A brand new publication 🥳from Otto X. Cordero group with Matti Gralka and Shaul Pollak on metabolic processes in heterotrophic microbial communities 🦠🧪🔬 Enjoy it 👇 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Very cool to see a proposed framework linking oligo/copiotrophy with r/K selection and growth rates: Ecology theory disentangles microbial dichotomies ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

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Thank you all Seppe Kuehn Lab Zeqian Li Vaibhhav Sinha for writing this great summary of our paper and putting our work in a broader context!

The Matti Gralka and Mulla groups (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) are seeking a #PhD student to study #phage ecology in microbial communities. buff.ly/3ZaVTUZ

Cool day with people working on quantitative microbial ecology in the NL! Thanks Djordje Bajić and Rebeca Gonzalez Cabaleiro for organizing the symposium and Gerben Stouten and robbert kleerebezem for showing us the UNLOCK-microbiomes facilities!

I am looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our lab in Amsterdam. We will dig deep in #arbuscular #mycorrhizal fungal nuclear dynamics and network interactions using advanced🔬 and novel tech development! Apply before Nov 1 here: tinyurl.com/3a32p5hr #ERC-funded

Database size positively correlates with the loss of species-level taxonomic resolution for the 16S rRNA and other prokaryotic marker genes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For centuries, the study of microbial communities has had little defining theory. Now, a group of physicists turned biologists are using genomics to concoct axioms for microbial assembly. Dan Samorodnitsky reports: quantamagazine.org/the-quest-for-…

Deciphering the gene-organism-environment triad is key to understanding microbiomes. But to go beyond who's there, we need to identify relevant coarse-grained physiological traits from (meta)genomes. Fill in forms.gle/CaXN8fNNdJkCT5… to show interest in a KITP program about this!

Virus enthusiasts in and around the lowlands: on March 22 we will have the annual Netherlands Association of Virus Ecology meeting in Groningen. Looking forward to seeing you there! See knvm.org/virology/netwo… for more details or PM me.

Just arrived at American Physical Society march meeting in Minneapolis, looking forward to a few days of catching up and learning new things. Say hi if you're around! #APSMarchMeeting

A great fellowship opportunity for postdocs in the life sciences or other fields (e.g., physics) who are interested in making the jump into biology. Please contact me if you are interested in exploring potential projects together!

Amazing news and many thanks to European Research Council (ERC) for supporting my ViBRANT-SEA AdvERC research proposal. Read all about it nioz.nl/en/news/presti…

In small, isolated populations, chance is king. quantamagazine.org/the-mystery-of…

"There's gotta be a better way to count phages than serial dilution & plaque plating!" - love this high-throughput culturing approach. Really cool paper!

Interested in how microbial community assembly and coexistence relate to function? And how experimental choices affect them? Check out my review published today as part of a #COMICR themed issue edited by Alvaro Sanchez Lab Seppe Kuehn Lab! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jRMl4tPFpdY…