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Bacterial cell biology and biochemistry | Professor at the University of Marburg, Germany

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Also see recent complementary work from the Priyadarshini lab on this topic: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

17.10.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Peptidoglycan recycling is critical for cell division, cell wall integrity and ฮฒ-lactam resistance in Caulobacter crescentus Most bacteria possess a peptidoglycan sacculus, which is continuously remodeled during cell growth and division. The peptidoglycan (PG) fragments generated in this process are typically imported into ...

We are happy to share our latest preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A great collaboration with Waldemar Vollmerโ€™s group, along with our fantastic proteomics and metabolomics facilities.

@synmikro.bsky.social

17.10.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“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 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

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

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

03.10.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation - Nature Communications ParABS systems partition chromosomal DNA and low-copy plasmids in bacteria. Here, the authors elucidate the mode of interaction between ParA and ParB and clarify how ParB stimulates the ATPase activity of ParA to drive the segregation process.

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

#microsky

26.09.2025 18:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

We investigate the
โ–ช๏ธfunction and conservation of the bactofilin MTS
โ–ช๏ธcooperativity of membrane binding and polymerization
โ–ช๏ธrole of client proteins in bactofilin assembly

Thanks to the Schรคfer and Bange labs as well as our HDX and EM facilities for the fruitful collaboration!

24.09.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

@synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social

24.09.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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! ๐Ÿงต

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...

23.09.2025 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 41    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

17.09.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? ๐ŸŒŸMax Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to โ‚ฌ2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? ๐Ÿ˜ƒApply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...

15.09.2025 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 100    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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17.09.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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We're hiring a DFG-funded PhD student (TVรถD E13, 65%) at Max Planck Institute, Marburg to study quorum sensing in Klebsiella & hostโ€“pathogen interplay. 3 yrs, start flexible. Apply by Sep 30, 2025 (rolling). Send 1 PDF to laganenka@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

02.09.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Talk slots full but we can take late breaking poster abstracts until August 7th. Hope to see you in York to hear about your chromosome story ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿฆ ๐Ÿงซ

www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/f...

@vslioy.bsky.social @damelab.bsky.social @graingerlab.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @biophychrom.bsky.social

25.07.2025 12:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Evolutionary repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cyanobacterial cell shape Bacteria, despite their diversity, use conserved cytoskeletal systems for their intracellular organization. In unicellular bacteria, the ParMRC DNA partitioning apparatus is well known for forming act...

One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint!

Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

02.07.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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17.06.2025 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Congratulations to Rebecca Hinrichs on her first senior-author paper! @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

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

06.06.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

How does your favorite species elongate? ๐Ÿงต "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species". Happy to see this paper in print @natcomms.nature.com. Nice work by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al. See original ๐Ÿงต, different colours, same data and conclusions.

02.06.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Bactofilins are essential spatial organizers of peptidoglycan insertion in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has a distinctive pattern of growth. Newly-born cells elongate by primarily inserting peptidoglycan at mid-cell, while in longer cells, additional inse...

A new study from the Takacs lab, showing that bactofilins are essential for viability and critical for cell shape in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi:

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

04.05.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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*** Only a few days left to apply ***

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

Spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes by CTP-switches in bacteria

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

01.05.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Learning the dynamic organization of a replicating bacterial chromosome from time-course Hi-C data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647011v1

09.04.2025 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#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...

02.04.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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New postdoc position available at IBVF!

19.03.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation DNA segregation by bacterial ParABS systems is mediated by transient tethering interactions between nucleoid-bound dimers of the ATPase ParA and centromere (parS)-associated complexes of the clamp-for...

Interested in the bacterial ParABS DNA segregation system? Then have a look at our latest preprint... ๐Ÿงฌ

Thanks to the Hennig and Bange groups for the great collaboration!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

18.03.2025 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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13.02.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Congratulations, Geraldine!

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