Erik Bakkeren

Thank you for the very well-written preview @romanagerner1.bsky.social !! Much appreciated.

In other good news, the paper is finally available open access:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!

Replaced by my favourite, the mountain goat, this time 😁

Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better!

Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁

Very fun collaborative piece with @vit-pi.bsky.social and Kevin Foster

Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering Many plants and animals, including humans, host diverse communities of microbes that provide many benefits. A key challenge in understanding microbiom…

Out today, @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social! Microbiomes have many benefits, but they are also often incredibly diverse and variable. This makes them hard to understand and even harder to engineer. We argue that the key may lie in microbial metabolism!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My postdoc mentor Kevin Foster is hiring postdocs! Apply to join an exciting research group looking at ecology and evolution of the gut microbiome.
Kevin is a fantastic mentor and I can completely recommend: www.fosterlab.uk/vacancies

Please circulate widely:

We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology

We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education

tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Mentors play such an important role in the career and confidence of budding scientists...

Many congratulations to Rebecca and Erik, winners of the first Dunn School Marvellous Mentor Award. Another great initiative by our student association!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Postdoctoral researcher –Understanding bacterial metabolism in the urinary tract

Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal:

www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Closing date: 24th Feburary
🧪🧫🔬

We just can't stop recruiting!

Associate professor in cell and molecular biology @dunnschool, with a preference for immunology, inflammation and/or infection - all defined broadly

Come and be our colleague

Deadline 28 Feb, please spread the word

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab.
Check it out here:
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
@typaslab.bsky.social

Ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut microbiome across global populations - Nature Microbiology Assessing more than 12,000 metagenomic samples from across the world using computational approaches, the authors determined interactions between species that co-colonize or co-exclude Enterobacteriace...

Delighted to share the first peer-reviewed paper from our team @camvetschool.bsky.social where we investigate the ecological dynamics of Enterobacteriaceae in the human gut #microbiome: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

Joy! Published today in PNAS: multi-toxin T6SS attacks limit resistance evolution in competitors!

Big thanks to our wonderful team of collaborators for all their help: @coytelab.bsky.social @knightjar.bsky.social @basler-lab.bsky.social @brockhurstlab.bsky.social 🎉

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just as the year ends, I wanted to share some news! I will be starting at the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor in Sept. 2025 🇨🇦
Very excited to continue to work on understanding and editing microbiomes using ecology with new colleagues and coworkers! Stay tuned for recruitment updates

Register by 11:59pm MST on Jan. 3, 2025, to save $200 on our joint conference on Human Microbiome / Host-Microbe Co-Evolution. Enjoy 2 conferences for the price of one! keysym.us/KSHumanMicro25 / keysym.us/KSHostMicrob... #KSHumanMicro25 #KSHostMicrobe25 #microbiome #humanmicrobiome #microbiota

Antimicrobial activity of iron-depriving pyoverdines against human opportunistic pathogens Iron-chelating pyoverdines from environmental Pseudomonas spp. show promising antibacterial activity against key human pathogens through the induction of iron starvation, while associated toxicity for...

Are #pyoverdines effective antibacterials?🦠💊
Yes! We found strong competitive and antibacterial effects against #ESKAPE pathogens via iron depletion.
Out now in @elife.bsky.social: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... (1/4)
With @rkmicrobes.bsky.social and amazing collaborators from #UZH & @ethzurich.bsky.social

Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...

Nora finished her paper with a sentence I like a lot "Our results show that even under extremely restrictive, competitive conditions, the simplest biological entities on Earth can still find paths to coexistence." There is a curious dichotomy in her experiments... 1/3
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are looking for 2 #postdoctoral fellows on #gutmicrobiota, #diet and the #gut mucosal barrier in #health and #disease!
Details & Application: umustipendie.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please share!!

#postdoc #postdocjob #academicjobs #MicroSky #GISky #Microbiome #MicroSky #AcademicSky #PhdSky

Looking north at the Washington Square Arch, with 1 Fifth avenue behind it and a fountain in front of it. NYU Biology is a block to the right from this scene, on Washington Square East.

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!!
We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics.
Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success.
Apply!
apply.interfolio.com/155792

There are four (that's right four!) academic posts open at the School of Biological sciences at Cambridge University. Check them out here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?categor... Gr10/11 (AssocProf/Reader; now Prof) Closing 26/1/25. Looking for excellent, collaborative people. Spread the word!

Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

We are recruiting an associate or full Professor of Infection and/or Immunity to the school biological sciences in Cambridge. Full details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/
#immunology #virology

Chair Appointments within Manchester Institute of Biotechnology:Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California Davis, School of Medicine, invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Microbiome Sciences. Apply by December 11th at:

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics.

14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open-rank tenure track positions in computational biology! Come work with a gaggle of great colleagues in the CMSE department at Michigan State! #msu #cmse #compbio #bioinformatics #genomics #BioSky

careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job...

We’re looking to hire a theoretical #biological #physicist at either the Assistant or Associate professor level. The post closes soon, so please spread the word. #Toronto is a great place to live and work.

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...