Jan-Willem Veening
@veeninglab.com
Professor and director at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, https://veeninglab.com/. Interested in antibiotic resistance, bacterial cell biology, host-microbe interactions.
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I used Fable 5.1 to run an AI research project given a bioinformatics research idea (cross links +AlphafoldDB), with the objective of producing a submission folder (manuscript, figures, code, supplementary files, cover letter). It did so in about 7h with still fairly poor results. The process:
September 4, 2026 at 9:07 AM
I used Fable 5.1 to run an AI research project given a bioinformatics research idea (cross links +AlphafoldDB), with the objective of producing a submission folder (manuscript, figures, code, supplementary files, cover letter). It did so in about 7h with still fairly poor results. The process:
Clonal does not mean uniform. #MicroSky Our new review explores how genetically identical bacteria adopt different cell states, and how that diversity shapes survival, cooperation, antibiotic responses and gene transfer. 🧵 doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Decoding Bistability and Drivers of Phenotypic Variation in Bacteria
In a process known as phenotypic heterogeneity or phenotypic variation, bacteria can produce distinct phenotypes within an isogenic population in response to shifting environmental conditions. Noise i...
doi.org
September 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Clonal does not mean uniform. #MicroSky Our new review explores how genetically identical bacteria adopt different cell states, and how that diversity shapes survival, cooperation, antibiotic responses and gene transfer. 🧵 doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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Excited to share our latest preprint! 🧫
We move beyond observing bacterial Voronoi patterns to actively controlling gaps, anti-gaps, curved boundaries, asymmetric structures, seedless regions, and complex composites.
@dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We move beyond observing bacterial Voronoi patterns to actively controlling gaps, anti-gaps, curved boundaries, asymmetric structures, seedless regions, and complex composites.
@dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
September 2, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Excited to share our latest preprint! 🧫
We move beyond observing bacterial Voronoi patterns to actively controlling gaps, anti-gaps, curved boundaries, asymmetric structures, seedless regions, and complex composites.
@dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We move beyond observing bacterial Voronoi patterns to actively controlling gaps, anti-gaps, curved boundaries, asymmetric structures, seedless regions, and complex composites.
@dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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So @thesbhowmick.bsky.social adopted a dual-CRISPRi approach to silence two genes per cell in a highly diverse heterogenous pool. This was done similarly for B. subtilis and S. pneumo by the labs of Carol Gross and @veeninglab.com.
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August 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
So @thesbhowmick.bsky.social adopted a dual-CRISPRi approach to silence two genes per cell in a highly diverse heterogenous pool. This was done similarly for B. subtilis and S. pneumo by the labs of Carol Gross and @veeninglab.com.
3/10
3/10
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I’m thrilled to share our newest study in which @thesbhowmick.bsky.social y.social developed and applied a genome-wide platform to uncover genetic interactions in Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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A genome-wide genetic interaction platform for MRSA reveals connections between cell division and the cell envelope
The bacterial cell cycle is an ensemble of integrated pathways that coordinates cell growth and division. Although these pathways contain a suite of promising antimicrobial targets, their functional o...
www.biorxiv.org
August 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I’m thrilled to share our newest study in which @thesbhowmick.bsky.social y.social developed and applied a genome-wide platform to uncover genetic interactions in Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I hadn't thought about the problem of division site selection in a long time. Really cool to see these new studies shining fresh light on such a fundamental question. Especially checkout this work by @aducret.bsky.social & Christophe Grangeasse: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
August 28, 2026 at 9:34 AM
I hadn't thought about the problem of division site selection in a long time. Really cool to see these new studies shining fresh light on such a fundamental question. Especially checkout this work by @aducret.bsky.social & Christophe Grangeasse: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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figure 1 looks very familiar to me 😅
August 26, 2026 at 7:41 AM
figure 1 looks very familiar to me 😅
Great to see an independent validation of our 2017 PNAS work on MapZ. Less great to not see it even mentioned nor cited.. #MicroSky
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
August 26, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Great to see an independent validation of our 2017 PNAS work on MapZ. Less great to not see it even mentioned nor cited.. #MicroSky
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Decoding Bistability and Drivers of Phenotypic Variation in Bacteria
Annual Reviews in Microbiology by Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Milena Jaskólska, and @veeninglab.com at @dmf-unil.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Annual Reviews in Microbiology by Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Milena Jaskólska, and @veeninglab.com at @dmf-unil.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Decoding Bistability and Drivers of Phenotypic Variation in Bacteria
In a process known as phenotypic heterogeneity or phenotypic variation, bacteria can produce distinct phenotypes within an isogenic population in response to shifting environmental conditions. Noise i...
