MibiNet
@mibinet.bsky.social
MibiNet aims to understand microbial networking in its full complexity to explain how organelles evolve and how the microbiome functions. https://www.sfb1535.hhu.de/
Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de
Our Collaborative Research Center MibiNet @mibinet.bsky.social @hhu.de was strongly present in #EMBOBacNet Best poster prize for Benita Lückel, a PhD student in Bott group @fz-juelich.de, sponsored by @natmicrobiol.nature.com Congrats🎉🎉everyone & organizers @lalouxlab.bsky.social @s-lab.bsky.social
Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · last wk.Poster prizes at #EMBOBacNet congratulations to all! 👏 More than 100 posters with exciting research!
MibiNet PI Eva Nowack (@hhu.de) has been awarded the 2026 Miescher-Ishida Award by the International Society of Endocytobiology! Honored for her work on how endosymbionts integrate into eukaryotic host cells. Huge congratulations! 👏 @evanowack.bsky.social #MibiNet www.hhu.de/news-einzela...
Renommierte Auszeichnung für HHU-Biologin
Die Fachgesellschaft „International Society of Endobiology“ zeichnete am 15. September 2026 Prof. Dr. Eva Nowack, Leiterin des Instituts für Mikrobielle Zellbiologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düs...
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Erfolg in europäischem Förderprogramm für die Doktorandenausbildung
Am Institut für Mikrobiologie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) werden demnächst zwei Doktoranden zur Rolle der sogenannten Messenger-RNA (kurz mRNA) bei der Infektion von Maispflanzen m...
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MibiNet@mibinet.bsky.social · last wk.Success in the MSCA Doctoral Network! 🇪🇺 In the new EU project nEXt-RNA, the team led by MibiNet spokesperson @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social (@hhu.de) will investigate exRNA communication between U. maydis & corn. 🌽🍄The future ECRs will have the opportunity to associate with #MibiNet! More info
Success in the MSCA Doctoral Network! 🇪🇺 In the new EU project nEXt-RNA, the team led by MibiNet spokesperson @mfeldbruegge.bsky.social (@hhu.de) will investigate exRNA communication between U. maydis & corn. 🌽🍄The future ECRs will have the opportunity to associate with #MibiNet! More info
We're hiring! Join the Aquatic Geomicrobiology group as a PhD researcher to explore virus–host interactions and host range evolution in soil and groundwater using cultivation experiments, viral tagging & metagenomics. 🦠🧬 📍Jena | 🗓️ Apply by Oct 1, 2026 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/2...
Doctoral Researcher in Viral Ecology (m/f/d)
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A press about our recent publication on Ca2+ signaling for controlling communication machinery in #cyano bacteria🦠 @hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social Supposed by @spp2389.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Khaled_Selim Lab@selimlab.bsky.social · last mo.🧵 #Bacterial #Multicellularity: We discovered that Ca2+ signaling controls cellular junctions in #cyanobacteria, similar to Euks @embojournal.org A great collab. w/ @weiss-lab.bsky.social #TeamTomo @hhu.de @spp2389.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Very happy that our paper Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities just came out in Nature Microbiology. See here 👇 Paywalled version: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free read-only version: rdcu.be/fBHAb
Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities - Nature Microbiology
Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...
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The pre-print is out! Ubp3 does not require its regulator for activity in vitro! Even the catalytic domain is sufficient. This raises the question about the function of the regulator Bre5 in vitro and in vivo! Thanks to everyone for this nice piece of work. And thanks to CRC 1531 for funding!
📢 Join the 6th NFDI4Microbiota Knowledge Base Sprint! Are you a #microbiology researcher, #RDM expert, data enthusiast or developer? Help improve our Knowledge Base by adding content or improving its code and structure. 📅 13–15 Oct 2026 | 💻 Online 👉 Register by 9 Oct: tinyurl.com/mspr9td3
MibiNet ECR Lennart Witting joined the iMAPS Summer School on microfluidic Single-Cell Technologies for Microbial Community Research! Funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he traveled to Qingdao, Beijing, and Shanghai to explore cutting-edge single-cell analysis tools.
A DFG funding application – easy to make!? Well, not quite, but our How-to Guide for "Individual Grants Programmes" provides all information you need in a concise format. All scientists with a doctorate who would like to work at a research institution in Germany are eligible to apply. sohub.io/87s7
It’s a wrap! What an inspiring #IAL10 full of amazing talks, lively discussions, and wonderful people to meet. Heading back to Germany with lots of fresh ideas to explore in my favourite Peltigera lichens. Proud to have represented @mibinet.bsky.social at IAL together with @ciarankelly.bsky.social
Happy to share our recent review on "Control of foreign DNA: emerging roles of xenogeneic silencers" @spp2330.bsky.social, @fz-juelich.de @hhu.de, @mibinet.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧵 #Bacterial #Multicellularity: We discovered that Ca2+ signaling controls cellular junctions in #cyanobacteria, similar to Euks @embojournal.org A great collab. w/ @weiss-lab.bsky.social #TeamTomo @hhu.de @spp2389.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The calcium-binding protein CSE links Ca2+ signaling with cell-cell communication in cyanobacteria - The EMBO Journal
Multicellular cyanobacteria have evolved sophisticated cell–cell communication machinery to exchange, synchronize, and coordinate the efforts of individual cells. Analogous to gap junctions that have ...
