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Sonja Billerbeck

@billerbecks.bsky.social
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Synthetic Biologist, Protein and Genome Engineer, Microbe and Fungi Fan www.billerbecklab.com

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LabCrafter @labcrafter.co.uk · 10/07/2026
We recently stopped by @billerbecks.bsky.social's lab at Imperial to see them using our electroPioreactor - open-source hardware that grows alt-protein bacteria using electrolysis - in action. v0.2 is underway (github.com/amy-bo/elect...), a big step toward our website launch. #SynBio
Gerrit with Teo in the labGerrit and Margriet standing in front the Imperial College London sign
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Julia Kamenz @kamenzlab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Can‘t tell your frogs apart? 🐸Dario Tomanin and Serban Tonie have developed XIBBIT, a user-friendly software to recognize Xenopus laevis and accommodate your daily colony management needs. We used XIBBIT to show that egg-quality has an individual and seasonal component. Preprint: tinyurl.com/Xibbit
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XIBBIT: A biometric recognition tool for efficient Xenopus laevis identification and colony management
The African clawed frog Xenopus laevis is a widely utilized model organism in biomedical research; however, significant challenges in experimental reproducibility and colony management remain. A major...
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
New paper out by @aliciamv.bsky.social 🤩🥳 …where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid academic.oup.com/femsyr/advan...
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Pulcherriminic acid Biosynthesis and Transport: Insights from a heterologous system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstract. Pulcherriminic acid is an iron chelator produced by some Kluyveromyces and Metschnikowia yeasts. Its biosynthesis is encoded by the four–gene PUL
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Brilliant #DailyShow life yesterday in NYC hosted by Jon Stewart 🤩! Good to see voices raised Jon Stewart to Los Angeles: ‘Is Your City Ever Not on Fire?’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/a...
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Join us for the next edition of this wonderful conference series in 2026! The last editions were very well received by all participants! Great speakers, setting and atmosphere.
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David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
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Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My dept in London at Imperial (Bioengineering) is recruiting a group leader at Professor level 🧑‍🎓 Please RT. It's a great place with world-class expertise in all sorts of biomedical & biological engineering topics like synthetic biology. It's also not in the USA. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Marcello Seri @mseri.me · 15/04/2025
If you are in #Groningen tomorrow, don't forget the upcoming YAG's Pub Lectures: * Clemens Mayer: Evolution as an all-purpose problem solver * Corina Prent: Innovation and imagination 📅 16 April 🕔 17.00-18.00 📍 Café de Toeter
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Can expression of a peptide lead to antimicrobial resistance? Yes it can! We discovered this for a toxin we work with and started exploring how #peptides, #antimicrobialresistance and de-novo gene birth can come together. @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Amazing work by @rianneprins.bsky.social
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great opportunity at a great place to work!
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UKrant @ukrant.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
LIVEBLOG in English: The University of Groningen is on strike on Tuesday, March 18, due to the looming budget cuts in higher education. In this live blog, we will follow the strike, which is unique in the university’s history, hour by hour. ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
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Liveblog: the RUG is on strike against impending mega budget cuts
De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen staakt dinsdag 18 maart vanwege de dreigende bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. In dit liveblog volgen we de staking, uniek in de Groningse universitaire geschiedenis...
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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Vandaag staak ik - het is de beurt aan de @unigroningen.bsky.social en de @hanzehogeschool.bsky.social in de estafettestaking van het hoger onderwijs. De hele dag doet @ukrant.bsky.social verslag. #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social ukrant.nl/marathonstak...
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Liveblog: de RUG staakt tegen dreigende megabezuiniging
De Rijksuniversiteit Groningen staakt dinsdag 18 maart vanwege de dreigende bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. In dit liveblog volgen we de staking, uniek in de Groningse universitaire geschiedenis...
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🟥 Solidarity with my colleagues in the Netherlands, striking today (and in the coming weeks) to resist outrageous budget cuts proposed by the far-right-led government. 💪
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by @rianneprins.bsky.social and @billerbecks.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Small proteins and peptides conferring protection against antimicrobial compounds
The secretion of antimicrobials is widespread among microorganisms, many of which have developed protection mechanisms. While well-characterized protection mechanisms involve relatively large proteins...
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Join us @apnet.bsky.social to build a strong network of Assistant Professors in the Netherlands. www.ap-net.nl/register
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Register – ap-net.nl
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
For yeast and fungi fans: I’ll be speaking about our work on the yeast toxicome on March 13th. Hybrid attendance possible. www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18820...
