You hear a lot about fecal transplantations these days, but what happens when you disturb a full scale wastewater treatment plant with a massive activated sludge transplantation? Find Giulia Dottorini at poster 391 to talk about it!

Super proud of André Lamúrias who have realized our vague idea of metagenome binning should be a "graph" problem. Looking forward to integrating new features and scalability to very (!) large long-read metagenome datasets. Science at VILLUM

PHN lab is bringing a focus on #microbes in #wastewater to IWA cph! Stop by the MIDAS Field Guide stand or find us at one of our talks or posters. See you around! #WorldWaterCongress #worldwaterexhibition #WWCE2022

If you are interested in #foaming or #nutrientremoval in #wastewater, you can have a look at @zivilekon poster number 130. You will also see her beautiful FISH images of Chloroflexota! 🐟

If you go to poster 188, you will find out how you can use machine learning to predict the dynamics in a microbial community! Are you more interested in MIDAS Field Guide or #ampvis in R? No problem! Kasper is also ready to discuss that!

Autumn has just started in Denmark and we people are slowly putting on our sweaters again, but how do #microbes feel about these changes and do they also have a favourite season? You can read all about it at poster 241 or find Mariam for a talk

We look forward to see you!

You still have the chance to join the Inaugural Lecture of Distinguished Professor Mark van Loosdrecht and the launch of the REThiNk-project - Recovery of extracellular polymers from wastewater treatment residuals as a new circular biopolymer! Monday 31/10 shorturl.at/bEMZ1

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…

Genome recovery is highly dependent on species abundance and strain complexity. For the enrichment sample, we recovered 50+ (!!!) cicular metagenome-assembled genomes (cMAGs), including the Ca. Electronema aureum as expected. Easy peasy.. 5/10

For the sediments it proved more complex due to high diversity, and especially for the marine sample there was high-strain complexity of cable bacteria, but Mantas was still able to obtain 2 HQ genomes (1 in 1 contig) by subsampling, re-assembly, and re-binning. Not easy.. 6/10

Genomes in hand, Francesca did metabolic reconstruction. First, she looked if the prev incomplete genomes had missed genes, that explained the long-distance electron transfer. We didn't find the smoking gun, but with complete genomes, we are now certain that it hides within! 8/10

Important and abundant uncharacterised Chloroflexi populations in annamox, AS and reactors, and a new favourite in our lab @PerHNielsen? "Ca. Villigracilis nielsenii" 😀

Yesterday, Vibeke Nielsen received her Master’s degree for her project “Microbial Communities and Settling Behaviour in Activated Sludge Plants” 🥳 We would like to thank our #MiDAS collaborators, who contributed to the project.

Round of applause to @CaitySing for attaining the tenure-track assistant professor position! 🎉👏🏻 Well-deserved recognition for your contributions, you rock!

Join us in Aalborg in May and learn how to use MiDAS5 and other #MiDAS resources to analyze microbes in wastewater treatment systems! 🦠🧬💻 phd.moodle.aau.dk/course/index.p…