www.annualreviews.org
August 23, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Decoding Bistability and Drivers of Phenotypic Variation in Bacteria
Annual Reviews in Microbiology by Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Milena Jaskólska, and @veeninglab.com at @dmf-unil.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Annual Reviews in Microbiology by Jesús Cámara-Almirón, Milena Jaskólska, and @veeninglab.com at @dmf-unil.bsky.social
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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@felixrl.bsky.social told us previously *how* #Staph aureus does orthogonal cell division. In his latest paper he tells us *why*: to arrange cell surface proteins required to form staphylococcal abscess colonies. (Videos S1-S2 are amazing!). 🤯
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Orthogonal cell division mediated by PcdA organizes surface virulence factors to drive staphylococcal abscess community formation
Staphylococcus aureus divides along sequential orthogonal planes, but the function
of this geometry has remained unclear. Ramos-León et al. show that orthogonal division
promotes uniform deployment of...
www.cell.com
August 20, 2026 at 7:39 PM
@felixrl.bsky.social told us previously *how* #Staph aureus does orthogonal cell division. In his latest paper he tells us *why*: to arrange cell surface proteins required to form staphylococcal abscess colonies. (Videos S1-S2 are amazing!). 🤯
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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A fun collection of ideas in #Nature today on how to make lab meetings more engaging, inclusive & useful!
Thanks for including our lab’s “flashlight” round in the tips - a simple ritual to give everyone a voice & stay connected to what’s happening across the group 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thanks for including our lab’s “flashlight” round in the tips - a simple ritual to give everyone a voice & stay connected to what’s happening across the group 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings
Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.
www.nature.com
August 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
A fun collection of ideas in #Nature today on how to make lab meetings more engaging, inclusive & useful!
Thanks for including our lab’s “flashlight” round in the tips - a simple ritual to give everyone a voice & stay connected to what’s happening across the group 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thanks for including our lab’s “flashlight” round in the tips - a simple ritual to give everyone a voice & stay connected to what’s happening across the group 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check it out!
It's Tuesday, so it is time for a new biweekly episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Michael DL Johnson joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about his "Trojan Horse" strategies to battle superbugs! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord?
youtu.be/M-FEMi7M-bU?...
youtu.be/M-FEMi7M-bU?...
August 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Check it out!
Looks cool! New work by @elowitzlab.bsky.social: Engineered protein circuits for cancer therapy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
August 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Looks cool! New work by @elowitzlab.bsky.social: Engineered protein circuits for cancer therapy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social!
Great department & great place to live. Pls RP.
Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
Great department & great place to live. Pls RP.
Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
August 3, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social!
Great department & great place to live. Pls RP.
Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
Great department & great place to live. Pls RP.
Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
New preprint! #MicroSky Led by @ayaiizuka.bsky.social & Maria Vittoria Mazzuoli, we ask what helps Staphylococcus aureus enter, survive inside and evade treatment in human monocytes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Staphylococcus aureus Mnh1 cation–proton antiporter promotes phagocytic uptake and intracellular survival in human monocytes
While Staphylococcus aureus is predominantly an extracellular human commensal, it can also exhibit an intracellular lifestyle that enables its persistence within diverse host cell types, including mon...
www.biorxiv.org
August 4, 2026 at 10:03 AM
New preprint! #MicroSky Led by @ayaiizuka.bsky.social & Maria Vittoria Mazzuoli, we ask what helps Staphylococcus aureus enter, survive inside and evade treatment in human monocytes.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Registration for MEEHubs2026 taking place Aug 3-5 is closing this Friday (July 31, 2026)!! There's still time to join us in Montreal, Ann Arbor, Irvine, Morelia, Zurich, Manchester, Chernihiv, or online. Register here: meehubs.org
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Abstract submission now closed but we now invite all poster presenters to upload their posters to our platform using the above link by July 31, 2026.
meehubs.org
July 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Registration for MEEHubs2026 taking place Aug 3-5 is closing this Friday (July 31, 2026)!! There's still time to join us in Montreal, Ann Arbor, Irvine, Morelia, Zurich, Manchester, Chernihiv, or online. Register here: meehubs.org
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Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease
Apply before 31st August, 2026:
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
Apply before 31st August, 2026:
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
July 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease
Apply before 31st August, 2026:
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
Apply before 31st August, 2026:
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
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In 2014, Jason Rosch and I met at a GRC in Tuscany and sketched an idea on a cocktail napkin: what if we evolved S.pneumo in mice, treated them with antibiotics, varied their immune systems and watched what won?
11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵
11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵
July 26, 2026 at 7:45 PM
In 2014, Jason Rosch and I met at a GRC in Tuscany and sketched an idea on a cocktail napkin: what if we evolved S.pneumo in mice, treated them with antibiotics, varied their immune systems and watched what won?
11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵
11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵
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The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators
@elife.bsky.social by @cauawest.bsky.social et al
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
@elife.bsky.social by @cauawest.bsky.social et al
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
July 23, 2026 at 8:06 AM
The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators
@elife.bsky.social by @cauawest.bsky.social et al
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
@elife.bsky.social by @cauawest.bsky.social et al
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
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#GenevaLovesData Geneva's heart beats to the rhythm of life-science data
Léman Bleu interview with @sib.swiss director @dessimoz.bsky.social
www.lemanbleu.ch/fr/Actualite...
Léman Bleu interview with @sib.swiss director @dessimoz.bsky.social
www.lemanbleu.ch/fr/Actualite...
#GenevaLovesData: Genève comme carrefour mondial des données
Pour Christophe Dessimoz, la cité internationale possède des atouts uniques.
www.lemanbleu.ch
July 21, 2026 at 8:06 AM
#GenevaLovesData Geneva's heart beats to the rhythm of life-science data
Léman Bleu interview with @sib.swiss director @dessimoz.bsky.social
www.lemanbleu.ch/fr/Actualite...
Léman Bleu interview with @sib.swiss director @dessimoz.bsky.social
www.lemanbleu.ch/fr/Actualite...
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We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here:
www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-...
Please spread the word!
www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-...
Please spread the word!
Lab Manager - Molecular Immunology - Dunn School
Laboratory Manager/Senior Scientist position in the Molecular Mucosal Immunology group at Oxford
www.path.ox.ac.uk
July 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here:
www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-...
Please spread the word!
www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-...
Please spread the word!
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How can we harness the vast functional diversity of microbes on our planet?
Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
June 29, 2026 at 7:57 AM
How can we harness the vast functional diversity of microbes on our planet?
Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Thrilled to share our recent paper at @cellpress.bsky.social's @cp-iscience.bsky.social studying the antibiotic responses of MRSA, one of the most common wound pathogens, under wound infection-like conditions vs. standard lab test conditions.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Uncovering the mechanisms of clinically relevant altered antibiotic responses of Staphylococcus aureus under wound infection-mimetic conditions
Biophysics; Clinical microbiology; Microbiology; Molecular biology; Systems biology
www.cell.com
June 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Thrilled to share our recent paper at @cellpress.bsky.social's @cp-iscience.bsky.social studying the antibiotic responses of MRSA, one of the most common wound pathogens, under wound infection-like conditions vs. standard lab test conditions.
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Cell-to-cell cooperation through membrane vesicles enhances antibiotic persistence @science.org @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Cell-to-cell cooperation through membrane vesicles enhances antibiotic persistence @science.org @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...