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Robert Jansen

@robertsjansen.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in microbial metabolism at Radboud University. I explore new functions of enzymes and metabolites using untargeted metabolomics and like to 🏃 www.functional-metabolomics-lab.nl

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MCT6 is an intestinal Lac-Phe exporter required for metformin-associated weight loss www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Ulrich Hammes @uhammes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’re looking for a new colleague in Würzburg! 🌱 W3 Professorship in Plant Metabolism 💊 Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology 🧪 Head of the Metabolomics Core Unit jobs.zeit.de/jobs/univers... Please spread the word! Questions? Feel free to contact me. www.biologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/about-the...
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W3_Pflanzenmetabolismus - FACULTY OF BIOLOGY
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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics
Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...
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Jan-Ulrik Dahl (Dahl lab, ISU) @janulrikdahl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us and become my colleague! The School of Biological Sciences is opening the search for an Assistant Professor in the field of Host-Microbe Interactions with the targeted start date of Fall 2027. Please reach out to me with any questions you have: jobsearch.illinoisstate.edu/jobs/assista...
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS (IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY) - Normal, Illinois, Illinois, United States
Title: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN HOST-MICROBE INTERACTIONS (IMMUNOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY)Employee Classification: Asst ProfessorDivision Name: Academic AffairsCollege/Unit: College of Arts and SciencesDepart...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 17/09/2026
I wrote about what came before CRISPR 4 billion years ago: a war among viruses. Gift link: nyti.ms/3TBq4q0
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The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest (Gift Article)
Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more powerful.
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Pieter Dorrestein @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20.... Here is a new Mass spec to structure challenge for #metabolomics $50K in prizes.
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Biswa Misra @biswamisra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🤩 You think you are the BEST in #annotation of #MSMS #spectra for #compounds & fancy your chances in #winning the #prize amount of $50,000 ? ⁉️ ✅ 👉 #Enveda is hosting the 2026 edition of #CASMI on #Kaggle lnkd.in/gKdFCMMZ 📜 #spectra #naturalproducts #metabolomics #untargeted #LCMS #MSMS #massspec
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Diversify Microbiology @diversifymicro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UNC Greensboro Department of Biology is hiring for three positions this year including one in microbiology! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
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Assistant Professor Microbiology
The Department of Biology at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in microbiology broadly defined for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assista...
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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Professor in the field of Bacteriology
Strengthening Cambridge's leadership in bacteriology research Bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance remain among the most pressing global health challenges of our time. At Cambridge, the De...
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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who knew ammonia-oxidizing archaea could be “flexitarians”? Our new study in Science Advances shows that #AOA living inside marine sponges can assimilate branched-chain amino acids, an unexpected talent that may even shape how they interact with their hosts 🧽🤝🦠 🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Branched-chain amino acid assimilation enables mixotrophy of ammonia-oxidizing archaeal sponge symbionts
Marine sponges and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) represent one of the earliest animal-microbe symbioses. AOA are considered metabolically constrained chemolithoautotrophs that remove nitrogenous was...
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Wilbert Bitter @wilbertbitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please have a look at our review on a very interesting and underappreciated group of proteins... Getting a grip on StAR-related lipid-transfer (START) domain proteins in bacteria academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...
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Getting a grip on StAR-related lipid-transfer (START) domain proteins in bacteria
Bacterial START domain proteins have a conserved helix-grip fold, but diverge from mammalian lipid transporters by utilizing a more versatile array of proc
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Robert Jansen @robertsjansen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Desiccation promotes DNA damage and rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Nature Microbiology
Analysis of desiccation stress responses in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals increased oxidative stress and DNA damage, leading to upregulation of the transcription-coupled repair factor, Mfd, which...
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Urinary Tract Infections Revisited @uti-revisited.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Metabolite co-variation networks reveal keystone functions and an emergent pathogen state in the human urobiome spearheaded by Larissa della Vedova under supervision of Celia Berkers and @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social and co-workers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Metabolite co-variation networks reveal keystone functions and an emergent pathogen state in the human urobiome.
Microbial communities are dynamic, adaptive ecosystems whose collective behavior emerges from metabolic interactions such as cross-feeding, competition, and cooperation, rather than taxonomic diversit...
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Jens Lund @lundjens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Exercise and metabolite aficionados 🫵 Lac-Phe was first discovered as an exercise-induced metabolite more than 10 years ago ! Let’s correct a recurring error in the rapidly expanding Lac-Phe literature 👇 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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N-lactoyl-amino acids are ubiquitous metabolites that originate from CNDP2-mediated reverse proteolysis of lactate and amino acids | PNAS
Despite technological advances in metabolomics, large parts of the human metabolome are still unexplored. In an untargeted metabolomics screen aimi...
