Microbiology_ETH

Jörn Piel honoured with prestigious European medical award! More at Bluesky bsky.app/profile/eth-mi…

Julia Vorholt wins the 2025 Novonesis Biotechnology Prize for her groundbreaking research on plant microbiomes! More on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/eth-db…

A study by the Hardt lab, with the Sauer and von Mering labs, shows that sugars are abundant in the gut and drive Salmonella Typhimurium expansion across murine models. nature.com/articles/s4146…

A recent study by the Hardt lab at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the von Mering and Vorholt lab demonstrates that host neutrophils predispose Salmonella Typhimurium elimination by commensal E. coli. 👉sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Mechanistic Insights Into Post-Translational α-Keto-β-Amino Acid Formation by a Radical S-Adenosyl Methionine Peptide Splicease (Anna L. Vagstad, Jörn Piel and co-workers) @Microbio_ETH @piel_lab • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

What is the story behind Anna Vagstad's favorite molecule, jawsamycin? @Microbio_ETH, @piel_lab Find out on her #IntroducingAngewandte page twitter.com/16467437/statu… • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Noncanonical protein splicing illuminated. A recent study by the Vagstad and Piel groups at ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Rieher, @BroderickLabFeS, @theStockerLab , and Gugger labs sheds light on the installation of protease-inhibiting ketoamides. doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Thrilled to finally share! The plant microbiota triggers dose-dependent immune responses that feed back to influence bacterial colonization. This affects non-pathogenic and pathogenic strains, impacting microbiota homeostasis. Out today in @NaturePlants: doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

Post-translational modifications confer important functions on peptides and proteins. The Piel lab @ETH_en Zurich and collaborators discovered a new modification resulting in complex, steroid-like amino acids. More: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Metabolic plasticity of STm Hardt lab @Microbio_ETH reveals metabolic adaptations of #Salmonella Typhimurium to changes during infection, i.e. diversification of mixed-acid fermentation & use of partial TCA cycle in response to redox & nutritional changes cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Successful induction of artificial #endosymbiosis by @GabrielGiger and the #VorholtLab @Microbio_ETH using #FluidFM allows to study critical early events and to design endosymbioses with desired traits. @ETH @ETH_DBIOL @LeibnizHKI #Evolution @Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Bacteria inside fungi! A new study by the #VorholtLab shows how artificial endosymbiosis can transfer a metabolic function and drive innovation in biology. @Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… @ETH_en: ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

Metabolic plasticity of STm Hardt lab @Microbio_ETH reveals metabolic adaptations of #Salmonella Typhimurium to changes during infection, i.e. diversification of mixed-acid fermentation & use of partial TCA cycle in response to redox & nutritional changes cell.com/cell-host-micr…

The recent Wolfsberg Meeting of the Swiss PhD students in immunology was again a big success! 70 PhD students in immunology and 7 professors from different Swiss Universities made it an inspiring meeting of high scientific quality 👉 micro.biol.ethz.ch/events/wolfsbe…

🦠📷 OUT NOW! Non-canonical start codons in carbohydrate utilisation operons provide context-dependent advantages for commensal E. coli by Yassine Cherrak, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt and colleagues nature.com/articles/s4156…

Thrilled to share our work on commensal-mediated Samonella competition in the inflammed gut! Very grateful for the help of my brillant colleagues at the Hardt group @ETH_DBIOL and the support we got from the @snsf_ch, @NCCRMicrobiomes & @EMBO journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Are you a school class curious about our biology research and teaching at ETH? Come visit us! Recently, students from Stiftsschule Einsiedeln got an inside look at cutting-edge cancer research, our biology program and the Hönggerberg campus. #FutureScientists #ScienceEducation

The Vorholt & Hardt labs @Microbio_ETH & @SellinLab use FluidFM to study Salmonella in intestinal epithelial cells. Find out what happens if you inject bacteria directly into the cells’ cytosol. D-BIOL news: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev… To the paper: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Huge congratulations to Julia Vorholt on her election to the National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences !! nasonline.org/news-and-multi…

#PLOSBiology: #VorholtLab uses #FluidFM to inject Salmonella into enteroid cells, disentangling pathogen-host cell interactions in the cytosol, uncoupled from earlier infection stages. Explore these groundbreaking findings. @ETH @Microbio_ETH dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…