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Partners in crime: When fungi and bacteria join forces against the host cell 🕵️♂️🦠
Researchers at #LeibnizHKI have uncovered how the yeast C. albicans and the bacterium E. faecalis collaborate to cause far greater damage to the host than either could alone.
Press release: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/two-accomplices-in-the-spotlight-when-the-interaction-between-fungi-and-bacteria-becomes-a-dangerous-alliance.html
Original paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505310122
With Christmas just around the corner, we wish all our colleagues, partners, and friends joyful holidays and a successful start into the New Year!
We will be back in January.
Warm wishes from the #LeibnizHKI.
🎄🎀⭐
The picture shows a colon cross section of a mouse colonized with Candida albicans.
Researchers at #LeibnizHKI discovered an enzyme that cleaves the toxin malleicyprol and reduces virulence in bacteria of the genus Burkholderia.
🗞️ Press release: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/an-enzyme-neutralizes-pathogens-by-cleaving-a-bacterial-toxin.html
🔎 Original paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202521105
Meet our #December #calendar 2025 feature Wolfgang Vivas & Dolly Montaño, postdocs from Venezuela 🇻🇪 at Leibniz-HKI. How do they both juggle demanding research 🧪🧬 with family life 👨🏻👩🏻👦🏻 while also keeping their creativity alive? 🎨 Find it out in their interview: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/calendar-2025-12.html
Ein Forschungsteam von #UniJena und #LeibnizHKI zeigt, warum gesunde Ernährung bei jedem Menschen anders wirkt: Entscheidend ist das individuelle „chemische Kochbuch“ der Enzyme im Darmmikrobiom, das bestimmt, wie Nährstoffe verarbeitet werden.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/12/03/die-macht-der-darm-enzyme-warum-gesunde-ernaehrung-bei-jedem-anders-wirkt
🎙️ For World AMR Awareness Week, our Director Prof. Axel Brakhage is the first guest on the German #podcast “Ansteckende Begeisterung” (“Contagious Enthusiasm”) by the Paul Ehrlich Society, discussing the role of natural products for the development of new antibiotics, the need of innovative AMR strategies & the challenging conditions for researchers.
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6E0M4kyvsNzau5uqUZZGYk?si=I9aD9wwqRkmCzypvSUpfbg
🎧 Deezer: https://link.deezer.com/s/31H7Ck3S4MI6UXQ4W5aJj
Meet our #November feature Sophia Hitzler, a doctoral researcher at Leibniz-HKI, in this year’s #calendar 2025! From a fascination with fungi 🍄 to mentoring 👩🏫 and an unexpected dream job 🐳, discover her journey here: https://lmy.de/sBQAV
🎉 #LeibnizHKI has again been honored with the TOTAL E-QUALITY rating for our equal-opportunities personnel policy – for the 5th time in a row! This year, we also received the Sustainability Prize 2025 for our long-term commitment to equality, diversity & inclusion.
🍁 Meet our #October #calendar 2025 feature: Zoltán Cseresnyés, imaging specialist at our research group Applied Systems Biology. From 1980s Hungary to super-resolution microscopy at Cambridge, he now helps researchers unlock insights from complex images. 🔬🌌
Follow the link for the full interview: https://lmy.de/LsPim
Meet our #September feature Hannah Büttner in this year’s #calendar 2025! 👩🏻🔬 She explored fungal-bacterial symbiosis, loves music & art, and carries science in her bag wherever she goes. 🎒🏜️ Read her interview here: https://lmy.de/FUIJC 🎙️
🌱🔁 “Researching and working in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way is both a process and a challenge. We are happy to take on these tasks, as they make a lasting contribution to positive climate development,” says our Director Axel Brakhage.
The #LeibnizHKI keeps on becoming more sustainable. 💚
Solar panels, recycling waste heat, efficient freezers. Small steps, big impact: We are working on making research and our institute more energy-efficient.
Plastic waste is a challenge. But with simple changes, labs can cut up to 65%, says Patrick Penndorf.