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Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Happy to see this work preprinted! Only our second foray into the mycobacterial T7SS
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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Very happy that our paper Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities just came out in Nature Microbiology. See here 👇 Paywalled version: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free read-only version: rdcu.be/fBHAb
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Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities - Nature Microbiology
Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Exciting work by H. Minh Thai, Debbie Hunt, Manisha Priya and colleagues from UK and NZ. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... wertheim.scripps.ufl.edu/2026/08/19/s...
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A cloaked glutamate decarboxylase sustains the GABA shunt in Mycobacterium tuberculosis | PNAS
Despite the exponential growth in genome sequencing, the functional annotation of genes, particularly the discovery of novel enzymatic activities, ...
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Antonio Pagán @antoniopagan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Stanford Medicine’s Microbiology & Immunology Department (my home department) opened a job search for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Candidates interested in any and all areas of microbiology and/or immunology are encouraged to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the University Tenure Line. We seek ou...
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Genes from the deep: Evolution’s untapped biotechnology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Great goodbye present: Special Issue of Environmental Microbiology on #Methane & #Nitrogen cycling edited by @cuwelte.bsky.social& @marcstrous.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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Lis Lowe @lislowe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
New preprint out - Jenn’s hard work over the last few years collaborating with @jnb-lab.bsky.social, Overkleeft Lab in Leiden, Spencer Williams, Hannah Bridges at Cryosparc and @pmoyniha.bsky.social. Feat. her beautiful 1.5A cryo structure with a covalent inhibitor 😍. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jason Yang @jasonyanglab.org · 06/08/2026
I am happy to share that we are recruiting a postdoc with previous #tuberculosis research experience for a Mtb systems biology project focused on gene networks! Please visit our lab website (www.jasonyanglab.org) and our ad (tinyurl.com/ms92bmj8) for more information!
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Yang Lab at Rutgers NJMS
The Yang Lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic and infectious diseases. We develop approaches for a...
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Machine Learning for enzyme function discovery (truly)... take a look at this excellent work from Newman, Conway and colleagues. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Also I am obsessed that "fluorescence" was coined in the footnote of Stokes 1852 paper. He was like -- if opalescence can be named after opals, why not name this glowing after fluorspar? And I think that is cool royalsocietypublishing.org/rstl/article...
A screenshot from On the change of refrangibility of light by Stokes. Page 15 of the document. He says, " I confess I do not like this term (dispersive reflexion) I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearence fluorescence from fluor-spar, as the analagos term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.
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Kaçar Lab at UW-Madison @kacarlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Join the faculty at UW–Madison Bacteriology! We have two faculty searches: • Asst Prof (Microbial Communities & Bioeconomy) • Asst / Assoc / Full Prof (Systems & Synthetic Biology) Check out the open positions and apply👇 #FacultyJobs #SynBio #Microbiology #Astrobiology #Evolution
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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#Teamwork #ProudPI in #CompMetabolomics 😎 Doing untargeted mass spectrometry-based #metabolomics? Want to boost your chances in correctly matching your mass spectra to library spectra? Give our new #SpecReBoot resampling strategy a try! 🙂 www.linkedin.com/posts/jjjvan...
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SpecReBoot Library Matching Preprint | Justin J.J. van der Hooft
🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨 Congratulations 👏 🎉 to the CompMet team for presenting this preprint on boosting library matching for untargeted mass spectrometry-based metabolomics workflows 🙌 Metabolite a...
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Prof Tanya Parish @proftanya13.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Work on the new edition of the Mycobacteria Protocols is well underway. We have a couple of spaces, so if you are interested and have a new method you think would be a no brainer to include, drop us a line.. #Mycobacteria #MycobacteriaProtocols #TB #TBResearch🦠🧪
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease Apply before 31st August, 2026: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
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Masschelein Lab @masscheleinlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 We're hiring a postdoc! If you're passionate about microbial biosynthetic pathway elucidation and enzyme discovery we'd love to hear from you! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoc Microbial Biochemistry: Biosynthetic Enzyme Discovery in Cable Bacteria
Elucidating the biosynthesis of a unique nickel-containing conductive structure for long-range electron transport in cable bacteria
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Nathan Day @nthndy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very pleased to announce that my Crick postdoc work has just been published in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thank you to @bpradel.bsky.social, @jaksonluk.bsky.social, @maxgg.bsky.social and the rest of the host-pathogen interactions in TB lab that made it all possible!
