Excited to share our new study with the Müller and SchullerJM labs, online @nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… This is T. kivui, an anaerobic bacterium. It uses hydrogen energy to store #CO2. How does it do it? #CryoET revealed membrane-anchored bundles of the enzyme HDCR 🍩 1/🧵

Like many microbiome bacteria, Capnocytophaga are anaerobic. How do we image them over several days? Shoutout to Postdoc Amanda Zdimal (now at TGen, Phoenix) for developing an innovative setup to capture their swarming behavior! (2/4) #Microbiology #Anaerobes

Ancora a caccia di un (bio)informatico... Se ami l'analisi di dati e la ricerca innovativa, unisciti al nostro team multidisciplinare. Opportunità uniche anche di attività sul campo in ambienti estremi! donatogiovannelli.com/vacancies #sciencejobs #academicjobs #Bioinformatics

Gnaw way! 🦫 The Beaver Moon rises tonight, Nov. 15, as 2024’s last supermoon. This full moon, which may get its name from beavers preparing for winter, will appear a bit bigger and brighter than usual. Details: go.nasa.gov/3Z5IhMi

Domani Domenica 17 a partire dalle 12.50 sono ospite di Valerio Rossi Albertini a "Gigawatt - Tutto è energia" su La7 Parleremo di #biomimesi, di #idrogeno e del ruolo che i batteri estremofili hanno nella transizione energetica verso fonti di energia più sostenibili!

An honour for me to be part of the speakers 💪

Ok, let's talk about it. Everyone complains that in Italy there are no opportunities for young researchers. Then you open a 2y position well paid (by Italian standards), funded by an ERC and you barely get any application? Really?!? #AcademicChatter donatogiovannelli.com/vacancies

We are collecting more data on the "periods of things not working" in the lab through a (very very short) poll, can you please complete it and share it? forms.gle/pLAUg43Uy8M7rz…

🚨New paper alert🚨Review paper on “The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle” is out now Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 ! Link here: rdcu.be/d2vpe ! #sulfur #earthhistory #geology #biogeochemistry

Hello, I am looking for a #Postdoctoral researcher with experience in bacterial genetics and antimicrobial resistance. Please send me a CV and a brief summary of your lab experience! Thank you!

Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers! UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clear understanding of how it works, it can easily lead to confusion and misinterpretation. Link to Simply Statistics blogpost below.

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my team under a recently funded ERC Starting Grant. If you’re passionate about structural #virology and have experience in #cryoEM SPA and/or #cryoET, get in touch! Deadline: January 19th. Please share 🙏 tiny.cc/7v33001

A novel halophilic methanotrophic bacterium Methylomarinum roseum isolated from the hypersaline lake Elton #microbiology #methane SpringerMicrobiology link.springer.com/article/10.113…

New lab paper alert: Presenting "Prophage-DB", a database of prophages mined from public databases along with metadata. …ronmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🌲 New tutorial on sandbox.bio: Learn to build phylogenetic trees from closely related genomes using ska2. sandbox.bio/tutorials/ska2…

Mass-spectrometry-based proteomics: from single cells to clinical applications nature.com/articles/s4158…

New blog post for my microbiologist colleagues: merenlab.org/2025/12/15/red… In which Meren talks about a paper by Valentina Marcheselli on how microbiologists navigate the tension between reductionism and complexity in their everyday practices.

Such a great work!

Harvard scientists just shattered one of biology’s oldest rules. We were taught: Viruses can’t make their own proteins. They hijack yours. That’s why they’re “not alive.” Except giant DNA viruses just crossed that line. Researchers found they carry a full eukaryotic-style

Today RNA may seem overshadowed by its glamorous cousin DNA, but many scientists think RNA molecules were the star players in the origin of life. By both storing genetic information and copying themselves, they might have touched off the march of evolution that produced