Nature Microbiology turns 10! 🎂
As a special treat, we take you back to the editorial team that started it all and then fast forward to take a peek into the future of microbiology through some brilliant microbiologists.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...
Just a reminder 🔔 that early bird registration for the VAAM Annual Conference 2026 in Berlin ends 📆January 11 Register soon to save your spot and some money.
Hope to see you there!
Heute wäre Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt 125 Jahre alt geworden. Sie war von 1961 bis 1966 Bundesgesundheitsministerin und damit nicht nur die erste Leitung unseres Hauses, sondern auch die erste Bundesministerin überhaupt.
#NewResearch
Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) can cause bacterial prostatitis, a prevalent and recurrent infection with high morbidity in men. Here they show that UPEC invades luminal prostate cells via a bacterial FimH and host PPAP receptor interaction
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations to Professor Teresa L. Thurston from the University of Oxford for being awarded the 2025 Pettenkofer Award recognizing her groundbreaking work on mechanisms of bacterial effector - host interactions, including kinase reprogramming. Wonderful award ceremony in Munich Town Hall.
Read ‘Genetic population structure of Haemophilus influenzae at local and global scales’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, the University of Oslo, University of Helsinki, @ox.ac.uk and collaborators in @natmicrobiol.nature.com here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See our new paper out in microLife, resulting from international team effort led by Christine Josenhans group: Functional and intricate interaction network connecting H. pylori Cag type 4 secretion system surface proteins with outer membrane proteins HopQ and HopZ academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
See this preprint resulting from our international team effort led by Christine Josenhans group: Functional and intricate interaction network connecting Helicobacter pylori Cag Type 4 Secretion System surface proteins with outer membrane proteins HopQ and HopZ
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Zoom into a human cell infected by Shigella, the bacteria behind dysentery. Using cryo-EM, @leaswistak.bsky.social and team revealed how it pierces cells with molecular syringes. Stunning science at the nanoscale.
@enningalab.bsky.social @jytinevez.bsky.social @nanoimaging.bsky.social
#CryoEM
Fancy an all-you-can-eat salmon buffet? Then head on over to Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
It's the salmon run season right now, and the waterfall is absolutely swarming with bears. They've all gotten so chubby from feasting.
🐻🧸 Yummy..
#nationalpark #bears #salmon #wildlife
Join us at the VAAM Annual Conference🌟 22.-25.3.2026 in Berlin 👥!
✏️Registration is now open - benefit from early bird fees🏃♀️!
📝 Submit your abstract &
🎓 Apply for student travel grants until
🗓️ 7 November 2025.
All details & more info 👉https://t1p.de/zazfv
In einem der berühmtesten Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts, Thomas Manns "Der Zauberberg", wird an einer Stelle ein Mitarbeiter Robert Kochs erwähnt.
Wisst ihr, um welchen Bakteriologen es geht?
Unser Medizinhistoriker und Leiter des RKI-Museums Benjamin Kuntz erzählt die Geschichte in diesem Video.
🎉 Für seine wichtigen Beiträge zur #Infektionsforschung und sein Engagement zur Stärkung des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs in #Europa und der Welt wurde Leopoldina-Mitglied Otto Haller @uni-freiburg.de mit der Robert-Koch-Medaille in Gold ausgezeichnet: www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/m...
Please note the announcement of the 2025 Pettenkofer Prize. This year's topic is "Modulation of the innate immune response by effectors of pathogenic bacteria". The application deadline is Sept. 10, 2025. www.mvp.uni-muenchen.de/en/2025/07/3...
Our latest paper on the H. pylori methylome out in mBio. Note the link with Hardy ecospecies: The Helicobacter pylori orphan ATTAAT-specific methyltransferase M.Hpy99XIX plays a central role in the coordinated regulation of genes involved in iron metabolism | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
🎊 Robert Koch Award for Leopoldina member Rotem Sorek:
The molecular biologist @soreklab.bsky.social fom the Weizmann Institute of Science was honored by the Robert Koch Foundation for his fundamental discoveries on how bacteria defend themselves against viruses.
www.leopoldina.org/en/members/m...
