Announcing the 2025 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology and Development Gordon Research Conferences. We have amazing speakers and discussion leaders confirmed and look forward to (again) having our minds blown by all the remarkable science. Applications will start being accepted in the fall.

Two weeks left to submit an abstract: 5th Discussion Meeting of the VAAM Special Section Microbial Cell Biology with a focus on Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology Abstract submission deadline: August 26, 2024. For more information, please visit the registration website at

Interested in the amazing activities of large protein complexes in bacteria? Then have a look at the Special section on Bacterial Nanomachines of Current Opinion in Microbiology sciencedirect.com/special-issue/… Thanks a lot to all the authors for their contributions, the anonymous

👉 Registration deadline extended: Don't miss the chance to register for the symposium of the VAAM Regulation specialist group (incredibly cheap conference fee): rim2024.uni-hohenheim.de #VAAM #regulation #microbes VAAM - Vereinigung f. Allg. u. Ang. Mikrobiologie

Now out: An outer membrane porin-lipoprotein complex modulates elongasome movement to establish cell curvature in Rhodospirillum rubrum rdcu.be/dSHtx A great collaboration with @BramkampLab, Vollmer lab, Johann Heider, Timo Glatter, Eli Cohen and Volker Kleeberg.

Exciting news 🤩: Our article on the impact of DNA methylation in Agrobacteriumis now out in the NAR journal. academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…

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We are very happy to learn that our recent work on the establishment of cell curvature in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum has been selected as an editor's highlight. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this paper. nature.com/collections/je…

Happy to share our article, published today in NAR: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… Congrats to Mariana Sanchez Londono, Lennart Randau, Thanbichler lab, Vicente & Rogelio Hernández Tamayo! Thank you so much for the nice work 🍀

Many thanks to all the participants of the 5th VAAM - Vereinigung f. Allg. u. Ang. Mikrobiologie Discussion Meeting on Microbial Cell Biology (MCB2024) for the amazing talks, the lively discussions and the friendly, interactive atmosphere! We hope you had a safe journey home and look forward to seeing you again in

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