Benedikt Wimmer
bwmr.net
Benedikt Wimmer
@bwmr.net
Using cryo-ET and timelapse microscopy to study bacteria and how they help and hurt us.

PostDoc at the Jacobs-Wagner lab in Stanford. Previously at the Medalia Lab (Zurich) and Chlanda lab (Heidelberg).

github.com/bwmr
It‘s nice to be back to the world of #cryoET
February 25, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I'm very happy that the peer-reviewed version of our work on the amazing amylosome is now out in @natcomms.nature.com

Through the review process, we could refine our manuscript in several important areas, for example: (1/4)
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reposted by Benedikt Wimmer
Segmented filamentous bacteria undergo a structural transition at their adhesive tip during unicellular to filament development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647586v1
April 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Check out part 2 of my PhD work out now on bioRxiv, in which we explore an amazing protein machinery from the human gut microbiome, the Ruminococcus bromii amylosome.

A short explainer below (1/5).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#microbiology #microbiome #teamtomo
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April 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Benedikt Wimmer
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February 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Hey #teamtomo, if you often find yourself using the excellent membrain-seg from @lorenzlamm.bsky.social et al., you might find my napari plugin "napari-segselect" useful. Let's say your tomogram contains the edges of two bacterial cells, each with a membrane and cell wall:
February 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM