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Interested in quantitative understanding of microbial decision making, signal transduction, motility, physiology and evolution. https://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/sourjik

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Oferta para solicitar un contrato Juan de la Cierva. Únete a un laboratorio líder en el estudio de señalización bacteriana. Please resend.

03.11.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Interested in microbial sensing, signaling and regulation? Don’t miss the 2026 GRC! Submit your abstract to be considered for a short talk! I hope to see you in sunny Ventura in January! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

03.11.2025 09:09 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria

in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.

More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)

🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025

Please repost. #Postdoc

02.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 50    🔁 46    💬 2    📌 1
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EVENT - Centre for Microbial Interactions Annual Conference 2026

Register now to attend in-person or virtually @norwichmicro.bsky.social

🗓️ 4-5 March 2026
📍John Innes Conference Centre, NR4 7UH

⏰ Deadline for registration - 25 February 2026: okt.to/16MLmH

Full programme: okt.to/YF8TVe

28.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 10    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Registration for January 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction In Microorganisms is now open:
www.grc.org/sensory-tran...
The meeting will be led by Ariane Briegel and Victor Sourjik.
There is also an accompanying Gordon Research Seminar on Sensory Transduction In Microorganisms!

28.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Mark your calendars! The next SFB 1348 International Meeting will take place in #Münster from May 27-29, 2026, with a focus on #Mechanochemical signals at cellular interfaces. Stay tuned for more details and updates at www.uni-muenster.de/SFB1348/en/m...

27.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 30    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 3
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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...

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...

27.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Faculty Positions The Sloan Kettering Institute is seeking innovative scientists to join our faculty.

My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15.

www.mskcc.org/research/ski...

27.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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Molecular Microbiology Group Information about research topics and publications about the group around Kirsten Jung

Pls share:
A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)

21.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 6    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 #WeAreHiring a facility manager to lead our state-of-the-art research infrastructure at PoL! 🔬 Please share with your scientific network.

What we offer: A dynamic, international, and supportive environment at the frontiers of biophysics.

Curious? Apply here: tud.link/g4j5qy
🗓️Deadline: Nov 5.

21.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 9    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Two PhD positions in Biophysics and rheology of bacterial biofilms

Pls share: Secchi group at ETH Zürich is recruiting two fully funded, four-year PhD positions for an SNSF-funded project investigating the nonlinear rheology of bacterial biofilms. Deadline: 30 November 2025. Full advert and submission details: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

21.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 4    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

20.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 58    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 1
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The evolutionary costs and benefits of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes (TB01) at University of Oxford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - The evolutionary costs and benefits of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes (TB01) at University of Oxford, listed on FindAPhD.com

I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

20.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 8    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

Oh! Highly recommended, please consider applying! 👇🏻🤩

16.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

Interested in #PhilosophyOfBiology? Check out the new Cambridge Elements on "The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking" by @thomasreydon.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #evobio

02.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re excited to announce the incredible speaker line-up for the Prokaryotic Cell Biology Conference! Join the leading researchers as they explore the latest advances in Nanoimaging, Cell Growth and Cellular Structures.
Join our speakers & register today! ➡️https://bit.ly/47rtkbw
#ProkaryoticCellBio

16.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 26    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 3
2026 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Conference GRC The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

Everyone interested in bacterial signal transduction, environmental sensing and motility, don't miss this conference organised by Ariane Briegel @arianebriegel.bsky.social and myself! We have great invited speakers and a number of slots allocated to short talks: www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

15.10.2025 18:06 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Faces: The Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG
YouTube video by DFG bewegt Faces: The Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG

Yesterday, our #ResearchCareers team gave an online presentation on DFG funding in the Walter Benjamin Programme. If you missed it, don't worry. We have a film about funded researchers and general information on this programme available: www.dfg.de/walter_benja...
youtu.be/wLe8xCMSpLA?...

15.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Starting your own lab is exciting—but challenging.
Join our GBM Young Investigator leadership workshop in Regensburg, April 13–16th, 2026.
Professional coaching, peer networking & practical tips for new PIs.
Apply by Nov 30, 2025.
👉 gbm-online.de/de/young-inv...
Pls repost!

15.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 4
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Rooftop. Readymag templates | Readymag Designed for an impactful non-profit organisation page.

Are you a rising start—or know one? Check the *Rising Stars Symposium* organized by the IBFG (Salamanca) to identify & attract young researchers—mainly postdocs—who could join the institute in the future or establish their own research groups here. Check readymag.website/u1842310954/... for info 👇

15.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

15.10.2025 06:33 — 👍 452    🔁 144    💬 16    📌 40
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Response of Escherichia coli chemotaxis pathway to pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides | Microbiology Spectrum Chemotactic behavior is highly important for bacterial ecology, enabling motile bacteria to locate environments that are optimal for growth, and it became a paradigm for bacterial environmental sensin...

Didn't realise that the previous link has only a limited number of downloads. Here is a better one: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

14.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Response of Escherichia coli chemotaxis pathway to pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides | Microbiology Spectrum Chemotactic behavior is highly important for bacterial ecology, enabling motile bacteria to locate environments that are optimal for growth, and it became a paradigm for bacterial environmental sensin...

Expanding the range of stimuli for the model signaling pathway: Our short paper showing that E. coli exhibits a highly sensitive chemotactic response to pyrimidine deoxyribonucleosides has just appeared in Microbiology Spectrum journals.asm.org/eprint/JMVHA...

14.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

08.10.2025 06:50 — 👍 34    🔁 56    💬 0    📌 1

Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

12.10.2025 09:01 — 👍 36    🔁 54    💬 0    📌 3
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Control of flagellar gene expression by a chemotaxis receptor-like regulator in pathogenic Escherichia coli | The EMBO Journal imageimageChemotaxis receptors typically mediate biased movement of motile bacteria in environmental gradients by controlling rotation of the flagellar motor. This study identifies a chemotaxis recept...

Happy to share as my first Bluesky post: Our newest paper describing a beautiful example of surprizing evolutionary innovation: Control of flagellar gene expression by a chemotaxis receptor-like regulator in pathogenic Escherichia coli | The EMBO Journal www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

14.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

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