Dor Salomon
@drdorsalomon.bsky.social
Professor, Tel Aviv University.
Bacterial toxins and secretion, T6SS, MGEs, syn bio, host-microbe interactions, anti-phage defense.
Model systems: Vibrio, Aeromonas, Pantoea.
ISM board member.
https://www.dorsalomonlab.sites.tau.ac.il/
Bacterial toxins and secretion, T6SS, MGEs, syn bio, host-microbe interactions, anti-phage defense.
Model systems: Vibrio, Aeromonas, Pantoea.
ISM board member.
https://www.dorsalomonlab.sites.tau.ac.il/
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Dor Salomon
@drdorsalomon.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Phage-encoded homing endonucleases attenuate bacterial immunity
The arms race between bacteria and bacteriophages (phages) gave rise to multiple layers of antagonistic mechanisms, many of which remain unexplored. Here, we investigated the anti-phage defense system...
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🚨 Happy to share our new preprint in which we explore different layers of the phage-bacteria arms race.
The highlight: phage homing endonucleases attenuate bacterial defenses 🤯
A 🧵... (1/7)
#bacteriology #antiphage #T6SS
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The highlight: phage homing endonucleases attenuate bacterial defenses 🤯
A 🧵... (1/7)
#bacteriology #antiphage #T6SS
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA
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December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA
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I’m happy to share our new preprint! We uncovered the full diversity of bacterial TIR-based antiviral immune signaling, massively expanded the known diversity of Thoeris systems, and revealed conservation of TIR-derived immune signals across the tree of life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Systematic discovery of TIR-based immune signaling systems in bacteria
Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains are important for immune signaling across humans, plants and bacteria. These domains were recently found to produce immune signaling molecules in plant immuni...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I’m happy to share our new preprint! We uncovered the full diversity of bacterial TIR-based antiviral immune signaling, massively expanded the known diversity of Thoeris systems, and revealed conservation of TIR-derived immune signals across the tree of life.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New picture of the Salomon lab
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
New picture of the Salomon lab
Very happy to see @seeyeunting.bsky.social and @meravcohen.bsky.social on this prestigious lost 🎉
Congratulations to the new cohort of 28 EMBO Young Investigators! They are joining an international network of more than 800 life scientists – Welcome!
Read the press release here:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
Read the press release here:
https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twenty-eight-group-leaders-become-embo-young-investigators/
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Very happy to see @seeyeunting.bsky.social and @meravcohen.bsky.social on this prestigious lost 🎉
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I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk! www.microbialeco.systems
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Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
the sun is shining through the clouds in the sky above the ocean
ALT: the sun is shining through the clouds in the sky above the ocean
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November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
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🚨 We are hiring a group leader in Virology at CIRI !
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
International Call: recruitment of an Early-Career Team Leader in Virology at CIRI!
For further information: ciri.ens-lyon.fr/nous-rejoind...
For further information: ciri.ens-lyon.fr/nous-rejoind...
December 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🚨 We are hiring a group leader in Virology at CIRI !
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
Join us in the beautiful city of Lyon 🇫🇷
Deadline on March 31st 2026
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🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
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Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, Basler and colleagues examine the type VI secretion system (T6SS), focusing on the diversity of antibacterial T6SS effectors and the evolutionary forces that shape them. They explain h...
nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy to share our latest T6SS review:
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jan, Danny (@dannyjamesward.bsky.social), Joana (@joanampereira.bsky.social), as well as reviewers and editors @natrevmicro.nature.com!
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New online! The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins
The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01256-wIn this Review, Basler and colleagues examine the type VI secretion system (T6SS), focusing on the diversity of antibacterial T6SS effectors and the evolutionary forces that shape them. They explain how effectors diversify and highlight interbacterial antagonism as a key driver of this process.
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
New online! The type VI secretion system and associated effector proteins
Hear, hear!
Today's pro-tip for effective research seminars: Show fewer things but explain them better. People fall in love with a cool new story and not with your supplementary data.
darth vader from star wars says you do have a great many things to explain
ALT: darth vader from star wars says you do have a great many things to explain
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November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Hear, hear!