We want to tackle this problem.
Science must be part of the climate solution. 🌎 🌱 At #LeibnizHKI, we rethink workflows to reduce waste & save energy. Patrick Penndorf helps us with this.
Read more here ➡️ https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/rethinking-research-sustainability-for-climate-friendly-science.html
🛠️🚗 Meet Michael Hetz, our in-house technician and driver! From fixing tech to dreaming of flying a helicopter with the boss 🚁😉– discover what drives him and brings him joy 🎶🛥️in our #August #calendar feature: https://lmy.de/dXISl
🤝 Politics meets research: Today, we welcomed Lena Saniye Güngör & Christian Schaft from @dielinke to #LeibnizHKI . They were particularly impressed by the research opportunities offered for young scientists, for example at the Bio Pilot Plant.
#Research #Biotechnology #DIELINKE
At Leibniz-HKI, research thrives through collaboration. Like microbial communities in balance, our strength comes from the Leibniz Association network. We are celebrating 30 years of shared science, because community matters – on small and large scales.
Spotlight on our Leibniz Competition project “FuRTHER” on #WorldRNADay: Exploring how fungal ncRNAs may reprogram human gene expression. A new concept in infection biology by our junior research group leader Matthew Blango, funded by the @leibnizgemeinschaft
https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/further.html
#RNA #InterkingdomCommunication #Triplex #FungalPathogen #LeibnizHKI
Yesterday, Thuringian Science Minister Christian Tischner visited #LeibnizHKI to learn about our junior research groups fighting the antibiotic crisis with high-tech. It was a pleasure having him with us! #ScienceMeetsPolicy
https://lmy.de/AYoYM
Sporty 🏸, curious, and far from cliché: In our #July feature of our 2025 #calendar, colleagues Tongta Sae-Ong & Sascha Schäuble share their paths in bioinformatics, love for movement, and why science is as much about people as it is about data: https://lmy.de/fTKMI
#FacesOfScience #LeibnizHKI
💡 Our scientists discovered a new infection strategy in #Candida albicans: human #albumin reprograms its metabolism, turning harmless strains pathogenic – without the need of hyphae or toxins.
#NatCommun #LeibnizHKI
🗞️ Read our press release: https://lmy.de/mthFi or the
🧪 original publication in Nature Communications: https://rdcu.be/exl7d
@dfg_public
Finance Minister Katja Wolf visits #LeibnizHKI in Jena – highlighting the importance of research, innovation and international specialists for Thuringia!
#Research #Innovation #Jena #Thuringia #Thüringen #ThüringerFinanzministerium
The plant pathogen #Pseudomonas syringae adapts to its environment using unique #NaturalProducts. We identified new compounds that help the bacterium to fight competitors and thrive in diverse ecological niches.
🗞️ PR: https://lmy.de/vcZyU
📝 Publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202503679
#NewPaper #PlantPathogens #Syrilipamides #Secimides #MicrobialDefense #BacterialGenomics #GenomicAnalysis #GeneCluster #Metabolomics #LeibnizHKI
Meet our #June #calendar feature François Keiff! 🌞
From Alsace to Jena, he tackled tuberculosis (#TB) with BTZ-043 during his PhD.
Discover his journey, why he sees baking as chemistry’s twin, his passion for teaching & more in his interview: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/calendar-2025-06.html
Our project “meta-CDI” is funded by the #LeibnizCompetition 2025! We are exploring how C. difficile disrupts the gut microbiome – paving the way for new therapies.
@c_hertweck
@Hertweck_Lab
📰 https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/news/funded-in-the-leibniz-competition-meta-cdi.html
Pandorae bacteria produce #pandorabactins to steal #iron from other microbes, thus limiting competitors in the diseased lung of patients with cystic fibrosis or sepsis, as we show in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
🔎 Press release: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/pandora-s-microbes-the-battle-for-iron-in-the-lungs.html
📖 Paper in Angew Chem Int Ed: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202505714
How does the gut stay healthy during worm infections? 🛡️🪱 A new Canadian-German study in #Cell shows #interferons help protect tissue. Not by killing worms, but by boosting gut resilience!
