Ok! This is a special one! My last postdoc / first PI paper is out! 🥳 Stay with me if you are into: Defense Systems🛡️ Asgard Archaea⚡️ Origin/Evolution of Immunity💪🏽 rdcu.be/dPyF4 🧵(1/8)

I'll give a short talk in Marine Microbial Ecology #ISME19 on how Antagonism systems enable nutrient acquisition in marine bacterial communities on 22-08-2024, 15:30 in Auditorium 1. Check out if interested in bacterial killing, cross-feeding and ecology at single cell level.

3/6 We fractionated the sediment community into those in the porewater, loosely attached to grains, and firmly attached to grains. We assessed the community composition & activity through sequencing and measuring hydrolysis rates, O2 consumption, and frequency of cell division.

Excited to present a novel method that we developed Centre for Microbiome Research at #ISME19. Join me on Thursday in the novel technique session (PS3.18) at 11.30am to hear all about GenomeFISH, a genome-based FISH method for strain level visualisation of microbial communities.

We are growing!🤩 We are excited to welcome a new research group "#Protist #Virology" from Jan 2025: Led by Dr. Matthias Fischer, they will explore the biology of giant viruses and their parasites. mpi-bremen.de/en/New-researc… Max Planck Society @MolEcol_MPIMM Biogeo MPI Bremen

Hey #ISME19 I will present about Zombie 🧟🧟‍♀️cells tomorrow at 11:30 in Ballroom West (Virus session, lead by @EvelienAdri & @vardilab ). I will also tell you, how you can make most of your recorded FISH images, to study cell division rates in environmental samples!

Interested in how sediment bacterial communities are structured and what they’re doing? Drop by my poster today and let’s chat about sediment bacterial niches, and the so-far under appreciated role of porewater (and loosely attached) bacteria in surface sediments 😃 #ISME19

Hey #ISME19 Don’t want to fly long distance for the next ISME? Just apply to for this Professor position 😉

Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician. uol.de/stellen?stelle… The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years. Please share!

Exciting opportunity for Early Career Scientists! ISME Society Journals and ISME ECSC are inviting applications for the ISME ECS Reviewer Pool. Are you an ECS in microbial ecology with a maximum of 8 years of post-PhD experience? APPLY NOW! isme-microbes.org/isme-early-car…

#JGRA: Preface: Special Issue on Probing the Open Ocean With the Research Sailing Yacht Eugen Seibold for Climate Geochemistry agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

I am very happy to report that the review Jill Banfield and I wrote on Modern Microbiology just appeared in Cell Press: cell.com/cell/abstract/… Our celebration of microbiology also made it to the cover of this issue and we hope you will find yourself in it, too.

OMG, this is killing me 😂😂😂

And today in, well, no shit: Bacteria found on asteroid was actually Earthly contamination, scientists report salon.com/2024/11/24/bac…

Honouring Nicole Dubilier for her significant contributions to the ecological and evolutionary symbiosis of microbes, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces dubilierae (DSM 41921) after her. #herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #microbiology #symbiosis

Excited to share GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. Centre for Microbiome Research Simon McIlroy Donovan Parks James Volmer Ben WoOdcroft Allison McInnes @eilishmcm doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…

I'm very happy that these just appeared in bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (reports 71 new SAR11 isolates, proposes names for 24 SAR11 genera). biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (investigates the metabolic determinants of habitat specificity in SAR11). Wishing you all a great 2025 😇

Wanted: microbial ecology + bioinformatics enthusiasts for 2 PhD positions (@ProbstLab, @RESIST_CRC) #1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a #2 on virus-host stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/43cjd6es ᴀʟᴇx ᴘʀᴏʙꜱᴛ @zwu_ude Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social

Au, Mann, Söder! Anzeige ist raus! (Aktenzeichen BY8547-501230-2518) Politisch motivierte Straftat der CSU gegen Die PARTEI Bereits mehrfach wurden in verschiedenen Bundesländern nachts PARTEI-Plakate entwendet. Als in München zwei Mal hintereinander mehrere Exemplare direkt

I always thought very little of my first publication … I mean: It was my BSc thesis, so expectations should be realistic. Anyways, today, I read it again and … I enjoyed reading it! Is this normal? Thanks to Christian R Voolstra & shobhit, who helped me with writing 2017 🙏🏼