Rogelio Hernandez Tamayo

Comprehensive genetic interaction analysis of the Bacillus subtilis envelope using double-CRISPRi Koo et al. apply genome-scale double-CRISPRi to map cell envelope gene interactions in Bacillus subtilis, revealing >1,000 genetic interactions and uncovering gene networks in envelope biogenesis and ...

Identification of genetic interactions in Bacillus subtilis cell division. Congratulations, Byoung-Mo Koo, Carol Gross, and all involved!
@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social #subtiwiki

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Now in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social Bacillus subtilis DinG/XPD-like paralogues, DinG and YpvA, have been implicated in overcoming replication stress. DinG possesses a DEDD exonuclease and DNA helicase domains, whereas YpvA lacks the DEDD exonuclease domain

www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...

Now published as a Version of Record, with various new results compared to the initial preprint:

Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin

Available at:
elifesciences.org/articles/100...

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That’s a wrap for The Biology and Physics of Prokaryotic Chromosomes VII 2025. A big thank you to all those who attended 🧪 #BioPhyChrom2025 #BiochemEvents

Are you planning to apply for an ERC grant? Do you need some guidance? This hands-on session is for you!

On 24 September, ERC representatives will guide you through the changes in the 2026 calls for the Starting, Consolidator & Advanced Grant.

👉 europa.eu/!hMhKRn

Supervisors and Projects

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

In @elife.bsky.social: Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

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📍 21st VAAM Industry Academia Panel - Bridging Academic and Industry Research:

📅 September 18th, 4:00 PM
💻 Via Zoom
🎯"In vitro Microbiome Models"

Speakers
Philippe Ulsemer, Acaryon GmbH
Michael Schloter, Technical University Munich

✔️Registration: t1p.de/y70py

During the 5 day #EMBLFluorescenceLifetime course, participants get hands-on training every afternoon on our state-of the art microscopes 🔬

Practicals include Halo-tags & FLIM, Multiplexing with FPs and FLIM on STELLARIS 8 STED, as well as FLIM analysis including ML and AI on STELLARIS Cryo 🤩

Super-resolution microscopy for structural biology - Nature Methods This Perspective introduces a framework for defining, measuring and reporting resolution in super-resolution microscopy and details the current state of the art in using fluorescence microscopy for st...

Really excited to share this Perspective from John Danial covering how technology is moving the field of fluorescence microscopy toward structural biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Expanding the diversity of bacterial DNA partitioning: A CTP-independent ParABS system for plasmid partitioning in Streptomyces | PNAS The ATP- and CTP-dependent ParA-ParB-parS segrosome is a macromolecular complex that segregates chromosomes/plasmids in most bacterial species. CTP...

Finally published! Many thanks to the reviewers and editor whose comments & suggestions improved this work significantly more than the first preprint version!!!

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

InterPro just got one of its biggest updates ever.

Now with 1.8 billion AI-driven protein annotations, AlphaFold-based TED domains, and viral proteins from the Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD).

See it all at www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro

🖥️🧬

@interprodb.bsky.social

📢 We are proud and delighted that our Microbes for Climate (M4C) Cluster of Excellence has been selected for the 2025 Excellence Strategy! 🌟Together with @unimarburg.bsky.social, we look forward to exciting #microbe research – stay tuned! @unimarburg.bsky.social @maxplanck.de‬ @synmikro.bsky.social

The emerging landscape of engineered bacteria cancer therapies - Nature Biotechnology Our ability to use engineered bacteria for cancer therapy is rapidly expanding. A survey of preclinical, clinical and commercial efforts provides an overview of the state of the field, revealing trend...

#NatMicroPicks

🦠⚕️🦀Bacteria for cancer treatment

A comment discussing the status of engineered bacteria being deployed for clinical cancer therapies.

#MicroSky @natbiotech.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The EMBO Young Investigator Network PhD course 2025 has begun! 38 #PhD students are joining us in Heidelberg, Germany from 18–23 May and online 26–30 May. Our Young Investigators and trainers will be hosting sessions on #ScientificWriting, #GrantWriting, #MentalHealth, #ResearchIntegrity and more.

Deadline for the #BiozentrumPhDFellowships Summer Call: May 18, 2025

Don’t miss your chance — submit your application now and start your scientific journey @biozentrum.unibas.ch!

👉 Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/4caiqqX

Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy at Newcastle University Apply for the Research Assistant/Associate - Mapping the Bacterial Cell Wall with Super-resolution Microscopy role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View det...

Postdoc position available!

This is a 2-year post funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. You'll be based in the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology here in Newcastle, using super-resolution microscopy to look at the bacterial cell wall. 🔬🦠

Please re-post 🙏

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY885/r...

"Phollow" the link to our May issue to read about...

💥lysing bacterial pathogens
⛽microbial alkane oxidation
🌱importance of seed-borne bacteria
🙅‍♀️protective antibodies for norovirus
🚰E. coli in urban drinking water

...and more!👇
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell wall changes in response to growth or perturbations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbes and Us • A podcast on Spotify for Creators Welcome to our podcast, Microbes and Us, brought to you by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS). Our Communications Lead, Joseph Shuttleworth, brings into each monthly episode…

Today is exactly 4 years since we started #MicrobesAndUs 🙌 🎉

Here's to 32 Episodes of fascinating microbiology conversations since we started on 26 April 2021! 🦠 🍷 🧬 🏔️

🔬🌍 Browse the whole list and find a subject right for you:

📖 New publication from the TacC team at MMSB!
Congratulations to Nathan Fraikin et al.!
@nfrk92.bsky.social @agathe-couturier.bsky.social

Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging - Nature Communications Yellow fluorescent proteins (YFPs) photobleach rapidly, restricting microscopy experiments. Here, the authors report mGold2s and mGold2t, YFPs that extend imaging durations up to 25 times longer than ...

Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging by François St-Pierre and team:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"

Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages)

Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

wonderful! great clip 👏
had never before seen 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳 competing with 𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 for rosette formation. no clear winner 🤩
#ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.

🚀 Apply now 🚀

The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops.

postdocprogram.mpg.de
#ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.642875v1

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to ML.Antibiotics@gmail.com. See
lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

#IWD2025 is an important day to celebrate women's social, economic, cultural & political achievements, but it's also a good occasion to call for gender equality.
The #SheFigures report on R&I describes the challenges women researchers face, but also highlights ideas to help them. 🔗 buff.ly/3EJDkB4

On 12 March, universities and funding institutions will share everything you need to know to do your PhD or postdoc in Germany

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