We introduce Sanchytriomycota, a new fungal phylum with some unique characteristics: Flagellated zoospores that do not swim ✅ nature.com/articles/s4146… Springer Nature Nature Communications But why?👇

happy to share this short observation paper on microbial communities associated with aster-like nanoparticles (ALNs) in collaboration with co-first author Maxime Fuster + LinXingChen @MScholmerich and others LMGE! as always, comments and feedback very welcome.

This year’s Agar Art contest is now OPEN! Put your artist's hat on and create your masterpiece for a chance to win up to $100-worth of prizes. Deadline is October 22. For more details, visit asm.social/15. #agarart #bioart

Great presentation from Jannie Munk Kristensen @DOME_Vienna on novel eukaryote-bacteria interactions in activated sludge this morning IWA MEWE 2021. Looking forward to seeing more results from this exciting project in the near future. #mewe2021

Our new preprint shows our efforts to evaluate state-of-the-art long-read sequencing for genome-centric metagenomics. Started years ago by Rasmus Kirkegaard and continued by Mantas. tldr; HQ-MAGs using Oxford Nanopore -only is really close! PacBio is just nice! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Another great talk from Mantas Sereika from Aalborg University showing near-perfect Oxford Nanopore only bacterial genome assemblies, largely due to longer homopolymer resolution. At #nanoporeconf in the mini-theatre

1. Major unlock of CRISPR potential empowered by metagenomics #NewMetaCRISPR. I’ve been hoping to see this happen for years: a way to edit the genomes of microorganisms within communities

Today in PNASNews: Superfast functional analyses of #microbiome members via single cell isotope probing with SRS-FISH #Raman Fátima Pereira Special thanks for a fantastic collaboration with Ji-Xin Cheng's group in Boston. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Happy to share that my #ERCStG #CHIMERA has been selected for funding! In this European Research Council (ERC) project I will study #GiantViruses, their #evolution, their ecological interactions, and how these have shaped their #genomes. Big thanks to everyone that helped me get here!

My group @DOME_Vienna will be looking soon for a #PostDoc in Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy (SRS)- imaging of microbiomes using our new SRS-fluorescence microscopy instrument. If you are interested in chemical imaging, physiology, or antibiotic resistance DM or Email me #ISME18

Interested in Microbial Ecology of wastewater treatment processes? @PerHNielsen and we are looking for a #Postdoc who is interested to further develop this field, bridging research between our laboratories in @TUDelft and AAU Send a DM or contact @PerHNielsen at #isme18

Optimized FISH protocol for protist in activated sludge by Jannie Munk Kristensen (poster 407) #ISME18

Our MesoTIRF pre-print is out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We demonstrate TIRF imaging across the 4.4 mm x 3.0 mm field of view of the Mesolens, allowing for TIRF’s characteristic contrast and axial resolution improvement across > 700 cells simultaneously!

Interested in functional analyses of microbes in complex samples? Check out our newest pre-print from the collaboration with the fantastic Ji-Xin Cheng lab. Here we use Mid-Infrared Photothermal - FISH to detect 13C-incorporation in FISH-identified cells arxiv.org/pdf/2209.03741…

My first FISH (almost) all by myself. Thanks to Jannie, Kathi, and the whole @DOME_Vienna FISH course team!

A Nature Biotechnology paper presents a method called EEL FISH that profiles spatial transcriptomes in single cells in large, complex tissue samples. go.nature.com/3Sab8sT

In a great collaboration with Center for Electromicrobiology, we have used high-throughput Oxford Nanopore metagenomics to recover the first closed genomes of the enigmatic "Cable bacteria"! A thread, 1/10 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…