A proper pull-down experiment figure must have at least 3 lanes: the interaction in question and 2 controls, one for each protein. Please stop publishing (and approving as reviewers) pull-downs with 2 lanes.
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A proper pull-down experiment figure must have at least 3 lanes: the interaction in question and 2 controls, one for each protein. Please stop publishing (and approving as reviewers) pull-downs with 2 lanes.
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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/...)
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/...)
Molecular Microbiology Group
Information about research topics and publications about the group around Kirsten Jung
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October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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/...)
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/...)
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Come join us in Knoxville!
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Come join us in Knoxville!
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.).
Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
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🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨The Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) and @pitt-immunology.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a tenure-stream Assistant Professor. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3L42cGS
October 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
🚨 Faculty position alert! 🚨The Center for Systems Immunology (CSI) and @pitt-immunology.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a tenure-stream Assistant Professor. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/3L42cGS
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#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Two (2) Open Rank Teaching Faculty
The Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks applicants for two (2) Teaching Faculty positions to be effective July 1, 2026. These positions will be fixed-term 9-...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
If you are a USA or Canada citizen and want to join my lab for a postdoc on bacterial secretion systems, toxins, and/or MGEs, check out this opportunity and contact me. 🦠
Zuckerman STEM Postdoc Program: Research in Israel for US & Canadian Scholars share.google/YOOdDRvUgGm1...
Zuckerman STEM Postdoc Program: Research in Israel for US & Canadian Scholars share.google/YOOdDRvUgGm1...
Zuckerman STEM Postdoc Program: Research in Israel for US & Canadian Scholars
Attracts postdoctoral scholars from the United States and Canada to conduct research at Israeli universities. Fosters US-Israeli scientific cooperation and encourages scholars to take faculty position...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you are a USA or Canada citizen and want to join my lab for a postdoc on bacterial secretion systems, toxins, and/or MGEs, check out this opportunity and contact me. 🦠
Zuckerman STEM Postdoc Program: Research in Israel for US & Canadian Scholars share.google/YOOdDRvUgGm1...
Zuckerman STEM Postdoc Program: Research in Israel for US & Canadian Scholars share.google/YOOdDRvUgGm1...
Open Faculty position 🚨
Are you a microbiologist 🦠 ready to open your own lab? Come join us at Tel Aviv University.
en-med.m.tau.ac.il/FOM-position...
Are you a microbiologist 🦠 ready to open your own lab? Come join us at Tel Aviv University.
en-med.m.tau.ac.il/FOM-position...
Positions at the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
Positions at the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences
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October 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Open Faculty position 🚨
Are you a microbiologist 🦠 ready to open your own lab? Come join us at Tel Aviv University.
en-med.m.tau.ac.il/FOM-position...
Are you a microbiologist 🦠 ready to open your own lab? Come join us at Tel Aviv University.
en-med.m.tau.ac.il/FOM-position...
Why in the world should it take 21 days (and counting) for a journal with professional editors to make an initial decision to reject or review?
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Why in the world should it take 21 days (and counting) for a journal with professional editors to make an initial decision to reject or review?
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The six faculty positions open at UNC Biology also include 2 openings for Teaching Assistant Professors or Teaching Associate Professors. We seek instructors with expertise from any area of biology 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
October 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The six faculty positions open at UNC Biology also include 2 openings for Teaching Assistant Professors or Teaching Associate Professors. We seek instructors with expertise from any area of biology 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists!
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
Assistant Professor of Microbiology
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October 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pls share: Hofstra University is looking for a Tenure-Track Microbiologists!
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
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We are seeking a microbiologist with a research focus on a non-pathogenic bacterial model system.
hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542
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The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Early career group leaders
We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.
www.crick.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology
Deadline 27 Nov
www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
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Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Thèse en Microbiologie-Biochimie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
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Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.
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Ohio State microbiology department is hiring assistant professor of Microbiome science (due Nov 6). It's an amazing department please apply!! (I would apply if I had more pubs haha...)
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675478/a...
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675478/a...
October 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Ohio State microbiology department is hiring assistant professor of Microbiome science (due Nov 6). It's an amazing department please apply!! (I would apply if I had more pubs haha...)
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675478/a...
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675478/a...