Susanne Gebhard
@gebhardlab.bsky.social
Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology at JGU Mainz, Germany. Loving the positivity of Gram+ bugs and the wonderful things they get up to
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Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells.
See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells.
See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
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Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
November 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Bacterial networks #BacNet26 in September 2026 will be chaired by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and co-chaired by @s-lab.bsky.social with @coralietesseur.bsky.social
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
Sneak peak on invited speakers and preliminary program:
meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...
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The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Prizes! The winners will be awarded and deliver Prize Lectures at Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast from 13–16 April. Find out more about it: microb.io/PrizeWinners.... Meet the winners below. #Microbio26
New paper from another great collaboration with @rachel-darnell19.bsky.social on Enterococcus faecalis developing cross-tolerance to multiple cell wall antibiotics during prolonged teixobactin exposure! 🦠🧫🔬
New paper out in AAC looking at the development of hyper-tolerance and cross-tolerance to cell wall-targeting antimicrobials via mutations in the mevalonate and Epa biosynthesis pathways and the LiaFSR cell envelope stress response. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1128/aac....
Prolonged exposure to teixobactin generates cross-tolerance to other cell wall-targeting antimicrobials in Enterococcus faecalis | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Antimicrobial tolerance (AMT) is the ability of a microorganism to survive but not
proliferate during high-dose antimicrobial treatment (1). Mechanisms of AMT have been linked to many different cellul...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
New paper from another great collaboration with @rachel-darnell19.bsky.social on Enterococcus faecalis developing cross-tolerance to multiple cell wall antibiotics during prolonged teixobactin exposure! 🦠🧫🔬
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Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
A two-component system signaling hub controls enterococcal membrane remodeling in response to daptomycin https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.16.688641v1
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Why does daptomycin resistance appear so fast in Enterococcus? We finally have a clue.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
DAP resistance in enterococci pops up quickly. What’s been missing is why resistance-associated membrane changes look the way they do, and why the classic path of mutations is so predictable.
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🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork Vacancies
my.corehr.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
New group photo time with all new team members now arrived in Mainz. The new succulents house of @unimainz.bsky.social makes for a perfect backdrop on a foggy November day 🤩
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New group photo time with all new team members now arrived in Mainz. The new succulents house of @unimainz.bsky.social makes for a perfect backdrop on a foggy November day 🤩
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Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Fascinating keynote lecture yesterday at @unimainz.bsky.social of @frunzkelab.bsky.social of the @fz-juelich.de. Thank you for your exiting insights into bacterial #multicellularity and the world of #bacteriophages, Julia, and for visiting us in #Mainz 🤗
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Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production
Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson
www.gla.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production
Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
please repost
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OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4
September 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4
New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Decoding the functional role of the calcium ATPase YloB in microbially induced calcite precipitation and sporulation in Solibacillus silvestris
Calcium homeostasis is essential for bacterial physiology, yet its regulation and role in specialized processes such as microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) and sporulation remain poorly u...
www.biorxiv.org
September 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
New preprint out from the team! Master‘s student extraordinaire Julia Bauer stumbled across a Ca transporter needed for endospore maturation in Solibacillus 🧫🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores
July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Fascinating seminar by Prof @gebhardlab.bsky.social on ‘Building bacterial bridges – How an ancient bacterial trait can help us build the infrastructure of the future’ and visit at @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social (hosted by @henrikstrahl.bsky.social) #bacillus #spores
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Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
The Society has supported the microbiology community for 80 years. Now we invite you to get involved by submitting your research, helping to shape the future of science and innovation. Publish with us - microb.io/Publishing-f...
June 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Publish in Society Journals 🧪🦠🧬
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
Also I recently published in Microbial Genomics and it was a great process - fast, reasonable/fair reviews, quick formatting and processing after acceptance.
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Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
June 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany)
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more!
#PlantScience
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New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
DMF: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in Molecular Microbiology - Site des postulations FBM
wwwfbm.unil.ch
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
June 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential.
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
June 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
All ready for action at the 2025 Open Day of JGU Mainz, representing our teaching and research in Molecular Biotechnology 🧫🦠🔬
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
Very grateful for fabulous support from our students! 😎
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Microbiology Outlooks joins our portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our community, amplifying the voices of members across disciplines to advance understanding and address global challenges. Find out more in the blog: microb.io/4e4oe6W
June 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Microbiology Outlooks joins our portfolio to meet the evolving needs of our community, amplifying the voices of members across disciplines to advance understanding and address global challenges. Find out more in the blog: microb.io/4e4oe6W
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Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Live Cell Imaging of Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus pneumoniae using Automated Time-lapse Microscopy
42.1K Views. University of Groningen. This protocol provides a step-by-step procedure to monitor single cell behavior of different bacteria in time using automated fluorescence time-lapse microscopy....
www.jove.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Fellow bacterial cell biologists, message me if you use @thermofishersci.bsky.social Gene Frames for microscopy!
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
Thermo are planning to discontinue these in September but have indicated they will look into this further.
If I make list of labs using them Thermo might not kill the product
Please RT🔬🦠
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Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
June 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Postdoc positions open in my lab (Francis Crick Institute) to study
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
1. initiation of DNA replication.
2. chromatin replication/epigenetic inheritance.
Great for biochemists, biophysicists and cryo-EM/cryo-tomography scientists.
Deadline 3 August 2025.
crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to [email protected]. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.
June 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. To apply, please send your CV and a brief cover letter to [email protected]. The deadline to apply is 2 July 2025.
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Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab
#BACELL2025
#BACELL2025
June 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Molecular insights into microbially induced calcite precipitation by Solibacillus silvestris - Michael Seidel @seamicha.bsky.social from @gebhardlab.bsky.social lab
#BACELL2025
#BACELL2025
Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳
Excellent PhD defence 🎓 about bacterial secretion systems today by Friederike Pisarz at @unimainz-events.bsky.social. Very proud supervisor moments. Congratulations, Friederike, well done 🥳
May 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Congratulations, Dr Pisarz! It was a pleasure reading your thesis and discussing your research with you today 😎 And of course congrats to proud supervisor @heermann-lab.bsky.social 🥳🥳
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Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Clostridioides difficile is a bacterial priority pathogen
www.sciencedirect.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay!
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
May 14, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Big thanks to the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at University of Otago for hosting me for a sabbatical. I thoroughly enjoyed the stay!
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.
Time to travel slowly back to the UK (and start being a stranger on an island), but first a visit to IMB/University of Queensland.