Susanne Gebhard
@gebhardlab.bsky.social
Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology at JGU Mainz, Germany. Loving the positivity of Gram+ bugs and the wonderful things they get up to
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Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗
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Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production
Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson
www.gla.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production
Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4
September 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4
New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Decoding the functional role of the calcium ATPase YloB in microbially induced calcite precipitation and sporulation in Solibacillus silvestris
Calcium homeostasis is essential for bacterial physiology, yet its regulation and role in specialized processes such as microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) and sporulation remain poorly u...
www.biorxiv.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores
July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores
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Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
The Society has supported the microbiology community for 80 years. Now we invite you to get involved by submitting your research, helping to shape the future of science and innovation. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...
June 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
June 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
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New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM
wwwfbm.unil.ch
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
June 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
June 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
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Microbiology Outlooks joins our portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our community, amplifying the voices of members across disciplines to advance understanding and address global challenges. Find out more in the blog: microb.io/4e4oe6W
June 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Microbiology Outlooks joins our portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our community, amplifying the voices of members across disciplines to advance understanding and address global challenges. Find out more in the blog: microb.io/4e4oe6W
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Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy
42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....
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April 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
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Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
June 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to knockingoutamr@microbiologysociety.org. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.
June 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to knockingoutamr@microbiologysociety.org. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.
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Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab
#BACELL2025
#BACELL2025
June 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab
#BACELL2025
#BACELL2025
Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳
Excellent PhD defence 🎓 about bacterial secretion systems today by Friederike Pisarz at @unimainz-events.bsky.social. Very proud supervisor moments. Congratulations, Friederike, well done 🥳
May 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳
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Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Clostridioides difficile is a bacterial priority pathogen
www.sciencedirect.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay!
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
May 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay!
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
Big thank you to @jeaninerismondo.bsky.social for the invitation and a wonderful day in Göttingen full of science and cake and coffee! Also thanks to @joergstuelke.bsky.social for the night tour of the city. Very glad I finally got to visit this hot spot of Science past and present 🧫🦠🔬
May 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Big thank you to @jeaninerismondo.bsky.social for the invitation and a wonderful day in Göttingen full of science and cake and coffee! Also thanks to @joergstuelke.bsky.social for the night tour of the city. Very glad I finally got to visit this hot spot of Science past and present 🧫🦠🔬
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Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
April 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Join the Blokesch lab (@EPFL) as a postdoc in Molecular Microbiology 🤩
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
Study Vibrio cholerae defense systems (phage/plasmid) in a dynamic, collaborative environment in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva in 🇨🇭!
Please visit my lab's webpage for details about the position and how to formally apply.
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In B. subtilis, TerC proteins function in Mn export to support the metalation of exoenzymes. MeeY is also required (directly or indirectly) for production of surfactin, a lipopeptide required for swarming motility! (collab. with Dan Kearns' lab @IU).
#MicroSky
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#MicroSky
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The TerC family metal chaperone MeeY enables surfactin export in Bacillus subtilis | Journal of Bacteriology
Bacillus subtilis produces surfactin, a powerful detergent-like compound that functions in intercellular communication, surface motility, and as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial agent. Production of surfactin, a cyclic lipopeptide, depends on a non-...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In B. subtilis, TerC proteins function in Mn export to support the metalation of exoenzymes. MeeY is also required (directly or indirectly) for production of surfactin, a lipopeptide required for swarming motility! (collab. with Dan Kearns' lab @IU).
#MicroSky
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
#MicroSky
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford
Please apply and share this post:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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April 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford
Please apply and share this post:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...
Please apply and share this post:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...
Whoohoo, new paper just published! New insights into the metabolic processes leading to bacterial biomineralisation 🧫🔬
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Whoohoo, new paper just published! New insights into the metabolic processes leading to bacterial biomineralisation 🧫🔬
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Much happiness in the team 😇🥳
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As a not-for-profit, the Microbiology Society has invested in research for 80 years. By publishing with us, you help ensure the continued success and development of the microbiology community. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...
March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As a not-for-profit, the Microbiology Society has invested in research for 80 years. By publishing with us, you help ensure the continued success and development of the microbiology community. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...
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Having a great time @vaam-microbes.bsky.social. Wonderful to catch up with friend @gebhardlab.bsky.social (thanks for the invite) and opening for the Evolution of Regulation session was a thrill.
March 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Having a great time @vaam-microbes.bsky.social. Wonderful to catch up with friend @gebhardlab.bsky.social (thanks for the invite) and opening for the Evolution of Regulation session was a thrill.