Bacteriology-Focused Assistant Professor Position in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Application deadline: August 15, 2026 Come be my colleague!

🚨Join us at the University of Geneva! We're seeking an outstanding junior researcher to apply for an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant with our institutional support in host–pathogen interactions, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, or mycology. www.unige.ch/medecine/mim... Please share!

NLRP10 is activated at lipid droplets. Check out our new paper just published at EMBOReports! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Margot Sahnine, Dorian Obino and co-workers @pasteur.fr show that N. meningitidis induces membrane protrusions with distinct #F-actin networks in epithelial and endothelial cells. The branched network in endothelia depends on Arf1. #Host-pathogen #membrane -> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Open postdoc position in the Imaging and Modeling Unit at Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Mickaël Cohen of IBPC (Paris, France). High-throughput imaging and deep learning to analyze mitochondrial morphology and understand genetic bases of cellular respiration. Please spread the word.

Extension of the deadline for latecomers. Register to the Secretion Days in Marseille !

Julien GIRAUD@juliengiraud.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👉Reminder : FIVE DAYS LEFT👈 📅 Secretion Days 2026 will take place on October 8-9 in Marseille 🌊 🎤Invited speaker : Wilbert Bitter; @wilbertbitter.bsky.social 🆓 Free, spot are limited ! 📥 Registration is open until June 15 via the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

#EMBOsignaling2026 last day already! Full house for a terrific panel session with editors @science.org @cp-immunity.bsky.social @jem.org @cp-cellreports.bsky.social @embopress.org @plosbiology.org @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social Science Signaling

There are still a couple of days to apply for this post! Postdoctoral opportunity to study Shigella persistent infection in zebrafish. Deadline to apply: 3 June.

VinTorraca@vintorraca.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study Shigella persistent infection using the zebrafish infection model! Deadline to apply: 03-Jun-2026 Link to post: shorturl.at/cCZjK Any questions feel free to get in touch! @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please repost!

Our TARGet AMR genomics-comic is out now - check it out, share it, print it, use it in your lectures, PE events, or maybe even when trying to explain what you do to dinner guests! 🤓 🧬 🧫

TARGetAMR@target-amr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧬 Explore our illustrated comic - an accessible entry point to genomic literacy and AMR across disciplines ✅ Free to use and adapt (CC BY 4.0) 👉 Read more: www.targetamr.org.uk/targetamr-la... 🔗 Access the comic: www.targetamr.org.uk/our-comic/ #GenomicDetectives

Want to learn about Francisella and its T6SS (especially the spike complex), have a look at our article on IglF in interaction with the PAAR protein IglG. Indeed, very collaborative work @ciri-lyon.bsky.social with @fronzeslab.bsky.social & @laurentterradot.bsky.social. Kudos to all the authors!

#InterferonPower #InflammasomePower! Thrilled for our 💥#NewPaper💥 @natimmunol.nature.com spearheaded by Kautilya Jena showing that our #fungal adjuvant #Mannadjuvant prolongs & potentiates protection of mRNA vaccines via #IL1b & #IFNs, broadening it to new variants & overcoming antigenic imprinting!

A glycan-based adjuvant expands the breadth and duration of protection of mRNA-based vaccines

Nature Immunology - Jena, Qu et al. show that mannadjuvant, a formulation of fungal mannan and aluminum hydroxide, increases the magnitude, durability and breadth of the response elicited by...

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Join our team at IBMC in Strasbourg as a postdoctoral fellow to develop/assess new familles of Shigella vaccine. Please RT. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study Shigella persistent infection using the zebrafish infection model! Deadline to apply: 03-Jun-2026 Link to post: shorturl.at/cCZjK Any questions feel free to get in touch! @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please repost!

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Master Internships open at Eligo: www.linkedin.com/posts/duport...

#internship #syntheticbiology #genetherapy #microbiometherapeutics #biotechcareers | Xavier Duportet

If "engineer bacteria to fight diseases" is your kind of fun, come build it with us. 4 Master's internships open at Eligo for Fall 2026 to work on real drug projects: engineered phage-particles to del...