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As promised: We have an open 2-year postdoc position in my lab at HHU Düsseldorf, starting September 2026. Come join us and help pioneering structural biology of fungal GPCRs! More about the lab: altegoerlab.de Apply here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... Please share with interested candidates!
Postdoc (m/f/d) structural biology of fungal G-Protein coupled receptors
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Altegoerlab@faltegoer.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe just received funding for a 2yr postdoc position on cryoEM of fungal gpcrs. Official call will open soon. Contact me if you‘re interested!
📰 Nice, @vbio.bsky.social (the German Life Sciences association) posts about our work with #bacteriophages in #Plant #Protection. 🧪 #PlantScience #SciCom www.vbio.de/aktuelles/de... @fz-juelich.de @frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social
Viren als Pflanzenschützer: Das Potenzial von Bakteriophagen
Bakterien können nicht nur Menschen und Tiere krank machen, sondern auch Pflanzen. Weltweit verursachen bakterielle Pflanzenkrankheiten erhebliche Ernteverluste. Für die Landwirtschaft ist das ein wac...
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Within the @trr341.bsky.social JJ Szymanski has an interesting postdoc position for leading plant Ecological genetics AI recruiting.fz-juelich.de/jobposting/5...
Postdoctoral Researcher - Machine Learning for Plant Regulatory Genomics
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Unterstützt wird das Team von verschiedenen Advisors – erfahrenen Mitgliedern vorheriger iGEM-Teams der HHU. Mehr über den Wettbewerb und das Team der HHU findet ihr unter t1p.de/c44gp. ^dw 6/6
iGEM-Team 2026 der HHU
Die synthetische Biologie gilt als Schlüssel, um globale Herausforderungen zu lösen. Ein studentisches Team der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) stellt sich dieser Aufgabe und nimmt erneut ...
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📢 Exciting faculty openings for ECRs in Biology! Looking for your next career step? Here are two excellent tenure-track and permanent professorships in Bielefeld in Synthetic Biology and Plant Biochemistry. A thread with the links below. 👇
Latest science in press 🗞️: Biosustainable plant protection using #viruses (bacteriophages) 🧪 🦠 #PlantScience #botany #PlantMicrobeInteractions @fz-juelich.de @ceplas.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/arch...
Viruses as Plant Protectors: Jülich Research Highlights the Potential of Bacteriophages
Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich are investigating how natural viruses that specifically infect bacteria can help plants fight off bacterial pathogens. These bacteriophages open up new prospect...
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Borjana Arsova@borjana-a.bsky.social · 3mo ago #Bacteriophages help sustainable plant protection ✅#Phages restore 🌱 growth during 🦠 infection. ✅🧬 shows ⬇️🌱immunity & ⬇️bacterial virulence. #Biocontroll #PlantSci 🧪 #PMI @frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Thoroughly enjoyed this collaboration with @usadellab.bsky.social & @faltegoer.bsky.social groups in the @mibinet.bsky.social framework to characterize Peltigera lichen symbioses with major contributions from @ciarankelly.bsky.social & @yukiyosato.bsky.social
Björn Usadel@usadellab.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen
Congratulations @athanasios-ppdpls.bsky.social and @mibinet.bsky.social!
Papadopoulos @ HHU@athanasios-ppdpls.bsky.social · 3mo agoExcited to share our latest publication!🚀🙏🏼🤩 We present ATPLyzer, an advanced ratiometric biosensor that is a clear step forward in sensor-related ATP-research, opening new perspectives for future applications. 📄 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
What is the impact of phage biocontrol on plant immune responses and bacterial virulence? Very happy that this is out @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de, @fz-juelich.de, @hhu.de, @spp2330.bsky.social
Borjana Arsova@borjana-a.bsky.social · 3mo ago #Bacteriophages help sustainable plant protection ✅#Phages restore 🌱 growth during 🦠 infection. ✅🧬 shows ⬇️🌱immunity & ⬇️bacterial virulence. #Biocontroll #PlantSci 🧪 #PMI @frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Now out in @pnas.org 🥳 "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" --> bad timing can kill you, even as a virus. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Julia Frunzke@frunzkelab.bsky.social · 8mo agoHappy to share our recent preprint: "DNA-intercalating antiphage molecules trigger abortive infection through mutual destruction and synergize with bacterial immunity" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @spp2330.bsky.social, @mibinet.bsky.social, @dfg.de @hhu.de @fzj.bsky.social
Our review on structural mechanisms of #CO2 fixation machinery by #cyanobacteria @theplantjournal.bsky.social is out🎉🎉 When #CO2 is limiting, #cyano concentrate it. Discover how they thrive? @hhu.de @ceplas.bsky.social @mibinet.bsky.social @sfb1381.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Functional and structural insights into cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanisms: from compartmentalization to regulation
Life on Earth depends on photosynthetic CO2 fixation via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle to form organic carbon. This process evolved first in cyanobacteria and was later conveyed to eukaryotes, givi...
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Just in time for the RNA localisation conference, we uploaded a manuscript describing the link between endosomal mRNA transport and local mitochondrial activity. Great collaboration during MibiNet www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... @mibinet.bsky.social #EMBOrnaLocalization
Please RT: Registration is ongoing for our International Symposium "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities" organized as highlight of the first funding period of CRC 1535 @mibinet.bsky.social www.sfb1535.hhu.de/internationa... @dfg.de, @hhu.de, @fz-juelich.de