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Fast-growing intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations evade antibiotic treatment - Nature Communications
The slow growth displayed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been historically associated with pathogen’s persistence and drug tolerance. Unexpectedly, here the authors identify a rare subpopulation of...
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Pedro Leão @pedroleao.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The manuscript introducing ArchaeaHQ is still under review😴 As science can't wait... I'm making available a version of the dashboard we use. vee-lab.eu/archaeahq Here the user can have quick access to the information in the database, and select specific genomes of interest. Enjoy 🎉
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Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.ai · 25/07/2026
Bridging complexity and accessibility in metabolomics with MetaboApps ->Nature | More on "Metabolomics data analysis open tools" at BigEarthData.ai
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Bridging complexity and accessibility in metabolomics with MetaboApps
• PostMN MassQL: https://github.com/helenamrusso/massql_post_MN • Multi-step MassQL: https://github.com/wilhan-nunes/streamlit-Multi-Step-MassQL • Reference Data-Driven: https://github.com/bittremieux-lab/gnps-rdd • Drug Readout: https://github.com/wilhan-nunes/streamlit_drug_readouts • Food Readout: https://github.com/wilhan-nunes/streamlit-food-readouts • CMMC dashboard: https://github.com/wilhan-nunes/streamlit_CMMC_analysis-dashboard • FBMN-Stats: https://github.com/Functional-Metabolomics-Lab/FBMN-STATS • Chemical Proportionality: https://github.com/Functional-Metabolomics-Lab/ChemProp-Web-App • CorrOmics: https://github.com/Functional-Metabolomics-Lab/Corromics • Conjugated Metabolome Explorer: https://github.com/Philipbear/conjugated_metabolome • Reverse Metabolomics: https://github.com/wilhan-nunes/streamlit-Reverse-Metabolomics Documentation can be accessed at https://wang-bioinformatics-lab.github.io/GNPS2_Documentation/metaboapps_overview/. For developers from the metabolomics or broader community interested in contributing new MetaboApps, we provide resources and documentation. The core infrastructure is accessible through three key repositories. The Streamlit App GNPS2 template (https://github.com/Wang-Bioinformatics-Lab/Template_Streamlit_App) offers a preconfigured template with GNPS2 integration guidelines for a quick start. GNPSDataPackage (https://github.com/Wang-Bioinformatics-Lab/GNPSDataPackage) is a Python library that enables programmatic access to GNPS2 workflow results via task IDs for postprocessing, providing the tools to work directly with analysis outputs (which are mainly CSV tables, MGF spectra files or GraphML network files). For more experienced developers, we recommend the Dash template (https://github.com/Wang-Bioinformatics-Lab/Dash_Multipage_Template), which provides a framework for building multipage applications. Pull requests are evaluated by core GNPS2 developers for code quality, efficiency and infrastructure compatibility. Developers wishing to implement new MetaboApps in GNPS2 should contact the GNPS2 team to initiate the integration and deployment process. Applications are encouraged to include clear documentation and user-friendly interfaces. We thank the...
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Michael Glickman @michaelglickman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Please repost! #microsky🦠 The Glickman Lab at MSK is recruiting! Projects in Mtb pathogenesis, basic biology of mycobacteria, and mycobacterial cancer therapies. See our publications here: tinyurl.com/3f386f4x Send CV and cover letter to: glickmanmycolab@gmail.com
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Erika C. Freeman @ecfreewoman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🌊🧪 New in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (OA): "Rare molecules as community architects." Robert Paine's sea star kept a whole tidal community standing. Can a rare molecule, at trace concentrations, do the same? 🔬 Two independent systems suggest maybe, and the piece asks how we'd actually test it.
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Rein Houben @reinhouben.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Very exciting to see this out. Massive lift from team, highlighting how we need to dare to think big if we want to make a meaningful dent in the ongoing ongoing burden of TB. We will not get there by small steps. Instead should focus on how to make possible the apparently impossible.
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Biswa Misra @biswamisra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Front Cover Art for our 📑 : "Trends in #Computational #Metabolomics: A Perspective on Five Years of #Software Development, Challenges, and Opportunities (2021–2025)* : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... in #AnalyticalChemistry journal with #ACSPublications is out! #Enveda #MyACSCover
Front Cover Art for our 📑 : "Trends in #Computational #Metabolomics: A Perspective on Five Years of #Software Development, Challenges, and Opportunities (2021–2025)* 
: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.6c00361 in #AnalyticalChemistry  journal with @ACSPublications is out! 
