Yolanda Schaerli

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.
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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.
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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.

Diagram illustrating "feed the enemy's enemy": ampicillin inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Citrobacter freundii acidifies the environment, further inhibiting P. aeruginosa.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

Congratulations as well to our EPFL neighbours for an oustanding competition in the Undergrad category.

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

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...

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!

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👇

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 👇:
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Can using synthetic approaches to build biology help teach us the design principles of how embryos build themselves? 👷‍♀️🔧

If this is a question that interests you, come and share your thoughts at this Royal Society Workshop on Generative Biology

royalsociety.org/science-even...

🔬 🧫 The Collier lab is hiring a new Postdoc! 🧬 🧪
We are looking for a motivated candidate to study mechanisms controlling DNA replication in Alphaproteobacteria with complex genomes.

--> Apply by 30th August 2025 using this link:
tinyurl.com/y5e5pm59

Four leading researchers on bacterial computing in the @femsmicro.org Workshop on the the topic during the Congress—quite amazing talks by @angelgm.bsky.social, Yolanda Schaerli, Manish Kushwaha & Samgram Bagh. Do bacteria compute? Can we make them to compute wth our logic or do they have their own?

We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...