THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF BIOLOGY OF MYOCBACTERIA GRC WILL BE IN 2028, NOT 2027. Exact date and location TBD. Sorry about the long wait, but we think it is better long term. PLEASE repost/tell your friends!

NTU's School of Biological Sciences is hiring faculty, Assistant Professor to Full Professor. The environment is collaborative and the start-up funding is genuinely generous. Four research areas. Campus visits 28 Sep to 2 Oct 2026.

Apply here
www.ntu.edu.sg/sbs/about-us...

Discovery of gene functions in #Mycobacterium #tuberculosis has been slow. This study tests a genome-wide barcoded #transposon library across 95 environmental conditions, providing a rich resource of new gene functions, including metabolic & resistance pathways @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4vG0mz1

Thrilled to see this work finally published! It started in 2016 as my first PhD project. Went down a few rabbit holes and eventually wrapped up the story. It was really surprising to see lipid-bound Pks13 on whole-cell lysate SDS-PAGE. Thank Shu Sin @figlegend.bsky.social for the continuous support!

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

We are proud to be a founding contributor to lipidinteractome.org, a repository developed by @tafesselab.bsky.social & Schultz lab to increase accessibility to proteomics data from multi-functionalized lipid analogs! Check out the website & preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.23101 #lipidtime

Glad to share J.Couston's @juliecouston.bsky.social
work published at The FEBS Letters @febsletters.bsky.social and done at @irim-life.bsky.social
.
doi.org/10.1002/1873...

Happy to share our newest preprint addressing the basis of trehalose essentiality in mycobacteria! This is a story brewing in the lab for the longest time, started by MSc grad Justin Lim, & now completed by the amazing PhD grad-turned-postdoc @yushuchen.bsky.social! #MicroSky #Mycobacteria 1/8

Foldseek-Multimer—now published in @naturemethods.bsky.social—our fast multimer search tool, enables complex comparisons against the full PDB in seconds. It comes with BFMD, a collection of 300K+ predictions gathered from community projects.
📄 nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐 search.foldseek.com

You want to learn about microbiology from a fantastic lineup of speakers on a beautiful Greek island? PhD students apply now for the @EMBO | @FEBSnews Lecture Course The New Microbiology!
Registration: 1 Apr 2025
Course: 03 – 11 Sep 2025 | Spetses, Greece
meetings.embo.org/event/25-new...

Most studied bacteria

Interested in Mtb pathogenesis and developing new strategies to treat these deadly infections? Please apply to join us for the GRC for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development!! www.grc.org/tuberculosis...
Deadline to submit an abstract to be considered for a talk is March 1st! Please repost!

Key findings from the 2024 Global TB Report:
1. TB is the world's deadliest infectious disease even though it's curable (1,250,000 dead in 2023).
2. The global burden is growing even as deaths (slowly) decrease.
3. We're doing a (slightly) better job of identifying cases.
www.who.int/publications...

Believe it or not, GRC has told me we need more registered applicants or this meeting might not survive! Please don't let that happen if you can afford to attend 🙏