David Gerlach

Happy to see the work of @laucamus.bsky.social published today (rdcu.be/i9p3mJUiX3ta); We show that S. aureus proliferation in nasal communities is impacted by amino acid availability. With amazing support of @linklab.bsky.social, L. Angenent and many more. @lmu.de, @unituebingen.bsky.social

Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de

🚨🚨 When we take antibiotics we assume they'll kill the bad bugs but won't affect us directly. In our new story @NatureMicrobiol , we found that's not always the case and developed a tool, CompoRes, to identify these direct effects on the host /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“The end of acute infection is not necessarily the end of the disease”. I very much appreciate this comment in Nature highlighting the role of infectious disease in the development or exacerbation of chronic disease. Vaccines can prevent chronic diseases, which is often overlooked.

🚨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...

Fantastic, comprehensive, useful review if you care about RNA modifications in bacteria: @asm.org @csdetweiler.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Finally!! 🥳 "A consensus-based guideline for personalized bacteriophage therapy" www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.spektrum.de/news/leitlin... @spp2330.bsky.social

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!

So happy to share that this work is finally out, now in @nature.com! Lots of new goodies since preprint so plz check it out (old thread below). Giant thank you to everybody involved + all @savitski-lab.bsky.social and @typaslab.bsky.social lab members 🙏🙏🙏 @embl.org nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 2x PhD opportunities: single-molecule/super-resolution microscopy & image analysis of membrane proteins 🔬(DM for details) 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/5dt7ncby 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/5e52dth2 🙏 Dear colleagues & friends, pls distribute - Thank you! 🙏 @crc1507.bsky.social imol.uni-frankfurt.de @goetheuni.bsky.social

Out now in @natcomms.nature.com: how do bacteria evolve resistance to programmable antisense antibiotics? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Exciting #PhD opportunities across multiple labs, including those of @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social, @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social, @cciollimattioli.bsky.social, @ffaberlab.bsky.social & @westermannlab.bsky.social at #HIRI in Würzburg. 🎓🥼 More about the projects: www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/gr...

Looking for BGCs in large metagenomic datasets? Our new biorxiv preprint introduces metaSMASH, a scalable fork of antiSMASH designed specifically for metagenome-scale BGC detection and analysis : www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Thanks @canerbagci.bsky.social and @kblin.bsky.social ❤️

#Throwback 🧪 PERSPECTIVE | Emerging tools and best practices for studying gut microbial community metabolism ‪@cecilianoecker.bsky.social‬ & P Turnbaugh

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

Looking forward to hosting you all in Tübingen in February, together with many leading scientists contributing to our international conference www.linkedin.com/posts/%F0%9D...

First public hospital in the EU, @hospicescivilslyon.bsky.social authorized to manufacture #GMP therapeutic #phages - major milestone in the advancement of regulated phage therapy. www.bacteriophage.news/hospices-civ... @ansm-gouv.bsky.social #europe #compassionateuse #phagetherapy

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

True that. Problem is not that we know too little....

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

The #Rstats development team receives some well-deserved recognition! "As part of the prize, the R team - who have thus-far been unpaid [for R work] - will get to split $1m (£755,000) between them." "The Oxford professor making sense of the world's data" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Vaccines work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A timely review on an important antibacterial strategy: rdcu.be/foOuX

What if bacteria were using wax esters to shape skin microbiomes? Staphylococcal lipases convert skin antimicrobial fatty acids into harmless wax esters. This publication is the very first first-author paper for my first PhD student, my first time acting as last author, and our first ISME paper.

Interesting opinion article arguing for the word "symbiont" instead of the term "commensal. How would the term "pathosymbiont fit in this nomenclature? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Must read: @spp2330.bsky.social

I'm currently advertising a PhD position in my lab, to study the transition from commensal to pathogen in Staphylococcus aureus. Details available here, please share! www.keele.ac.uk/research/pos...

One of the biggest challenges in microbial biotechnology? Unlocking the potential of non-model microbes and synthetic communities! Glad to share our review @sonjablasche.bsky.social @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social. This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share! Apply: adum.fr

📢 Funded PhD in molecular microbiology & phage biology How do bacterial stress responses control prophage activation and horizontal gene transfer? Join us at St Andrews to dissect Clp protease–mediated regulation in Staphylococcus aureus. Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Last year, we proposed a model of plasmid evolution via fusion and fragmentation (via mge mediated recombination) generating mosaics, by studying historical isolates. Excited to see a MASSIVE paper from @jrpenades.bsky.social , @epcrocha.bsky.social expanding on this www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Come and join us @ceplas.bsky.social cluster of excellence @hhu.de 12 postdocs & 7 PhD positions in Düsseldorf www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...

Do you have experience in bioinformatics and are looking for a new challenge? To immerse yourself in a group and institute doing highly diverse research? Then come and join our group !

Important cautionary tale on bacterial studying horizontal gene transfer without proper mechanistic or wet lab validation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬🦠𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗭𝗜𝗙/𝗣𝗘𝗚 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴! We are excited to invite you to the joint Annual Meeting of DZIF & PEG: Explore how infection research is evolving in the age of antibiotic resistance, gender medicine, and precision medicine 📅 February 23–24, 2026 📍 Bonn 🔗 Register now: t1p.de/dzif-peg-2026

Important study for researchers of the nasal microbiome 👃🦠 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨We are looking for a coordinator located at @uni-wuerzburg.de for our new excellence cluster NUCLEATE - Cluster of Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies 👇 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03... Deadline: Jan 31 st, 2026

Just a reminder 🔔 that early bird registration for the VAAM Annual Conference 2026 in Berlin ends 📆January 11 Register soon to save your spot and some money. Hope to see you there!

PhD Student in Computational Structural Biology of Pathogen Targets www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... @biozentrum.unibas.ch @unibas.ch #biozentrum #biozentrumbasel #universityofbasel #researchjobs #sciencejobs #basel #job #hiring #recruiting #carreers #research #phd #biology

🚀 We're hiring! We are offering several exciting #PhD & #postdoc positions spanning a range of topics, from jumbo phage biology & phage therapy to programmable RNA therapeutics & Fusobacterium nucleatum research. The application deadline is Jan 11. Learn more: www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/jobs-tale...

🔊 APPLY NOW for our #MarMic #MSc/#PhD program! Come to #Bremen and take an interdisciplinary approach to #marine #microbiology, #molecularbiology, #biochemistry, #evolution and more. ⏳ Open until Feb 28 2026 ➡ marmic.mpg.de #graduatestudents #marinescience #sciencecareer #IMPRS @maxplanck.de

We're advertising for a bacteriology technician and a post-doc to work on AI-guided antibiotic development as part of a large multidisciplinary Fleming Initiative project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Our popular science article (in German) with @simonheilbronner.bsky.social on the commensal and pathogenic struggles of Staphylococcus aureus

if you are interested in a PhD in tuberculosis drug discovery, check out our opportunities 🧪🦠 #Tuberculosis lstm.ac/PhD