Understanding principles and dynamics of #microbialbalance
#ClusterOfExcellence @uni-jena.de
Funded by @dfgpublic.bsky.social
Balance of the Microverse
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🦠 How do bacteria control the viruses hidden in their own genomes? Researchers from @uni-jena.de uncovered a new defense mechanism: the small RNA CisR acts as a molecular brake, limiting replication of the cholera toxin–encoding CTX phage in Vibrio cholerae. Published in @pnas.org.
Great science starts with great conversations 🦠✨ Thanks to @michiwagner4.bsky.social (@microbesplanet.bsky.social) for the inspiring visit to our #ClusterOfExcellence in Jena. Great discussions, new perspectives — and proof that the “Microverse effect” is real 😉
🤝 @kuesellab.bsky.social
Congrats to @hellmichgroup.bsky.social on her #MaxPlanckFellowship! As a PI at our #ClusterOfExcellence she advances research on signaling in microbial systems.
Excited for the new group on Signaling Dynamics and future collaborations!
Bye, bye HKI 👋
On Monday, the Microverse admin office moves to the new Microverse Center Jena. Today: a sunny farewell with colleagues after years at @leibniz-hki.de (since 2016). Thanks for everything! We stay close—just 300 m away. A tiny “microbe friend” comes with us as a reminder 💛
🦠 Why do antibiotics stop working?
Antibiotic resistance evolves faster than many people realize. In the latest MDR podcast microbiologist Kai Papenfort explains how bacteria develop resistance—and why resistance genes often exist from the very beginning.
🤝 @uni-jena.de
🦠 A virus can dominate an ecosystem without evolving—but give it access to a new community, and evolution shifts into fast-forward. Our latest study reveals how migration drives viral adaptation and host switching.
🤝 @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social
🔬 Published in Science Advances Microbiology #Virology:
📺 Jena & its university on TV: The latest episode of 3sat Ländermagazin highlights Jena as a city driven by science, innovation & academic excellence —
The documentary includes insights from our speaker Kirsten Küsel and follows students Emily & Samira through everyday life in research and study.
Engineering quorum sensing: new directions for antimicrobial therapy
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by Elisabeth Urbauer, Alexander Gräwe, Alexandre Chamas, and Kai Papenfort
@microverse.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
An intriguing article on "MDR Wissen" picks up on our press release regarding the question of why the #aging immune system increasingly loses control over the #microbiome.
Click here (in German only): bit.ly/4edDpwe
with: @dvalenzano.bsky.social, @leibnizfli.bsky.social, @microverse.bsky.social
New in Science Advances: A bacteriophage stayed genetically stable for months, then evolved rapidly in a new microbial community.
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3884217/viru...
@jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @paulbrainey.bsky.social @uni-jena.de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social
Warum gerät unser Darmmikrobiom im Alter aus dem Gleichgewicht? Eine Forschungsgruppe aus Jena liefert eine überraschende Erklärung: Nicht die Bakterien sind schuld, sondern das Immunsystem verliert d...
Leibniz-Institut für Alternsforschung - Fritz-Lipmann-Institut
MPI for Evolutionary Biology
Ákos T Kovács
Quorum sensing (QS) is a cell–cell communication mechanism that enables bacteria to
coordinate gene expression in response to population density and community composition.
In many pathogens, QS plays ...
Host Karsten Möbius hat vor Kurzem über längere Zeit mehrere Antibiotika schlucken müssen. Ihn überkommt dann jedes Mal ein komisches Gefühl, ob er sich damit nicht resistente Keime "anzüchtet", "antr...
Seit Jahrhunderten verändert und prägt die Friedrich-Schiller-Universität die Stadt Jena in Thüringen – mit ihren Studenten, Forschenden, innovativen Projekten und Gebäudekomplexen.
www.ardmediathek.de
Viruses do not always evolve rapidly, even during massive outbreaks. Yet when they encounter a new community with …
Congratulations to @hellmichgroup.bsky.social! The Max Planck Society awarded her a Max Planck Fellowship. We are happy to have her as a Max Planck Fellow and look forward to intensifying our collaboration with her.
www.ice.mpg.de/556225/ute-h...
