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Susan Schlimpert

@s-lab.bsky.social

Microbiologist, Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, UK. Our group is interested in bacterial cell biology and development. We are particularly passionate about #Streptomyces. Lab website: www.schlimpertlab.com

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Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_T26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

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Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦β€ͺat the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

12.10.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do cells communicate when it’s hot? (FAULKNER_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via β€˜tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!)

How do cells communicate when it's hot?

Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

12.10.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Beyond Immunity: Uncovering the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs (SCHLIMPERT_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership Join us in exploring the hidden functions of ancient immune proteins in bacteria. Bacteria, like plants and animals, have evolved sophisticated systems to detect and respond to threats.

We have a PhD opportunity available in our group @johninnescentre.bsky.social through the NRP Doctoral Training Partnership. Help us uncover the Hidden Diversity of Bacterial NLRs.

Start date: October 2026. For more information and how to applyπŸ‘‰ biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/bey...

13.10.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to see this work out. I enjoyed our collaboration @antoinehocher and loved working on this project. Congrats to the entire team! @tunglejic.bsky.social

11.10.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Versatile NTP recognition and domain fusions expand the functional repertoire of the ParB-CTPase fold beyond chromosome segregation Nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-dependent molecular switches regulate essential cellular processes by cycling between active and inactive states through nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. These mechanis...

new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.

11.10.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA WΓΌrzburg, Bavaria.

08.10.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firingπŸ’₯ mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineeringπŸ§ͺ in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEMβ„οΈπŸ”¬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

08.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum JΓΌlich foc...

Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in β€žPhage Biology & Biotechnologyβ€œ.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

08.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Start independent research at the JIC with us πŸ‘‡.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more πŸ‘

03.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

03.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

please repost

30.09.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Engineering Spatial Control of Bacterial Organelles Bacteria were once thought to lack organelles, but it is now clear they confine cellular reactions using an array of membrane- and protein-based compartments. A central question, however, is how bacte...

New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧡

Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs

Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Why Do Filamentous Actinomycetota Produce Such a Vast Array of Specialized Metabolites? | Annual Reviews Bacteria of the phylum Actinomycetota are extremely diverse: They inhabit niches ranging from soils and ocean sediments to the normal human microbiota, and they cause tuberculosis, one of the most pre...

Our latest review is now live! Check out our thoughts on how the filamentous lifestyle of Actinomycetes and their ability to make a diverse array of natural products may be connected πŸ‘‡: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` you wanna hang out shoot the breeze '' ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` you wanna hang out shoot the breeze ''

🚨🚨🚨Calling all Caulophiles and Alpha aficionados - stayed tuned for a virtual CauloCon in early 2026. And HOPEFULLY an in person alpha meeting in 2027!! DM me or @chienlab.bsky.social w questions or to stay in the know.

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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? πŸ˜ƒApply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

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Exclusion systems preserve host cell homeostasis and fitness, ensuring successful dissemination of conjugative plasmids and associated resistance genes Abstract. Plasmid conjugation is a major driver of antibiotic resistance dissemination in bacteria. In addition to genes required for transfer and maintena

Exclusion systems, far from slowing down plasmid spread, are in fact essential to preserve host cell viability and thereby ensure the successful dissemination of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes.

@nfrk92.bsky.social
@narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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Molecular structure of the ESCRT III-based archaeal CdvAB cell division machinery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676241v1

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Many thanks to Katharina HΓΆfer @hoeferlab.bsky.social for giving an inspiring presentation about RNAylation at our annual "Early-Career Microbiologists Symposium" @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Many thanks also to #EMBO @embo.org for supporting this "Young Investigator Seminar".

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Julian Davies

Julian Davies

Julian Davies was a renowned scientist who made crucial strides in the study of antibiotics & antibiotic resistance. Honor his legacy at the Julian Davies Memorial Symposium on Oct. 10, hosted by the University of British Columbia. Register by Sept. 15 to attend via Zoom or in person! asm.social/2Af

10.09.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful news and many congratulations, Sebastian!

05.09.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All the best Mau for starting the Contreras Lab! Exciting times ahead :)

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W1TTW2 Professorship in Biology of Microorganisms (m/f/d)

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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-...

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Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging

Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

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Evolution and Ecology of Streptomyces | Annual Reviews Streptomyces are among the most well-studied and important groups of bacteria, largely owing to their prolific production of biomedically important compounds like antibiotics and antifungals. Research...

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

24.08.2025 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is still some time left to apply for these two Group Leader positions in Plant Biology and Microbe-Plant Interactions. Spread the word, apply & become our colleague @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook:
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila β€” and here’s why it blew our minds.

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Current practices in the study of biomolecular condensates: a community comment Nature Communications - The realization that the cell is abundantly compartmentalized into biomolecular condensates has opened new opportunities for understanding the physics and chemistry...

The Condensate Community Comment is out!
So honored to be a part of this incredible group of authors dedicated to moving this field in the right direction www.nature.com/articles/s41...

19.08.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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