CRISPR now also available for Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus for easy access to natural products and manipulation of their biosynthesis: Please see the paper from Alexander in Microbial Cell factories: rdcu.be/dDibN

📢 Congrats 𝗗𝗿. 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 Georg Hochberg for receiving the new "Zukunftspreis" of Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina and Commerzbank-Stiftung 🎉 His research on the #evolution of proteins helps us understand and optimise processes such as #photosynthesis mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1398131/2024-0…

Herzlichen Glückwunsch: Wir freuen uns riesig über die LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur an der #UniMarburg für unseren Evolutionsbiologen Dr. Georg Hochberg. Mehr dazu hier uni-marburg.de/8U06ia Georg Hochberg👏📷Rolf K. Wegst HMWK Hessen ProLOEWE @SYNMIKRO Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology

Our latest preprint: Sriram Garg calculate a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics and used it to root the tree of life. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Off to a good start at #EMBOEvoEco✨😀 Yesterday was the first day and Harmit S. Malik held the keynote lecture about fitness landscapes in host-virus interactions. 🦠 In the evening the participants had fun at the science pub quiz and the poster session sneak peek 🖼️🍸

🌍🌱🔬#M4Cmonday: Explore ancient microbes’ biochemistry with Georg Hochberg @MPI_Microbiology! Learn how these insights reveal the evolution of CO2 conversion pathways that dominate Earth today.🌱🔬#EvolutionaryBiochemistry #MicrobesForClimate #Exzellenzstrategie

The conference at #EMBOEvoEco a few weeks ago was fantastic! This time, the focus was on mechanisms in evolution, and I had the chance to exchange insights on my research with brilliant evolutionists. Now the story comes to an end and I hope to share more about it with you soon.

Excited to share my first paper as a postdoc with Georg Hochberg Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology! We've made some fascinating discoveries about the evolution of animal stem cells in colab with Ralf Jauch and Alex de Mendoza. 🧬🔬 Link: nature.com/articles/s4146… (1/n)

Exciting news 🚀 Mathias Girbig and Georg Hochberg helped showing that essential proteins for animal #stemcell regulation are much older than previously thought, dating back over 700 million years. Check it out👓 mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1450571/2024-1…

~5y ago, Barbara Terlouw Serina Robinson Marnix Medema & I teamed up to make a better NRPS A-domain specificity predictor. Challis Group & others joined along the way to add some very cool insights. Very proud of this work. Check it out now on biorxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

It was a lot of fun organizing this year’s retreat for the IMPRS-μLife of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. I was responsible for organizing the industry session. Big thank you to @BASFAgroand and IQVIA for taking the time to visit us and share potential career paths with us.

super exciting work by our former student Vyacheslav Tretyachenko (now with Pilpel lab)! using unique ML assisted pipeline they identified thousands non-genetic mutations in large proteomic data, showing another layer of diversity that human proteome consist of 🪄 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just appeared: How knowing physics helps to understand bacterial strategies of resource allocation. Congratulation Ira Lisevich on this paper! nature.com/articles/s4146…

I am more than happy to see this story to be out. We show another inhibition manner to Acetyl-CoA synthetase. Great thanks to mentor Gert and Joh. also great thanks to my best old friend Yifei as well as all contributed 🍀🍀🍀

Nature research paper: A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome go.nature.com/3FJLuu0

📢We are thrilled that our Microbes for Climate (M4C) Cluster of Excellence has been selected for the 2025 Excellence Strategy! 🥳 Together with Philipps University Marburg, we're looking forward to some exciting #microbe research! Max Planck Society BangeBalcony #synbio #research

An enormous amount of work went into this from so many people: our leadership at the MPI and the university, the scientific team, the administrative support and of course all the scientists that did the science that laid the foundations. What a rush to be part of this!

New paper from the lab from @SriramGarg. We introduce a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics. I think this is a big deal, so read on below if you think deep history is important. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

It was a formative experience to be in America for the first time and to attend the #GRC on Evolution. I had the chance to give a talk at the GRS and present my poster at the GRC. I received valuable feedback and also had the pleasure of meeting some truly inspiring people.

A new preprint from the lab. I won't do a tweetorial until this is peer reviewed, but I think it's a banger, led by Jediael Ng. It's about Rubisco and what chaperones are really for. He's on the market, get him while you can. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…