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Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences @ribesresearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Two of our researchers recently received an NWO ENW grant 🎊 The projects are titled "Turning the toxins of the tubercle bacillus against itself", and "It takes two: Development of bivalent anti-inflammatory corticosteroid drugs". As you can see, our 'green' biology institute is also involved... 1/2
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Biswa Misra @biswamisra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Or, #AI solves #metabolite #annotation s that have been propagating via #manual errors over the decades ! Early indications from #DeepMet #MS2Mol #DreaMS indicate exciting times in #AI for metabolomics.
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Multiple very interesting papers coming online in Nature Microbiology, but I would like to call your attention to this one. Particularly important for the mycobacterium drug discovery community. @siegristpalmore.bsky.social and team, congratulations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning - Nature Microbiology
Screening 1,572 compounds for mycomembrane permeation plus cheminformatic and machine learning analyses reveals features associated with improved permeation in the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
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The Analytical Scientist @analyticalsci.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"It is not yet a crisis, but it could be heading there." Ian Wilson discusses metabolite misidentification, data validation, and why AI could amplify errors if the metabolomics community doesn't act. Read more: ow.ly/al1A50Z7uZu #Metabolomics #MassSpec
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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 07/07/2026
Fijn voor die 34 wetenschappers dat ze bij ons verder kunnen. Maar er had wel bij vermeld gemogen dat dit uiteindelijk ten koste gaat van 34 wetenschappers die al in Nederland werkten. Er is geld verschoven tussen potjes maar geen extra geld gekomen www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/t...
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Topwetenschappers uit de VS zoeken heil in Nederland. ‘Hier kan ik mijn werk voortzetten in een open omgeving’
29 topwetenschappers verhuizen van de Verenigde Staten naar Nederland om hun onderzoek hier voort te zetten. Zij krijgen geld uit een speciaal fonds dat vorig jaar is ingesteld om wetenschappers te st...
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My department @eth-dbiol.bsky.social at ETH Zurich is hiring for a tenured professor in mol cell bio and biochemistry (associate/full). The position is within the Institute of Biochemistry (www.bc.biol.ethz.ch) and it is fairly open within their scope of research. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry - Zurich, Switzerland job with ETH Zurich | 12861386
The Department of Biology at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned tenured professorship at the Institute of Biochemistry
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Natural Product Reports @natprodreports.rsc.org · 02/07/2026
Don't miss the Editorial to our Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics in Natural Products Research themed collection in our latest issue from the Guest Editors @mehdibeni.bsky.social, @nadjacech.bsky.social, Roger Linington & @ngarg10.bsky.social #natprod #secmet Check it out🔽
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Mass spectrometry as the unifying force in natural product sciences
Mehdi A. Beniddir, Nadja B. Cech, Roger Linington and Neha Garg introduce the Natural Product Reports themed issue on Mass spectrometry metabolomics in natural products research.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 01/07/2026
Out Now! Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning #MicroSky
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Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02412-5Screening 1,572 compounds for mycomembrane permeation plus cheminformatic and machine learning analyses reveals features associated with improved permeation in the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and model organism M. smegmatis.
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...
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Micro is Hiring! | UW Microbiology
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 27/06/2026
Out Now! Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms #MicroSky
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Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02385-5The evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery for producing specialized chemical metabolites.
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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...
Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.
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Patrick Moynihan @pmoyniha.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New paper in collaboration with @proftracypalmer.bsky.social, @lislowe.bsky.social and many more. We show that mycobacteria produce Type VII secreted anti-bacterial protein toxins. Excited to explore this new area of mycobacterial biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A Type VII-secreted toxin enables inter-mycobacterial competition - Nature Communications
Mycobacteria have not yet been reported to engage in interbacterial competition via secretion of proteinaceous toxins. Here, Benedict et al. show that some mycobacteria can use their type-VII secretio...
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Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This has been such a fun collaboration and a great example of team science
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Louis-Felix Nothias - HolobiomicsLab @holobiomicslab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Try it in Claude Code in two lines: /plugin marketplace add HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections /plugin install metabolomics@asb-skill-collections Repo + other runtimes: github.com/HolobiomicsL... 9/
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GitHub - HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections: Curated, evidence-grounded skill and software-tool collections for scientific AI agents, generated by the AgenticScienceBuilder
Curated, evidence-grounded skill and software-tool collections for scientific AI agents, generated by the AgenticScienceBuilder - HolobiomicsLab/asb-skill-collections
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