🔬 We're back! Kicking off 2026 with the
23. Industry Academia Panel:
📅 Jan 15, 2026, 4:00 PM CET
💻 Online via Zoom
🦠 Topic "New class of bacteriophage-based antibacterial solutions"
Register: t1p.de/rqk1z
Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎉
#Microbiology #PhageTherapy #VAAM #AMR
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!
🔔Deadline 31.12.🔔
🧾 Nominate outstanding microbiologists for the VAAM Awards 2026!
🧪 Research Award for exceptional early-career research
🎓 PhD Awards €2,000 for excellent dissertations
Award ceremony at VAAM Annual Conference 2026 Berlin
Details: t1p.de/hisqb
#Microbiology #VAAM2026 #VAAMAwards
📣 VAAM Young Scientist Network – Upcoming Meeting!
Join us 📆Dec 8 ⏲️ 1 pm
for our next session:
“Industrial Careers: Perspectives and Pathways.”
Discover insights into career options beyond academia & hear experiences from young industry professionals
👉 Register here: t1p.de/hmbhw
#YoungScientists
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/...)
De-DUFing the DUFs 🧩 @franznarberhaus.bsky.social lab uncovers how small DUF1127 proteins regulate #phosphate uptake by binding the sensor kinase PhoR. Their conserved role from Agrobacterium to E. coli highlights how even small DUFs can shape bacterial physiology 🦠
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⏳ Only 3 weeks left to submit your abstract for #VAAM2026 Annual Conference🎤👩👩👦👦 in Berlin !
⏱️Abstract deadline: 7th November
🎓 Student members: Apply for travel grants until 7th November!
📌 t1p.de/7fgc4
Do not miss your chance and apply today!🏃🏃♀️
#VAAM2026 #microbiology #AnnualConference
🚀Grow your microbiology career – join VAAMentoring🌟
We connect early-career researchers 👨🔬with experienced microbiologists in 1:1 tandems👬
To get personalized guidance and build your network
apply until 📆31.10.!
Learn more: t1p.de/8yrt
#CareerinMicrobiology #VAAMentoring #Microbiology
Yesterday, our #ResearchCareers team gave an online presentation on DFG funding in the Walter Benjamin Programme. If you missed it, don't worry. We have a film about funded researchers and general information on this programme available: www.dfg.de/walter_benja...
youtu.be/wLe8xCMSpLA?...
Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.
@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social
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Early-career researchers: want to run your own lab? 🌟Max Planck Research Groups offer 6+ years, up to €2.7M in funding, open-topic freedom, team support & tenure-track opportunities. Intrigued? 😃Apply by Oct 14, 2025! www.mpg.de/max-planck-r...
The summer break is over - we´re back!
🚀21st VAAM Industry-Academia Panel
📆Sept 18, 4 pm CEST, online
Topic "In Vitro Microbiome Models"
🎤Michael Schloter, TU Munich & Pabitra Nandy, Acaryon Berlin
👉Don’t miss it – register now: t1p.de/6zzes
#VAAM #microbiology #microbiome #industry #academia
Well-deserved award: Gerhart in action 😉
There is still some time left to apply for these two Group Leader positions in Plant Biology and Microbe-Plant Interactions. Spread the word, apply & become our colleague @johninnescentre.bsky.social
A little gem here from Martin Schwartz, PhD the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Cell Biology at Yale University
Felt good to read and share and I predict you just might have the same experience
Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
Prachtvolle Dahlien in verschiedenen Farben blühen im Botanischen Garten. Auf schmalen Pfaden wandeln Besucherinnen dazwischen umher.
Unser Botanischer Garten ist Heimat vieler außergewöhnlicher Pflanzen: von prachtvollen Dahlien (das Bild zeigt sie in den 1980ern) bis zur Leberwurstblume und dem Trompetenbaum. Ab sofort könnt ihr Patenschaften für 60 verschiedene Pflanzen übernehmen. 👉️ https://www.bogafreundeskreis.de/patenshop
🚀 Join us for our 20. (!) 🌟
VAAM Industry-Academia Panel on
"Synthetic Microbiology Driven Drug Discovery"
We're excited to welcome:
🎤 Steven Schmitt - Myria Biosciences AG, Basel
🎤 Helge Bode - @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social, Marburg
📅 Thu July 17th, 4 PM CEST
📝 Register here: t1p.de/rqk1z
Emmy Noether Programme: in English Friday, 18. July 2025, 10-11:30 a.m. CET
#Prospects PhDs & postdocs of all disciplines note: Would you like to lead an independent junior research group? In our online talk you will get first-hand information about the aims and requirements of the DFG Emmy Noether Programme and more. Link to the meeting will be published here: fcld.ly/enp
Weiße Schrift auf rosa Hintergrund: "Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster!"
Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster! 🎉 Wir gratulieren den Forschenden der Cluster CASA und @solvationsci.bsky.social zu ihrem verdienten Erfolg.
Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
Aktuell kommt es zu Netzausfällen an der RUB. Sobald uns weitere Informationen vorliegen, werden wir dazu im Newsportal informieren. 👇
Job alert 🦠🧪: We are looking for a postdoc (and PhD candidate!) to join our team at UCLouvain/de Duve institute in Brussels, Belgium. You will work on our ERC Starting Grant project aimed at characterizing cell cycle regulation in S. pneumoniae. More information here: dewachterlab.com/join-us/.
*** Only a few days left to apply ***
Postdoc position at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"
Spatiotemporal regulation of cellular processes by CTP-switches in bacteria
Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...
Why is the DFG asking me to provide a review? Our Head Office invites suitably qualified and renowned national and international experts to review proposals submitted on specific research topics. We have compiled key reasons and practical information:
www.dfg.de/en/research-...
Excited to share this major paper spearheaded by Janka J. Schmidt; a great team effort by four groups of our Research Training Group MiCon funded by the DFG:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40193708/
Registration is open, look forward to seeing you!
microbialrnameeting.com
Over the moon 3 days, 12 plenaries, 170 short talks, 350 posters and a fabulous mixer later. Microbes and microbiologists are fun 🤩
