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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 8d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 13d

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t know if my lab has a sufficiently high biosecurity clearance to attempt this

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · 13d

New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Decoding the functional role of the calcium ATPase YloB in microbially induced calcite precipitation and sporulation in Solibacillus silvestris

Calcium homeostasis is essential for bacterial physiology, yet its regulation and role in specialized processes such as microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) and sporulation remain poorly u...

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · Jul 7

It was great to finally meet you in person and share our fascination for microbes from weird habits! 🤓🧫🔬

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · Jun 26

Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬

Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Jun 26

The Society has supported the microbiology community for 80 years. Now we invite you to get involved by submitting your research, helping to shape the future of science and innovation. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...

Advertising about the Microbiology Society's 80th Anniversary, inviting people to publish their microbiology articles with us, the call to action is "Submit Today"

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Sabine Brumm @binebrumm.bsky.social · Jun 26

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience

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Jan-Willem Veening @veeninglab.com · Jun 10

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM

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Karolinska Institutet @ki.se · Jun 25

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Jun 25

Microbiology Outlooks joins our portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our community, amplifying the voices of members across disciplines to advance understanding and address global challenges. Find out more in the blog: microb.io/4e4oe6W

The graph shows the cover of the Microbiology Outlooks journal and a quote by Kim Hardie saying that this journal is the ideal opportunity to shape the future of microbiology research.

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Séamus Holden 🔬🦠🧫 @seamusholden.bsky.social · Apr 8

Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
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Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy

42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....

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Alessandro Costa @costalaboratory.bsky.social · Jun 20

Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study

1. initiation of DNA replication.

2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.

Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.

Deadline 3 August 2025.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Jun 20

We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to [email protected]. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jun 18

Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab

#BACELL2025

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · May 26

Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳

Heermann Lab @heermann-lab.bsky.social · May 26

Excellent PhD defence 🎓 about bacterial secretion systems today by Friederike Pisarz at @unimainz-events.bsky.social. Very proud supervisor moments. Congratulations, Friederike, well done 🥳

Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · May 14

Well, I now genuinely don’t work in the UK anymore, which makes it a different sort of fun…

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Wiep Klaas Smits (ExpBac/CMAT) @smitslab.bsky.social · May 14

Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Clostridioides difficile is a bacterial priority pathogen

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Henrik Strahl @henrikstrahl.bsky.social · May 14

Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay!
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · May 14

OMG that’s insane, I’m so sorry 😔

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · May 14

Me too! It’s a ridiculous process considering the people they are checking already work at a HE institution in the same country

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · May 13

Big thank you to @jeaninerismondo.bsky.social for the invitation and a wonderful day in Göttingen full of science and cake and coffee! Also thanks to @joergstuelke.bsky.social for the night tour of the city. Very glad I finally got to visit this hot spot of Science past and present 🧫🦠🔬

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Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social · Apr 25

Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.

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John Helmann @johnhelmann.bsky.social · Apr 16

In B. subtilis, TerC proteins function in Mn export to support the metalation of exoenzymes. MeeY is also required (directly or indirectly) for production of surfactin, a lipopeptide required for swarming motility! (collab. with Dan Kearns' lab @IU).
#MicroSky

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The TerC family metal chaperone MeeY enables surfactin export in Bacillus subtilis | Journal of Bacteriology

Bacillus subtilis produces surfactin, a powerful detergent-like compound that functions in intercellular communication, surface motility, and as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent. Production of surfactin, a cyclic lipopeptide, depends on a non-...

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