Our colleagues described 28 new bacterial species 🦠and named them all after female microbiologists 👩‍🔬. Read more in the press release linked below 👇 and also check out @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social's social media Christmas calendar introducing the honored scientists and the bacteria named after them.

New Announcement of the DFG (German Research Foundation) for the second three-year funding period of SPP 2389| Priority Programme “Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity” (SPP 2389)

Deadline 31.03.2025.
For details see below:
www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Cool webinar on 22 Nov at 16:00 CET.

Calling all #FEMSMicrobiolEcol enthusiasts! Join our webinar on Microbial Impacts of #ClimateChange with Max Häggblom & expert speakers Cornelia U Welte, Susanne Liebner, and Joel E Kostka on 22 Nov!

Free registration here:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🥳 A tuneable minimal cell membrane reveals that two lipid species suffice for life: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We chemically minimized the membrane of the Minimal Cell...they survived, but with some interesting shapes, like this 'Death Star' phenotype @jcvi.bsky.social @jcv.bsky.social

There’s still a huge gender gap in bacteria named after male or female scientists.
With this collaborative effort by Imen Nouioui and Yvonne Mast @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social, we tried to close the gap (a little bit): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Caffeine is so important in plant defense that its occurrence in at least 60 different plant species evolved independently. Instead of 1 biochemical path to coffee, there are at least 12 pathways that evolved by exaptation - reusing existing pathways for a new outcome. Have a cup of coffee!

Summer, Sunday morning, coffee, strawberries and two happy cats. Life‘s good.

Expanding the cultivable human archaeome: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. and strain Methanobrevibacter smithii GRAZ-2 from human feces https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.15.594450v1

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Still time to apply for a fully-funded @NLD_BBSRCDTP #PhD in my lab @nubiosciences, looking at #Cdiff #BugSlayer - deadline 15th Jan! @CBCB_Newcastle @MIHDNewcastle
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Get in touch to know more or discuss your application! Pls share! #findaPhD #phdchat

My group offers a broad variety of services in microbiology, chemotaxonomy and biochemistry, both as a paid service (not-for-profit) or in our many collaborations worldwide. If you need support or want to discuss open questions, contact us at Leibniz institute DSMZ 🦠🧫🧪

The BacDive 2023 winter update is here, featuring 4,080 new strains and more than 700,000 new data fields filled! 🦠🧫
Read more: bacdive.dsmz.de/news

The BacDive team wishes everyone a happy holiday season and a good start to the new year!

Microbe of the year 2024: Candidatus Electronema - a living power cable:

vaam.de/en/website-m...

#microsky 🦠🧫 #vaam

BacDive has been added to ELIXIR Core Data Resources! #ELIXIRCDRs are European #lifescience data resources that are important to biological and biomedical research and long-term preservation of biological data.

Check @ELIXIREurope’s news release: elixir-europe.org/news/resourc...

It‘s always great fun to work with Ingrid and Başak. Our last joint project before they left the DSMZ.

Signaling in #archaea is poorly understood: here, we characterized a GPN loop GTPAse of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, which interacts with the PP2A.

Great collaboration with Lukas Korf and Lars-Oliver Essen from the University of Marburg. Congrats to Xing!
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Last week I gave a talk at the Microbiome Virtual International Forum (@microbiomevif.bsky.social): 'Understanding the Biodiversity of an Ecosystem Under Stress: Tales from Inflammatory Bowel Diseases'.

It's now on YouTube if you'd like to hear my annoying voice.

#PhD position available:

Interested in volatile #organosulfur compounds and how they are cycled in the #marine environment? PhD opportunity in Eileen Kroeber's lab @MarineMicrobio

career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/1...

#sciencejobs #STEM #marinescience #cooljobs

Rebecca Corrigan and I are advertising a fully funded PhD studentship (to start Oct '24) - deadline Jan 7th. We'll be focusing on the interplay between the stringent response and sporulation in C. diff. Get in touch if you have any questions!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...