Exciting news! We're hiring a tenure-track Professor in Microbial Metabolomics and Enzyme Engineering for cutting-edge research at KU Leuven & VIB . Get a generous startup package, yearly research endowment & full salary. Apply here! kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Are you looking for a tenure-track group leader position at a welcoming and supportive research institute? AMOLF is hiring! Have a look at our theory vacancy.... amolf.nl/jobs/tenure-tr…

I wrote a review/perspective on the search for principles of microbial ecology across scales, with a focus on (community) metabolism. I hope it can be a useful primer for people interested in microbial communities from a more quantitative perspective. academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar…

There is now an opening for a new position in our department, one where you can build your own research program... Are you this ambitious & experienced microbiologist full of new ideas and ready to start or expand your own group, please apply! werkenbij.vu.nl/ad/assistant-a…

Please share! I am looking for a PhD student in Amsterdam, together with Yuval Mulla, to study phages in microbial communities. Interested? Check the job ad to apply or contact me with questions! MSc required, deadline Sept 30. workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-positio…

Faculty opening in the Cavendish Lab (Physics) at Cambridge University in the area of physics of life. Please consider if of interest, and re-X. Closing Sunday, 17th Sept. details: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/42340/ Cambridge Centre for Physical Biology Biological Physics Group UK American Physical Society Physics of Life Dresden Physics of Life at York

My institute is hiring! Broad search. We're also interested in quantitative/theoretical people. The Biozentrum is an incredible place to work. Great support, facilities, funding... and quality of life here in Basel. Please consider applying and RT. biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positions…

There's career defining publications: I believe this paradigm shifting #phagetherapy manuscript is a testament to the stamina and perseverance of Jean-Paul Pirnay . I'm honored to have been part of the ride through these years. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

A new review from our lab: Diving into drug-screening: Zebrafish Embryos as an in vivo Platform for Antimicrobial Drug Discovery and Assessment academic.oup.com/femsre/article…

Earlier this week, our RSEs had a successful kickoff meeting for the OSLA project in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (inactief). The project will provide an open-source scheduler for #Robot arms, which are revolutionizing wet labs and drug discovery! Learn more here: research-software-directory.org/projects/osla

Excited to share our latest paper on new Eukaryotic-like bacteriophage defense systems. What great joint project by Daan F van den Berg, Ana Rita Costa and Jelger Esser combining the power of bioinformatics and experiments. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Interested in quantifying phage parameters from growth curves? Then this is your workshop! October 31, Utrecht (NL): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

So excited the latest discovery is out on Viral coinfection, Superinfection dominance, and Temperature modulating outcome. Super research by Claudia Meyer! And Vicky Jackson :-) Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

📢 Thrilled to announce our latest research in Cell! We've created a global ‘superbug map’ for a critically antibiotic-resistant bacterium to inform #phagetherapy 🧵1/11 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Very excited to share the preprint of our latest work “Predicting the natural yeast phenotypic landscape with machine learning”, now available at: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… This research was part of my PhD at niceyeastlab. Here are few highlights from our study:

Really handy tool to import all your twitter followees to bluesky: wikihow.com/Import-Twitter…

It is finally out! Muntathar Al-Shimary, Doudna Lab, Brady Cress and I present a gene knockdown tool that works in diverse phages: CRISPRi through antisense RNA Targeting (CRISPRi-ART)! Check out the final paper in Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…