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Petra Dersch
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Infection Biologist, pathogenic bacteria, microbial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, regulatory RNAs
Head of the Institute of Infectiology, University Münster, Germany
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Yesterday, our #ResearchCareers team gave an online presentation on DFG funding in the Walter Benjamin Programme. If you missed it, don't worry. We have a film about funded researchers and general information on this programme available: www.dfg.de/walter_benja...
youtu.be/wLe8xCMSpLA?...
Faces: The Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG
YouTube video by DFG bewegt
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October 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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🔎 Find us at the 77th #DGHM Meeting in #Jena! Gabriele Pradel, Anja Lührmann, Sandra Reuter, Bärbel Stecher and others are happy to tell you more about our German network for women in infection research! 💜
👩‍🔬@gabrielepradel.bsky.social @sandrareuter.bsky.social @baerboletta.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!
Group Leader – Molecular Systems Biology Unit
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Molecular Systems Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group, addressing original biological ...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🦠 New @nature.com study finds that respiratory viruses like flu & COVID can wake up dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, triggering metastatic growth within days. This IL‑6‑driven inflammation correlated w/ higher metastasis & mortality risk in cancer survivors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Ein Team um Johannes Krause vom Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie hat den Ort entdeckt, an dem der Schwarze Tod seinen Ausgang nahm. Diese #Infografik veranschaulicht die Ausbreitungswege der #Pest.
May 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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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-...
The review process for the individual grants programmes – how it works
www.dfg.de
April 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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The field of bacterial immunity is incredibly vibrant with many novel discoveries and fantastic new biology.
Here is a nice summary of some of the work done recently!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The hunt for the next CRISPR: how warring microbes are inspiring new technology
Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But scientists have only begun to unlock the secrets of this ancient arms race.
www.nature.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
Stem cells to treat Parkinson's? Two small studies hint at success
Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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📣Ausgezeichnet!
Diese 10 Forscher*innen stechen mit exzellenten Arbeiten heraus. Die #DFG würdigt das mit dem Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis #HML2025, der Wissenschaftler*innen in der frühen Karrierephase fördert. Die Preise werden am 3. Juni in #Berlin verliehen.👏 1/6
🔽 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
March 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Our VP Matthias Koenig took part in @scienceeurope.org conference for the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. His messages to the Commission: To increase Europe‘s innovation and competitiveness we also need a significantly higher investment in excellent and open-topic basic research.1/2
February 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!
Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR
February 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Die #DFG unterstützt weiterhin promovierte, geflüchtete Wissenschaftler*innen, indem sie kurzfristig in das dt. #Wissenschaftssystem integriert werden. Etwa durch Einbindung in bestehende Projekte oder durch Förderung eigener Forschungsvorhaben (Walter Benjamin-Stelle).
➡️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
Geflüchtete Wissenschaftler*innen: DFG unterstützt
www.dfg.de
February 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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...
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
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Der Doppelschlag

Die Wissenschaftsminister der Länder fordern Bund-Länder-Programme für #Hochschulbau, für #KI-Infrastruktur und für neue Tenure-Track-Professuren. Realitätsfern? Mutig? In jedem Fall: die Selbstermächtigung der #Wissenschafts-MK.

Im WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/01/31/d...
January 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Last work from the lab in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social !
We review the most recent evidence on the strategies deployed by Klebsiella to counteract host defences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The co-evolution with the immune system has taught the bug a couple of tricks!!!
Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion
Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) is a global threat to human health due to the isolation of multidrug-resistant strains. Despite advancements in understandi…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Die DFG-Gremien tagen turnusmäßig vier Mal im Jahr. An folgenden Daten entscheiden sie 2025 über Anträge u. a. in der #Einzelförderung. An gesonderten Terminen wird zudem über Entscheidungen in der #Exzellenzstrategie (EXC), zu #Graduiertenkollegs (GRK) und Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFB) beraten.
January 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Die #DFG ruft zur Einreichung von Vorschlägen für eine Großgeräteinitiative im Jahr 2026 auf. Vorschläge können aus allen Bereichen der #Wissenschaft kommen. Ziel ist, besonders vielversprechender Technologie für die Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Alle Infos: ⬇️ www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
Aufruf zu Vorschlägen für eine Großgeräteinitiative 2026
www.dfg.de
January 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Publishing Developments - #mikrosky
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We’re pleased to welcome our first society-led open research platform on Sciety. Access Microbiology brings public evaluation to the latest microbiology and virology research

👉 find out more http://blog.sciety.org/sciety-welcomes-access-microbiology/
January 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Interested in predicting AMR in bacteria? We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. With @nwheeler443.bsky.social and former PhD student Yanying Yu. 🦠🧫🧬🖥️🧪

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Biased sampling confounds machine learning prediction of antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing threat to human health. Increasingly, genome sequencing is being applied for the surveillance of bacterial pathogens, producing a wealth of data to train...
www.biorxiv.org
January 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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📢 Stellenausschreibung: Christina Karsten sucht eine:n wissenschaftliche:n Mitarbeiter:in für ihre #HIV-Forschung an der Uniklinik Essen! Bitte teilen 👩‍⚕️
karriere.ume.de/job-finder/?...
Job Finder - Karriereportal - Universitätsklinikum Essen
Finden Sie eine Stelle am Universitätsklinikum Essen
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November 29, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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📌 Schon in den Kalender eingetragen? 📅 Jeden Monat informieren wir über die verschiedenen DFG-geförderten Kongresse und Tagungen zu wissenschaftlichen Themen – nun stehen die Termine für März. Die wichtigsten Infos gibt es hier: 👇 www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
Kongresse und Tagungen
www.dfg.de
January 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM