24/11/2023: DFG-Fachkollegienwahl 2023 (Confirmed in 2024)

Marc was elected into the DFG review board for the panel Microbiology, Virology and Immunology. Congratulations, Marc!!!

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10/11/2023: New publication about the effects of benzothiazinone and ethambutol on the corynebacterial cell envelope.

In this paper, Fabian and colleagues analyzed the effects of the anti-tuberculosis drug benzothiaszinone on the cell envelope of Corynebacterium glutamicum. The paper contains amazing electron microscopy images taken by Urska Repnik from the central microscopy facility in Kiel. Published in Cell Surface; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcsw.2023.100116

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31/08/2023: New SEM Microscope

The Central Microscopy facility operates a new scanning electron microscope (Zeiss Sigma 300).

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20/07/2023: Geco meeting

Two day workshop in Burghausen on Corynebacterial research.

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13-14/06/2023: Lab retreat

Lab Retreat to Wittmoldt Manor House.

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27/05/2023: New Review on bacterial membrane dynamics

In this Review, Marc and Dirk-Jan Scheffers (University of Groningen) not only summarize the latest findings and the fuctional importance of the plasma membrane in bacteria, they also deep-dive into the enigmatic bacterial flotilins and dynamins, a set of proteins involved in membrane compartmentalization, membrane repair and remodelling and possibly much more. Published in Wiley Molecular microbiology; https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.15077

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4/05/2023: New review on B. subtilis

In this minireview, Marc and fellow B. subtilis experts discuss and summarize the importance of Bacillus as a model organism and biotechnology workhorse. Furthermore, it allowed our PhD student Sarah Baur to land the title image of the current volume of the "Journal of Bacteriology". Congratulations, Sarah!

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24/04/2023: New publication on the MksBEFG bacterial defense system in C. glutamicum

In a collaborative effort with other lab members and experts from the Institut Pasteur, our PhD student Manuela spearheaded this characterization of the bacterial blasmid defense system MksBEFG. She was able to demonstrate that MgsG is a nuclease able to degrade invading plasmid DNA. Furthermore, Single molecule microscopy was utilized to reveal the involvment of the polar scaffolding protein DivIVA in spatially regulating the Mks system. Published in Nucleic Acids Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad130

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07/03/2023: New publication on chromosome organisation in Mycobacteria

In this publication, our colleagues from Wrocław were able to unravel more details of the roles of the proteins HubP and mIHF in chromosome organization of Mycobacterium smegmatis, a close relative of the causative agent for tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis. We were able to support their claims with single particle tracking data.

Published in Frontiers in Microbiology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1146406

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6-10/02/2023: Goa, India

Marc participates as invited speaker at the EMBO Workshop on “Bacterial morphogenesis, survival and virulence: Dynamic genomes & envelopes".