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A form of the inflammatory protein caspase-5 is expressed in immature gut cells, where it promotes proliferation and facilitates tissue regeneration go.nature.com/4ctuWnU

A cell-death protein has an unexpected role in intestinal repair

A form of the inflammatory protein caspase-5 is expressed in immature gut cells, where it promotes proliferation and facilitates tissue regeneration.

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🚨 We're hiring! A #postdoc position is available @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ➡️ Come join our team to investigate the #genomic variations underlying the adaptive potential and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes 🦟 More details at this link: research.pasteur.fr/b/1Cov

Postdoctoral position in mosquito population genomics at Institut Pasteur in Paris - Research

The Insect-Virus Interactions Unit is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the genomic variations underlying a mosquito’s capacity to transmit human arboviruses. Description Our resear...

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We hope you all had as wonderful a time in Paris last week as we did - please do fill out the EMBO feedback form that was emailed out this morning to help us improve the meeting! #Shigella2026

A role for vitamin D and neutrophils in prostate cancer dissemination 🤔 Our latest work highlights 👉 the protective role of vitamin D signaling in prostatic epithelial cells 👉 the impact of circulating neutrophils in cancer dissemination in the liver.

EMBO Molecular Medicine@embomolmed.org · 4mo ago

Impaired #vitaminD signaling reveals #neutrophils as key drivers of #ProstateCancer dissemination 🗞️ doi.org/10.1038/s44321-026-00417-5 by K. Len-Tayon, @gilleslaverny.bsky.social & colleagues @igbmc.bsky.social

A strong global community of #Shigella researchers and clinicians! #Microsky #IDsky #AMR

The Shigella Meeting@shigellameeting.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Looking good on Day 3 of #Shigella2026 ☀️🇫🇷🧫

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Russell Vance taking leaps and bounds with the mouse knock out model - happy to share mice and test vaccines #Shigella2026

Looking good on Day 3 of #Shigella2026 ☀️🇫🇷🧫

ComEC structure is out!! 😍 Congratulations to the authors! That’s not an easy one. We have been trying for years to get that structure… We failed and gave up.

Structural basis for DNA processing and membrane translocation by ComEC in natural transformation

Natural transformation is one of the major pathways of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, enabling the acquisition of extracellular DNA and its integration into the host genome. ComEC is a membrane...

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#lipidtime!

Nature Cell Biology@natcellbio.nature.com · 4mo ago

☕ @mathilda95.bsky.social @nadlerlab.bsky.social & co introduce a correlative light and electron #microscopy workflow, Lipid-CLEM, combining near-native #lipid probes and on-section labelling via click chemistry. Lipid-CLEM quantitatively analyses lipids in membrane nanodomains. bit.ly/4moYLJH

‼️ A really good meeting for people working on host-pathogen interactions! Great keynote speakers this year: Raphael Valdivia and Florence Niedergang. Please repost!

UK Cellular Microbiology@ukcellmicro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Registration and abstract submission for the 2026 UK CellularMicrobiologyNetwork Meeting are now open! Exiting keynote speakers and opportunity for researchers from the UK, Ireland and beyond to share their work on host-pathogen interactions. June 22nd/23rd @WWIEM in Belfast. www.ukcellmicro.org

Open postdoc position in my lab on HGT and interbacterial competition. We seek candidates with a PhD in microbiology (or related fields)+ strong 1st-author publications. Curious, highly motivated, and dedicated team players ready to contribute fully are encouraged to apply. Details: tiny.cc/cz01101

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“In this study, prime editing of autologous CD34+ cells corrected the molecular defect in p47-CGD and restored neutrophil function to near-healthy levels in the two participants.”🧪🩺

Prime Editing for p47phox-Deficient Chronic Granulomatous Disease | NEJM

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a severe monogenic immunodeficiency caused by damaging variants in genes required for microbicidal NADPH oxidase activity. Autosomal recessive p47phox-deficie...

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