📰 News Recherche L’équipe @veeninglab.com @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social a mis en évidence chez le streptocoque le rôle central de la protéine S dans l’arsenal de défense de cette bactérie qui peut se révéler très pathogène. ➡️ www.unil.ch/news/fr/1761...

La protéine S, clé de la virulence des streptocoques

L’équipe du Pr Jan-Willem Veening, au Département de microbiologie fondamentale de l’Unil, a mis en évidence chez le streptocoque le rôle central de la protéine S dans l’arsenal de défense de cette ba...

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🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Closing out the year strong with our last pre-print of 2025: a multi-step differentiation program in E. coli for self-organized spatial patterning. Congratulations to all authors🎉 @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

bioRxiv Synthetic Biology@biorxiv-synthbio.bsky.social · 8mo ago

An engineered multi-step differentiation program in Escherichia coli for self-organized spatial patterning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695475v1

🦠 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 “𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱” 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? A new #research published by the research group of @saramitri.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social nil.bsky.social and supported by the NCCR #Microbiomes 👉 Read the open-access paper @plos.org journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Novel artificial selection method improves function of simulated microbial communities

Author summary Artificial selection has been extremely powerful in improving properties of complex biological or biochemical entities. The most familiar examples come from the breeding of animals and ...

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The @dmf-unil.bsky.social is supporting the application of a candidate for the SNSF/ERC Starting Grant (deadline 5th of May). Reach out to me if you are interested. We are collecting CV’s until the 8th of Feb. We can offer a stimulating scientific environment and help with the application/interview.

Sign up for our annual Impromptu Symposium on Nov. 21 in the Biophore @unil.bsky.social organized by Christophe Keel and Jordan Vacheron, which will explore the fascinating world of microbe–plant interactions with an exciting speaker line up! Registration (lunch included): forms.gle/t4fC8uQV5HQF...

Excited to finally share the typeset version of our very first venture into microbial ecology! 🤩 Big thanks to @simonvanvliet.bsky.social for a rewarding collaboration within the NCCR Microbiomes. @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social

Yolanda Schaerli@yschaerli.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Uptake and leakage rates differentially shape community arrangement and composition of microbial consortia url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

@hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and colleagues showed that localized #glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dmf-unil.bsky.social @kathywippel.bsky.social @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization

Plant roots release exudates to encourage microbiome assembly, which influences the function and stress resilience of plants. How specific exudates drive spatial colonization patterns remains largely ...

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🆕 In an article featured on the cover of @science.org (October 2, 2025), @nikogeldner.bsky.social and his team @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social unveil the subtle alliances and rivalries that unfold between #bacteria and #roots, hidden beneath the #soil. 👉 www.unil.ch/news/en/1759...

Plant Microbiota: War and Peace under the surface

When we talk about microbiota, we usually think of the one inhabiting our gut. But there is another, less known and equally vital: the plant microbiota. In an article featured on the cover of "Science...

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Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

Evolution of gut microbiota across honeybee species revealed by comparative metagenomics

Nature Communications - Here, the authors perform metagenomic analysis of honeybee gut microbes, uncovering many previously unidentified species and host specific differences in composition and...

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Come join us in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline for applications: August 10th, 2025 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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...

Join us for our annual in person DMF Impromptu symposium on the 22nd of November in the Biophore at UNIL. 'The bacterial cell across scales' organised by Paula Navarro and Andrea Vettiger with a great speaker lineup including @susanschlimpert.bsky.social @kimingeneva.bsky.social