The latest from our neighbors… The Rosenshine lab now shows how pathogenic E. coli (EPEC) adapts to host-adherent lifestyle! mbio.asm.org/content/10/5/e…

A Bumpy Pathway to Stationary-Phase Survival in Bacillus subtilis mbio.asm.org/content/10/5/e… Thank you Wayne L. Nicholson for connecting the bumps

I’m honored, thank you for choosing me!

Microbiologists act now! Complete shutoff of biomedical research around the world is wrong. We should team up in helping our nations with our capacities, knowledge and resources in this devastating time! This is the time to join forces between academic and medical needs!

In our faculty of medicine at HUJI, researchers from different disciplines teamed up for a joint COVID19-HUJI project. We are also doing our best, helping Hadassah Medical Hospital in any aspect we can with our lab members and wonderful volunteers.

A video tutorial for making a home mask prepared by Prof. Hillel Berkoviar and his wife Colt (Hebrew)

A COVID break: Our paper is out! See how cell wall lytic enzymes travel along nanotubes to reach the surface of a neighboring bacterium, establishing nanotube connectivity! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Checkout our recent ms on how a bacterial metalloprotease effector discriminates between host MAPKs…. jbc.org/content/early/… Bacteria are so smart…😆.....

Barbara McClintock's discoveries on genetics were so far beyond the understanding of the time that other scientists ignored her work for more than a decade. But she trusted her evidence and persisted. Watch the very moment she received the Medicine Prize in 1983. #NobelPrize

nature.com/articles/d4158… These are Bing and Lei in our lab at HUJI in the picture of Nature postdoctoral-researcher survey! Surprising! Last month they were film for the Chinese media.

We are recruiting :-) The Ben-Yehuda and Rosenshine labs at HUJI, Israel, are recruiting postdocs in the field of Bacteriology and Host-Pathogen Interaction; an ERC-funded project. For more information: ilanrlab.com sigalbylab.com byrsynergy.com

Our Recent: Bacteria elicit a phage tolerance response subsequent to infection of their neighbors! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Read about the beautiful shrinking plaques....

Ittt'sss out :-) Bacteria elicit a phage tolerance response subsequent to infection of their neighbors embopress.org/doi/full/10.15…

Reviving the View: We synthesize old and current data to evoke that, in contrast to current dogma, the remarkable process of bacterial spore germination demands macromolecule synthesis. Our Review: academic.oup.com/microlife/arti… And our Blog: fems-microbiology.org/femsmicroblog-…

Only science and our spores can provide a sparkle of comfort in these dark days, very proud of our work at Mol Cell cell.com/molecular-cell…

Nanotubes had been discovered in other bacteria, but never found in cyanobacteria thus far. In studies focused on vesicles produced by marine cyanobacteria, we could observe the presence of nanotubes connecting different types of cells.

Nanotubes are always cool to look at. But these ones—a first for cyanobacteria—could help scientists better understand the organisms that keep all of us breathing easy. That story and more of the best in Science Magazine and science in #ScienceAdviser: science.org/content/articl…