Sonja Billerbeck
@billerbecks.bsky.social
Synthetic Biologist, Protein and Genome Engineer, Microbe and Fungi Fan
www.billerbecklab.com
www.billerbecklab.com
New paper out by @aliciamv.bsky.social 🤩🥳
…where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid
academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...
…where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid
academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...
Pulcherriminic acid Biosynthesis and Transport: Insights from a heterologous system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstract. Pulcherriminic acid is an iron chelator produced by some Kluyveromyces and Metschnikowia yeasts. Its biosynthesis is encoded by the four–gene PUL
academic.oup.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New paper out by @aliciamv.bsky.social 🤩🥳
…where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid
academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...
…where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid
academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...
Brilliant #DailyShow life yesterday in NYC hosted by Jon Stewart 🤩! Good to see voices raised
Jon Stewart to Los Angeles: ‘Is Your City Ever Not on Fire?’
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/a...
Jon Stewart to Los Angeles: ‘Is Your City Ever Not on Fire?’
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/a...
June 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Brilliant #DailyShow life yesterday in NYC hosted by Jon Stewart 🤩! Good to see voices raised
Jon Stewart to Los Angeles: ‘Is Your City Ever Not on Fire?’
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/a...
Jon Stewart to Los Angeles: ‘Is Your City Ever Not on Fire?’
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/a...
Join us for the next edition of this wonderful conference series in 2026! The last editions were very well received by all participants! Great speakers, setting and atmosphere.
Discover the #SyntheticBiology based innovations driving improvements in human health and planetary sustainability! #SynBio26
Join us at the intersection of bioengineering and medical science for sharing, networking and collaboration.
🗓️11-13 March 2026
📎Meeting info: bit.ly/43nlbBW
#ALife ⚙️🧫
Join us at the intersection of bioengineering and medical science for sharing, networking and collaboration.
🗓️11-13 March 2026
📎Meeting info: bit.ly/43nlbBW
#ALife ⚙️🧫
May 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Join us for the next edition of this wonderful conference series in 2026! The last editions were very well received by all participants! Great speakers, setting and atmosphere.
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I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
May 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
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My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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If you are in #Groningen tomorrow, don't forget the upcoming YAG's Pub Lectures:
* Clemens Mayer: Evolution as an all-purpose problem solver
* Corina Prent: Innovation and imagination
📅 16 April
🕔 17.00-18.00
📍 Café de Toeter
* Clemens Mayer: Evolution as an all-purpose problem solver
* Corina Prent: Innovation and imagination
📅 16 April
🕔 17.00-18.00
📍 Café de Toeter
April 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you are in #Groningen tomorrow, don't forget the upcoming YAG's Pub Lectures:
* Clemens Mayer: Evolution as an all-purpose problem solver
* Corina Prent: Innovation and imagination
📅 16 April
🕔 17.00-18.00
📍 Café de Toeter
* Clemens Mayer: Evolution as an all-purpose problem solver
* Corina Prent: Innovation and imagination
📅 16 April
🕔 17.00-18.00
📍 Café de Toeter
Can expression of a peptide lead to antimicrobial resistance? Yes it can!
We discovered this for a toxin we work with and started exploring how #peptides, #antimicrobialresistance and de-novo gene birth can come together.
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Amazing work by @rianneprins.bsky.social
We discovered this for a toxin we work with and started exploring how #peptides, #antimicrobialresistance and de-novo gene birth can come together.
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Amazing work by @rianneprins.bsky.social
Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds
Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds
The secretion of antimicrobials is widespread among microorganisms, many of which have developed protection mechanisms. While well-characterized protection mechanisms involve relatively large proteins – such as exporters or compound- or target-modifying…
dlvr.it
April 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Can expression of a peptide lead to antimicrobial resistance? Yes it can!
We discovered this for a toxin we work with and started exploring how #peptides, #antimicrobialresistance and de-novo gene birth can come together.
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Amazing work by @rianneprins.bsky.social
We discovered this for a toxin we work with and started exploring how #peptides, #antimicrobialresistance and de-novo gene birth can come together.
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
Amazing work by @rianneprins.bsky.social
Great opportunity at a great place to work!
Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London
🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖
If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
🎉🚨🇬🇧🫖
If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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www.imperial.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Great opportunity at a great place to work!
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LIVEBLOG in English: The University of Groningen is on strike on Tuesday, March 18, due to the looming budget cuts in higher education. In this live blog, we will follow the strike, which is unique in the university’s history, hour by hour. ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
Liveblog: the RUG is on strike against impending mega budget cuts
De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen staakt dinsdag 18 maart vanwege de dreigende bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. In dit liveblog volgen we de staking, uniek in de Groningse universitaire geschiedenis...
ukrant.nl
March 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
LIVEBLOG in English: The University of Groningen is on strike on Tuesday, March 18, due to the looming budget cuts in higher education. In this live blog, we will follow the strike, which is unique in the university’s history, hour by hour. ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
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Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag.
#DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social
ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
#DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social
ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
Liveblog: de RUG staakt tegen dreigende megabezuiniging
De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen staakt dinsdag 18 maart vanwege de dreigende bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. In dit liveblog volgen we de staking, uniek in de Groningse universitaire geschiedenis...
ukrant.nl
March 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag.
#DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social
ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
#DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social
ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
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🟥 Solidarity with my colleagues in the Netherlands, striking today (and in the coming weeks) to resist outrageous budget cuts proposed by the far-right-led government. 💪
Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼
Here is tomorrow’s program. We’re meeting at 11 a.m. at the Garenmarktplein in Leiden. The program starts at 11.30. The teach outs are throughout the day in The Hague and Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
March 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🟥 Solidarity with my colleagues in the Netherlands, striking today (and in the coming weeks) to resist outrageous budget cuts proposed by the far-right-led government. 💪
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Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by
@rianneprins.bsky.social and @billerbecks.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by
@rianneprins.bsky.social and @billerbecks.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds
The secretion of antimicrobials is widespread among microorganisms, many of which
have developed protection mechanisms. While well-characterized protection mechanisms
involve relatively large proteins...
www.cell.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by
@rianneprins.bsky.social and @billerbecks.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by
@rianneprins.bsky.social and @billerbecks.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Join us @apnet.bsky.social to build a strong network of Assistant Professors in the Netherlands. www.ap-net.nl/register
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Join us @apnet.bsky.social to build a strong network of Assistant Professors in the Netherlands. www.ap-net.nl/register
For yeast and fungi fans: I’ll be speaking about our work on the yeast toxicome on March 13th. Hybrid attendance possible.
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18820...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18820...
Imperial Fungal Science Network | Seminar Series 2025 | Seminar
A hybrid seminar program focussing on our key research themes: Biotechnology and Engineering; Ecology, Evolution and the Environment.
www.imperial.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
For yeast and fungi fans: I’ll be speaking about our work on the yeast toxicome on March 13th. Hybrid attendance possible.
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18820...
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18820...
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It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
February 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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🚨 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
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
September 30, 2024 at 4:30 PM
🚨 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
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
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Hi Skeeps, if you are in the London area and would like me to speak at your university or company, I will be in London on Thursday April 10 and Friday April 11.
Looking for talks that can offer some travel/lodging reimbursement.
Looking for talks that can offer some travel/lodging reimbursement.
February 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hi Skeeps, if you are in the London area and would like me to speak at your university or company, I will be in London on Thursday April 10 and Friday April 11.
Looking for talks that can offer some travel/lodging reimbursement.
Looking for talks that can offer some travel/lodging reimbursement.
February 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
For those working with antifungal yeast, we consolidated protocols to test for killing, immunity and suicidal phenotypes by @_rprins 🥳🥳
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
February 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
For those working with antifungal yeast, we consolidated protocols to test for killing, immunity and suicidal phenotypes by @_rprins 🥳🥳
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Split-And-pool Metagenomic Plot-sampling sequencing (SAMPL-seq) can be applied to complex microbial communities to reveal spatial co-localization of microbes at the micron scale.
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out now! We consolidated >600 Dutch yeast and characterised their activity against spoilage yeasts and relevant human and plant pathogens, focusing on yeasts that secrete antifungal proteins. Great resource for biocontrol and beyond.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/
February 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Out now! We consolidated >600 Dutch yeast and characterised their activity against spoilage yeasts and relevant human and plant pathogens, focusing on yeasts that secrete antifungal proteins. Great resource for biocontrol and beyond.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/
Big day!
New year, new job 🤩.
Settled into my new office and
visited the partly original DNA helix model by Watson and Crick in the London Science Museum next door.
Fully inspired for 2025 now 😆!
New year, new job 🤩.
Settled into my new office and
visited the partly original DNA helix model by Watson and Crick in the London Science Museum next door.
Fully inspired for 2025 now 😆!
January 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Big day!
New year, new job 🤩.
Settled into my new office and
visited the partly original DNA helix model by Watson and Crick in the London Science Museum next door.
Fully inspired for 2025 now 😆!
New year, new job 🤩.
Settled into my new office and
visited the partly original DNA helix model by Watson and Crick in the London Science Museum next door.
Fully inspired for 2025 now 😆!
Best farewell gift by @dirkscheffers.bsky.social !
2025 Discovery walks and runs in my new home fixed 😁.
Meanwhile saying good bye to pretty Groningen in Christmas lights.
2025 Discovery walks and runs in my new home fixed 😁.
Meanwhile saying good bye to pretty Groningen in Christmas lights.
December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Best farewell gift by @dirkscheffers.bsky.social !
2025 Discovery walks and runs in my new home fixed 😁.
Meanwhile saying good bye to pretty Groningen in Christmas lights.
2025 Discovery walks and runs in my new home fixed 😁.
Meanwhile saying good bye to pretty Groningen in Christmas lights.
Reposted by Sonja Billerbeck
🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨
Join the Molinari Lab @UMD_BioE as a Postdoctoral Associate or Staff Scientist and help shape the future of engineered living materials! 💡🔬
📅 Apply today by sending your CV and cover letter at saramol@umd.edu
#syntheticbiology #ELMs
Join the Molinari Lab @UMD_BioE as a Postdoctoral Associate or Staff Scientist and help shape the future of engineered living materials! 💡🔬
📅 Apply today by sending your CV and cover letter at saramol@umd.edu
#syntheticbiology #ELMs
December 10, 2024 at 8:10 PM
🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨
Join the Molinari Lab @UMD_BioE as a Postdoctoral Associate or Staff Scientist and help shape the future of engineered living materials! 💡🔬
📅 Apply today by sending your CV and cover letter at saramol@umd.edu
#syntheticbiology #ELMs
Join the Molinari Lab @UMD_BioE as a Postdoctoral Associate or Staff Scientist and help shape the future of engineered living materials! 💡🔬
📅 Apply today by sending your CV and cover letter at saramol@umd.edu
#syntheticbiology #ELMs
Christmas lab dinner with this lovely bunch ☺️
December 10, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Christmas lab dinner with this lovely bunch ☺️