SchmitzStreitsLAB
We are interested in #archaea,#regulation,#ncRNA,#smallproteins & novel biomolecules from nature, CAU Kiel
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- Fantastic team effort of several groups in the SPP2002 @dfg.de and a brilliant PhD - Eva Herdering in the Kiel team @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social
- 🧬 Dive into the small proteome of Methanosarcina mazei (across 5 conditions)! A key resource by @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de for uncovering #smallproteins functions, motifs and proteoforms in #archaea. 👉 buff.ly/HJOi3E0
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLAB🧬 Dive into the small proteome of Methanosarcina mazei (across 5 conditions)! A key resource by @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de for uncovering #smallproteins functions, motifs and proteoforms in #archaea. 👉 buff.ly/HJOi3E0
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABInstitut Pasteur (@pasteur.fr) is recruiting new young PIs to open new groups in the Institute. Deadline is February 9th! Don't miss the opportunity!
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABwww.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABWe found a new mode by which bacteria deplete NAD+ to protect from phages. And then we found how phages overcome this defense Discovered by talented biochemist Dr Ilya Osterman, read the preprint: tinyurl.com/Narp-ap A thread 🧵
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABLet’s get this started and on an RNA high 😅
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABA new paper from the lab on virus-like particles called eCISs www.nature.com/articles/s41... How bacteria evolved thousands of precision nanoinjectors? Some bacteria don’t secrete toxins — they inject them using phage-derived machines called extracellular contractile injection systems (eCISs).
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABA reminder to sign up for the 2026 EMBO archaeal meeting im Cambridge: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc.... Registration is open. We are looking forward to hosting you!
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABA win for antibiotic discovery—and for all of us. The Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome are committing $60M to accelerate next-generation antibiotics and combat AMR. 18 projects. 17 countries. One mission. Read here➡️ www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABThis project is joint with fab computational biologist @mattbashton.bsky.social - great opportunity to learn computational and molecular biology skills
- www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABEMBL is deeply saddened by the passing of our Interim Director General Peer Bork, a pioneering scientist who left an indelible imprint on life science research in Europe and beyond. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. www.embl.org/news/people-...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABOur latest CRISPR ring nuclease paper focusses on Csx15 - which seems to act as of a sponge as well as a canonical phosphodiesterase. Great work led by @haotianchi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABFer’s tour de force in B. anthracis is out! Fer got Tn-seq running, built an ordered knockout library, defined all essential sporulation genes, and found a peptidoglycan deacetylase inhibitor critical for engulfment. Including our first one-by-all Alphafold screen! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABa quick reminder!
- 🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABMy team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses. Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important. The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵 🔁 🙏 #microSky #phagesky #UTIsky @cnrs.fr
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABOut Now! A phage protein screen identifies triggers of the bacterial innate immune system #MicroSky
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABvery sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLAB#NatMicroPicks Asgard archaea and the origin of eukaryotes! 🦠 Eukaryotic cellular complexity evolved largely within the Asgard lineage before mitochondrial endosymbiosis and later bacterial gene acquisitions #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABResearchers from our Dept. of Biochemistry and @uni-kiel.de led by @sunsicker.bsky.social show in @pnas.org that the loss of plant diversity has an impact on the odor signals emitted by plant communities—with consequences for their interactions with other organisms. www.ice.mpg.de/527832/PR_Me...
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABGreat collaboration with @hoeferlab.bsky.social, @aharms485.bsky.social, @pozhydaieva.bsky.social, @usadellab.bsky.social, @vivienrosenthal.bsky.social
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLAB📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968 #Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABPleased to announce that I've joined the editorial board of the Biochemical Journal portlandpress.com/biochemj as an associate editor. I'd love to receive manuscripts focussed on CRISPR, anti-viral defence, archaean biochemistry and nucleic acid processing enzymes. @biochemsoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABDominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABSave the date, please RT: Looking forward to an exciting International Symposium @spp2330.bsky.social "New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions". October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus Berlin (Germany). @dfg.de @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABPhold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
- Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLAB@archaellum.bsky.social lab reveals how #cdiAMP and 4 RCK proteins shape osmotic stress responses in H. volcanii 🧬🦠. In highly halophilic #archaea, c-di-AMP coordinates ion balance and cell volume—mirroring bacterial strategies for environmental stress adaptation. 👉 buff.ly/ApWkCtg
- Team Tholey Kiel - team Greifswald and Team @schmitzstreitslab.bsky.social Kiel -
- Team effort with a super smart PhD Student in the lead - funded by @dfg.de - Spp2002 on small Proteins - still to be discovered world 😉
- Team effort with a super smart PhD Student in the lead - funded by @dfg.de - Spp2002 on small Proteins - still to be discovered world 😉
- Guided tour through the small protein landscape of Methanosarcina mazei using proteomics and biochemical approaches #microbiology #methanogens #methane @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org doi.org/10.1093/fems...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABGuided tour through the small protein landscape of Methanosarcina mazei using proteomics and biochemical approaches #microbiology #methanogens #methane @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org doi.org/10.1093/fems...
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABIn diesem Jahr nimmt die @dfg.de Forschungsgruppe TORF die Arbeit auf. Ihr Ziel ist herauszufinden, wie Menschen im #Mittelalter im nordfriesischen #Wattenmeer gelebt und dabei die Küstenlandschaft massiv umgestaltet haben. @ndr.de #WelleNord hat mit den Forscherïnnen über das Propjekt gesprochen 👇
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLAB📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️ The scientific lead will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the SILVA taxonomy🌳and more! 👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/... Read and share ‼️ #sciencejobs 🦠🧪
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABReview –by J. Yuan @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social, HG. Koch & B. Berghoff— highlights bacterial small membrane proteins (SMPs) 🧫: from regulating membrane targets and insertion pathways to toxin roles. SMPs also offer potential as tools and templates for new antibiotics.💊 👉 buff.ly/9UzCwF2
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABDeep-learning dive into the antimicrobial potential of Archaea
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLAB🚨We are looking for a coordinator located at @uni-wuerzburg.de for our new excellence cluster NUCLEATE - Cluster of Nucleic Acid Sciences and Technologies 👇 www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/03... Deadline: Jan 31 st, 2026
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABA new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABI have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
- Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
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- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABThe Human Archaeome: Commensals, Opportunists, or Emerging Pathogens? #microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/14...
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABPrecious Matsoso, a public-health official based in Pretoria, South Africa, brokered the world’s first pandemic-preparedness treaty after years of hard-fought negotiations. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. 🧪
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABInterested in learning or strengthening skills in #CryoEM single particle analysis? Apply for the CSHL cryo-EM course happening in March! This is a super intense 2 week course covering theory up through data deposition. Apps due Jan 9! Info here: meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Best way to wrap up 2025 - fantastic collaboration between the @schullerjm and @schmitzstreit.lab - 2 excellent PhDs and colleagues showed small protein MtrI regulates the key complex of methanogenesis - doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67705-5
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABThe final edition of our “New Microbes Discovered in 2025” series is here. After exploring new viruses, bacteria, and fungi, this last #FEMSmicroBlog highlights the archaea identified in 2025: buff.ly/pJpA0Ax #NewMicrobes
- Reposted by SchmitzStreitsLABWe are looking for an exceptional scientist with a research focus on nutrition and microbiome-based interventions for the prevention and management of obesity to join our Food, Microbiome and Health research programme as a Group Leader. 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 18 January 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/8KeAdxg
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