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MVIF Season 5 program

💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫

Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open:
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#MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social
and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social

Unifying Theories in High-Dimensional Biology: Approaches, Challenges and
Opportunities

arxiv.org/pdf/2512.10111

Do you think transporters in E. coli contribute to metabolite release? No? Explore the effect of 66 different transporter knockout mutations on the exometabolome dynamics of ~300 metabolites yourself: keio.unil.ch

Teaser: Increased proline in ΔputP
#microsky #MEvoSky

Don't miss out on our free virtual symposium (Dec. 12th) focused on microbial metabolites and their effects on the host.

Sponsors: @amiposts.bsky.social, Pendulum, & Liv (@zymoresearch.bsky.social)

Registrants will receive free memberships to Applied Microbiology International.

Details below 👇

Wonderful review! Thanks for sharing! ☺️

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT

Breathless Microbes: Life With No Oxygen Recent advances in anaerobic microbiology have driven significant progress in biotechnology, environmental microbiology, and biochemistry. Anaerobes play key roles in sustainable biotechnological pro…

Learn more about recent advances in anaerobic #microbiology at EMBO Practical Course "Breathless Microbes: Life With No Oxygen" in Nijmegen, Netherlands, 6–10 July 2026. 🧪

Deadline: 15 April 2026

meetings.embo.org/event/26-bre...
#EMBObreathless #EMBOevents #MicroSky #biotechnology #biochemistry

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
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🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Non-conjugative plasmids limit their mobility to persist in nature Sabnis et al. explain why non-conjugative plasmids move at a low rate in nature. While increased mobility can easily evolve by incorporating phage DNA into plasmids, this is disadvantageous because it...

New paper with my (amazing) friend and mentor @jrpenades.bsky.social
Really looking forward to see what plasmid aficionados think of this one!!
With @asantoslopez.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social Akshay Sabins and others
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Excellent work by Estelle Pignon and @yschaerli.bsky.social! A great overview of how synthetic bacterial communities can be used to uncover the rules governing spatial organization.

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).

Two postdoc positions with @ajfedorec.bsky.social: one computational and one wetlab, for a 5 year grant on synthetic microbial communities

Research Fellow in Computational Synthetic Biology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#PostDoc

Cool PNAS paper by @jordivangestel.bsky.social and colleagues
Contributed by Carol Gross
[reviewed by @polzlab.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social]

Bacillus subtilis in defense mode: Switch-like adaptations to protistan predation

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cell Symposia: Host-microbiome dynamics
May 10–12, 2026 | Bruges, Belgium

by @cp-immunity.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social and @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

www.cell-symposia.com/microbiome-2...

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.

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Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering - Nature Microbiology This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...

Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for a new @thembauk.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow (5 year post) to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms here in #Plymouth 🔬🦠🧫🧬 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....

graphical abstract of the article the extended mobility of plasmids

Here's our new broad review on the extended mobility of plasmids, about all mechanisms driving and limiting their transfer. From conjugation to conduction, phage-plasmids to hitchers, molecular to evolutionary dynamics, ecology to biotech. The state of affairs. 1/9 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

New paper in @nature.com! With @kiseokmicro.bsky.social , Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, Jojo Wang, Mikhail Tikhonov & Madhav Mani — a massive dataset and simple model reveal a few conserved regimes that capture how soil microbiome metabolism responds to perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Logo for the Sandpiper website

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

These microscopy images are stunning. “Cellular anatomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi” www.cell.com/current-biol... a study led by @rachaelcargill.bsky.social.

I agree these are such beautiful plants. Yes these were taken in Switzerland (Rochers de Naye) ☺️ I love this season!

So beautiful!

Not all persister bacteria are dormant! 🦠

Single-cell imaging of over a million #EColi shows that many antibiotic-resistant persisters were actively growing before drug exposure. Persistence appears to be more dynamic than once thought.
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Offre Emploi CDD Post-Doctoral Position In Microbial Ecology Ecotoxicology M F Nantes (44) - Recrutement par Ifremer | Hellowork Decouvrez l'offre d'Emploi Post-Doctoral Position In Microbial Ecology Ecotoxicology M F Nantes (44) en CDD pour Ifremer. Ifremer recrute actuellement ✓ Postulez dès maintenant ✓ Candidature Simple & ...

Amazing chance to work with CONTRAST project & TREC expedition coastal sediment samples to map chemical contaminants and how they shape microbial life over time. Based at Ifremer, Nantes in Chemical Contamination of Marine Ecosystems unit www.hellowork.com/fr-fr/emploi... #Postdoc #MicrobialEcology

I fell in love with Philip Ball through Critical Mass. But How Life Works goes even further, with elegance, he explains the very essence of life and how evolution has shaped all living things. With ingenuity and no fear, he ventures into some of the most advanced ideas out there to explain life.

Very good opportunity for theoretical / comp neuroscientists at ICTP
ictp.it/opportunity/...
2+2 yrs independent postdoc fellowship
ICTP is a supportive unique international institution
Trieste offers great collaborations in neurosc and a great quality of life
Move here!