Robert Jansen

The ISC - your new home at UMass Boston?

The view of Boston Harbor from front of campus

Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

This is a great op-ed by Dr. Stanley about the effects of anti-science politicized attacks on "gain-of-function" research. Much of this research poses little risk and has huge benefits for people across the globe. If your research has been affected, please consider writing an op-ed like Dr. Stanley.

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Spectroscopic insights into the mechanism of anammox hydrazine synthase Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria oxidize ammonium with nitrite as electron acceptor. Hydrazine is a free intermediate in this metabolis…

Spectroscopic insights into the mechanism of #anammox #hydrazine synthase by Versantvoort et al # microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social
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Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

National Academy of Medicine to Present Hamburg Award to Carl F. Nathan for Seminal Discoveries That Improve Understanding of Innate Immunity - NAM WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced that Carl F. Nathan is the recipient of the 2025 David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for

Congratulations to JEM Editorial Board Co-Chair Carl Nathan on receiving the 2025 David & Beatrix Hamburg Award from @nam.edu for his fundamental work in improving understanding of #InnateImmunity:

Great to see PhyloNaP out! Great tool, and it also connects to mite.bioinformatic.nl! #openscience #collaboration

Great new trait of #Methanoperedens archaea: Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic #methanotrophic archaea #aom #anme
Egas @cuwelte.bsky.social et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social
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Atomic resolution structures of the methane-activating enzyme in anaerobic methanotrophy reveal extensive post-translational modifications - Nature Communications Biochemical research on methane oxidation in anaerobic methanotrophic archaea is hampered by the lack of cultured isolates. Here, Müller et al. present atomic-resolution snapshots of the methane-oxidi...

💠 Happy to announce our latest paper in @natcomms.nature.com about the x-ray crystallography structures of three ANME MCRs purified from microbial enrichment cultures from @cuwelte.bsky.social and Gunter Wegener🌊🏞!

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

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

Experimental:
🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem

Modelling:
🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

Inorganic sulfate is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis lung tissue colonization and redox balance | PNAS Tuberculosis remains the deadliest infectious disease caused by a single pathogen, highlighting the urgent need for novel therapies. A deeper under...

Excited to share Wendy Le Mouëllic’s PhD work, now published in @pnas.org!
It reveals that M. tuberculosis depends on inorganic sulfate import to survive inside host cells—fueling essential processes such as redox balance and stress resistance.
Huge congrats to Wendy & colleagues!
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Coincidental and exciting! Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) do like carbon monoxide - two independent studies showcasing CO metabolism across freshwater and marine ANME (ANME-2d and -2b).

ANME-2d: doi.org/10.1101/2025... (Welte lab)
ANME-2b: reposted (Orphan lab)

Value the People Behind the Science Great labs aren’t defined by flashy papers — they’re defined by the culture that nurtures people.

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Lac-Phe induces hypophagia by inhibiting AgRP neurons in mice - Nature Metabolism This study reveals neuronal targets of Lac-Phe in the hypothalamus that mediate its suppression of food intake.

Great new work by Jon Long’s group, revealing the mechanism of action of the appetite-suppressing metabolite lac-Phe!

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We are looking to hire post-docs to work on T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection using murine and NHP models. If you know T cells and wanna work on the top global infectious killer check us out. BSL3 experience not required. The NIH intramural program in Bethesda MD is an amazing place!

Waarom Radboudwetenschappers door de Hortusvijver waden - Vox magazine

Our university magazine @voxweb.bsky.social made a video report of ongoing greenhouse gas experiments in a pond on Radboud University's campus! 🌿🫧🍂 www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/waaro...
@ecology-radboud.bsky.social [text is in Dutch, video in English with subtitles] #biology #ghg #waterplants

Five Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in Microbiology, Evolution, and Biological Clocks - College Station, Texas job with Department of Biology - TAMU | 675062 Texas A&M University (TAMU) invites applications for five full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor positions

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

YouTube video by Francis Crick Institute Researching the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease – with Maximiliano Gutierrez

Watch @maxgg.bsky.social, Group Leader at the Crick, as he explains what happens to cells that are infected with tuberculosis and how his lab is studying our bodies’ response to this infection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCt...

Really interesting work from our neighbor Clare Smith @dukemedschool.bsky.social starting from CC mice and linking Ctsz to TB infection outcome as well as functional variation in human populations (UW, Case Western, Uganda) and expression in human granulomas (@charliejpyle.bsky.social)

If you are interested, make sure to apply! I have been working with Marnix, Justin, and Daniel over the last few years and they are awesome!

Vacancy — Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis Are you pioneering molecular tools and applying advanced imaging strategies to uncover how microbial communities are organized and interact in space and time? If so, we invite you to join The Swammerd...

Assistant Professor position in the Microbiome Engineering group (Prof Sahar El Aidy) at University of Amsterdam

Assistant Professor in Microbiome Imaging and Functional Analysis
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!!

@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.

Faculty opening in Cornell Chemistry at the Assistant Professor level in the area of chemical biology, broadly defined! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30338 #chemjobs

Reverse Spectral Search Reimagined: A Simple but Overlooked Solution for Chimeric Spectral Annotation The exponential growth of untargeted metabolomics data, now reaching billions of mass spectra in public repositories, benefits from reannotation strategies for data reuse. While tandem mass spectromet...

Brilliant! 50 years after reverse spectral matching in GC-MS, a refined reverse search strategy to improve annotation rates. By @shipei-xing.bsky.social @vincentlamoureux.bsky.social Haoqi N. Zhao @yelabiead.bsky.social @mingxunwang.bsky.social @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social
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Open positions GR-SCHUHMACHER

We are hiring!

If you are looking for a postdoc position and you are interested in signaling lipids and proteomics, come join us in beautiful Switzerland!

More information on www.epfl.ch/labs/gr-schu...

A missing enzyme-rescue metabolite as cause of a rare skeletal dysplasia - Nature In mammals, the enzyme TGDS produces UDP-4-keto-6-deoxyglucose, which binds to the catalytic pocket of UDP-xylose synthase, thereby regenerating the essential NAD+ cofactor of UDP-xylose synthase...

A missing enzyme-rescue metabolite as cause of a rare skeletal dysplasia

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Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Assistant/Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - McGovern Medical School in Texas, United States | Faculty & Physicians at UTHealth Houston Apply for Assistant/Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics - McGovern Medical School job with UTHealth Houston in Texas, United States. Faculty & Physicians at UTHealth Houston

My alma mater is hiring a microbiologist! Assistant/Associate Prof. 👇👇