Engineering yeast multicellular behaviors via synthetic adhesion and contact signaling
By designing synthetic toolkits for contact-based signaling (MARS) and cell-cell adhesion
(SATURN), we program yeast to form multicellular structures and perform complex tasks,
like building logic cir...
Online now @ Cell is the yeast multicellular engineering paper from Fankang Meng - the fruits of his productive PhD in our group. He developed modular synthetic biology tools to bring multicellular behaviours to yeast - specific adhesion, juxtacrine signalling and more. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
11.07.2025 15:01 โ ๐ 58 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Harnessing Small RNAs as Synthetic Post-transcriptional Regulators in Bacteria
Bacteria can respond to environmental changes by expressing small RNAs (sRNAs), which regulate mRNAs by complementary base-pairing. This regulatory mechanism allows bacteria to rapidly adapt their pro...
- Are bacterial sRNA systems inherently more prone to negative regulation?
- How relevant is sRNA recycling?
- How can we use sRNAs for synthetic biology?
A review with @danielschindler.bsky.social and Bork Berghoff explores the knobs and levers of sRNA-mediated regulation. doi.org/10.1021/acss...
09.07.2025 06:53 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Harnessing Small RNAs as Synthetic Post-transcriptional Regulators in Bacteria
Bacteria can respond to environmental changes by expressing small RNAs (sRNAs), which regulate mRNAs by complementary base-pairing. This regulatory mechanism allows bacteria to rapidly adapt their pro...
Iโm excited to see our review on bacterial small regulatory RNAs as tools for synthetic biology finally online. Great work together with @jensrna.bsky.social and Bork Berghoff it was fun to jointly work on that project. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... - thanks to @mpdl.mpg.de for open access funding
08.07.2025 19:06 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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-...
30.06.2025 14:34 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 34 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ข We are proud and delighted that our Microbes for Climate (M4C) Cluster of Excellence has been selected for the 2025 Excellence Strategy! ๐Together with @unimarburg.bsky.social, we look forward to exciting #microbe research โ stay tuned! @unimarburg.bsky.social @maxplanck.deโฌ @synmikro.bsky.social
22.05.2025 15:12 โ ๐ 51 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Looking forward to the great since and the exploratory approaches which will open new research avenues! This is an awesome consortium!
22.05.2025 07:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
What a lovely time at @synmikro.bsky.social!
PIs, PhD students, PostDocs and associated members of RobuCop met at the kick off meeting to share ideas, discuss projects and connect with each other๐ฑ๐ซฐ
Can't wait for our next meeting!
Thank you @ramona-zuelch.bsky.social for the picture.
22.05.2025 07:31 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Come and join us! Weโre hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Building AI models or the data to train them?
Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30.
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
pls RT!
06.05.2025 14:59 โ ๐ 46 ๐ 67 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ JAE Intro 2025 Scholarships are now open!
๐ฌ Want to work on synthetic yeast and plastic valorization? Apply with code JAEINT25_EX_0462, VIDA! @dpe-csic.bsky.social
๐ถ 7 months | โฌ600/month @icp-csic.bsky.social
โฐ May 2, 2025
๐ For more info and to apply, visit: sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...
07.04.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I'm super excited and grateful-yesterday I was appointed full professor at the Centre for Molecular Biology (ZMBH) at the University of Heidelberg. I am very grateful to my team, colleagues and mentors who have helped me along the way. I very much look forward to the next phase.
01.04.2025 07:27 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Looking for a PhD? I have a fully funded one for UK nationals on engineering gene circuits in probiotic microbes. Will bring together a lot of existing stands of #synbio research in my group and push towards some exciting applications! Start date Sept 2025. Email me if interested! Pls RT
28.03.2025 13:08 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Description
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London
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If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
20.03.2025 16:50 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
PhD aminosugar metabolism
The Faculty of Science / the Institute for Biology is looking for a :PhD Candidate , Aminosugar metabolism and control of growth and development in bacteriaVacancy number: 15487 PhD project descriptio...
Only one week left to apply for this exciting PhD position, supervised by @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social and me!
Please apply if you are interested in microbial biochemistry and have a solid background in enzymes, metabolic pathways, and bacterial genetics.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
06.03.2025 17:08 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ โผ๏ธLast days to apply for #PhD position to combat climate change in a Max Planck & University Consortium
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Deadline 09.03 ๐
We are looking for chemistry students with a strong multi-step synthesis background in organic chemistry.
