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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 2d

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 9d

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori

Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!

duunitori.fi

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Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · 24d

Be our new colleague! 🎉
The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.

👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4
👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch

Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 24d

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 24d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 8

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Sep 8

Join us for an exciting #BiozentrumDiscovery lecture!

Prof. Tami Lieberman from @mit.edu will speak about the dynamic selective landscape of human microbiomes. Her lab studies microbial evolution in real time, with a focus on mutations occurring within individual human microbiomes.

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Stephan Gruber @gruberlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our Wadjet-II paper by @roisnehamelinf.bsky.social is out in polished form: www.cell.com/structure/fu...

With a great preview by @kevincorbett.bsky.social & @amardeeep.bsky.social highlighting the potential of Wadjets:

Wadjet—Keeping a watchful eye on circular DNA.

www.cell.com/structure/fu...

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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · Sep 4

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!!

@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Amazing resource to query the whole genomics sequence data by @rayanchikhi.bsky.social

Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · May 22

#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7

Modeling predicts that metabolic diversity increases the ecological impacts of weapon gene transfer. Modeling scenarios for each column are shown across the top row. Bottom row: Example dynamics of the strains (attacker, target, transconjugant) during a contest using parameters that correspond to the cross (X) shown in the parameter sweeps directly below.

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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · Sep 1

What fantastic news Tonni! Congrats!! Looking forward to having you back in CH :D

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Martina Dal Bello @martinadalbello.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out our new paper led by brilliant @jhuisman.bsky.social about how microbial communities cope with stress due to increasing salinity in their environment. We have all your favorites: isolate phenotyping, pairwise competitions, community propagations, and theory. #microsky #mevosky #ecosky

Jana Huisman @jhuisman.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you ever wondered what increasing environmental stress will do to microbial communities?

In our new preprint, @martinadalbello.bsky.social, Jeff Gore and I studied the impact of salinity on microbial community composition and function. 🧵 (1/5)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbial communities demonstrate robustness in stressful environments due to predictable composition shifts

Environmental stress reduces species growth rates, but its impact on the function of microbial communities is less clear. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that increasing salinity stress shifts com...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ah you found it before advertising ;) I hope you enjoy reading it!

Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · Aug 22

So excited to share this new paper by @sulheim.bsky.social and others! It's rare that you find a pattern, propose a hypothesis and the more you look, the more data you find that fits! Snorre's intuition, hard work and rigour to put it all together have been inspiring! Let us know what you think...

Snorre Sulheim @sulheim.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share the first results from my postdoc at @dmf-unil.bsky.social with @saramitri.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates

Microbes release a wide range of metabolites into their environment, yet the reasons for this release and the factors that influence release rates are not well understood. Here, using a combination of...

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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Aug 14

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started.

Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Sarela Garcia-Santamarina @sarsarela.bsky.social · Aug 12

We’re hiring a Postdoc in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics!

Help us decode microbial metabolism and its impact on human health @leibniz-hki.de , Jena 🇩🇪

🔗 jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics at Leibniz HKI Jobportal

Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

jobs.hki-jena.de

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Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social · Aug 12

As part of the ENW-XL UTIr project we have developed a novel fully defined synthetic artificial urine medium for urinary bacteria.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#UTISky #AMR #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #InfectiousDiseases #ClinMicro

SimUrine: A Novel, Fully Defined Artificial Urinary Media for Enhanced Microbiological Research of Urinary Bacteria

Urinary tract infections represent one of the most prevalent bacterial diseases, yet current diagnostic and research methodologies are hampered by inadequate culture media that fail to replicate the b...

www.biorxiv.org

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · Aug 11

NCCR AntiResist, “New approaches to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria”, is recruiting a Scientific Officer (80-100%)

lnkd.in/eEU7CBTb

@biozentrum @unibas.ch

#Biozentrum #Basel #research #science #joboffer #hiring #job #recruiting #careers #Scientific #Officer #NCCR #AntiResist

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Jun 30

Reposted on my own newsletter: "Moving from academia to biotech" doi.org/10.59350/krc...

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück

shorturl.at

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jul 23

See our review on SynComs for tree microbiome engineering by @marccamb.bsky.social @xinmingxu.bsky.social @sofiaifgomes.bsky.social @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social

seed grant between @imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @unileiden.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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