Happy to share a new paper led by Daniel MS and Anna Schrecengost, with Ivan Cepicka CepickaLab Katerina Polakova Johana MicRo. Funding from Simons Foundation. doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

An S-methyltransferase that produces the climate-active gas dimethylsulfide is widespread across diverse marine bacteria nature.com/articles/s4156…

Happy to share a chapter of my PhD thesis🐣! We review the diversity of the cell envelope in Terrabacteria which tell us a lot about outer membrane biogenesis and the diderm-to-monoderm transition. Thanks to my co-authors Najwa Taib Christophe Beloin Simonetta Gribaldo nature.com/articles/s4157…

Time to re-write the books! I loved Simonetta Gribaldo's talk- there's so much to unlearn and relearn.

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…

It's out in Cell!!! Super proud bug- and structural virologist moment; my paper about using CryoEM to discover, diagnose, characterize, and mitigate a nationwide agricultural pandemic is now published online 😄🐛🪲 cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

OUT NOW 👉 An S-methyltransferase that produces the climate-active gas dimethylsulfide is widespread across diverse marine bacteria nature.com/articles/s4156…

Congrats to A/Prof Jeremy J Barr School of Biological Sciences, Monash on being awarded $500,000 USD from the Gates Foundation to support ground-breaking research discovering how bacteriophages could prime human immunity and impact health. Read more 👇 monash.edu/science/news-e…

Horizontal gene transfer can reshape bacterial warfare New bioRxiv by Elisa Granato et al. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Three papers showing methanogenesis by three members of the Thermoproteota (TACK) are out in Nature today: tinyurl.com/4v4fkda6 tinyurl.com/yr4p7js6 tinyurl.com/mtsrj6b9 (figure by Anthony Kohtz who 1st authored both papers from my lab; 1 shared with Viola Krukenberg)

IMO in career decisions, too many people optimize for what they think they’re entitled to when instead, opting into cool shit and proving themselves will often result in way better outcomes than they expected in the first place

📢📢📢PhD positions in microbial physiology & microbial survival in my group!!! More details on my website below (Join the Team) 👇👇👇. Please RT. dome.univie.ac.at/woebken/

I've officially joined the MicroBites team as a Writer & Spanish translator! I'll be writing short articles about microbiology. My first Spanish translation is now available on our website: micro-bites.org/2024/08/23/ser… #scicomm #sciencewriter #stem #sciencewriting #translation

Global marine microbial diversity and its potential in bioprospecting nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧬🖥️ github.com/BGI-Qingdao/GO… - 43k genomes recovered from metagenomes - new CRISPR-Cas9 system - 10 antimicrobial peptides - 3 enzymes that degrade polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

Super excited to share our latest work on the native in-cell organization of the mitochondrial respiratory chain 🥳 Using cryo-electron tomography🔬, we show how the respiratory complexes (and other complexes) are organized inside native mitochondria!  biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So proud of you Ella!!!

Unlock the complexities of soil communities with #HiFisequencing on #Revio. Discover how to obtain high-quality MAGs with more data and lower costs than ever before. Register now: bit.ly/3yVbFuG #PacBio

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are launching the MIT Bioeconomy Seminar Series together with Mark Bathe. Join us if you are in the Boston area. #bioeconomy bioeconomy-seminar-series.org

Our latest preprint is out! This paper led by Sukhwan Yoon uncovers a new process controlling the global hydrogen and nitrogen cycles, i.e. the direct coupling of hydrogen oxidation and ammonification. A beautiful combination of isolation, bioreactor, and systems biology studies.