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Imperial Fungal Science Network | Seminar Series 2025 | Seminar
A hybrid seminar program focussing on our key research themes: Biotechnology and Engineering; Ecology, Evolution and the Environment.
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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792
Looking north at the Washington Square Arch, with 1 Fifth avenue behind it and a fountain in front of it. NYU Biology is a block to the right from this scene, on Washington Square East.
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hi Skeeps, if you are in the London area and would like me to speak at your university or company, I will be in London on Thursday April 10 and Friday April 11. Looking for talks that can offer some travel/lodging reimbursement.
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Here the correct link ☺️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Protocol to study toxic, immune, and suicidal phenotypes of killer yeast
Killer yeast produce antimicrobial proteins, often together with a self-protective immunity factor. Here, we present a protocol for analyzing the toxi…
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For those working with antifungal yeast, we consolidated protocols to test for killing, immunity and suicidal phenotypes by @_rprins 🥳🥳 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Harris Wang @harriswang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SAMPL-seq reveals micron-scale spatial hubs in the human gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology
Split-And-pool Metagenomic Plot-sampling sequencing (SAMPL-seq) can be applied to complex microbial communities to reveal spatial co-localization of microbes at the micron scale.
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Out now! We consolidated >600 Dutch yeast and characterised their activity against spoilage yeasts and relevant human and plant pathogens, focusing on yeasts that secrete antifungal proteins. Great resource for biocontrol and beyond. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39875071/
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Big day! New year, new job 🤩. Settled into my new office and visited the partly original DNA helix model by Watson and Crick in the London Science Museum next door. Fully inspired for 2025 now 😆!
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Best farewell gift by @dirkscheffers.bsky.social ! 2025 Discovery walks and runs in my new home fixed 😁. Meanwhile saying good bye to pretty Groningen in Christmas lights.
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Christmas lab dinner with this lovely bunch ☺️
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Sebastian Wenk @sebwenk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
💥💥💥 !!! Please re-post !!! 💥💥💥 Hello Community, We’re excited to announce that we’re moving to Groningen in January 2025 to embark on a new chapter in our research careers. For this, we need a house/flat and we hope to find a nice place with your help.
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Great day at the #Westerdijk learning new things about fungi 🤓 and sharing some of our yeast work at #KNVMmycology. Especially happy to have learned about #Starship giant transposons and a new sticker.
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Max Haase @maxhaase.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Reminder, if you are yeast biologist (species agnostic, just need be single celled and a fungus) please let me know and I will add you to this starter pack. go.bsky.app/PyUwqLU
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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New preprint from the group of @billerbecks.bsky.social!
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Francesca Ceroni @ceronifranci.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NAPIC website is now live!: www.napic.ac.uk
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you are an Assistant Professor (or equivalent) in the Netherlands, check out @apnet.bsky.social and help us to build a strong network of Assistant professors by following our bluesky account and ideally becoming a member: ap-net.nl/register/
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Gerrich @gerrich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Currently in Delft for the microbial biotechnology conference MB10.0, having a blast! The first conference that I visit that's hosted at a cinema! Thanks @billerbecks.bsky.social for organizing such an event!
Photo of an empty cinema with the introductory slide for the symposium.
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
With renewd energy we will protest against the draconic budget cuts on higher education in 🇳🇱 on 25 november 13u Malieveld the Hague 🟥 Stop the budget cuts 🟥 In the meantime you can support us and sign the petition campagnes.degoedezaak.org/campaigns/st...
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Stop de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!
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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Application deadline has been extended to January 10, 2025...
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John Morrissey @johncork.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
I currently have a funded vacancy (24 months) for a post-doc to work on strain engineering projects in the area of yeast biotechnology. You can find more details about the post and how to apply on the UCC jobs portal or LinkedIn Sept 5th deadline).
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Sonja Billerbeck @billerbecks.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Happy to see our perspective on KillerYeast and SynBio and Wine out in TrendsinBiotech. Fantastic collaboration with @synbioroy.bsky.social and Sakkie Pretorius that started during a visit in Sidney @macquariemuseum.bsky.social _Uni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Faculty Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824 Candidates w/ broad expertise in mycology including host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis biology, metabolism and biotechnology, development/morphology, ecology/climate change, and evolution. 🍄
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Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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