🗞️ News article: https://lmy.de/qMldA
💡Publication: https://lmy.de/wcghm
The #MiCCrobioTAckle network held its first on-site training in Jena! 12 PhD researchers learned R basics for #microbiome data at #LeibnizHKI. The EU project explores the gut microbiome’s role in cancer cachexia.
🎉 Congratulations to the Jena Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” on 7 more years of funding!
We’re proud to support this success at #LeibnizHKI and continue exploring microbial interactions together. Kudos also to the new #Imaginamics Cluster in Jena! 👏💭✨
Big day at @LeibnizHKI 👏
Thuringia's Econ Minister Colette Boos-John joined us for #EuropeDay to see how EU funding powers science & jobs 💡
Thuringia = hotspot for high-tech + health innovation! 💪
Meet Karsten Willing 🛠️👨🏻🔬, a dedicated engineer at our Bio Pilot Plant and part of #LeibnizHKI for 20+ years!
What keeps him going – and what’s up with his dislike of foam? Figure it out in our #April #calendar page: https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/calendar-2025-04.html
🔥 Breakthrough in TB research! The antibiotic BTZ-043 reaches hard-to-treat granulomas and fights bacteria even in necrotic tissue. This is a major step toward more effective TB therapy!
🔗 Read more in Nature Communications: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56146-9
#TB #Tuberculosis #TuberculosisResearch #BTZ043 #DZIF #LeibnizHKI
Tonight it's finally time again!🔬 🌠 At the #LNDWJena you can learn exciting things from the world of microbiology. The #LeibnizHKI team is waiting for you!
📍 Location: Hermann-Löns-Straße 70, 07745 Jena
📅 Date: Tonight
🕒 Time: 6 PM – Midnight
🧬🗝️ Have you ever heard that #RNA might be the key to fighting fungal infections? If not, we highly suggest to ...
#MeetOurScientist Matthew in the video, and discover why taking a closer look at RNA biology is paramount in understanding and fighting human pathogenic #fungi! 🔬
#RNABiology #RNAResearch #Science #Diagnostics #Therapeutics #LeibnizHKI
👉 Go to the video: https://youtu.be/u1imp451U10?si=GTGRclarjAZww-1w
Former Leibniz President and member of the Werner Siemens Foundation scientific advisory board Matthias Kleiner lately visited the Leibniz-HKI!
He took a deep dive into #Paleobiotechnology research and the new #JenXplor robotics-assisted automation platform.
The Department of Paleobiotechnology is generously funded by the Werner Siemens Foundation since 2020.
#WernerSiemensFoundation #LeibnizHKI #LeibnizGemeinschaft #InnovationInHealth #ResearchCollaboration #ScientificAdvancements
🚀We are thrilled to announce the funding of the new research group “Phagosome Biology and Engineering”! Many thanks to the state of Thuringia for making this project possible.🙌
The group focuses on the interactions between fungi and hosts during the #phagocytosis to gain better understanding of how a 🍄 manipulates its host's defense mechanisms.
#Research #Innovation #LeibnizHKI #PhagosomeBiology #PhagosomeEngineering 🦠⚙️
Ein Team vom Institut für Angewandte #Physik der #UniJena und dem Jenaer #LeibnizHKI hat den #Wissenschaftspreis des Beutenberg-Campus für ein neuartiges #Mikroskopie-Verfahren mit extrem ultraviolettem Licht erhalten. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳
What do Keanu Reeves and #NaturalProducts produced by bacteria🦠have in common?
They're both deadly to their enemies. That's why #LeibnizHKI researchers named the #toxins they discovered keanumycins. They could be used as #fungicides:
https://leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/keanu-reeves-the-molecule.html
@unijena @dfg_public @Hertweck_Lab
Direct link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c11107
The research was also highlighted as a News & Views article in @Nature https://t.co/9ibj8XuwFb