Jan-Willem Veening

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A Modular Genetic Toolbox for Precise Gene Regulation and Multi-Color Imaging in Streptococci Abstract. Fluorescent labeling is a powerful tool in microbiology allowing live cell imaging and providing insights into dynamic cellular processes, quanti

New tools for Streptococcal cell biology! congrats to Johann Mignolet and Virginie Libante! doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Big congrats to @bevikas.bsky.social
@axeljanssen.bsky.social @vincentdebakker.bsky.social Amelieke Cremers and the entire lab!

Checkout our latest preprint which is a real lab-wide effort to map antibiotic stress signatures across the pneumococcal pangenome. All findings have also been incorporated in PneumoBrowse 2.0.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PhD candidate in Equine Intestinal Microbiome and Resistome Join this PhD project to study how the equine gut microbiome and resistome can improve gastrointestinal health and combat antimicrobial resistance.

Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT.

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.

This seems really important...........

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool preprint with impressive pneumococcal scRNA-seq data from the Isberg-Cooper-vanOpijnen-Rosch teams. On my reading list: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Research Group Leader Do you want to lead groundbreaking research in computational biology? Join us at EMBL-EBI! EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is seeking talented and highly-motivated scientists to jo...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!

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Great new story from Sophie Helaine and Molly Sargen!

www.helainelab.com

Postdoctoral position - Synthetic Biology / Bacterial Immunity - Research The Bikard lab at Institut Pasteur in Paris is seeking to hire postdoctoral researchers. We are investigating bacteria / bacteriophages interactions, and the genetic innovation that happens at this in...

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Sepsis: vers une infectiologie de précision Une rencontre lors d’un congrès international a donné naissance à une collaboration Unil-CHUV autour d’un objectif commun: mieux identifier les infections à pneumocoques, en particulier lorsqu’elles é...

🎬 When #biology met #medicine...

Third episod 👉 Avec trois microbiologistes, Amelieke Cremers, Jan-Willem Veening et Sylvain Meylan

Lire l'interview croisée www.unil.ch/news/fr/1768...

@dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @veeninglab.com #fbm #chuv #infectiologie

Strep/Enterococcal colleagues!

Streptococcal Biology GRC/GRS are open for applications. Acceptances are underway and the meeting is on track to fill up.

If you’re aiming for a short talk (lots of slots), registering early matters for full consideration.

Share widely!

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The @dmf-unil.bsky.social is supporting the application of a candidate for the SNSF/ERC Starting Grant (deadline 5th of May). Reach out to me if you are interested. We are collecting CV’s until the 8th of Feb. We can offer a stimulating scientific environment and help with the application/interview.

Fabian was quicker :) But yes, we have an open postdoc position in bacterial bioenergetics and membrane biology, using on B. subtilis as the model. Come join us! @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social is a great place to work, and we are a friendly, international lab. Visa+IHS fees covered. #microsky

📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu
We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968
#Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology

Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.

What is better than one? Two connected papers!

#NewResearch

S protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae activates PBP1a and coordinates with a wider GpsB-associated multi-protein complex to regulate peptidoglycan remodelling and cell division.

#MicroSky 🦠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pneumococcal S protein coordinates cell wall modification and repair to resist host antimicrobials - Nature Microbiology Streptococcal S protein activates a peptidoglycan cell wall repair and modification complex to promote resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to lysozyme and LL-37, and increase virulence during infec...

#NewResearch

S protein from Streptococcus pneumoniae activates cell wall repair and modification to promote virulence against in vivo antimicrobial pressures including lysozyme and LL-37 @veeninglab.com

#MicroSky 🦠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

La protéine S, clé de la virulence des streptocoques L’équipe du Pr Jan-Willem Veening, au Département de microbiologie fondamentale de l’Unil, a mis en évidence chez le streptocoque le rôle central de la protéine S dans l’arsenal de défense de cette ba...

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L’équipe @veeninglab.com @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social a mis en évidence chez le streptocoque le rôle central de la protéine S dans l’arsenal de défense de cette bactérie qui peut se révéler très pathogène.
➡️ www.unil.ch/news/fr/1761...

cellwall·abys & pneumo fans take note 👇
#MicroSky

Big congrats to all the amazing people contributing to this paper. From hit to function of an unknown gene is so hard, so kudos to Jessica and Clement for persevering and to our wonderful collaborators!

Streptococcus pneumoniae S protein activates PBP1a to regulate peptidoglycan remodelling and cell division - Nature Microbiology S protein interacts with and activates PBP1a during cell division, as part of a larger GpsB-associated multiprotein complex that coordinates peptidoglycan remodelling in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

And check out the accompanying paper from the Grangeasse lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

La protéine S, clé de la virulence des streptocoques L’équipe du Pr Jan-Willem Veening, au Département de microbiologie fondamentale de l’Unil, a mis en évidence chez le streptocoque le rôle central de la protéine S dans l’arsenal de défense de cette ba...

Also see the @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social press release www.unil.ch/news/fr/1761...

Now online @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm not sure what to think about this. Most top open access journals cost more than CHF 3,500 to publish so will not be covered by SNSF funding. It will make it even more difficult for small universities to publish in top journals because of budget limitations.

Coupled to the general budget cuts by both the canton and federal government to our University (and it's happening at most institutes in Switzerland), this would be really bad. The project funding scheme is really the best thing about Swiss science, so please don't touch this!

Enterococcus faecalis: an overlooked cell invader | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews SUMMARYEnterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium are human pathobionts that exhibit a dual lifestyle as commensal and pathogenic bacteria. The pathogenic lifestyle is associated with specific conditions involving host susceptibility and intestinal ...

🧵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/...

Microbiology and infectious diseases This page highlights recent articles on all aspects of bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and virology, covering the biology of pathogens, host-pathogen ...

Very pleased to share that our recent article with
@veeninglab.com in @natcomms.nature.com
was selected for the Editor's Highlights, which aims to showcase the 50 best papers recently published in the area of #microbiology & infectious diseases!

www.nature.com/collections/...

Engineered symbiont biosensor maps micron-scale sugar gradients in the honeybee gut The honeybee gut microbiota plays a key role in shaping host health and susceptibility to disease. Yet, the nutrient environment it experiences within the gut remains poorly characterized. In particul...

New preprint! 🐝 We engineered a bacterial biosensor to reveal micron-scale arabinose gradients in the honeybee gut. Congratulations to Audam and all co-authors. Great collaboration with @pengellab.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes at @fbm-unil.bsky.social
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We are looking forward to sunnier days and some fantastic presentations at our #ProkaryoticCellBio meeting in Portugal next July! Grants, Early Bird pricing and Talk slots close on 12 Jan, register & submit today to join us! 🌞
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