Ever wondered how phenotypic heterogeneity is kept to a minimum in bacteria? We provide an answer by showing that c-di-GMP made during division ensures phenotypically similar daughters. Wonderful coll Jenal_lab & fantastic work by Maria & MarcoHerfurth rdcu.be/dN5Vf

Thrilled to share the final version of my postdoc project, out today in nature! We investigated the Bil system – a ubiquitin-like antiphage defense system – and discovered a new defense mechanism! More info in the thread below 👇 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Finally, I recently started my own lab Helmholtz Institute Würzburg (HIRI), where I'll focus on the fascinating yet understudied world of RNA phages! I currently have open positions, so consider applying if you're interested👇 helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-talent…

Happy to see our paper out @nature today: A bacterial immune system conjugates ubiquitin-like proteins to phage tails. This generates non-infective virions Congrats Jens Hör & Sharon Grayer Wolf! Link to paper: tinyurl.com/Isg15 Read the thread: x.com/SorekLab/statu…

Dreamjob alert !!! In my research group, the position of a permanently employed staff scientist is available. The position includes both research and teaching (in German). Please RT Deadline: 25.08.24 More infos: shorturl.at/k9cM7

Exciting news🤩- we have an opening for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Infection Biology & Immunology in our Institute EPFL Life Sciences EPFL Please spread the word & encourage outstanding postdocs, who are ready to start their own labs, to apply. THX 🤓 shorturl.at/bSvVe

‼️New preprint alert! 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Our recent research sheds new light on the early establishment of the infant anaerobic oral and gut microbiome, highlighting the crucial role of breastfeeding. Here's what we found:

Pleased to announce we are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of Molecular Microbiology for Fall 2025!

Big Congratulations Katharina kathaRiNA Höfer - this is phage-tastic news! 🥳🍹 New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction wissenschaft.hessen.de/presse/loewe-s…

Archaeal MinD proteins showing their colours, as seen by Hannah Brown 🧂🦠🔬. Pushing CetZ1 cytoskeletal proteins around.

More evidence against them in the accompanying preprint from Sonja-Verena Albers and co! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A bacterial Grand Canyon.

Read the new story of Robert Warneke on coenzyme A biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis and the identification of a novel metabolite, cysteinopantetheine! Excellent collaboration with Christoph Elfmann Ivo Feussner and teams! mBio Uni Göttingen #subtiwiki journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

We are happy to share our recent preprint on (first ever CRISPR paper in my life😅): "CRISPR/dCas-mediated counter-silencing – Reprogramming dCas proteins into antagonists of xenogeneic silencers" #CRISPRcosi 🧵(1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Forschungszentrum Jülich | @[email protected], Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, MibiNet

Das ZDF Magazin Royale mit Jan Böhmermann 💩 berichtet über #MECFS. Ich hoffe, dass nun nach Jahrzehnten der Vernachlässigung, Leugnung & Stigmatisierung von #MECFS - v.a. in der Medizin - das Wegschauen vorbei ist. Das wird noch viel journalistische Arbeit erfordern. zdf.de/comedy/zdf-mag…

We are hiring! Together with Philipp Popp, we are looking for two motivated PhD candidates to investigate fundamental immune mechanisms of bacteria against bacteriophages in the framework of the DFG priority program New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-Host Interaction! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/269521

Happy to announce the first steps into NRPS/PKS engineering thanks to the work from Leonard and collaborations with the labs from Markus Kaiser and Michael Groll: Bioengineering of syrbactin megasynthetases for immunoproteasome inhib... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Less than 2 weeks to get your job application in for a permanent academic position in our department Microbiology and Immunology Otago University of Otago. Please share. Molecular microbiology.

Coming soon 🙏

A new retron-based method from the innovative Seth Shipman lab now allows making multiple mutations in a phage genome in a single, easy process - from point mutations to small insertions and deletions Read the overview by Ilya Osterman nature.com/articles/s4158…