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MibiNet aims to understand microbial networking in its full complexity to explain how organelles evolve and how the microbiome functions.
https://www.sfb1535.hhu.de/
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New MibiNet paper published! Engineered yeast for itaconate synthesis. Investigated transport between mitochondria, cytosol, and environment. Details here!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#MibiNet #Yeast #MetabolicEngineering
Elucidating the itaconic acid pathway dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Itaconic acid, a versatile platform chemical, has garnered significant attention due to its broad use in polymers, resins, and bio-based materials. Al…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
mibinet.bsky.social
Huge thanks to Prof. Dr. Nick Talbot! We were fascinated by his MibiNet talk, exploring how the appressorium uses turgor pressure to infect rice & how the transpressorium spreads the fungus. Brilliant insights!
@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
#MibiNet
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
A small contribution from us & Edi Gerhardt @febsj.bsky.social

Highlighting the recent findings: Structure of the NifL-NifA complex controlling nitrogen fixation gene expression in Azotobacter

febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@sfb1381.bsky.social @hhu.de @mibinet.bsky.social
FEBS Press
The urgent need for sustainable agriculture places biological nitrogen fixation at the forefront of current biotechnological research. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria play crucial roles in agric...
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
mibinet.bsky.social
MibiNet & @ceplas.bsky.social Data Management Team supported this new publication in making its raw data FAIR and accessible in the DataHUB🎉. This is how transparent research is done!
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#FAIRdata #OpenScience #DataHUB #DataPLANT
In Vivo Online Monitoring of Intracellular Lipid Accumulation in Ustilago maydis
Single cell oils produced in microorganisms constitute appealing alternatives to plant oils. Oleaginous fungi accumulate triacylglycerols in lipid droplets (LD). Their biosynthesis is typically indu...
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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kostchristian.bsky.social
This is a great opportunity to work with a fantastic supervisor in a great research environmenment on a super-interesting question 👇
October 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
A bit late 🙃 but happy to share our recent findings on #cdiAMP signaling in controlling #cyanobacteria #diurnal rhythm in @cp-iscience.bsky.social

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

#cdiAMP is involved in almost all cellular processes, explaining it's essentiality in #cyano
@hhu.de
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Diurnal rhythm causes metabolic crises in the cyanobacterial mutants of c-di-AMP signaling cascade
Biological sciences; Biochemistry; Microbiology; PII-like protein SbtB; c-di-AMP signaling; Cyanobacteria; Carbon/Nitrogen metabolism; Redox imbalance; Photosynthesis; Reactive oxygen species (ROS); C...
www.cell.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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frunzkelab.bsky.social
Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social
Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology
As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...
www.fz-juelich.de
October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Very interesting work for maintaining synthetic microbial consortia

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@mibinet.bsky.social
Long-term homeostasis in microbial consortia via auxotrophic cross-feeding - Nature Communications
Synthetic microbial consortia are collections of strains which can segregate metabolic tasks for efficient use in biomaterials, biomanufacturing, and biotherapeutics. Here, the authors present a method to maintain and tune the ratio of two co-cultured bacterial strains via growth medium manipulation.
www.nature.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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faltegoer.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest work, spearheaded by @gabmrojas.bsky.social!

GPCRs are central sensors in eukaryotes, but little is known about them in fungi. In Ustilago maydis, we now uncovered a host-dependent GPCR mechanism that promotes fungal infection.

Gabriel nicely explains the full story👇
gabmrojas.bsky.social Gabriel Mendoza-Rojas @gabmrojas.bsky.social · Sep 30
🧵How does a pathogen know it has entered its host?

