Professor in Medical and Molecular Microbiology, VU university & Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tuberculosis, cell envelope, protein secretion, Type VII secretion, ESX, host-pathogen, zebrafish, antimicrobials
Wilbert Bitter
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/s...
And after the human genome he reinvented himself as a microbiologists! See also the picture. He received the Leeuwenhoek award for this work.
shocking statistics, but only limited public outcry.. We should be more vocal about this
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🚨PhD position alert🚨
🔬Cryo-EM? ✅ 🧫Membrane proteins? - we've got 165 TMs for you! ✅
Join me and the team👥 in beautiful Amsterdam🚴 to untangle the amazing mycobacterial protein secretion machinery!
📝Apply here: tinyurl.com/mmxnfpnw
📆Deadline: 23 January
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🧐”Study reveals how #tuberculosis exploits immune defenses to promote infection.”
🔗to study published in Science Immunology ⬇️
Mycobacterial α-glucans hijack dectin-1 to facilitate intracellular bacterial survival
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
CRUK goes green [OA] news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...
The open access movement was bold and promising, but ultimately disappointing. Now is the time to stop and call for a new way to make publishing work…
ComEC structure is out!! 😍
Congratulations to the authors! That’s not an easy one. We have been trying for years to get that structure…
We failed and gave up.
A Type VII-secreted toxin enables inter-mycobacterial competition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714487v1
www.cell.com/structure/ab...
Natural transformation is one of the major pathways of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, enabling the acquisition of extracellular DNA and its integration into the host genome. ComEC is a membrane...
Rapid resistance evolution against phage cocktails
#ISMEJournal by Baltus van der Steen, Matti Gralka, and @yuvalmulla.bsky.social
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