🎙 MDR AKTUELL: Nobel Prize day! While the #Chemistry awards are celebrated in Stockholm, #Jena’s #ClusterOfExcellence at the @uni-jena.de investigates microbial “conversations” that could reshape medicine and biotechnology. Full #MDR feature: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

18 students from across Germany joined us at our #ClusterOfExcellence at @uni-jena.de for the #CampusThüringenTour! 💬 Talks, lab tours & hands-on microbiology — from Gram staining to magnetotactic bacteria from the Saale. 🔬🌱🧫 #ScienceEducation #Microbiology

🚦 @uni-jena.de proposes “The Smartest Traffic Lights in Jena” for Bürgerbudget 2025: crossing figures with microscopes, microbes & QR codes to fun science insights. 💡 Science at the crosswalk – vote via mitmachen.jena.de/budgets/5/in...

#GreenLightForScience

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🎥 New feature on “Balance of the Microverse” by JenaTV!
Our PI & Executive Board member Prof. Miriam Agler-Rosenbaum explains why microbial communities matter – and you’ll also get a look at our new Microverse building.

👉 www.jenatv.de/mediathek/81...

Hope y'all enjoyed Tim's talk at the #DGHM as much as we did! He presented his @microverse.bsky.social -funded PhD work on the antibacterial mechanisms of candidalysin. 🦠🍄🧫
He's still around for a chat in case you have questions about his project! 😊

@leibniz-hki.de

This is part of a larger call for the newly re-funded Excellence cluster Balance of the Microverse @microverse.bsky.social. In total there are 15 positions available: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

We're organizing a new CARTA symposium this November 7 on "Ancient DNA: New Revelations"! We have an amazing lineup of speakers who will showcase the biggest discoveries in ancient DNA over the past 5 years - and offer a sneak peek of what's next. Mark your calendars and don't miss it!

55 students got the Wübben Science Foundation Student Grant! 🎓 Among them: Samira Quanz & Emily Reichel from our #ClusterOfExcellence. 🦠🔬 Read more about their research: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/two-...
@w-s-w.org @uni-jena.de

#Microverse #StudentGrant #FutureScientists

🌍 Today is the #InternationalMicroorganismsDay!
On this occasion, we are naming the Microverse #MicrobeoftheYear 2025: Candida albicans.

Carried by up to 95% of people, it usually lives harmlessly in our bodies – but can also cause infections.
www.microverse-cluster.de/en/news/micr...

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
PhD position: Signal Detection and Modification in Algal-Bacterial Interactions

In Excellence Cluster @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de

Start: 1 January 2026
Deadline: 5 October 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

💧🌊 What happens when freshwater bacteria meet their salty counterparts?
Our new preprint explores the ecological factors driving community coalescence 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675091v1 @bedutilh.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social

On #WorldSepsisDay, Michael Bauer from Jena University Hospital shares how microbiome research at our #ClusterOfExcellence could change the way we understand and treat #sepsis. Watch the latest "3 Questions for..." clip! #MicrobiomeResearch
www.youtube.com/watch?v=auG7...
@lifeprofile.bsky.social

At this week’s #JEMS, Michael Zimmermann (@zimmermannlab.bsky.social & @embl.org) shared insights on how gut microbiota shape #drugmetabolism and carcinogen toxicity. Fascinating findings on cancer risk, #drugresponse variability, and limits of current models. Thanks for the inspiring talk!

🚴‍♀️ On Sept 12, the Sepsis Awareness Tour 2025 stops in Jena! Led by the Center for Sepsis Control & Care (CSCC), experts share how early detection saves lives. Join us at Teichgraben, 2 p.m. #WorldSepsisDay #SepsisAwareness #Jena

Submit a poster and present your research at the NFDI4Microbiota Conference in Cologne (30 Sept – 2 Oct 2025). The poster session offers a space for exchange between wet-lab scientists and bioinformaticians. Deadline: 11 September. Participation is free.
Register here: events.hifis.net/eve...

Be a leader in chemistry! 🏆 ⚗️

It is already possible today to store your research data FAIR. Do you want to lead the way? Then apply with your FAIR data set for the #FAIR4Chem Award 2026 and a 500 euro prize! 💰

https://bit.ly/3sCGoct
##chemistry #FAIR

We’re hiring! 🚀
Join us and work with Prof. Rosalind Allen on modeling microbial community dynamics.

📍 Jena, Germany
🎓 PhD or Postdoc position
🗓️ Start: Dec 2025

Apply here 👉 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/f...

#Microverse #Jena #PhD #Postdoc #MicrobialEcology

Just a few more days to apply! ⏰

The NFDI4Microbiota Conference takes place 30 Sept – 2 Oct 2025 at ZB MED, Cologne.💡 Motto: “From Lab to Publication – Bridging the Gap with Best Practices” | Free registration open until 31 August: events.hifis.net/eve... | Ambassadors receive travel & hotel reimbursement: nfdi4microbiota.de/c...

We have a new article out in Cell! Learn more about plague in prehistoric livestock: "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Happy Birthday, Goethe! 🌿
Though he never saw microbes under a microscope, his holistic view of nature still inspires us today. At the #Microverse, we explore how microbial worlds shape life’s balance – just as Goethe imagined nature as one interconnected whole.
Illustration: AI-generated

Meet us at #GAIN25 in #Boston, Aug 29–31! Discover career paths in Germany with Balance of the Microverse, @uni-jena.de. Connect with 80+ institutions & explore opportunities for your research career!