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Westermann Lab

@westermannlab.bsky.social

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Microbiota RNA Lab at the University of Würzburg and the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research. www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/research/a…

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Westermann Lab @westermannlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Takeshi Kanda represented our team at the Japanese Society for Bacteriology conference, founded by Prof. Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato - one of Japan's oldest societies. He also took the opportunity to connect with several Würzburg alumni.

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Westermann Lab @westermannlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🎓 Congrats to Elise Bornet, who completed her PhD this week! Her courageous work dissected morphological heterogeneity in predominant human gut commensals, and yielded an ultra-sensitive transcriptomics pipeline to sequence the RNA content of single Bacteroides cells. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Westermann Lab @westermannlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Congrats to Ann-Sophie Rüttiger who successfully defended her PhD this week! 🎓 She focused on global RNA-binding proteins in Bacteroides—bacteria lacking Hfq, ProQ, CsrA, Khp—culminating in the discovery of a post-transcriptional network governed by RbpB (www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55383-8).

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Westermann Lab @westermannlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Is it anything Hfq-like (RNA chaperone)? Or similar to CsrA (global translation modulator)? We don't know yet. But as it stands, Bacteroidota RRM proteins appear as excellent candidates to map post-transcriptional networks in a substantial fraction of the microbiota. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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