Fantastic discussions and vibes on day one of the CGIF 2024 Congress in Urbana! The ambiance is further heightened by an awe-inspiring eclipse. 🌟 Phil b. Pope Sarah.lital

The Organising Committee is excited to bring APCOP-V to Brisbane, collab w/Australasian Society Phycology & Aquatic Botany ASPAB, supported by our 🇯🇵🇰🇷🇨🇳 colleagues + International Society of Protistologists ISOP Call for Abstracts OPEN!
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SemiBin 2.1 is out!

semibin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/what…

Australia is a great place to live, we do excellence science at Centre for Microbiome Research and we have many friends in Europe for a collaboration project!

So, if you are eligible for an MSCA Outgoing Fellowship, get in touch

🚀Delighted to announce our recent publication in Science Magazine! We've unveiled novel Ruminococcal species🦠in the human gut, proficient in cellulose degradation🌾and finely tuned to our evolutionary journey.🔬Dive into the key findings with us. (1/9)
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🤩Excited to announce our next speaker at the Applied Hologenomics Conference 2024! Please welcome Associate Professor Morten T Limborg from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics 🇩🇰

Stay tuned and sign up for groundbreaking insights into the future of #hologenomics !🦠🧬✨👇
appliedhologenomicsconference.eu/#
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🗓️ Save the Date! The Asian Pacific Congress of Protistology #APCOPV2024 , the largest conference in protists and aquatic botany in the region: Nov 4-6, 2024 in Brisbane AU, collab with ASPAB 38th Annual Meeting. #protist #algae #seagrass Call for Abstracts opening soon!

We hope you can join this awesome list of speakers at the 36th Congress of Gastrointestinal Function, from April 8-10th. Abstract submissions are open until March 8th congressgastrofunction.org/abstract.asp

We are still looking for #phd  students to join us at Centre for Microbiome Research and help us decipher core microbial interactions in cows, which is needed to accelerate improvements in sustainable food production and reduce its carbon footprint. Find out more and apply here: qut.edu.au/research/study…

microbeMASST is finally out on Nature Microbiology! Massive thanks to all the co-authors and cannot wait to see how the #microbiome community is going to use it nature.com/articles/s4156…

Happy to see this out! Massive thanks to Simone Zuffa Pieter Dorrestein for the opportunity to contribute to such a cool tool 🦠👇

Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs.

We applied it to 250,000 metagenomes- in environmental samples 75% lack a genome/MAG (abundance-weighted). A 🧵biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Unraveling the phylogenomic diversity of Methanomassiliicoccales and implications for mitigating ruminant methane emissions doi.org/10.1186/s13059… New paper from us Phil b. Pope and Graeme T. Attwood Genome Biology

Excited that my first machine learning preprint is out! 🤖

We trained a simple neural network to predict genome-scale metabolic models from 16S rRNA gene sequences 🧬

This worked surprisingly well, and we were able to classify accurate models for both archaea and bacteria 🦠

CoverM 0.7.0, metagenome coverage calculator, is out. Citation, strobealign for faster mapping, skani for faster genome derep, bwa-mem2 and checkm2 support. github.com/wwood/CoverM/r…

Too many ppl to thank in short tweet..

We are looking for 2x  #phd  students to join us at Centre for Microbiome Research. Find out more here: qut.edu.au/research/study…

Excited to share a new paper out in Environ.Microbiol. A novel monooxygenase in Solimonas is functionally expressed and oxidises diverse alkenes. We still dont know the 'natural' substrate ... ideas welcome! Great work from PhD student Nick
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Landmark paper showing anaerobic growth, as well as methane and nitrous oxide co-consumption, in conventional methanotrophs for the first time. Congratulations Samuel and team!