Job title: PhD fellow in infection biology/microbiology (297648), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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Some bacteria use a kind of molecular “speargun” to eliminate their rivals, injecting them with a lethal cocktail. Researchers led by Prof. Marek Basler at the Biozentrum have now discovered that cert...

Liver abscesses caused by hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) can lead to severe metastatic complications, with mortality rates ranging from...

The signals triggering activation of VraTSR, a key regulator of the cell wall stress response in Staphylococcus aureus, remain unknown. Combining crosslinking assays with vancomycin- and ampicillin-d....

Abstract. The human nasal microbiome can serve as a reservoir for pathogens. In particular, the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus can be a membe

Abstract. The human nasal microbiome can serve as a reservoir for pathogens. In particular, the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus can be a membe

As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...

The antibiotic polymyxin B requires bacterial metabolic activity to cause sufficient damage to the outer membrane to access the inner membrane, which it permeabilizes via an energy-independent mechanism to kill the cell.

Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP) is a chemoproteomic technique that uses functionalized covalent enzyme inhibitors known as activity-based probes (ABPs) to detect, quantify, and identify active...

The Department of Quantitative Biomedicine is an interdisciplinary biomedical research unit that combines basic science with biotechnological and medical research, using both experimental and computat...

Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacteria-associated mortality worldwide. New tools are needed to both image and treat this pathogen. We previously identified a group of S. aureus serine hy...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) of minimalistic Mollicutes mirror the bacterial proteome, elicit immune responses, and mediate plasmid transfer via vesiduction, highlighting the EVs’ roles in host i...

Author summary Bacterial infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii are a major global health concern due to high antibiotic resistance, earning it a critical priority pathogen ranking by the WHO. P...

This novel antibiotic activates an existing "suicide" mechanism in gonococci

Job title: PhD Candidate in Microbiology (274648), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2025

In search of new putative antimicrobial drug targets in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, we aimed to identify and characterize retaining glycosidase activities in this bacterial pathogen. ...

Protease-activated receptor 2 (PAR2) is a central regulator of intestinal barrier function, inflammation and pain. Upregulated intestinal proteolysis and PAR2-signaling are implicated in inflammatory ...

University of Basel researchers have discovered that bacteria can sense threats in advance through a general danger signal. Bacteria detect when nearby cells are dying and proactively form a protectiv...

Coevolving siderophore genes shape bacterial iron networks, unveiling the complexity of cheating across habitats and lifestyles.

Nature - Discovery and engineering of the antibody response to a prominent skin commensal

Common dCas9-based CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) system for gene regulation requires antibiotic selection and exogenous inducer molecules, posing significant challenges when applied in in vivo bacteri...