New preprint!🎉It’s a pleasure to share my first first-author preprint from my PhD journey!
We uncover a novel co-evolved peptide–GPCR system in the fungus Ustilago maydis that senses host entry and triggers infection (doi.org/10.1101/2025...)
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biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Sep 28
A co-evolved peptide-GPCR system senses host entry to drive fungal infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678928v1
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
New Insights Into Bacterial Motility and DNA Transfer:
a small press on our discovery of ComFB signaling family by @claussenarne.bsky.social @hhu.de

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social
@cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
It was a great pleasure hosting Prof. Edileusa Marques Gerhardt from Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil for our regular @mibinet.bsky.social seminar series @hhu.de

She told us about the recent updates in #PII #Signaling in bacteria 🦠 .... What a beautiful system ;-)
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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selimlab.bsky.social
We discovered a new family of c-di-NMP receptors, widespread in bacteria & regulating🦠motility @pnas.org

A great collab. w/ @mygalperin.bsky.social @vikramalva.bsky.social @thethormannden.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social
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September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Genetic integration is not required for establishing permanent endosymbiotic compartments

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Could be interesting for @mibinet.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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selimlab.bsky.social
From @diamondlab.bsky.social
Stable #cyanobacteria communities w/ heterotrophs. An important development for folks working on cyanobacteria, microbial community formation and establishment in lab settings

Could be interesting for @mibinet.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
July 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Very interesting!
@mibinet.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/genet...
July 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Happy to share our latest finding @natureportfolio.nature.com on #cdiAMP signaling roles in #cyanobacteria natural competence via #ComFB (a new family of #cdiNMP receptors)
@hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social
Fund @dfg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social
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The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein
Cell Discovery - The second messenger c-di-AMP controls natural competence via ComFB signaling protein
rdcu.be
August 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Cellular organelles interact with each other 🤩 .... Very interesting ;-)

ROS transfer at peroxisome-mitochondria contact regulates mitochondrial redox
@mibinet.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
mibinet.bsky.social
HHU Research Day on 5.7.2025 was a great success! MibiNet captivated visitors with the "Sweet Secrets – Why Even Fungi Have a Sweet Tooth" experiment. We showed how sugar is broken down in microorganisms – from yeast to the corn smut fungus U. maydis. Big thanks to the team on site!
#MibiNet #HHU
July 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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selimlab.bsky.social
Very interesting read...

Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus #symbiosis @mibinet.bsky.social

www.science.org/content/arti...
Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus
With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses
www.science.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
mibinet.bsky.social
New paper alert: Kröninger et al. (2025) on gene expression in Angomonas deanei in PLoS One! For this paper, an ARC was developed with the support of DataPLANT & CEPLAS. #DataManagement @evanowack.bsky.social @nfdi4plants.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
T7 RNA polymerase-based gene expression from a transcriptionally silent rDNA spacer in the endosymbiont-harboring trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei
Eukaryotic life has been shaped fundamentally by the integration of bacterial endosymbionts. The trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei that contains a β-proteobacterial endosymbiont, represents an emerging ...
journals.plos.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
mibinet.bsky.social
Join us for HHU Düsseldorf Research Day on July 5th! 🔬 Explore diverse research, enjoy presentations, hands-on experiments, lab tours, and delicious food. See science in action. #ResearchDayHHU @hhu.de
June 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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trr341.bsky.social
Together with @ceplas.bsky.social we are planing a panel discussion in German about the applications of plant research in withstanding climate change at the "Haus der Universität" in Düsseldorf. Students, citizen scientists and all interested people are welcome to attend!
June 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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borjana-a.bsky.social
I feel we just scratched the surface of 🌱 #immunity response to #phage #biocontrol against pathogens🦠.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

But this is such a cool team to work with👇 and I am looking forward to do more. 🧪 #PlantScience #PlantResearch #microbiology #PMI #PlanMicrobeInteractions
May 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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selimlab.bsky.social
We cracked the mystery: Pteridines are the natural ligands of CutA, a widespread protein in nature
@hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social

I started this project 8y ago. We showed that it's of PII signaling family, but it's function remained unknown coz we didn't know what it bind
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Native metabolomics identifies pteridines as CutA ligands and modulators of copper binding
CutA, a conserved protein across all domains of life, has long been linked to copper tolerance in Escherichia coli , though recent studies question this association. To clarify its function, we studie...
www.biorxiv.org
April 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
mibinet.bsky.social
Successful Girls' Day at HHU, powered by the Institute of Microbiology & MibiNet! Explored "Fungi as a chemical factory" with enthusiastic young minds. Great questions & future scientists in the making! Hope to see them back at uni someday.🔬👧 #GirlsDay2025 #MibiNet
@hhu.de @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM