@sgribaldo
Evolutionary microbiologist. Head of lab at Institut Pasteur, Paris. Microbial diversity and evolution. Phylogenomics, Tree of Life, Envelopes, Methanogens. https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/evolutionary-biology-of-the-microbial-cell/
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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🧵 Proud to present a tour de force by postdoc @gregbwhitfield.bsky.social solving the mystery of how bacterial Tad pili can extend and retract with a single motor ATPase. Great collaboration with Lynne Howell, @dr-lori-burrows.bsky.social, @ianyyen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social
Application deadline on 15 March 2026
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careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
Congrats @thibautbrunet.bsky.social!!
Clonal-aggregative multicellularity tuned by salinity in a choanoflagellate www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Come work with Ben Berks FRS in Oxford
2 x PDRA posts: Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein Biogenesis
2 complementary projects investigating bacterial outer membrane protein biogenesis. Building on our recent work (Nature (2015) 647: 479-487)
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Job opening for Research Group Leader in Structural Studies at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, focusing on macromolecular structures.
Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme?
Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues.
Apply by 16 MAR
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
There's still time to apply for this PhD position!
Before he passed away in 2021, Tom Cavalier-Smith had drafted parts of his autobiography. It's now 'published' because Gáspár Jékely put a lot of effort in! Please enjoy and share: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
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💡 We are inviting you to nominate a woman in microbiology whose work or impact deserves to be seen.
Selected nominations will be featured on the FEMS website and across our social media channels on International Women’s Day, 8 March.
👉 Who inspires you? Nominate them by 4 March . buff.ly/AKyMbQD
New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...
👇👇🧵 #Asgard #eukaryogenesis
Happy to have you with us Katy, lots of cool science ahead!
Bravo Katy!!
At long last! Check out the link to our publication in @nature.com to learn more. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The 'devil is in the details'. You have to look beyond author claims and try to understand why the various studies have come to different conclusions and read the explanations given by the authors themselves.
Two more weeks to apply - come join us () in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale metagenomic exploration of new lineages!
Postdoc position on Asgard archaea in Thiago’s new lab for someone well trained in biochemistry, cloning, and protein purification:
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Hi Melanie, same here, 95% and not funded. Practically you need 5/5 everywhere to succeed, and small comments like that will indeed kill it. Plus, I think this year there were double the number of applications, super tough. So, chin up to all the unlucky candidates, not your fault!!
Aarhus University is seeking a Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor in Bioinformatics/Co… https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/vacant-positions-and-career/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-associate-professor-in-bioinformatics-and-or-computational-biology-at-aarhus-university-denmark #job
thanks! ah the old good times when we had 10 archaeal genomes ;-)
Passioned by #bioenergetics? Do not miss our new article on the evolutionary history of oxidoreductases with G. Borrel and @sgribaldo.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
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The next instalment of the long-running Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Division Conference will take place at www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels..., Italy from the 20th to 23rd of April 2027.
Organisers: me, @s-lab.bsky.social, @awehenkel.bsky.social.
More info soon.
#MicroSky
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...
Seeking expressions of interest from researchers abroad for a Canada Impact+ Research Chair ($1M/year × 8 + up to $6M CFI) in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery and/or AMR, phage & phage-based derivatives. Email me a short vision, CV, and 3–5 key papers. Deadline: March 10, 2026 (Intake 2: June 15).
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
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#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
1. As we recently joined BlueSky, we want to repost this story for all newcomers!
We sat down with @radler92.bsky.social to get more insight into the unique videos from his recent preprint on Promethearchaeota (formerly Asgard archaea).
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
(Videos and info below)
🧵Enterococcus faecalis is not just an extracellular organism. 🧵 A growing body of work shows it can survive + REPLICATE inside host cells, and that intracellular life may seed persistence, dissemination, and reinfection. 1/n #MMBR @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...