Basile Beaud Benyahia
@babebe.bsky.social
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Microbiologist in Simonetta Gribaldo’s lab at Institut Pasteur. Love membranes, evolution and bacteria that never want to grow the way i want them to 🥲✨🔮
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canopele.bsky.social
Proud of our new study out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social!
Using E. coli lacking all 8 endopeptidases, we provide direct evidence that peptidoglycan expansion during elongation requires ED-mediated insertion of one glycan strand at a time. This can be performed by MepS, MepM, MepH and PBP7 #microsky
Role of endopeptidases in lateral cell wall expansion in Escherichia coli
Peptidoglycan, the major constituent of bacterial cell walls, is a giant macromolecule made of glycan strands cross-linked by short peptides, which pr…
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cathyhernandez.bsky.social
Very happy to share that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina in January! My group will be working on environmental phage ecology and evolution, and I am recruiting for the upcoming year (more info below).
A graphic advertising phage ecology and evolution research at the University of South Carolina, showing a central image of a tide pool flanked by a photo of an agar plate containing diverse microbes and a TEM image of a virus particle.
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tunglejic.bsky.social
Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
johninnescentre.bsky.social
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…
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corriemoreau.bsky.social
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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daumlab.bsky.social
Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail
This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.
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jgahan.bsky.social
Amazing work by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social and his lab! I can’t stress enough how significant a development this is for Choanoflagellate research and it has been revolutionary for our work!
thibautbrunet.bsky.social
Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵
babebe.bsky.social
Wonderful pair of papers by Augustinas Silale and Ben Berks on the diversity of BAM complexes.

Most diderm bacteria lack all BAM accessory previously identified in E. coli.

These two papers show a whole new set of accessory proteins in Bacteroidota.

How many more BAMs is there out there?
👁️👃🏼👁️
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pstansfeld.bsky.social
Just in time for Becca’s thesis submission, their paper on MreB membrane interactions is published in @biophysj.bsky.social: www.cell.com/biophysj/ful... 🎉
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evoldir.bsky.social
UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job
Biology - UMass Boston
Biology - UMass Boston
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erinrgreen.bsky.social
Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404
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artinsociety.bsky.social
Despite its name, the Bird-Dropping Beetle definitely does not drop any birds ~ instead, it looks just like a bird’s dropping (Excastra albopilosa). The disguise is so effective that no-one noticed it till 2024. Now it’s a finalist for Australian Insect of the Year
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
babebe.bsky.social
Thank you guys for organizing it was great 🐥
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juliengiraud.bsky.social
Amazing science at the 2nd edition of the Secretion Days in Marseille 🌞 ! Huge thanks to all participants and to @archaellum.bsky.social for an outstanding opening talk. Looking forward to the next edition!
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joepeterslab.bsky.social
The Peters lab is looking for a new team member! The role transposons play in evolution, basic mechanisms regulating transposition, and applying transposons as tools for genome modification with a special focus on guide RNA-directed transposition. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
Technician III - Department of Microbiology
Position Summary This position will be in the lab of Dr. Joseph E. Peters in the Department of Microbiology. Research in the Peters’ lab broadly involves deciphering mechanisms in genome stability and...
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babebe.bsky.social
Amazing paper from @sshamphavi.bsky.social and @archaellum.bsky.social showing adaptation of Archaellum to monoderm bacteria.

Stunning exclusion patterns between the bacteria flagellum and Archaellum at the phylum level.

Congrats to all 🥳
archaellum.bsky.social
Look at this nice cover: beautiful archaella, image made by @sshamphavi.bsky.social !

Thanks also to Marta Rodeiguez for keeping the EM im shape in @ottlab.bsky.social lab!

At @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social at @uni-freiburg.de @sfb1381.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social
natmicrobiol.nature.com
Some keen Observations in Our October issue!

🦠 Cancer microbiome
🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans
🌐 broad-range phages
🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella
🔧 Viral infection mechanisms
🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence

and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
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buzzbaum.bsky.social
LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…
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elife.bsky.social
Inside a thylakoid membrane

The molecular architecture of the thylakoid membrane in a vascular plant has been determined with single-molecule precision.
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cellarchlab.com
EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse!

An #Egyptian figurine of a Hippo (with bulgy eyes 👀), made 5,000 years ago from calcite.
Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth.
On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Have a wonderful Sunday 🦛🦛🦛

📷 me

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
A small carved stone figurine of a hippopotamus with rounded features and a smooth, worn surface, displayed on a white background.