Susan Schlimpert

Two PhD opportunities in our lab: 1. What do bacterial NLR proteins do beyond phage defence? Join us to explore how these proteins regulate viability, multicellular development and antibiotic production in Streptomyces. Apply 👉 shorturl.at/N8Abx #PhD #Microsky #Bioinformatics #Streptomyces

JB Editor's Choice: Lovering & Sockett review the history of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as a model bacterial predator. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Part of our History of Microbial Model Systems Collection journals.asm.org/topic/sss-ta... @asm.org #JBacteriol @microsky.bsky.social

How is the replication of RepABC-dependent chromosomes or megaplamids switched on during the cell cycles of Alphaproteobacteria? --> Find out in our latest article, just published @narjournal.bsky.social

Incredibly excited about our latest work on R-bodies, 5+ years in the making! These coiled protein ribbons extend into ~10 µm needles in a pH-dependent manner & we caught them springing open inside amoebae after P. aeruginosa gets eaten. (animation: Jegg Yoon)🧵1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

My collaborator Netanel Tzarum developed a cool method to express and purify highly toxic bacterial proteins. We helped a bit. Very useful for anyone working with toxin-antitoxin or effector-immunity systems. Now in Microbial Biotechnology enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We want to use machines to better understand biology and turn that knowledge into new treatments for drug-resistant infections. This'll take people working together across disciplines. Thanks to Aarti Krishnan, Hanqun CAO, & James J. Collins for this collaboration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A DTP PhD opportunity in our group: Breaking Code: Deciphering the Biology of the Selfless Virus-like Gene Transfer Agents. Come help us figuring out!!! retweet = nice. Thank you!!! Apply 👉 shorturl.at/1v9ms #PhD #Microsky #phages #GTA #Caulobacter

Check out this really beautiful study by my colleague @hassansalem.bsky.social and his team. Leaf beetles and their symbionts are pretty amazing.

Fully funded PhD with me and @barriewilks.bsky.social - starting Oct 27. We identified a Streptomyces spore phase regulator, when we over express this it activates loads of silent antibiotic biosynthesis pathways. Come help us understand how! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ant...

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the @Barrie Wilkinson Group, in collab with the @Matt Hutchings lab, on a project: Global activation of silent and cryptic biosynthetic pathways in Streptomyces species. Deadline - 26 October 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce that the team’s website is now live santinlab.weebly.com 🥳🥳 I would also like to take this opportunity to let you know that, I am recruiting a junior postdoc to start on 1 January 2027. For further information, please feel free to contact me.

🚨PhD opportunity alert!!! Come work with us on this new cool NERC DTP PhD project Investigate How Bacterial Hosts Control Domesticated Viral Machines to Drive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Marine Environments. Retweet = nice. Thank you!!! aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

really cool work from @lore-fermar.bsky.social et al Differential restructuring of a complex compost microbiome by metabolically distinct #Streptomyces through community-dependent microbial interactions eprints.gla.ac.uk/396050/1/396...

Applications are now OPEN for our Year in Industry programme. 🗓️ DEADLINE: 18 October 2026 https://okt.to/YeZ7cz

It is happening, and registration is open for the EMBO Workshop: Bacterial and archaeal cell division: diverse mechanisms and models. 20–23 April 2027 | Barga, Italy. Come and join us @awehenkel.bsky.social, @seamusholden.bsky.social, @s-lab.bsky.social ! Deadline: Jan 6, 2027. #Bacdiv27

The final version of our manuscript on TnSeq in bacteriophages (“HIDEN-SEQ”) is out today – if you have an interesting phage phenotype and want to know the underlying genetic basis, this one is for you! 1/4

Interested in #archaea, #methane, #cell-envelopes? New paper out @nature.com ! We discovered an enzyme that specifically cleaves the cell wall of methanogens, revealing a new chemical structure of archaeal peptidoglycan, 50 yrs after its first description www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky 🧵👇

This is very cool @kelleygallagher.bsky.social et al Regulatory divergence and functional diversification of a c-di-GMP-controlled sigma factor in Actinomycetota doi.org/10.1128/msys...

Applications are now being accepted for the 2027 Bacterial Cell Biology & Development GRC, June 6–11! GRS will be on June 5-6, 2027 We’ll likely be oversubscribed, so please apply early!

EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Networks: Our microbiology editor Ieva Gailite presenting the @embojournal.org poster prize to Morgane Wuckelt from the @mathieucoureuil.bsky.social lab - congratulations!

