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Martin Thanbichler
@thanbichlerlab.bsky.social
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Bacterial cell biology and biochemistry | Professor at the University of Marburg, Germany
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📢 Interested in #chromosomes 🧬 & #archaea thriving at the edge of life? PhD project in York,UK on how archaea pass on their genome to daughter cells.Friendly supervisors: me, @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social & @georgerheath.bsky.social

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📅 January 7, 2026
Please RP🙏thx!
Archaeal cells whose DNA has been stained with a blue dye. Zoomed-in images of mutant cells that display chromosome segregation defects. High-resolution images of DNA-protein complexes obtained with atomic force microscopy. Upon binding, the protein bridges distant sites, forming loops.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology

in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"

🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL
📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025

Please repost. #Postdoc
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria

in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.

More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)

🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025

Please repost. #Postdoc
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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We are happy to share our latest preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A great collaboration with Waldemar Vollmer’s group, along with our fantastic proteomics and metabolomics facilities.

@synmikro.bsky.social
Peptidoglycan recycling is critical for cell division, cell wall integrity and β-lactam resistance in Caulobacter crescentus
Most bacteria possess a peptidoglycan sacculus, which is continuously remodeled during cell growth and division. The peptidoglycan (PG) fragments generated in this process are typically imported into ...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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tunglejic.bsky.social
new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
Versatile NTP recognition and domain fusions expand the functional repertoire of the ParB-CTPase fold beyond chromosome segregation
Nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-dependent molecular switches regulate essential cellular processes by cycling between active and inactive states through nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. These mechanis...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!
johninnescentre.bsky.social John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Oct 3
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...
Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…
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October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky
Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation - Nature Communications
ParABS systems partition chromosomal DNA and low-copy plasmids in bacteria. Here, the authors elucidate the mode of interaction between ParA and ParB and clarify how ParB stimulates the ATPase activity of ParA to drive the segregation process.
www.nature.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Now published as a Version of Record, with various new results compared to the initial preprint:

Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin

Available at:
elifesciences.org/articles/100...

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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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cellforganized.bsky.social
New PrePrint from the Vecchiarelli and Mosalaganti (@shyamalm.bsky.social) labs! 🧵

Collaboration with the Giessen and Pi labs

Congratulations to co-first authors Y Hoang (@hoanghamyy.bsky.social) and Pankaj Jadhav!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Engineering Spatial Control of Bacterial Organelles
Bacteria were once thought to lack organelles, but it is now clear they confine cellular reactions using an array of membrane- and protein-based compartments. A central question, however, is how bacte...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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archaellum.bsky.social
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social
We're hiring a DFG-funded PhD student (TVöD E13, 65%) at Max Planck Institute, Marburg to study quorum sensing in Klebsiella & host–pathogen interplay. 3 yrs, start flexible. Apply by Sep 30, 2025 (rolling). Send 1 PDF to laganenka@mpi-marburg.mpg.de
September 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Talk slots full but we can take late breaking poster abstracts until August 7th. Hope to see you in York to hear about your chromosome story 🧬🦠🧫

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July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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nartimsoole.bsky.social
One of the most exciting discoveries from our lab so far is now online as a preprint!

Read a story on how the ParMR and Min systems started to collaborate to create the CorMR cytoskeleton, which now controls cell shape in multicellular cyanobacteria:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolutionary repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cyanobacterial cell shape
Bacteria, despite their diversity, use conserved cytoskeletal systems for their intracellular organization. In unicellular bacteria, the ParMRC DNA partitioning apparatus is well known for forming act...
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July 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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🚀Women in STEM: Are you a late-stage PhD student or postdoc in the life sciences?
The September Science Academy in Marburg offers talks, lab tours, workshops – and the chance to present your own research! Apply now 👉 www.mpi-marburg.mpg.de/1489492/Sept...
#LifeSciences #AcademicCareers
June 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Congratulations to Rebecca Hinrichs on her first senior-author paper! @synmikro.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

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June 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species". Happy to see this paper in print @natcomms.nature.com. Nice work by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al. See original 🧵, different colours, same data and conclusions.
June 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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A new study from the Takacs lab, showing that bactofilins are essential for viability and critical for cell shape in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bactofilins are essential spatial organizers of peptidoglycan insertion in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi
The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi has a distinctive pattern of growth. Newly-born cells elongate by primarily inserting peptidoglycan at mid-cell, while in longer cells, additional inse...
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May 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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*** Only a few days left to apply ***

Postdoc position at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"

Spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes by CTP-switches in bacteria

Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...
May 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Learning the dynamic organization of a replicating bacterial chromosome from time-course Hi-C data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.647011v1
April 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"

Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages)

Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...
April 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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New postdoc position available at IBVF!
March 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Interested in the bacterial ParABS DNA segregation system? Then have a look at our latest preprint... 🧬

Thanks to the Hennig and Bange groups for the great collaboration!

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Molecular basis of ParA ATPase activation by the CTPase ParB during bacterial chromosome segregation
DNA segregation by bacterial ParABS systems is mediated by transient tethering interactions between nucleoid-bound dimers of the ATPase ParA and centromere (parS)-associated complexes of the clamp-for...
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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mpi-ie.bsky.social
Want to lead a research group at a Max Planck Institute – with a #tenuretrack position & substantial resources?

Apply for the Lise Meitner Excellence Program by @maxplanck.de. The program aims to promote exceptionally qualified #WomeninScience. Deadline: April 8, 2025
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM