Ákos T Kovács

Analysis and engineering of quorum sensing-based communications between bacteria and fungi | mBio In natural environments, bacteria and fungi nearly always coexist, and their interactions play pivotal roles in maintaining human health (1, 2) and driving industrial processes (3). In the gut, for in...

Analysis and engineering of quorum sensing-based communications between bacteria and fungi

#mBio MiniReview

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Automated genome mining predicts structural diversity and taxonomic distribution of peptide metallophores across bacteria Automated detection of metallophore biosynthesis reveals that metal-chelating non-ribosomal peptides are widespread, chemically diverse, and deeply rooted in bacterial evolution.

Automated genome mining predicts structural diversity and taxonomic distribution of peptide metallophores across bacteria

@elife.bsky.social by Zachary Reitz and Bita Pourmohsenin et al from @marnixmedema.bsky.social and @nadineziemert.bsky.social

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The registration is now open for BACELL meeting on 8-9 June 2026 at University of Malaga, Spain.

Register and submit abstract for oral or poster presentation: bacell2026.eu

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2026
Registration deadline: 15 May 2026

Organizer @diegromero.bsky.social

New article- we developed a strategy to fortify salads with Vitamin B12 in indoor farms. Sorry, no chronobiology in this one! A wonderful collaboration between @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and LettUs Grow www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Foggy morning run with 🐕 and biking to work

Interplay of Spatial Structure and Interactions in Microbial Communities A description of the interplay between microbial growth and interactions, the spatial structure of the environment and the spatial organisation of microbial populations can improve our understanding ...

Interplay of Spatial Structure and Interactions in Microbial Communities

#EnvironmentalMicrobiology review from @bmomeni.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral researcher in molecular and cellular bacteriology - ERC CoG VAMPIRE The research group of Prof Géraldine Laloux at the de Duve Institute (UCLouvain) is looking for a highly motivated postdoc to elucidate the molecular factors underlying bacterial prey-predator interac...

#MicroSky Please RT
@erc.europa.eu-funded postdoc position in my lab to identify the molecular basis of prey-predator interactions using our favorite micro-vampire Bdellovibrio exovorus as a model.
Let's find what the bite is made of! 🧛
Flexible start date.
Info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415877

You are finishing your PhD and looking to continue in science?

The Martin lab @biology-unige.bsky.social has an open postdoctoral position in cell biology to study cell-cell fusion. For more information, please consult mocel.unige.ch/research-gro....

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Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Two swans swam
#WeekendMorningWalk

Morning Run with 🐕 in the clouds

Which February?
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From now on, the #SubtiWiki interaction widget also includes interactions that involve RNA molecules (with proteins, metabolites, or other RNAs)! Please contact us if you miss any RNA interaction in B. subtilis!

Flowers painting yellow the roadside (or canal bank depending on where you look at it) during biking to work this morning

and followup email... #whatswrong 😆

SPAM invitations are getting a bit aggressive... #lastchance 😬

A new preprint with Matthew Schmitt, @kiseokmicro.bsky.social and Vincenzo Vitelli makes a huge step forward in learning functional groups of components in complex biological systems. It's dimension reduction that speaks to biological function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How to quantify immigration from community abundance data using the neutral community model

-in PNAS from Jane Fowler

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Why are most metabolites barely detectable in wild-type cells — biology or technology?

A new study from the Link lab shows it's biology: cells actively maintain minimal metabolite pools to avoid unwanted effects.

www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/en/news-even...

Excited to collaborate with @hassansalem.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social on this new Postdoc opportunity!

If you're interested in the developmental biology of symbiosis, apply and join us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 🪲🦠🔬

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling - Nature Microbiology A structural catalogue of the Asgard archaeal pangenome reveals hundreds of eukaryotic-like proteins that suggest a higher degree of cellular complexity in the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes.

🧵 1/10 New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from my postdoc at @mib-wur.bsky.social! 🎉

How eukaryote-like was the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes? Sequence searches alone can't tell us — so we used protein structure prediction to look deeper. 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Salt supplementation-induced metabolic reprogramming in Streptomyces coelicolor | mSystems Precise control of cellular metabolism is critical to ensure directing cellular resources toward metabolic pathways required for the environment. Many Streptomyces species activate production of secon...

Salt supplementation-induced metabolic reprogramming in Streptomyces coelicolor

#mSystems from @nmouncey.bsky.social

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🌱 Postdoc opportunity in Soil Health

We are hiring a 2-year postdoc in the EU MultiSoil project.
Research focus: how agricultural practices shape soil ecosystems & sustainable cropping.
🗓️ Apply by 4 May 2026
📍 Uppsala, Sweden
Apply: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

The appointed Postdoctoral Researcher will work in collaboration with the groups of @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social at The Sainsbury Laboratory ⬇️

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Deadline - 25 March 2026
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 3 years, full-time

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

Save the date for the next International Conference on Gram-Positive Bacteria which will take place between 29 June–2 July 2027. The organizers (@annadragos.bsky.social, @polonca32.bsky.social, and Ines Mandic-Mulec) look forward to welcoming you to Ljubljana, Slovenia

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria Noise in bacterial stress responses is often dismissed as mere randomness. While true stochasticity exists, much variation reflects hidden variables—cell state, history, and microenvironment—that are ...

Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Save the date for the next International Conference on Gram-Positive Bacteria which will take place between 29 June–2 July 2027. The organizers (@annadragos.bsky.social, @polonca32.bsky.social, and Ines Mandic-Mulec) look forward to welcoming you to Ljubljana, Slovenia