The Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis at the University of Zurich is seeking a new Head:

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It is super fun to work with them, tons of expertise and cutting edge instrumentation in ❄️🔬
Application deadline: December 15, 2025.

🥳 Today marks the start of the lab of former postdoc @florianwollweber.bsky.social at @embl.org Grenoble!
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Florian-- we will miss you dearly and wish you much success!

With us, Florian applied multiscale imaging 🔬to Asgard archaea ...👇

#ArchaeaSky

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook:
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber
We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis
First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

I'm super happy that our story is now published!
📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But what changed compared to the original preprint?

Also, I feel i should post Movie 1 🎥, that inspired the cover. Back when I did the original bluesky thread, movies were not available.

Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

Isolated in just 3 years! (previously, 12 years). We obtained two strains from 'Hodarchaeales', proposed to be closest to our archaeal ancestor. Our analysis suggests the ancestor was an anaerobic, syntrophic, peptidotrophic, archaeon with a simple intracellular structure and possible aerotolerance.

Enter the Pirates

by Christoph — Well-known examples of rapacious bacteria are Myxococcus xanthus and the vampires from the Bdellovibrio tribe. Enter the pirates with Captain Aureispira…

thx @pilhoferlab.bsky.social for this story.

Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

#MicroSky

Would you expect that Bacteria use an archaellum for swimming? We didn't, but we found that some Chloroflexota do! Find the story here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A little thread below 1/n

David Goodsell's work (and career) are such an inspiration. So many of us have experienced the molecular world through his brush🖌️👨‍🎨🫶. I'm happy to see @jiwasa.bsky.social picking up the torch for @rcsbpdb.bsky.social's "Molecule of the Month"🧪🧶🧬

Thanks to an @snf-ch.bsky.social Starting Grant, my group will move to the Institute of Medical Microbiology at University of Zürich in summer 2025.
Let's move cryoET literally next to the clinics and investigate bacterial pathogens from molecules to the patient #FreezeInTheClinics 🏥❄️🔬

Check out our structure of the archaeal virus HFTV1! Amazing work by two students - Daniel Zhang and Becky Davies, supported by @mathewmclaren.bsky.social. Great collaboration with T. Quax & S. Schwarzer, @hanna-m-oksanen.bsky.social, @the-gold-lab.bsky.social, @misha-isupov.bsky.social & W. Stuart.

Exciting news! 🚀 We're launching #ARCTECH, the first EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network focused on #archaea —a fascinating and resilient domain of life with great #biotech potential.

By addressing key gaps in archaeal research, we aim to unlock the vast potential of these #microorganisms. 🦠🔬