Paper alert: Social dynamics exploited to reduce antibiotic resistance. Thank you to my brilliant coauthors and the team at Microbiology - making science fun! tinyurl.com/44auc9kj Microbiology Society Alper Mutlu Kendra Rumbaugh #pseudomonas #AntimicrobialResistance

Check out our newest preprint:

P. aeruginosa uses pilus-mediated motility to invade and disperse S. aureus biofilms, rendering Sa cells susceptible to Pa antimicrobials. Without invasion Pa restricts Sa expansion forming dense Sa colonies with altered physiology Andrea Sánchez Peña

The final piece of my PhD is out. I am grateful to Tobi and Rolf Kümmerli for seeing this through. We found that phenotypic heterogeneity is driven by spatial and genealogical components, and siderophore sharing influences fitness of cell lineages. Department of Quantitative Biomedicine UZH Science University of Zurich

Predicting bacterial interaction outcomes from monoculture growth and supernatant assays

ISME Communications by Desiree Schmitz et al from Rolf Kümmerli

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Ecological dependencies and the illusion of cooperation in microbial communities ~ by Elze Hesse & Siobhán O’Brien

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Happy to share the latest preprint of our lab showing a rich network of siderophore-mediated interactions in the nasal microbiome bioRxiv 2024.02.20.581135; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…. Many interactions reduce S. aureus proliferation.

Happy to share our The ISME Journal paper how competition for iron shapes interaction of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas marginalis
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A project led by Mark Lyng in colaboration with CeMiSt DTU colleagues
-funded by Danmarks Grundforskningsfond & Novo Nordisk Foundation

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Working on this spotlight article enabled me to delve deep into mechanisms of iron uptake and homeostasis in Clostridiodes difficile.

Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story dlvr.it/T22qyT

Intercropping has the potential to improve plant nutrition and crop yield. Wang et al. intercrop peanut and maize and show that Pseudomonas secreted siderophore pyoverdine play an important role in plant iron nutrition.
Rolf Kümmerli
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Three-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with Vasili Hauryliuk and Gemma C Atkinson. Application deadline 29.2.2024 Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
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Siderophores and their role in solubilizing iron for plants in intercopping systems.
Very grateful that I could contribute to this project. Great colleagues, great teamwork!
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Come and join us at the 4th Edition of the Swiss Young Microbiologists Symposium in Zurich #SYMS University of Zurich
All information + Abstract submission can be found on our website: syms.ch

We work with zebrafish! Our first (method) paper on polymicrobial infections, real-time imaging and automated data analysis with this exciting model host. Now out on bioRxiv by Desiree Schmitz with Hongwei Bran Li menze_group Department of Quantitative Biomedicine
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For many years, we have worked on cooperative aspects of siderophore sharing. Here, we show that siderophores from environmental pseudomonads can have strong competitive and antibacterial effects against pathogens through the induction of iron starvation.
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Starting 2024 with a PhD position advertised in our new group at LeidenBiology Leiden Science on the topic 'Spatial and temporal plant microbiome'
Apply before 11 February 2024
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🚨 PhD position alert 🚨

Thilo Köhler and Christian van Delden at UNIGE_en HUG offer a position on clinical phage therapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its microbiological basis 🧫💉🦠. It is funded by NCCR AntiResist and will be in collaboration with us. 👇🏼

🌟 Big Career Announcement: Super happy to share that I’ve officially accepted a professorship @LMU! Excited for new opportunities and collaborations. Stay tuned for more updates and job openings.

Come join us Université de Lausanne and the NCCR Microbiomes as new tenure track assistant professor in microbial interactions! Application deadline Jan 30. More information here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?company…

Christmas brunch with the Kuemmerli lab! Thanks Rolf Kümmerli for organizing!