Simona Huwiler

✨I am thrilled to announce that my #ERCStG project will be funded by @erc.europa.eu. It explores how predatory bacteria interact with bacteria, which they invade and kill 🔬. I am very grateful to the ERC, the panel, reviewers, mentors, collaborators and colleagues! 🙏 #ERCStG => tiny.cc/174s001

Cover image alert 🎨🚨👇🏼 - check out the amazing drawing of Sophia Zimmermann from our group in Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com ! Fun fact: Sophia initially drew it as a present to Dorentina @humollidorentina.bsky.social when we celebrated her recent paper on TnSeq with phages 🥂😊.

I also recommend the very interesting "Behind the paper" by Dorentina @humollidorentina.bsky.social which is linked in her post and here: t.co/yh6Y2iJlg5

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

Looking for a faculty position combining research in fundamental cell and molecular biology with therapeutic discovery? Join our amazing faculty at the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32657 Apply by Nov. 15! Please share!

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!

Predation resistance mechanisms operate at an individual level, adaptations are sometimes pleiotropic and compensatory. Thanks to all my co-authors who made this research possible Ove, Sarah, Saskia, Bernd, @rkmicrobes.bsky.social @simonahuwiler.bsky.social #AMR #Bdello #Evolution tiny.cc/2qpa101

Dear all, I have the pleasure to inform you that the online course "Resistance to Antibacterial Agents", produced by the Institut Pasteur, will start on November 3, 2026. How does ABR emerge and spread? ... 🔗 www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/r...

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social on Shining light on the dark matter of viral genomes With a shootout to International Microbe Day! #InternationalMicroorganismDay #EMBOBacNet #PhageSky

New online! Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing

ICYMI: New online! Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing

Studies have shown that sleep deprivation can be equal to the effects of drinking alcohol for reaction time & attentiveness. For multiple nights now, many Basel residents won't have slept well in extreme heat - but may still be driving or operating machines. Be safe in this extreme heat everyone!

What’s holding back clinical use of phage therapy in the UK? Our workshop last year brought together international experts, biotech and regulators to find out Meeting Report out now in Nature Microbiology with our take on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK phage therapy sector

A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

EMBO Workshop 24 – 27 April 2026 | Taipei, Taiwan Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio... @chuanku.bsky.social

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

We are happy to share the presentation about the "Partner Search Tool" from the recent #EUPOHAMR webinar: 2026 Joint Transnational Call, "Treatments and adherence to treatment protocols". Watch the presentation by Alicja Dylag at @ncn.gov.pl, Poland. youtu.be/KDhKQeIEZ1U?... #AMR

Ever wondered what happens if 💊antibiotics are not effective anymore? In this online article I summarize the efforts in the field using 🦁🦠predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as ‘living antibiotic’: tinyurl.com/4dmt9dps #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

🚀New preprint from our lab! I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡 Continue reading (🧵)

When you met your other half in a lab working on molybdenum cofactor (Moco), somehow this museum selfie seems appropriate

✨Opportunity to join the 🦁🦠 Predatory Bacteria lab! My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG. Therefore, we are looking for: -a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR) -a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe) 🙏Thanks for sharing. #MicroSky

We're hiring! Clinical Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases. Great group of physicians and great community!

Join us in Colorado next spring for the Keystone Symposia “Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection”. Registrations are now open! Details below ⬇️

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

Marjory Stephenson Prize 2026: Professor Mark Buttner — @johninnescentre.bsky.social Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social

Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Mycorrhizal networks transfer jasmonic acid to recruit pathogen-suppressors @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

One of nature’s tiniest predators 🦁 is Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus which kills, invades & eats up other bacteria 🦠. Studying predator protein abundances we found a bacterial prey-degradation enzyme. Read full blog article in Springer Nature Research Community here: tiny.cc/zmju001 #Microsky

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📢 Join the Microbiology Society at Innovations Against AMR 2025! We’ll be leading a Policy Workshop exploring how science, regulation and innovation come together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 👉 Register for free here: www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/in-per... #AMR

Pls share: A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)

AMR kills 1.27M people each year — we urgently need new solutions. On #WorldPhageDay, we celebrate phages: nature’s powerful allies against bacteria. At INCATE, we support innovators bringing phage therapies to life. Working on one? We want to hear from you! #AMR #Phage