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Georgia Isom@georgiaisom.bsky.social · 4w ago

Interested in joining our group in Oxford? We are looking for a PDRA with single particle Cryo-EM experience to help us figure out how sphingolipids are transported to the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The deadline is 31st July. Informal enquires are welcome. Please share!

Excited to see our story published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com today! It’s been a long journey. We answered a major outstanding question: why does E. coli encode two aPBPs, yet only one plays a critical role in ensuring reliable PG fortification during cell division?

Paula Navarro@navarropaula.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! We reveal how the antibiotic target PBP1b fortifies the E.coli division site against osmotic rupture. Proud this was completed in our independent labs @dmf-unil.bsky.social, with @avettiger.bsky.social. Congratulations to all authors! 🦠❄️🔬 #teamtomo bit.ly/3SCbOg1 👇

Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet 🗓️13-18 September 2026 📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... 👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social #MicroSky

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

Postdoc position available! This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠 Please re-post 🙏 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy at Newcastle University

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The Vettiger Lab at #SSM2025 last week. Was good fun! Looking already forward to 2026 in Montreux 😃

Super interesting finding: polar growth and dispersed growth are not mutually exclusive! Congrats to the authors 👌

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 12mo ago

#NewResearch Streptomyces use both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during rapid, exploratory growth @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social #BacteriaCellWall #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research is under pressure worldwide. But science still thrives ✊ Join us @dmf-unil.bsky.social – great colleagues, great science, and thus far reasonable government and funding agencies. Still time to apply! 🤞

Jan-Willem Veening@veeninglab.com · last yr.

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...

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show

Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

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Great to see this out in @pnas.org. A great effort led by Petr Pelch and Christoph Allolio at @charlesuni.cuni.cz who developed a new morphoelastic model for PG biogenesis and cell division.

Paula Navarro@navarropaula.bsky.social · last yr.

So happy to have contributed to this beautiful study led by PetrPelech! A combined theory–experiment effort based on our in situ cryo-ET data, revealing how stress-mediated growth shapes E. coli division site morphogenesis. #teamtomo 🌐 🦠🔬❄️🐎 👉📄 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

It has been coming a long way... happy to share our latest work with you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here, we show the importance of septal fortification by the Class A Penicillin Binding Protein, PBP1b, in E. coli and provide a molecular mechanism for this function. (1/12).

The aPBP-type cell wall synthase PBP1b plays a specialized role in fortifying the Escherichia coli division site against osmotic rupture

A multi-protein system called the divisome promotes bacterial division. This apparatus synthesizes the peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall layer that forms the daughter cell poles and protects them from osmo...

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Good news from the @snsf-ch.bsky.social was in the mail last week 😃 We will be recruiting soon...! More good news to be released in the coming days❗ Follow @navarropaula.bsky.social and myself for more bacterial cell envelope biology🔬🧬🦠🧫

Paula Navarro@navarropaula.bsky.social · last yr.

Double the grants, double the money, double the impact! Huge thanks to our amazing teams -proof that scientific power couples thrive in inclusive, diverse and open-minded institutions. And the real winner? Science, of course!🏆🔬Grateful beyond words! ❄️🐎 @dmf-unil.bsky.social @snsf-ch.bsky.social