Marc Erhardt

Bacterial geneticist @HumboldtUni studying assembly and function of a fascinating nanomachine - the bacterial flagellum

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

Postdoc opening in my lab @HumboldtUni!

Join our Einstein Foundation-funded collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on T3SS, spatial RNA localization, imaging & bacterial cell biology.

📅 Apply by 2 June 2026
🔗 https://t.co/ucKBG42Md1

#Postdoc #Microbiology

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

PhD opening in my lab
@HumboldtUni

Join our DFG SPP 2389 project on bacterial biofilms & multicellularity.

Study how F-pili conjugation shapes biofilms using genetics, microfluidics & 3D imaging.

📅 Apply by 3 June 2026
🔗 https://t.co/WZcv6HML0K

#PhD #Microbiology #Biofilms

[Nicholas M. I. Taylor Lab @NMITaylorLab]

Congratulations to first author @AritzRoa for his amazing work on how T4 delivers its genome and blocks other phages from injecting theirs 🥳 Check out his beautiful movie📽️ Thanks to all authors and collaborators MLNielsen and @AHarms485 https://t.co/9qcKtAcyPq #cryoEM #phage

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

#MicrobiologyMonday: The bacterial flagellum is built through a hierarchical assembly process and powered by a dynamic motor capable of astonishing speeds. What's new in our understanding of these complex nanomachines? Find out in #MMBRJournal: https://t.co/9OqEqJNBiL

[SourjikLab @sourjik]

A beautiful example of evolutionary innovation: Bacterial chemoreceptor was "reprogrammed" in pathogenic E. coli to control expression of flagellar genes instead of signalling through the chemotaxis pathway. https://t.co/c6zOdMvGg2

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

@JorgStulke @NatureMicrobiol Thanks, Jörg 😀!

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Out Now! The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation https://t.co/bRmSe5N9JK #Microbiology #Bacteria #Flagellum

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

"The structure of the complete extracellular bacterial flagellum reveals the mechanism of flagellin incorporation"

Now published @NatureMicrobiol 🥳!

https://t.co/CuyIhKmQxj

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

I'm excited to share the newest preprint of the lab... the structure of the complete extracellular flagellum, our most favourite bacterial nanomachine!

https://t.co/fR8EhAdntY

A result of a very productive collaboration with @BergeronLab and @BeebyLab !

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

@AHarms485 Thanks a lot for your visit and the exciting seminar! It was great to have you here and I hope you had a safe trip back home!

[Alexander Harms @AHarms485]

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - absolutely humbled by the beauty of this place and the ubiquitous spirit of the Delbrück "phage group" era 🧬🌊🦪

[Nicholas M. I. Taylor Lab @NMITaylorLab]

Exited to share our preprint on the structure of a Salmonella contractile injection system 🥳 Wonderful work by first author @Rooshanie Ejaz and @CloudyKielkopf, @freddie__martin, @HangryHobbit, @RebrovaEva, great collab with @Salmo_Lab
@UCPH_CPR #cryoem
https://t.co/rKTXTFPFgj

[Alexander Harms @AHarms485]

And here it is, the completed BASEL collection finally published as early access in @PLOSBiology - see the thread for more details. 🤗🧬🎣

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

@GitaNaseri @mpusp_pathogens @FraunhoferIPA Congrats 🎉!!

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

Now published @PNASNews 🥳

Bacterial motility depends on a critical flagellum length and energy-optimized assembly | PNAS
https://t.co/fCC0cVSPzS

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

New #biorxiv preprint I'm quite excited about. We show that the #T3SS of the #flagellum secretes proteins at a rate of 10,000 amino acids per second, resulting in optimized flagellum growth and energy consumption.

https://t.co/NOtSdszne2

[Philipp Popp @__jphilipp]

Join us and @Salmo_Lab to explore phage-bacteria interactions, with a strong focus on microscopy techniques. Looking for a motivated PhD student!

🔬 Interested? Apply here 👉 [https://t.co/onC4QTN6ME]
🔄 Please re-share to spread the word!

[Marc Erhardt @Salmo_Lab]

Interested in anti-bacteriophage defense systems? We have an open PhD position in cell biology of bacteria and bacteriophages: https://t.co/3eREu4mA0E

[Tiago Costa @CostaT_Lab]

With @jrpenades, we challenged AI co-scientist @GoogleAI to generate hypotheses. In just 2 days, it recapitulated our unpublished, experimentally confirmed mechanism for how cf-PICIs spread between bacterial species! 🤯 @imperialcollege @FlemingCentre

https://t.co/hXkZZco6vu

[Sorek Lab @SorekLab]

Our paper out @Nature: CARD domains mediate anti-phage defense in bacterial gasdermin systems

CARDs are essential for caspase recruitment in inflammasome activation. We now find them in bacterial immune systems

Congrats @TanaWein! Thanks Kranzusch lab!
https://t.co/yWUj5ZMjjO

[BIOspektrum @Spektrum_BIO]

Internationales Forschungsteam beschreibt erstmals die Struktur und Funktionsweise des Zorya-Systems, eines hochspezialisierten antiviralen Schutzmechanismus gegen Bakterien
https://t.co/kfoC3tbPHK

@Salmo_Lab @__jphilipp
Bild: Frederick J.O. Martin/ Universität Kopenhagen

[Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin @HumboldtUni]

🦠 Neues bakterielles #Immunsystem entschlüsselt: Ein internationales Forschungsteam um @Salmo_Lab & @__jphilipp der #HumboldtUni beschreibt nun erstmals die #Struktur und #Funktionsweise des Zorya-Systems in der Fachzeitschrift @Nature!
Mehr Infos 👉 https://t.co/6A5YlweOlK