Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
01.08.2025 09:06 — 👍 157 🔁 184 💬 1 📌 13
Prachtvolle Dahlien in verschiedenen Farben blühen im Botanischen Garten. Auf schmalen Pfaden wandeln Besucherinnen dazwischen umher.
Unser Botanischer Garten ist Heimat vieler außergewöhnlicher Pflanzen: von prachtvollen Dahlien (das Bild zeigt sie in den 1980ern) bis zur Leberwurstblume und dem Trompetenbaum. Ab sofort könnt ihr Patenschaften für 60 verschiedene Pflanzen übernehmen. 👉️ https://www.bogafreundeskreis.de/patenshop
14.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
🚀 Join us for our 20. (!) 🌟
VAAM Industry-Academia Panel on
"Synthetic Microbiology Driven Drug Discovery"
We're excited to welcome:
🎤 Steven Schmitt - Myria Biosciences AG, Basel
🎤 Helge Bode - @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social, Marburg
📅 Thu July 17th, 4 PM CEST
📝 Register here: t1p.de/rqk1z
15.07.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Emmy Noether Programme:
in English
Friday, 18. July 2025, 10-11:30 a.m. CET
#Prospects PhDs & postdocs of all disciplines note: Would you like to lead an independent junior research group? In our online talk you will get first-hand information about the aims and requirements of the DFG Emmy Noether Programme and more. Link to the meeting will be published here: fcld.ly/enp
09.07.2025 13:29 — 👍 37 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 3
Weiße Schrift auf rosa Hintergrund: "Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster!"
Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster! 🎉 Wir gratulieren den Forschenden der Cluster CASA und @solvationsci.bsky.social zu ihrem verdienten Erfolg.
22.05.2025 16:41 — 👍 37 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
22.05.2025 18:10 — 👍 115 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 7
Netzausfall an der Ruhr-Universität
Das Problem ist bekannt, an einer Lösung wird gearbeitet.
Aktuell kommt es zu Netzausfällen an der RUB. Sobald uns weitere Informationen vorliegen, werden wir dazu im Newsportal informieren. 👇
19.05.2025 14:30 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Job alert 🦠🧪: We are looking for a postdoc (and PhD candidate!) to join our team at UCLouvain/de Duve institute in Brussels, Belgium. You will work on our ERC Starting Grant project aimed at characterizing cell cycle regulation in S. pneumoniae. More information here: dewachterlab.com/join-us/.
05.05.2025 12:56 — 👍 7 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
*** 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 — 👍 17 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
The review process for the individual grants programmes – how it works
Why is the DFG asking me to provide a review? Our Head Office invites suitably qualified and renowned national and international experts to review proposals submitted on specific research topics. We have compiled key reasons and practical information:
www.dfg.de/en/research-...
28.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 18 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
Registration is open, look forward to seeing you!
microbialrnameeting.com
15.04.2025 10:49 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to host 900 microbiologists in Bochum
24.03.2025 12:02 — 👍 25 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to Luitpold Fried, winner of the 2025 VAAM Innovation Award✨🥇!
At Bind-X GmbH, Fried´s team optimized microbial calcite production for mining, road construction, and agriculture - reducing CO2 emissions and water usage by up to 90%.
🔗https://t1p.de/qe1zk
#VAAM2025 #VAAMAward
21.03.2025 09:11 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We are ready to go to Bochum for the VAAM Annual Conference starting on Sunday and looking forward to seeing you soon🤩!Have a good trip to Bochum - and note the construction word at Bochum main station 🛤️.
vaam-kongress.de
#VAAM2025 #microbiology
21.03.2025 10:52 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations ✨🎉to Dr Kathrin Froehlich, Jena on the VAAM Research Award 2025!🏆
Her work on regulatory RNA molecules in bacteria shows how microbes use RNA to adapt to their environment and makes it possible to better understand and combat pathogens.
t1p.de/2ghut
#VAAM2025
20.03.2025 10:35 — 👍 32 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
The countdown for #VAAM2025 has started, just one week to go! Looking forward to see you in Bochum soon!
➡️ Check all details here: vaam-kongress.de
14.03.2025 08:25 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
VAAM promotional picture
Just two weeks until #VAAM2025 🦠🤩
Meet us at the @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social booth 👋 or at the following posters and talks 👩🏫:
Poster P-CM-103 (Monday): #BacDive
Poster P-MDE-143 (Monday): #LPSN
Poster P-OT-346 (Tuesday): #SILVA
Presentation (Monday lunch symposium): #StrainInfo
10.03.2025 08:11 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
07.03.2025 02:10 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
In addition to the inspiring main program
#VAAM2025 Annual Conference offers a variety of special events:
➡️ VAAM Young Scientist Network
⏰ Monday 24.3., 12:30–14:00
Check all details in the program: 🔗https://t1p.de/4pz17
#VAAM #AnnualConference2025 #Microbiology
04.03.2025 13:45 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
DFG gibt Impulse für neue Legislaturperiode
DFG gibt Impulse für die 21. Legislaturperiode und benennt 10 Handlungsfelder für die zentralen wissenschaftspolitischen Weichenstellungen, um die erkenntnisgeleitete Forschung wettbewerbsfähiger auch im internationalen Raum aufzustellen. 1/2
Kernthemen im Überblick 🔽
www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
26.02.2025 10:07 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
#VAAM2025 is just around the corner😍
Get ready for insightful presentations, special events, VAAM awards, networking opportunities & join us in #Bochum
💡 Secure your spot early & enjoy a quick check-in on-site with your personal QR code to dive straight into the congress!