Application online ๐ฉ
Please RT - Thanks!
05.03.2025 19:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
On 12 March, universities and funding institutions will share everything you need to know to do your PhD or postdoc in Germany
Register now! lnkd.in/eYtFnG_H
26.02.2025 18:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Deadline #PhD position extended until 09.03 - Apply online๐๐ผ
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3...
Please RTโค๏ธ - Thanks
22.02.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Staff Scientist (m/f/d) | Natural Product Isolation
full time scientist for Natural Product Isolation & Structure Elucidation at the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg
Job alert! ๐ข ๐๐ผ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ as a ๐๐๐น๐น ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐ for ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป at the Max Planck Institute in Marburg - more info: www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1490266/job_...
18.02.2025 08:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Looking for a #PhD that is at the intersection of #biodesign, #synbio, #openendedness, #evolution? Look no further. Great supervisory team too ๐
01.02.2025 04:08 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
New Master's programme in Heidelberg! Please share with interested students
30.01.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Job opening for the Head of the Max Planck DNA Biofoundry for automated DNA assembly. Applications are invited for a full time scientist position to head a Core Facility for DNA assembly / DNA Biofoundry at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany (http://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de). Further information can be obtained from https://www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/148510/e_open_positions.
Exciting opportunity! Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology is looking for a Head of the DNA-Biofoundry MaxGENESYS. Join us in vibrant #Marburg - apply by 15 February 2025. #ScienceJobs #SyntheticBiology #Biofoundry @maxplanck.de
20.01.2025 14:44 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 4
Studying cellular #stress responses, particularly #senescence and its impact on #immune response, #ageing and #cancer, #tumorigenesis at Cancer Research UK CI โช@cruk-ci.bsky.socialโฌ, University of Cambridge โช@cam.ac.ukโฌ
Website: naritalab.com
Scientist at the German Cancer Reseach Center in Heidelberg. We develop genome engineering tools for functional genomics. #CRISPR #Drosophila #openscience
PhD candidate at Laboratory of Synthetic and Applied Microbiology (LSAM) EPFL @jescheklab.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate | Laboratory of Synthetic and Applied Microbiology (LSAM) @jescheklab.bsky.social at EPFL ๐ฆ โ๏ธ
We develop molecular tools and data-driven models for the engineering of synthetic microbes for sustainable bioproduction. ๐ฆ โ๏ธ More information about our research and the team can be found here: www.epfl.ch/labs/lsam/
Professor for Synthetic and Applied Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
@jescheklab.bsky.social
Our research group is interested in the molecular and cellular origins and evolution of vertebrate organs. Tweets by Henrik, usually in the name of our group.
home.kaessmannlab.org
postdoc at the weizmann institute (bar-ziv lab) - tinkering with gene expression - bottom-up synthetic biology
Post-doc in synthetic biology of lactic acid bacteria ๐ฆ ๐งฌ
๐Ragon Institute ๐บ๐ธ
Prof at TUM, engineers cell-free systems, artificial cells and synthetic compartments
Postdoc working on RNA Nanotech & MD simulations @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & MPIP. GROMACS wrangler, oxDNA developer, @molpigs.bsky.social podcast host, and all around weird lil guy.
Has been known to post about music and neat bugs found in the woods.
Relaying microbiology news, articles and comments relevant to aspects on bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes / microorganisms. Microbes are ๐ช
Interested in transcriptional regulation, bacterial communities and the human microbiome.
โจHealth and mind-body balance โจ.
Biologist | Group leader of the Genome Maintenance and Evolution lab @gimmfoundation.bsky.social | Previously @IGC, @harvardmcb.bsky.social and @ifomresearch.bsky.social | https://fumalab.github.io/
๐งฌ Join our world-class courses, conferences, and workshops at the forefront of molecular life science and its applications. ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ www.embl.org/events/ ๐ฌ
European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
PhD student at SYNMIKRO (Uni-Marburg)
Solve Biology
Head of Generative Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Systems + Synthetic Biology, CRG, Barcelona
http://barcelonacollaboratorium.com http://allox.bio https://www.sanger.ac.uk/programme/generative-and-synthetic-genomics/