📢We invite candidates strongly interested in 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 to apply for 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. Curious to learn more? See this 🧵 or visit imprs-marburg.mpg.de

Registration is OPEN for Physics of Life 2025! 🌟 Explore biological physics, hear from top experts, and tackle big scientific challenges. 📅 Key Dates: Early bird reg deadline: 21 Feb 2025 Final reg deadline: 14 Mar 2025 Secure your spot now: iop.eventsair.com/pol2025

We are opening a call for applications 2025 – Creation of new junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur in Paris Institut Pasteur, since 1887 All details on our web site : research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call-f…

Registration is now open for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria, taking place this year in Paris (April 8-10). We have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Register here: sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home

📢We could really use some more virtual registration participants for this year's meeting (by 1/10)! We love offering a hybrid attendance option, but to do this in the future need to break even to cover costs. Please consider! blastscience.regfox.com/blast-xviii-vi…

BLAST research highlight: Matilla & Krell document and discuss the widespread importance of amino acid chemotaxis and predicting amino acid ligands based on chemoreceptor sequence motifs: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.11… J. Bacteriology 2024

Specificities of Chemosensory Receptors in the Human Gut Microbiota biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

🌱 Our First Keynote Speakers for the Plant Microbiome Symposium 2025! 🌱 🌿 Prof. Julia Vorholt – ETH Zürich 🦠 Prof. Akos T. Kovács – Leiden University Join us in Antequera on 3-7 Nov. Stay tuned for more announcements! 📅 Register now: 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com #PMS2025

Congrats to the recipients of Peggy O'Neill Memorial Travel Award 2025👏🥳🥳. ✨ Xuanlin Chen from Victor Sourjik’s lab. ✨Alejandra Arango from Vijay Parashar’s lab. ✨Jacob Scadden from Matt Baker’s lab. Thanks to Blast community! #blastmeeting2025

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planck-… #ScienceCareer

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

Glad to see my main PhD project finally out Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156… We show for the first time that a synthetic and engineered pathway can indeed exceed nature at one-carbon fixation.

🔬Join us! We are #hiring PhD students to advance enzyme design and develop photoenzymes for carbon capture and nitrogen fixation. If you are passionate about protein engineering, computational modeling, or synthetic biology, check out the job openings! mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1497154/job_fu…

Fun collaboration on yeast signaling, resulting from a fortuitous meeting with Vittore Scolari at a conference, where we realized that when the source of diffusion is in 2D (cells on a surface) but diffusion happens in 3D, strange things can happen... 1/3

Our paper describing importance of a highly evolutionary conserved membrane-organising protein complex in bacterial respiration is now published in PLoS Biology in its final version doi.org/10.1371/journa… Congratulations Maria Isabel Perez !

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department DMF UNIL Université de Lausanne! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/applica…

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…

Thrilled to share our new paper in Science Magazine! We found that when bacteria can’t digest available nutrients—but their neighbours can—they switch from competitors to become bonafide predators, wielding their T6SS to kill & feast on prey. 🦠🔬 ⚔️ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy to share that our paper on how a conveyor belt associated protein influences the rotation of its driver is out now in mBio

Happy to share our article on engineering of motile minicells for cargo delivery Motile and Chemotactic Minicells and Minicell-Driven Biohybrids Engineered for Active Cargo Delivery | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…