on a foggy November day 🤩
Thank you for coming to visit us and tell us about your very exciting phage research! 🔬
Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗
Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production
Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4
I don’t know if my lab has a sufficiently high biosecurity clearance to attempt this
New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It was great to finally meet you in person and share our fascination for microbes from weird habits! 🤓🧫🔬
Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores
Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
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Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
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Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to knockingoutamr@microbiologysociety.org. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.
Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab
#BACELL2025
Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳
Well, I now genuinely don’t work in the UK anymore, which makes it a different sort of fun…
Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay!
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.