There is a fly in my beer! How studying beer preference of fruit flies can help improve biological pest control. Work by Kevin Verstrepen (VIB, KU Leuven) and @SilkeSachse (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) and colleagues. iScience journal: cell.com/iscience/fullt… More info below 👇

Have a look at our latest newsletter & save the NEW date of #RRB2025 , co-organized by Prof. Henrik Grénman Åbo Akademi University & @YagutRinne Turun yliopisto - University of Turku mailchi.mp/d5465b569a94/r… Synbioc InBio.be GREEN-CHEM Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

Bacterial cell wall, biofilm and morphology enthusiasts - our new preprint shows how E. coli manages to survive without its essential cell wall! Check it out 👇#microbiology #bacteria LeidenBiology The Claessen Lab Han de Winde @handewinde.bsky.social

How AI sees the Pseudomonas aficionados community 😅

Mooi nieuws voor de wetenschap én voor Nederland! Robbert Dijkgraaf wordt de nieuwe president van de International Science Council die wereldwijd de wetenschap vertegenwoordigt. Ik kan me geen betere kandidaat voorstellen. Veel succes, Robbert!

Engineering a phi15-based #expression system for stringent #gene expression in #Pseudomonas putida—led by Eveline-Marie Lammens, Daniel Volke in a nice collab between Nikel SEM Group & Rob Lavigne's team nature.com/articles/s4200…

Ik heb een opiniestuk geschreven in Mare. Aanleiding zijn de agressieve Pro-Palestina leuzen die ik hoorde bij onze Dies. Die staan helaas voor een groter probleem: er zijn studies waar mensen te bang zijn om zich te uiten en/of zichzelf te zijn. mareonline.nl/opinie/angstcu…

BASys2: a next-generation bacterial genome annotation system | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

mooi verhaal in de Mare van en over de zojuist overleden criminoloog Wouter Buikhuisen en de rol van Carel Stolker bij zijn eerherstel Universiteit Leiden. mareonline.nl/nieuws/weggepe…

Meeting of the cluster Microbiology LeidenBiology with today focus on Fungi, Pseudomonas and marine bacteria, groups of Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Han de Winde @handewinde.bsky.social Dr.Daniel Rozen and Arthur Ram.

Check out this Nature Communications publication and thread 👇 interesting and grand piece of work, largely carried out by minrui in the lab of Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski. Thanks for this nice and inspiring collaboration 🤗 !

Verrassend nieuws ! universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/07…

🇫🇷 #TDF2025 Yesterday, just before the summit of the Tourmalet, Julian Alaphilippe grabbed a cardboard sign from a fan. He tucked it under his jersey to keep warm on the descent. Later, he apologized to the woman. The sign read: “Wout doesn’t know it yet, but we’re getting

Incredibly sad news. Huge loss for family, friends and colleagues ... universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/0…

1/ 🚨 New preprint! We've developed a robust IDMS-based LC-MS/MS workflow for high-throughput intracellular metabolomics in diverse bacteria. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #Metabolomics #MassSpec #SystemsBiology

There is a yellow worm, called Paralvinella hessleri, that lives near hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean. Its body weight is about 1% arsenic by mass; a ridiculous concentration. But instead of killing the worm, the worm “neutralizes” it and turns it into a yellow pigment.

Glad to present our identification of novel #polyester-degrading #Fusarium #cutinases and heterologous functional expression in #Aspergillus. Another piece of tenacious work by Jo-Anne Verschoor and several fantastic colleagues LeidenBiology ASM journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

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Kick off of @vibtrainconf #Microbes25 by Kevin Verstrepen @verstrepenlab Looking forward to another exciting edition of innovative microbe research, and meeting up with friends and colleagues

Highly interesting and enthusiasmic contribution by Tilman Weber VIB Training & Conferences #Microbes25 on latest developments in innovative computational discovery, molecular characterisation and harnessing of novel #antibiotics of bacterial origin #AMR