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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 6d

Hard to find a more knowledgable team to understand cell biology in an evolutionary context!

Buzz Baum @buzzbaum.bsky.social · 6d

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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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 6d

Ok, so the ancient Greeks massively misled me about the number of body fluids... bad sense of humor.

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 8d

I still very much rely on RSS feeds to consume journal TOCs in an easily accessible manner. I don't know how else I would find things that are interesting but not immediately relevant to what we work on. I can't automate looking for unknown unknowns.

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 9d

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 20d

Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors

Directors

The Max Planck Society offers Directors a unique platform for groundbreaking research and leadership in diverse scientific fields.

www.mpg.de

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Rebecca Mosher @rm0sher.bsky.social · 23d

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities

www.biology.ox.ac.uk

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 23d

I found this interesting. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

E. coli transcription factors regulate promoter activity by a universal, homeostatic mechanism

Transcription factors (TFs) may activate or repress gene expression through an interplay of different mechanisms, including RNA polymerase (RNAP) recruitment, exclusion, and initiation. However, depen...

www.science.org

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The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · 28d

We're hiring (again)!

We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly)

If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

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Antoni Wrobel @agwrobel.bsky.social · 29d

Dear scientific community,

I am looking for two postdoctoral structural biologists to join my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please re-post:

Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin

Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

meetings.embo.org

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations!

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Franz Narberhaus @franznarberhaus.bsky.social · Sep 3

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/b...

W1TTW2 Professorship in Biology of Microorganisms (m/f/d)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 2

You would have enjoyed my latest trip to Hamburg where the driver stopped the bus when somebody watched something without their headphones in and gave a 30sec speech about civic responsibility and the demise of civilisation. Phone was silent thereafter.

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

Supervisors and Projects

www.bioch.ox.ac.uk

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for choosing to highlight our recent article on archaeal-bacterial conflict in this week's episode of "This Week in Microbiology"! asm.org/podcasts/twi...

Missing the Company of Elio

Paying tribute to Elio Schaechter, former TWiM host, blogger, and microbiologist extraordinaire, and review of the finding that Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria - a form of ...

asm.org

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 30

Maybe not what you're looking for but the question reminded me of this cool paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17947550/

Genome-wide experimental determination of barriers to horizontal gene transfer - PubMed

Horizontal gene transfer, in which genetic material is transferred from the genome of one organism to that of another, has been investigated in microbial species mainly through computational sequence ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Susan Schlimpert @s-lab.bsky.social · Aug 21

There is still some time left to apply for these two Group Leader positions in Plant Biology and Microbe-Plant Interactions. Spread the word, apply & become our colleague @johninnescentre.bsky.social

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute:

Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...

🗓️ Closes 25 August

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

🗓️ Closes 5 September

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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook:
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 16

One of the worst excesses of capitalism are fast-track queues in theme parks.

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks a lot to you and @apapageorgiou.bsky.social for writing this Primer!

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Romain Strock @romainstrock.bsky.social · Aug 15

This first-author publication is my… first! Archaea kill bacteria by targeting their Achilles’ heel: peptidoglycan. Big shoutout to @ahocher.bsky.social‬, @valeriesoo.bsky.social‬, Pauline Misson, @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social‬ and MRC LMS Proteomics. A thread 🔽
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria

Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...

journals.plos.org

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks! That's kind of you to say.

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 14

Archaea are often surrounded by bacteria. But is there ever active conflict between the two? Can archaea kill bacteria? If so, how do they do it?

Work by @romainstrock.bsky.social shows that some archaea can kill bacteria by secreting peptidoglycan hydrolases. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria

Archaea regularly interact with bacteria but reports of archaea killing bacteria are very rare. This study shows that many archaea encode peptidoglycan hydrolases, which specifically target bacterial ...

journals.plos.org

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 5

Introducing my children to the very best of German music: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmi0...

Torfrock - Beinhart (Musicvideo)

YouTube video by rostschraube

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Aug 2

I like this. Currently for no other reason than that its conclusions support my intuition. I hope I still like it when I've finished reading it :)
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Horizontal Gene Transfer Inference: Gene Presence–Absence Outperforms Gene Trees

Abstract. Horizontal gene transfer is a fundamental driver of prokaryotic evolution, facilitating the acquisition of novel traits and adaptation to new env

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