🚨 Exciting #PhD opportunities across multiple labs, including those of @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social, @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social, @cciollimattioli.bsky.social, @ffaberlab.bsky.social & @westermannlab.bsky.social at #HIRI in Würzburg. 🎓🥼 More about the projects: www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/gr...

Joint One Lab Call for Doctoral Researchers 2026

The HZI offers 16 fully funded PhD positions - an exceptional opportunity for curious, young scientist to work in a stimulating environment.

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Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI)@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨 We're recruiting! The HZI is offering 16 fully funded PhD positions to tackle pressing challenges in infection research — from basic science to translational innovation. 📍 Braunschweig, Würzburg, Hannover or Saarbrücken 📅 Apply by September 11 Learn more: jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

📢 PhD position in the Excellence Cluster 'Microbes for Climate' (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. 🔬 Aim: Develop cutting-edge fluorescence imaging approaches to study the cell biology & physiology of anaerobes critical to global CO₂ fixation. Apply at: www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb17/m4c/... (Project 4).

1st genome sequenced (Sanger 1977), 1st genome synthesised (Venter 2003), 1st genome + proteome fully mutated (Huijin Xiangua 2026!) @crg.eu @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Complete Mutagenesis of the Genome and Proteome of ΦX174 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Complete Mutagenesis of the Genome and Proteome of ΦX174

The bacteriophage ΦX174 was the first genome to be sequenced and the first to be chemically synthesised. Here we present a complete map of the consequences of changing every nucleotide in the ΦX174 ge...

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📢 Trinity University (tu) is #hiring a Lecturer I (microbiology) At Trinity University (tu)! 🌎 🔗 http://jbs.ink/aleW095JCd67 #jobalert #jobsearch #ecommercejobs

🔬 Microbiology | Tenure-Track Faculty Positions @ Yale University A role focused on the molecular mechanisms of how pathogens invade host cells. https://jobrxiv.org/job/yale-university-27778-tenure-track-faculty-positions-dept-of-microbial-pathogenesis/ #Immunology #ImmunologyJobs

Happy to share our recent story on the Type VII secretion system. Here were present new insights into the regulation of secretion mediated by the central pore. Thanks to all authors involved in the work. 🙂

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5d ago

Intrinsic flexibility of Type VII secretion central pore is required for substrate translocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.31.742005v1

🚨 Faculty Cluster Hire in Crop Design/Synthetic Biology at @universityofga.bsky.social! 🌱 We're hiring 3 open-rank faculty for the Institute of Crop Design. Work in AI, synthetic biology, genome engineering, quantitative genetics, or crop design? Come join us! 🔗 tinylink.net/l48Ms

The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open! University of California, Berkeley This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests! miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...

Pls share: GRINNELL COLLEGE – BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, TENURE-TRACK POSITION. Research and teaching interests might include but are not limited to organismal biology and ecology - apply by October 2, 2026. Please visit our application website at jobs.grinnell.edu

Working with a hugely engaged group of editors (all of whom are practising scientists), authors and reviewers, and a great publisher, is a hugely rewarding way to contribute to the community. Your chance to get involved!

Nucleic Acids Research@narjournal.bsky.social · 6d ago

📣NAR is recruiting a new Executive Editor!📣Seeking an established researcher with expertise in RNA biology and translation mechanisms to help shape the journal's scientific direction, oversee peer review, and support its growth. Apply by 30 Sept 2026: academic.oup.com/nar/pages/ex...

We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)

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Nature research paper: Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome go.nature.com/45fpXCZ

Open position in our lab for a research engineer. The applicant must hold a PhD in life sciences and have demonstrable experience in molecular biology and biochemistry. For more info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Institut Jacques Monod@ijmonod.bsky.social · 7d ago

#JobOffer 💼 Research Engineer (M/F) 📆 October 15th 📍Institut Jacques Monod, @sandraduharcourt.bsky.social 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

We know the peer review system is under heavy criticism. But can anyone propose anything better? I just received the reviews of two of our most recent submissions. They were very critical but immensely helpful. The peer review system has many flaws, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater 🙄!

