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With Christmas just around the corner, we wish all our colleagues, partners, and friends joyful holidays and a successful start into the New Year!
We will be back in January.
Warm wishes from the #LeibnizHKI.

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The picture shows a colon cross section of a mouse colonized with Candida albicans.
December 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Researchers at #LeibnizHKI discovered an enzyme that cleaves the toxin malleicyprol and reduces virulence in Burkholderia bacteria.

🗞️ Press release: lmy.de/VwRfa
🔎 Original paper: doi.org/10.1002/anie...

@dfg.de @uni-jena.de @microverse.bsky.social @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Meet our #December #calendar 2025 feature Wolfgang Vivas & Dolly Montaño, postdocs from Venezuela 🇻🇪 at Leibniz-HKI. How do they both juggle demanding research 🧪 with family life 👨🏻‍👩🏻‍👦🏻 while also keeping their creativity alive? 🎨 Find it out in their interview: lmy.de/Ibiul

#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Funded PhD position 9/9: Study the role of human p11-dependent EGFR in regulating phagosome maturation and antifungal defense & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0. Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/saMIG

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Funded PhD position 8/9: Develop scalable moss-bacteria co-cultivations for the discovery and production of new natural products & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0. Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/diSOz

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
... And here is a direct link to the original publication in Nat Mircobiol: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🙂

@mbdlab.bsky.social 👏

#UniJena #LeibnizHKI #Microverse
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ein Forschungsteam von #UniJena und #LeibnizHKI zeigt, warum gesunde Ernährung bei jedem Menschen anders wirkt: Entscheidend ist das individuelle „chemische Kochbuch“ der Enzyme im Darmmikrobiom, das bestimmt, wie Nährstoffe verarbeitet w...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Funded PhD position 7/9: Discover mycoparasites as unexplored resource for antiinfectives & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0.
Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/FMclh

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Funded PhD position 6/9: Explore liver-on-chip based macrophage-drug interactions in invasive candidiasis & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0.
Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/ZAZGj

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Funded PhD position 5/9: Study microbiome-enteric nervous system interactions in sepsis & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0. Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/ybPgD

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Funded PhD position 4/9: Advance image quantification of organ-on-chip-based experiments within JIPipe & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0.
Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/tSJYf

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Funded PhD position 3/9: Investigate how Candida albicans lipases shape fungal-bacterial interactions & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0. Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/VyUor

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Funded PhD position 2/9: Study neutrophil extracellular vesicles as a key defense mechanism against Aspergillus fumigatus & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0. Apply by 13 Dec.
🎓 lmy.de/yisip

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Funded PhD position 1/9: Explore RNA modification by natural products across species & benefit from the PhD training program ILRS 2.0.
Apply by 13 Dec.

🎓 lmy.de/szeVW

#PhDOpportunity #ScienceJobs #LeibnizHKI
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Meet our #November feature Sophia Hitzler, a doctoral researcher at Leibniz-HKI, in this year’s #calendar 2025! From a fascination with fungi 🍄 to mentoring 👩‍🏫 and an unexpected dream job 🐳, discover her journey here: lmy.de/sBQAV

#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI

@aps-hki.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🎉 #LeibnizHKI has again been honored with the TOTAL E-QUALITY rating for our equal-opportunities personnel policy – for the 5th time in a row! This year, we also received the Sustainability Prize 2025 for our long-term commitment to equality, diversity & inclusion.

🗞️✨ lmy.de/zVSiL

#TotalEquality
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🍁 Meet our #October #calendar 2025 feature: Zoltán Cseresnyés, imaging specialist at our @appsysbio.bsky.social research group. From 1980s Hungary to super-resolution microscopy at Cambridge, he now helps researchers unlock insights from complex images. 🔬🌌
lmy.de/LsPim

#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI
October 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Meet our #September feature Hannah Büttner in this year’s #calendar 2025! 👩🏻‍🔬 She explored fungal-bacterial symbiosis, loves both music & art, and carries science in her bag wherever she goes. 🎒🏜️ Read her interview here: lmy.de/FUIJC 🎙️

#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Solar panels, recycling waste heat, efficient freezers. Small steps, big impact: We are working on making research and our institute more energy-efficient.

#Sustainability #EnergyEfficiency #SolarPanels #LeibnizHKI
August 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Plastic waste is a challenge. But with simple changes, labs can cut up to 65% – without compromising research quality, says Patrick Penndorf (@patricks-science.bsky.social).

We want to tackle this problem.

#Sustainability #PlasticWaste #GreenLabs #LeibnizHKI
August 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Science must be part of the climate solution. 🌱🌎 At #LeibnizHKI, we rethink workflows to reduce waste & save energy. Patrick Penndorf (@patricks-science.bsky.social) helps us with this.

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#Sustainability
August 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🛠️🚗 Meet Michael Hetz, our in-house technician and driver! From fixing tech to dreaming of flying a helicopter with the boss 🚁😉– discover what drives him and brings him joy 🎶🛥️in our #August #calendar feature: lmy.de/dXISl

#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI
August 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
At #LeibnizHKI, research thrives through collaboration. Like microbial communities in balance, our strength comes from the Leibniz Association network. We are celebrating 30 years of shared science, because community matters – on small and large scales.

#30JahreLeibniz

@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
August 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Spotlight on our Leibniz Competition project “FuRTHER” on #WorldRNADay: Exploring how fungal ncRNAs may reprogram human gene expression. A new concept in infection biology by @mgblango.bsky.social, funded by the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de. #InterkingdomCommunication #LeibnizHKI

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August 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Yesterday, Thuringian Science Minister Christian Tischner visited #LeibnizHKI to learn about our junior research groups fighting the antibiotic crisis with high-tech. It was a pleasure having him with us! lmy.de/AYoYM

@slavi-jan.bsky.social @jethrohemmann.bsky.social @luziagyr.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM