Congratulations to Natalia Tschowri for accepting the W2 Professorship for Cellular Microbiology at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, starting this fall.

Due to the dynamic and unstable developments concerning the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany, the 4th VAAM discussion meeting ‘Microbial Cell Biology’ is postponed to October 2021.

Save the Date: SPP 1879 PI Natalia Tschowri and Marc Erhardt, organizers of the upcoming VAAM Microbial Cell Biology Meeting (October 8-10, 2020 at the Humboldt University of Berlin), invite other SPP 1879 members to attend.

Program and Registration details: http://microcellbio.hu-berlin.de

Microbial Cell Biology 2020 Flyer

Congratulations to Natalia Tschowri for receiving a W2 Professorship offer for Mikrobielle Stoffwechselphysiologie at Leipzig University.

A DFG-funded PhD position (E13, 65%) “Cyclic di-AMP metabolism in the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes” is available in the group of the SPP 1879 PI Fabian Commichau at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany.
(Email: fabian.commichau@b-tu.de)

Congratulations to Natalia Tschowri for receiving a W2 Professorship offer for Cellular Microbiology at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

A DFG-funded PhD position (E13, 65%) “Hydrolysis and functions of cyclic di-AMP in Streptomyces” is available in the group of the SPP 1879 PI Natalia Tschowri at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
(Email: natalia.tschowri@hu-berlin.de)

https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/de/stellenausschreibungen/wissenschaftlicher-mitarbeiter-m-w-d-mit-65-v-h-d-regelm-arbeitszeit-e-13-tv-l-hu-drittmittelfinanzierung-befristet-bis-30-11-2022-3

Congratulations to Fabian Commichau for accepting the W3 Professorship for Synthetic Microbiology at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, starting this fall.

A DFG-funded PhD position (E13, 65%) “Linking second messenger nucleotide signalling with CO₂ homeostasis in cyanobacteria: unravelling the SbtB-based network” is available in the group of the SPP 1879 PI Martin Hagemann at the University of Rostock, Germany.
(Email: martin.hagemann@uni-rostock.de)

PhD position on cyanobacterial cAMP signalling

Congratulations to Sonja-Verena Albers from Universität Freiburg for being elected as new EMBO member 2019.

https://www.embo.org/news/press-releases/2019/embo-elects-56-new-members?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=press_release

Prof. Agnès Ullmann, the pioneer of cAMP research in bacteria, has passed away in Paris on Feb 25, 2019, at the age of 91.

https://www.instagram.com/microbio.spp1879/