Maik Wolfram-Schauerte

Anyone interested among the GBM members?

New post-doctoral research position in my phage-host interactions (Phi) laboratory in @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social at @universityofotago.bsky.social New Zealand. The project is focused on defences against jumbo phages. Please share and if interested apply using the link in the comments.

A jumbo cyanophage encodes the most complete ribosomal protein set in the known virosphere www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📅 Save the Date – CMFI Conference 2027
Feb 17–19, 2027

📍 Tuebingen, Germany

Confirmed speakers:
Benoit Chassaing · Eran Elinav · Neha Garg · Kiran Patil · Bertrand Routy · Nina van Sorge

Subscribe to stay updated and join us in Tuebingen:

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➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔

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Great opportunity to work on interesting problems in protein design :)

We're #hiring a new Insect Husbandry Technician (f/m/d) from 50% in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg. Apply today or share this post with your network:

jobs.tue.mpg.de/en/programs/...

Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Technical Assistant

Are you interested in working with a fresh team on cutting edge protein design?
We're hiring a Technical Assistant for our protein design team at DKFZ Heidelberg: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1683...

Please share!

Now Open: Call for PhD Students Join the next RNAmed generation | Application deadline: March 24

🧬Call for 11 fully-funded PhD positions in RNA-based medicine! 🧬

The graduate program “RNAmed – Future Leaders in RNA-based Medicine” is recruiting its second cohort of PhD students, starting in 2027: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/...

📅 Application deadline: March 24

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Unraveling posttranscriptional regulatory networks in phage infection Phages employ sophisticated transcriptional regulatory networks to optimize replication. Recently, Silverman et al. used RIL-seq (RNA interaction by l…

Like bacteria, phages use sRNAs to regulate gene expression! Out today in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social, @mvelascogomariz.bsky.social and I highlight a recent RIL-seq study from the @saharmelamed.bsky.social lab that looked into posttranscriptional regulation of lambda!

tinyurl.com/lambda-RIL-seq

On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

Happy birthday to....well, to us, actually! 😉🎂🥳 On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

PhD position open! Bioinformatics | Python | Phytoplankton genomics | Deep learning. Funded until 2029. If you love code AND biology, we want to hear from you. Deadline: March 15! www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller?

Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase.
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Das russische Justizministerium hat den @daadworldwide.bsky.social als „unerwünschte Organisation“ eingestuft. Ein Rückschlag für die internationale Wissenschaft. Forschung braucht Offenheit und Austausch – mein Bedauern gilt allen Betroffenen.

#PhDPosition open — #RibosomeBiology & #Translation QC
📍 JGU Mainz, Germany
🗓️ Apply by 10 Mar 2026 (or until filled)
🔗 Full details + project options:
👉 ak-winz.pharmazie.uni-mainz.de/jobs/

We are excited to share that @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will be joining us as speaker at the 2026 International SPP 2330 Symposium.

We look forward to meeting you in Berlin!

📅 October 5 – 7, 2026
📍 Harnack House, Berlin
🌐 More information is available at lnkd.in/eeSphFER

(This is coming in a bit late but...) Happy new year, everyone! As I continue planning 2026 travels, please give a shout if you are organizing a microbiology conference this year (or attending one).

#microsky

🧬🖥️ Call for Abstracts OPEN!
Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉
📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026
Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics!

Deadlines
Workshops: 31 Mar 26
Talks: 3 May 26
Poster: 6 Aug 26

👉 GCB2026.DE

✨Save the Date ✨
Connect with fellow early-career microbiologists & start new collaborations🤝:

Meeting of the #VAAM Young Scientist Network:
"Establishing Collaborations within the Network"
📆 13.02.2026
⏲️ 2 pm
🔗https://t1p.de/hmbhw

#EarlyCareer #Networking #Microbiology #YoungScientists

A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system Nature Microbiology, Published online: 16 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-025-02239-6A library of 400 phage protein-coding genes is used to find a trove of antiphage systems, revealing systems that target tail fibre and major capsid proteins.

Out Now! A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system #MicroSky

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Looking forward to an exciting International Symposium @spp2330.bsky.social "New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions".

October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus Berlin (Germany).

@dfg.de @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de

📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology

Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Thank you @pdersch.bsky.social and @effiebastounis.bsky.social for your presentations! A great start for @cmfi.bsky.social into 2026

Available Postdoc position in my lab to advance ASO technology for biotechnology, food production, infectious diseases, environmental microbiology & more. Looking for specialists in these areas with an interest in RNA applications. Involves numerous national & international collaborations.

More PhD projects at IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”! 🚀 Apply by 19 Jan 2026.
Research on fungal–prey interactions & transgenerational inheritance (Advisors: Hsueh, Sommer).
📍Tübingen, Germany. 🔗 lnkd.in/gWGf2w2g

#IMPRS #PhD #LifeSciences #MaxPlanck

How can genome sequencing training foster more equitable global science? 🌍
An interview with doctoral researcher Catarina Lino on a hands-on plant genomics workshop in Zimbabwe - and what it means for North–South collaboration.
👉 tinyurl.com/9knhj92v
#PlantGenomics #ScienceCollaboration #maxplanck

@peterfineran.bsky.social and colleagues develop Tn-seq for phages by leveraging anti-CRISPR (Acr) as a positive
selectable marker in the presence of CRISPR-Cas counter-selection, and identify essential genes in phage from non model orgs
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...