Happy to see our peer-reviewed preprint “An engineered multi-step differentiation program in Escherichia coli for self-organized spatial patterning” published: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... (A revised version will soon follow.) @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

📣 Job announcement: we have an open Postdoctoral position in the field of neural stem cell metabolism! Motivated candidates should apply through the official platform under this link, where you can also find more informations: career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa... Please help spread the word!

Check out Snorre's latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I love this story: our 4-species synthetic bacterial community coexists across many simple environments and conditions. We show why (spoiler in the title)

Snorre Sulheim@sulheim.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy to finally share these results: Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa #microsky

Interested in predicting the dynamics of antibiotic resistance? Come work with us! We're looking for two postdocs to develop predictive models of resistance. We're interested in a range of approaches (mathematical & statistical modelling, causal inference, machine learning). tinyurl.com/6c4y3jke

Interested in synthetic biology & microbiomes? 🧬🧫 We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbe–microbe & microbe–host interactions. In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland🏔️⛵ @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social Apply by 24.05.2026 👇 shorturl.at/6X7M4 Boosts appreciated!

Register for Theory across Biology 2026: 12 June, Bern. One-day meeting on mathematical & theoretical approaches in biology with chalk talks and flip-chart sessions. Ideal for theorists, modelers, and interdisciplinary biologists. Abstracts by: 10 May 2026 Register by: 24 May 2026: buff.ly/svAZ8NF

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Register for Theory across Biology 2026: 12 June, Bern. One-day meeting on mathematical & theoretical approaches in biology with chalk talks and flip-chart sessions. Ideal for theorists, modelers, and interdisciplinary biologists. Abstracts by: 10 May 2026 Register by: 24 May 2026: buff.ly/svAZ8NF

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.

New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

🚨 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

Now online @natmicrobiol.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pneumococcal S protein coordinates cell wall modification and repair to resist host antimicrobials - Nature Microbiology

Streptococcal S protein activates a peptidoglycan cell wall repair and modification complex to promote resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to lysozyme and LL-37, and increase virulence during infec...

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Jan-Willem Veening@veeninglab.com · 2y ago

I had some help 🎶 Teamwork makes the dream work! Checkout our latest preprint spearheaded by Jessica Burnier in a great collaboration with the labs of Waldemar Vollmer, @nizet.bsky.social & Malcolm Winkler #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! 🐝 We engineered a bacterial biosensor to reveal micron-scale arabinose gradients in the honeybee gut. Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. Great collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes at @fbm-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Engineered symbiont biosensor maps micron-scale sugar gradients in the honeybee gut

The honeybee gut microbiota plays a key role in shaping host health and susceptibility to disease. Yet, the nutrient environment it experiences within the gut remains poorly characterized. In particul...

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Really looking forward to hosting Elisabeth on Monday Dec 1 at @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social for our BIG seminar: 12.15 in Genopode C (note change of room). Open to everyone.

Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I will be giving several talks this coming week at universities in Switzerland: Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Basel, and Bern. Hope to see some of you there!

So proud of our UNILausanne iGEM team! 🏆🥇 Best Entrepreneurship, placed in the Top 10 Overgrad teams, won a Gold Medal, and were nominated for Best Education, Best Wiki, and Best Biomanufacturing Project. Incredible achievement! #iGEM @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

Happy to share our latest preprint! Oscillators as building blocks: we model how intracellularly coupled oscillators interact and predict complex behaviors, from beats to chaos, guiding the next generation of synthetic biological circuits. @dmf-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Intracellularly Coupled Oscillators for Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology aims to engineer or re-engineer living systems. To achieve increasingly complex functionalities, it is beneficial to use higher-level building blocks. In this study, we focus on osci...

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Want to explore synthetic circuit modeling but lack programming experience? Meet GRN_modeler: a user-friendly tool with a graphical user interface to design and analyze gene network models, from dynamics to spatial patterns! @dmf-unil.bsky.social www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

I’m excited to announce the launch of my lab at EPFL in Jan 2026 🎉. We’ll combine evolution & synthetic biology to study and (re)engineer bacterial communication. I’m recruiting PhD students to start in the first semester of 2026. Apply via EPFL PhD programs by Nov 1 drive.google.com/file/d/1cm-t...

Really cool job offers here! 👇 📣A PhD and a postdoc positions offered in @santosmoreno-j.bsky.social's lab to go beyond #SyntheticBiology and program time in cells 🕘🦠 Both positions are funded by @erc.europa.eu Come and join the @upf.edu & @prbb.org communities!

Javier Santos Moreno@santosmoreno-j.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Job alert! 🔬We have 2 new open positions (1 PhD, 1 postdoc) in our team (santosmorenolab.org) in Barcelona @upf.edu @prbb.org funded by @erc.europa.eu If you are passionate about #SynBio and #GeneCircuits, apply now! (until Oct. 26th) 🦠🔧 Info below 👇Please RT!

1 #PostDoc position to develop synthetic gene circuits to program time in cells, as part of the TICK-TOCK Do and Die project @ERC_Research See details here: www.upf.edu/documents/d/...

🚨Job alert! 🔬We have 2 new open positions (1 PhD, 1 postdoc) in our team (santosmorenolab.org) in Barcelona @upf.edu @prbb.org funded by @erc.europa.eu If you are passionate about #SynBio and #GeneCircuits, apply now! (until Oct. 26th) 🦠🔧 Info below 👇Please RT!

Highly recommended👇

Javier Santos Moreno@santosmoreno-j.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Job alert! 🔬We have 2 new open positions (1 PhD, 1 postdoc) in our team (santosmorenolab.org) in Barcelona @upf.edu @prbb.org funded by @erc.europa.eu If you are passionate about #SynBio and #GeneCircuits, apply now! (until Oct. 26th) 🦠🔧 Info below 👇Please RT!

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...

The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Alex Fedorec@ajfedorec.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities. I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

Happy to share Estelle’s review on how we can use synthetic and engineered communities to learn about microbial spatial organization. @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social

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

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities url: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities url: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities

Abstract. Microbial communities are frequently organized into complex spatial structures, shaped by intrinsic cellular traits, interactions between communi

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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...

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

Uptake and leakage rates differentially shape community arrangement and composition of microbial consortia

Abstract. Bacteria often grow as communities in intricate spatial arrangements on surfaces and interact with each other through the local exchange of diffu

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I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv