You want to share your latest results in any microbiology discipline? You want to network with friends and colleagues? You want to create new connections? That is now the perfect time to register and submit an abstract to our annual conference #VAAM2025 VAAM - Vereinigung f. Allg. u. Ang. Mikrobiologie

Glad to be involved in this Nature Microbiology Perspective led by trent northen & Ruben Garrido-Oter Community standards and future opportunities for synthetic communities in plant–microbiota research nature.com/articles/s4156… #MicrobiomeEcology at LeidenBiology #SynCom #PlantMicrobe

Biotechnologists are increasingly planning not only to engineer microbes in the lab — but to then release them into the field. These microbes can fix nitrogen for plants or clean up pollutants. Good or bad, this review is the most substantive piece ever written on the issue.

Come join us as a PhD student in Marburg!

Only one week left to apply for this exciting PhD position, supervised by Gilles van Wezel 💙💛 and me! Please apply if you are interested in microbial biochemistry and have a solid background in enzymes, metabolic pathways, and bacterial genetics. universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

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.

Why make a cofactor when you can get it for free? Our work, led by Fabian Munder, shows that bacteria from 22 phyla use the high-affinity transporter PqqU to obtain the redox cofactor PQQ from the environment as an alternative to cofactor synthesis. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Using spectroscopic and structural approaches we gained new insights into the role of #ferredoxins in N2 fixation. Just published in ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal: doi.org/10.1002/chem.2…! Great work by Holly Addison and fantastic excellent with Antonio J. Pierik.

Great collaboration with Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski and minrui on an #enzyme converting the #plastic component ethylene glycol to a feedstock chemical for microbes. Offering new ways to use plastic for developing biotechnological processes.

🎓 New PhD Position Available! We’re excited to announce a new opportunity to join our team as a PhD student. 👇 Check out all the details in our post below. 🚀 Apply now! Please RT!

Please share: I am hiring a postdoc that will work on enzyme characterization and engineering in the frame of the EU consortium project C5. Read all details here and apply until August 10: universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…