🔗 vaam-kongress.de
25.02.2025 12:00 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
📢Save the Date📢
17. VAAM Industry-Academia Panel on
"Enzymes Tailored to Fit: From Nature to Industrial Application"
📅 Thursday, Feb 20
⏰ 4 PM, online
Register free to get valuable insights from our expert speakers 🖊️https://t1p.de/rqk1z
Open also to non-VAAM members
13.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
REMINDER
VAAM Industry-Academia Panel (IAP)
📅 Thu, Feb 20⏰ 4:00 PM
💻 Online (Zoom)
Topic:
"Enzymes tailored to fit - from nature to industrial application"
Registration link🔗 t1p.de/6zzes
17.02.2025 12:10 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
PROSPECTS DFG Career Series
• 18. Februar, 13:30 - 15:00 Uhr - Heisenberg-Programme (in English)
• 26. März, 9:30-11 Uhr - DFG Funding Opportunities for Postdocs (in English)
• 28. April, 13:15-14:45 Uhr - Emmy Noether Programm
• 26. Mai, 15:30-17:00 Uhr - Walter Benjamin Programme (in English)
• 27. Juni, 10:30 - 12:00 Uhr - DFG Förderangebote für die wissenschaftliche Karriere
#ECR aufgepasst! 📅 Unter dem Motto #PROSPECTS informiert unser Team #Karriereförderung regelmäßig über die verschiedenen Fördermöglichkeiten bei der #DFG. Nächste Woche starten die Talks 2025. In der ersten Jahreshälfte haben wir folgende Termine. Mehr Infos und Zugang: www.dfg.de/de/foerderun...
13.02.2025 15:49 — 👍 26 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 5
New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.
Because diversity increases excellence!
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
12.02.2025 11:34 — 👍 89 🔁 98 💬 0 📌 1
Really bad 😫
09.02.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From single cells to intricately constructed colonies - bacteria are multicellular wonders! An interdisciplinary research effort to unravel the intricate paths, regulation systems and structures behind the multifaceted forms of bacterial multicellularity
Professor of Life Sciences & Director Global Health Institute @EPFL_en. HHMI International Scholar alumni. Passionate about science 🤩 Views are my own.
Streptococcus pneumoniae cell biology at UCLouvain & de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium
Exploring how cyanobacteria changed the wO2rld, One oxygen molecule at a time!
Specifically on the early Earth as well as current day climate change effects on primary productivity (both C & N fixation), symbioses and secondary metabolite production.
Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
Postdoc at Leibniz Uni Hannover @AGTschowri Interested in actinobacterial metabolism, mostly Streptomyces
RNAholic, Scientist, interested in architectural roles, packaging and binding codes
#RNA, #splicing, #condensates
"Dynamic Organization of Cellular Protein Machineries: From Biogenesis and Modular Assembly to Function"
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) funded by the DFG at the University of Freiburg
Speaker: Chris Meisinger
http://sfb1381.uni-freiburg.de/imprint
Systems Microbiology @EMBL, combining high-throughput approaches & mechanism in bacteria, antibiotics, microbiome, infection, species diversity, cell envelope
https://www.embl.org/groups/typas/
Postdoc in bacterial systems biology in the Heilbronner lab, LMU. Previously Peschel lab and Brochado lab.
Microbiologist | PostDoc in @IMIB/ZINF Wuerzburg, working on pseudouridine modification and Ribo-seq in tiny organisms | AG Sharma
Lab Manager in the Bravo Lab @istaresearch.bsky.social
part of the Dynamic Duo with @belkoopal.bsky.social
microbes | defense systems | small proteins | cats
Assistant Professor of Environmental Microbiology at ETH Zurich | https://envmicrobiol.ethz.ch/
The Spectroscopy & Biocatalysis Group @ Uni Potsdam | DFG Heisenberg Fellow | Guest-Prof TU Berlin 2023/24 | Born at 338 ppm | Not a Strip Club
https://uni-potsdam.de/en/specbiocat | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZtfyzRoAAAAJ&hl=en
Molecular microbiology (Corynebacterium, Listeria), live biosensors and biotechnology of bacteriocins and other fancy peptides @ Ulm University
Experimental ecology and evolution | microbes | evolution of metabolic interactions | cooperation | bacterial multicellularity.
Bacterial cell biology and biochemistry | Professor at the University of Marburg, Germany
Roaming at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Interested in bacteria, cell biology, motility, phages and the various wonders of life.
Bioresources | Cleantech | Cultural Heritage | #SciPol & Diplomacy @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social
Director @femsmicro.org Board
(frm) Prof. Industrial Microb.& Biotech. Univ. BuenosAires / Inst.Antartico Argentino
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliagflocco
Postdoc in the Lab of Berenike Maier @maierlab.bsky.social, IBP Cologne. Type 4 Pili, Micro-colonies
Formerly @Diepold-Lab.bsky.social at MPI Marburg(now KIT Karlsruhe). T3SS, spatial temporal organisation