09-12-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: New viruses discovered in 2025

Every year, scientists stumble upon viruses[...]

02-12-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: New bacteria identified in 2025

As 2025 comes to an end, it is a great time to[...]

25-11-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: Protein handover for efficient virulence

Pathogenic bacteria have evolved many clever[...]

18-11-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: Bacteria and magnets - a combo for increased carbon recovery

The need for sustainable alternatives to[...]

12-11-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: Evolutionary insights into the bacterial carbon metabolism

All life shares the same carbon metabolism.[...]

06-11-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog Synthetic Upgrades for Modern Expression Systems

28-10-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: How parasitic worms shape our response to viral infections and vaccines

When we think of viruses and worms, we often[...]

22-10-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: Double trouble: How a Mini-Me endolysin isoform supercharges bacterial lysis

Phages – viruses that[...]

21-10-2025

Help shape the future of microbiology in Europe with the FEMS research survey

Imagine a Europe where microbiologists have the[...]

14-10-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: Optimizing the production of ethanol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

For millennia, we have employed fungi’s[...]

01-10-2025

FEMS Summer School for Postdocs 2025: Eight days of microbiology and collaboration

What happens when a cohort of Europe’s brightest postdocs come[...]

30-09-2025

#FEMSmicroBlog: Current knowledge and understanding of Mpox

In 2022, 115 countries reported cases of mpox,[...]