And to finish off another fab session we have David Mark talking about how Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Distribution is Conserved Amongst Actinomycetes #MMEG2022

And starting the biogeochemical cycling session Chloe Wright telling us about whether methanotrophs who co-oxidise isoprene to epoxyisoprene constitute a sink for isoprene in the environment #MMEG2022

And now M Purchase talking about understanding nitrogen cycling in soils across different landscapes #MMEG2022

And now Xiao-Yu Zhu talking about the seasonal variability in microbial and phytoplanktonic DMSP cycling in temperate shelf seawaters #MMEG2022

Next Yasmin Meeda telling us about phosphorus-calcium signalling in a marine diatom. Really interesting stuff! #MMEG2022

And the final talk in the session by Dr Gordon Williamson telling us about his approach to identifying the ammonia binding site in ammonia monooxygenases. #MMEG2022

And to start day 2 of #MMEG2022 we have Dr Andre Mu demonstrating the importance to link metagenomic and metabolomic analyses in order to allocate functionality to taxa. And also showing how phage therapy does not seem to disturb the microbiome. Really cool stuff!

And now to the applied and geo microbiology session where Dr Natalie Byrd is telling us about anaerobic biodegradation of citric acid in the presence of Ni and U at alkaline pH #MMEG2022

Next Dr Kenneth Wasmund talking about how secreted proteins predicted from activated sludge metagenomes can highlight distinct capabilities to interact with the external environment #MMEG2022

And now Dr Oliver Moore telling us about his work trying to understand the role of electron donors and microbial consortia in arsenic release from iron minerals #MMEG2022

Next Dr Velislava Ilieva talking about her work on west Saharan salt plains as a proxi for understanding ancient prokaryotic life forms #MMEG2022

And now Lordina Eshun valorisation of waste iron substrates for the production of functional Fe(II) nanomaterials which seem to be dependent on phosphate concentration #MMEG2022

Next Dr Ciara Keating telling us about the impact of pathogen burden and management practices on potato blackleg disease prevalence and soil microbial community dynamics #MMEG2022

And now Baptiste P talking about the contribution of manganese oxide sand and its associated microbiome on the removal of organic micropollutants in water treatment #MMEG2022

And now Dr Shopie Nixon talking about the potential impacts of CO2 injection and storage on deep biosphere communities #MMEG2022

And to finish #MMEG2022 a series of flash talks. Cannot type that fast but all really good! Same for the flash talk session yesterday!

What even are superbugs and why should we care? Here's a thread with some weekend reading in the form of a comic by @eliza_coli - see campsite bio for other socials and me! Have fun with Spiral! (1/10) #scienceart #sciencecomic #scicomm #AcademicChatter

Check out this awesome short video created by @LizahvdAart MinuteEarth (also on BlueSky) as part of our Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research funded project! 😊 youtube.com/shorts/R1Ap9za…

Glad to see our latest work has been published by the newly established RSC journal, Digital Discovery. A deep learning model for type II polyketide natural product prediction without sequence alignment - now published in Digital Discovery pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

We love this animation from MinuteEarth (also on BlueSky) showing a clever method that BBSRC-funded researchers are using to hunt for new antibiotics🦠