How do proteins localize in bacteria? Usually by binding to a prelocalized protein-but how does that protein localize? @vanipande.bsky.social found a #Bacillus subtilis protein that localizes via a lipid cue,undecaprenyl phosphate,that guides it to sites of PG synthesis www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Susan Schlimpert @s-lab.bsky.social on a conserved cell division factor organises Z-ring formation in Actinobacteria #EMBOBacNet Teaser on Streptomyces compartmentalisation and division, their recent Curr Opin Micro review: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Max Jordan @maxljordan.bsky.social (from @s-lab.bsky.social lab) on autoactivation of an NLR-related transcriptional regulator enables characterisation of downstream signalling that activates Streptomyces antibiotic production #EMBOBacNet

NLRs aren't just for immunity. Inspired by our colleagues working on plant NLRs, postdoc @maxljordan.bsky.social from my lab asked: Do bacterial NLR-type regulators found in antibiotic-producing #Streptomyces share a similar autoactivation switch? Turns out, yes! Read the full story and his 🧵👇

I had a wonderful time at the 2026 SSM meeting in Montreux, and it was great to meet the Swiss microbiology community. Great science in a beautiful location! Many thanks to the organisers and in particular to @aharms485.bsky.social

Brilliant choice, one of the great microbiologists.

Happy to see this work preprinted! Only our second foray into the mycobacterial T7SS

It is happening, and registration is open for the EMBO Workshop: Bacterial and archaeal cell division: diverse mechanisms and models. 20–23 April 2027 | Barga, Italy. Come and join us @awehenkel.bsky.social, @seamusholden.bsky.social, @s-lab.bsky.social ! Deadline: Jan 6, 2027. #Bacdiv27

Bacterial biosynthetic gene clusters Editorial by @evodivmet.bsky.social on the 16 articles published in the thematic issue in Essays in Biochemistry portlandpress.com/essaysbioche...

Molecular architecture of colossal surface layers from hyperthermophilic archaea Led by @idocaspy.bsky.social (Ido) In collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @vikramalva.bsky.social labs doi.org/10.64898/202...

@felixrl.bsky.social told us previously *how* #Staph aureus does orthogonal cell division. In his latest paper he tells us *why*: to arrange cell surface proteins required to form staphylococcal abscess colonies. (Videos S1-S2 are amazing!). 🤯 www.cell.com/cell-reports...

VACANCY - Group Leader in Fundamental Biology of Legumes We’re hiring for a tenure track Group Leader in fundamental plant biology relevant to legumes or other rotation crops. https://okt.to/saqLz6

Excited to share my latest work in the @ramamurthilab.bsky.social, now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social! We show that division geometry organizes surface adhesins in S. aureus and enables the formation of abscess communities that protect bacteria from immune cells. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

VACANCY - Funded by @European Research Council (ERC), we have three exciting opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers to join the newly appointed Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social Group. These roles span: Developmental biology - https://okt.to/nq50wC 🧵

Now published in JBac. Absolutely great publishing experience!!! Thank you to editors and reviewers.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb.00286-26 Another great one from @tommclean.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @hbio-isp.bsky.social

We are looking for a PhD student interested in AMR development in pathogenic corynebacteria. Link: jobs.uni-kiel.de/jobposting/e... The advert is bilingual (scroll down for English). Applications need to be submitted online via the indicated link. We are looking forward to you applications!

Excited to share our lab's first paper on the evolution of a c-di-GMP-controlled sigma factor: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Nature research paper: Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome go.nature.com/45fpXCZ

We built a a self-dividing synthetic cell ! Check out this #CDlab preprint on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work by 1st author Charu Sharma who encoded dynaminA in a genome and expressed that in liposomes that then divide into daughter cells! Collaboration with Koenderink lab!

Our new preprint is out! We investigate chromosome organization in obligate mammalian symbionts and show that these bacteria maintain stable chromosome orientations while displaying conserved lifestyle-associated chromosome architectures across species. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

I just still cannot help myself from looking that these beautiful real-time dynamics videos from @anjbadri.bsky.social lab! thanks to all the authors from @joeloparo.bsky.social / @anjbadri.bsky.social and TJ Ha labs.

Together with @thanbichlerlab.bsky.social, we are looking for an ambitious PhD student to develop fluorescence imaging for anaerobic bacteria. Check out this and other positions that are announced as a part of the M4C Excellence cluster here: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

Out @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social, natural products meet bacterial immunity! We used genomics to identify lanthivirins: a family of >2,000 lanthipeptide BGCs that protect Actinobacteria against phages. Led by @hshomar.bsky.social & @mariegllm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A family of lanthipeptides with anti-phage function Discovery of 2,000+ lanthipeptide biosynthetic gene clusters with anti-phage potential. Lanthivirins inhibit phage replication by targeting phage proteins & interfering with phage DNA replication. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Systematic identification of cell division proteins in haloarchaea and the discovery of a membrane anchor for the Z ring. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Some bacteria do not live as individuals. They build multicellular filaments and connect neighboring cells through tiny cell-cell junctions. Cyanobacteria are among the most beautiful examples 😍 In our new paper, we reveal first molecuar insights on the cyanobacterial septal junction architecture 🧵