New reading material for the weekend in The ISME Journal. We show that FO, the precursor of the cofactor F420, regulates symbiotic interactions. Big team effort. 🙏
Deazaflavin metabolite produced by endosymbiotic bacteria controls fungal host reproduction academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…

If you are fed up with 'oxidative stress', a weird phenomenon on a planet with 21% atmospheric dioxygen, it is time to read about reductive stress in the Nat. Chem Biol. News and Views nature.com/articles/s4158…

Gutted about this! Stuart was my PhD and postdoc mentor. I spent 10 years in his lab, and much of what I am today as a scientist is because of the environment that he created. He will be sorely missed!

Very sad news about the passing of Stuart Ferguson. Stuart wrote the book on Bioenergetics (literally) and was a formidable external examiner for my PhD. He was a great mentor and friend to many and will be sadly missed

Terrible news. Stuart was a brilliant mentor, researcher and teacher. He deciphered molecular bases of the nitrogen cycle and wrote the book on bioenergetics. As my Masters supervisor, he introduced me to bioenergetics and microbiology. It was a pleasure to see him again in 2022.

Exciting to win the nature photo competition 😁

Heya Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute CiiiD Hudson Researchers! I'm helping organise a multi campus symposium to unite all the structural biology researchers throughout Monash University.

Sign up here! It should be a great day of learning what we are all doing and forming new collaborations

Our paper on uptake of lipids by Ca. Nha. antarcticus from Hrr. lacusprofundi is out now in Nature Communications!
rdcu.be/dFqsZ
The nanohaloarchaeon is not only picky about which lipids it takes, its presence also causes lacusprofundi to change its own lipid profile

Desertification spreads worldwide – but how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive prolonged droughts followed by sudden burst of rainfall?

Excited to share our new study Nature Communications

Special thanks goes to Dimitri V. Meier and Dagmar Woebken

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? 🏜
This question has been answered in an European Research Council (ERC) project led by Dagmar Woebken from the CeMESS at Universität Wien. 🔍 ⤵
medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recen…

Masterpiece manuscript from Stefanie Imminger, Dimitri V. Meier and Dagmar Woebken on how desert soil microbes resuscitate following hydration at a species-resolved level. Evidence for key roles for both phototrophs and hydrogenotrophs. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very interesting study (with link to overview) that shows that 86% of surgical site infections (spinal surgery) arise from bacteria present in the patient's microbiome, not externally.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The first speaker of the second half of our conference is Dr Marian Jesperson

I hope this resource is valuable to anyone studying carbon monoxide dehydrogenases! Or to any microbe curious about using carbon monoxide as an energy and/or carbon source 🤔🦠Was great to work on this with Chris Greening and Rhys Grinter.

So excited to have this ⚡️electrifying⚡️ story published! Congratulations to lead author Dinesh (Dinesh Gupta) & collaborators! SJE-Lab Check out the article to learn about the roles of MmcA in methanogenic electron transport: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Not restricted to bacteria, archaea can also gain energy from trace hydrogen and carbon monoxide in air! Our first archaeal focused study is now online (rdcu.be/dEKUI). Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Chris Greening

Want to join me or Roey Angel as postdoc for a MarieSkłodowskaCurie at Biology Centre CAS? 🇨🇿🏞️🍺
🤩 thanks to the ERA fellowship scheme and the Czech OP JAC scheme your chances rise from 10 -> 80%!
- nitrification
- CH4 oxidation
- green house gases
- microbiomes of soil fauna

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Thrilled to announce that Dr Kathryn Fitzsimmons Kathryn Fitzsimmons will be joining Monash Earth, Atmosphere and Environment 🌏🌪️🍃 Monash Science. Kathryn, currently Professor of Terrestrial Sedimentology at the University of Tubingen, is an expert in past climates, environments and human-environment interactions.

This finding leads to a new hypothesis that energy conservation from the ubiquitous and universally metabolizable atmospheric trace gases is a trait supporting microbial dispersal across ecosystems.

Success in PhD supervision 🏆: Congratulations to School of Biological Sciences, Monash’s Prof Bob Wong who has been awarded the 2024 Australian Council of Graduate Research Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision for his commitment to nurturing the next generation of scientists! 🎉👏 : ow.ly/IYPQ50RfSn3