🚨🚨 Faculty search! Spread the word! 🚨🚨 The Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department at Vanderbilt is hiring! Special consideration will be given to faculty working with Risk Group 3 pathogens (so you can join us in our brand new state-of-the-art BSL3!) apply.interfolio.com/188545

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻 Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share! 🙏

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

And two more pre-prints from the lab, focusing on MreB polymerization cycle and dynamics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A genetic screen unveils the polymerization cycle of the bacterial actin-like MreB

MreB, a bacterial actin homologue that organizes cell wall synthesis in most rod-shaped bacteria, assembles into membrane-associated filaments through mechanisms that have remained elusive despite dec...

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New pre-print from the lab, about impact of cell wall antibiotics on PG elongation machineries. Any comments and (constructive) criticism are welcome!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2w ago

Differential impact of cell wall antibiotics on the Rod complex and aPBPs in Bacillus subtilis: Insights into the peptidoglycan elongation machineries https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.24.740396v1

Nature research paper: Structural basis of the RNA-editing cascade in trypanosome mitochondria go.nature.com/3T9HlWV

Structural basis of the RNA-editing cascade in trypanosome mitochondria - Nature

Cryo-electron microscopy sheds light on the architecture of the Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial editosome and reveals how this assembly mediates mRNA editing through the insertion and deletion of uridine nucleotides.

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“Resistance did not arise from mutation accumulation or strain displacement. Instead, it occurred because plasmid-borne resistance genes were transferred to the previously sensitive pathogens inside patients’ lungs”. Cool (sobering) study #AMR #MicroSky #IDSKy #CysticFibrosis

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2w ago

Out Now! Within-patient gene transfer between transiently and chronically infecting bacteria causes extreme antibiotic resistance during lung infections #MicroSky

(archaeal) cell divisionists take note 👇 the Arco oscillator triggers FtsZ1 ring formation at midcell in 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘹 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘪

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2w ago

A self-organized geometry sensing oscillator spatially regulates cell division in archaea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.23.738820v1

Please repost! #microsky🦠 The Glickman Lab at MSK is recruiting! Projects in Mtb pathogenesis, basic biology of mycobacteria, and mycobacterial cancer therapies. See our publications here: tinyurl.com/3f386f4x Send CV and cover letter to: glickmanmycolab@gmail.com

One week left to apply!

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 share a preprint which is currently under revision! Together with the amazing @ymzhan.bsky.social in @patrick-cramer.maxplanck.de lab, we describe that the +1 nucleosome actively regulates the transition from transcription initiation to elongation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

Jobs: My fantastic membrane biologist colleague Satyajit Mayor (warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...) has a really exciting single molecule #biophysics PDRA position currently advertised based at @warwickmed.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Starting with the DNA sequence of a #phage genome, #PholdAPhage will create a 3D reconstruction of the complete phage, almost like you did cryoEM on it! Check out Renee's awesome software github.com/reneegreen81... to assemble unknown phage particles one protein at a time

We’ve been awarded European Commission Choose Europe for Science Co-fund at Uni of Birmingham! MOBILITY will fund 6 talented postdoctoral researchers at the transition to independence. All within remit of Molecular Biodiscovery. Applications open in October 😀👍. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/bi...

First UK institution awarded Choose Europe for Science grant - University of Birmingham

Birmingham awarded £1.2m in ERC funding to attract talent from outside of Europe

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I'm happy to share the first paper from my postdoc work: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... How does RecA find one homologous sequence in an entire chromosome -and what turns that encounter into a repair-competent one? We find that DNA topology is the gatekeeper !! 1/10

Chromosome topology gates productive RecA homology search

In homologous recombination, DNA repair depends on recombinase filaments finding homologous templates on chromosomes whose topology is continually remodeled by replication and transcription. How dynam...

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