Simona Huwiler
@simonahuwiler.bsky.social
Microbiologist, Predatory Bacteria & Novel Antibiotics. Research Group Leader at University of Zurich.
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✨I am thrilled to announce that my #ERCStG project will be funded by @erc.europa.eu. It explores how predatory bacteria interact with bacteria, which they invade and kill 🔬. I am very grateful to the ERC, the panel, reviewers, mentors, collaborators and colleagues! 🙏
#ERCStG => tiny.cc/174s001
#ERCStG => tiny.cc/174s001
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Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Job profile
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!
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A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Professurship (W2) in Microbiology - Regensburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Universität Regensburg | 12851113
UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG The Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine invites applications for a Professurship (W2) in Microbiology To be...
www.nature.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:46 AM
A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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EMBO Workshop 24 – 27 April 2026 | Taipei, Taiwan
Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
@chuanku.bsky.social
Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
@chuanku.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
EMBO Workshop 24 – 27 April 2026 | Taipei, Taiwan
Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
@chuanku.bsky.social
Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...
@chuanku.bsky.social
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We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!
Tenure Track Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track to W3) in “Molecular Biology" (f/m/d) - Heidelberg job with Universität Heidelberg | 12850668
The Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and the Faculty of Biosciences invite applications for a Tenure Track Professors...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!
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Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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We are happy to share the presentation about the "Partner Search Tool" from the recent #EUPOHAMR webinar: 2026 Joint Transnational Call, "Treatments and adherence to treatment protocols".
Watch the presentation by Alicja Dylag at @ncn.gov.pl, Poland. youtu.be/KDhKQeIEZ1U?...
#AMR
Watch the presentation by Alicja Dylag at @ncn.gov.pl, Poland. youtu.be/KDhKQeIEZ1U?...
#AMR
EUP OHAMR: Presentation for Call Applicants
YouTube video by The European Partnership on One Health AMR
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
We are happy to share the presentation about the "Partner Search Tool" from the recent #EUPOHAMR webinar: 2026 Joint Transnational Call, "Treatments and adherence to treatment protocols".
Watch the presentation by Alicja Dylag at @ncn.gov.pl, Poland. youtu.be/KDhKQeIEZ1U?...
#AMR
Watch the presentation by Alicja Dylag at @ncn.gov.pl, Poland. youtu.be/KDhKQeIEZ1U?...
#AMR
Ever wondered what happens if 💊antibiotics are not effective anymore?
In this online article I summarize the efforts in the field using 🦁🦠predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as ‘living antibiotic’: tinyurl.com/4dmt9dps
#AntimicrobialResistance #AMR
In this online article I summarize the efforts in the field using 🦁🦠predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as ‘living antibiotic’: tinyurl.com/4dmt9dps
#AntimicrobialResistance #AMR
Combatting AMR: The potential of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as a ‘living antibiotic’
Simona Huwiler discusses the potential of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, a predatory bacterium, to address the growing concern of AMR.
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Ever wondered what happens if 💊antibiotics are not effective anymore?
In this online article I summarize the efforts in the field using 🦁🦠predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as ‘living antibiotic’: tinyurl.com/4dmt9dps
#AntimicrobialResistance #AMR
In this online article I summarize the efforts in the field using 🦁🦠predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as ‘living antibiotic’: tinyurl.com/4dmt9dps
#AntimicrobialResistance #AMR
Reposted by Simona Huwiler
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
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🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)
Reposted by Simona Huwiler
When you met your other half in a lab working on molybdenum cofactor (Moco), somehow this museum selfie seems appropriate
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
When you met your other half in a lab working on molybdenum cofactor (Moco), somehow this museum selfie seems appropriate
✨Opportunity to join the 🦁🦠 Predatory Bacteria lab!
My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG.
Therefore, we are looking for:
-a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR)
-a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe)
🙏Thanks for sharing.
#MicroSky
My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG.
Therefore, we are looking for:
-a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR)
-a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe)
🙏Thanks for sharing.
#MicroSky
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
✨Opportunity to join the 🦁🦠 Predatory Bacteria lab!
My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG.
Therefore, we are looking for:
-a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR)
-a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe)
🙏Thanks for sharing.
#MicroSky
My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG.
Therefore, we are looking for:
-a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR)
-a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe)
🙏Thanks for sharing.
#MicroSky
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We're hiring! Clinical Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases. Great group of physicians and great community!
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We're hiring! Clinical Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases. Great group of physicians and great community!
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Join us in Colorado next spring for the Keystone Symposia “Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection”. Registrations are now open! Details below ⬇️
Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
keysym.us
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Join us in Colorado next spring for the Keystone Symposia “Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection”. Registrations are now open! Details below ⬇️
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This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics,
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026
Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Marjory Stephenson Prize 2026: Professor Mark Buttner — @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social
Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Marjory Stephenson Prize 2026: Professor Mark Buttner — @johninnescentre.bsky.social
Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social
Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social
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Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Beyond Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies for Combating Bacterial Infection, May 2026, in Breckenridge, with field leaders!
keysym.us
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26
Reposted by Simona Huwiler
Mycorrhizal networks transfer jasmonic acid to recruit pathogen-suppressors
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Mycorrhizal networks transfer jasmonic acid to recruit pathogen-suppressors
Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) formed by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interconnect
neighbouring plants. New evidence from Zhang et al. demonstrates that CMNs transfer
jasmonic acid from necrotroph...
www.cell.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Mycorrhizal networks transfer jasmonic acid to recruit pathogen-suppressors
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts.
#MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria
Reposted by Simona Huwiler
Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
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Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
We are uniting two research powerhouses.
For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.
Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.
One of nature’s tiniest predators 🦁 is Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus which kills, invades & eats up other bacteria 🦠. Studying predator protein abundances we found a bacterial prey-degradation enzyme.
Read full blog article in Springer Nature Research Community here: tiny.cc/zmju001
#Microsky
Read full blog article in Springer Nature Research Community here: tiny.cc/zmju001
#Microsky
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
One of nature’s tiniest predators 🦁 is Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus which kills, invades & eats up other bacteria 🦠. Studying predator protein abundances we found a bacterial prey-degradation enzyme.
Read full blog article in Springer Nature Research Community here: tiny.cc/zmju001
#Microsky
Read full blog article in Springer Nature Research Community here: tiny.cc/zmju001
#Microsky
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and if you don't know what we're talking about bsky.app/profile/oded...
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
and if you don't know what we're talking about bsky.app/profile/oded...
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📢 Join the Microbiology Society at Innovations Against AMR 2025!
We’ll be leading a Policy Workshop exploring how science, regulation and innovation come together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
👉 Register for free here: www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/in-per...
#AMR
We’ll be leading a Policy Workshop exploring how science, regulation and innovation come together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
👉 Register for free here: www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/in-per...
#AMR
IN PERSON Event: Innovations Against AMR 2025 - Medilink Midlands
The 4th annual Innovations Against AMR summit, co-organised by Medilink Midlands and Cytecom, will convene experts […]
www.medilinkmidlands.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📢 Join the Microbiology Society at Innovations Against AMR 2025!
We’ll be leading a Policy Workshop exploring how science, regulation and innovation come together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
👉 Register for free here: www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/in-per...
#AMR
We’ll be leading a Policy Workshop exploring how science, regulation and innovation come together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
👉 Register for free here: www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/in-per...
#AMR
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A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)
A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)
Molecular Microbiology Group
Information about research topics and publications about the group around Kirsten Jung
www.bio.lmu.de
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Pls share:
A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)
A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)