A full thread on the science later, but I'm very happy that, after 5 years of work, the AMPSphere manuscript is out at Cell Congrats to celiodias Marcelo Torres César de la Fuente Yiqian Duan Sebastian Schmidt Alvaro Rodríguez del Río Jaime Huerta-Cepas Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg ... doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

We're pleased to announce EvaNowack Geoff McFadden & Therese Solberg joining our speakers lineup #APCOPV2024! Join us in Brisbane for cutting-edge science in #protist #algae #aquaticbotany Abstract submissions due this Friday 14 June! Register now! protist-au.org

1) Happy to share our contribution to a recent debate on estimating microbial traits from soil metagenomes: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Antton Alberdi Ben WoOdcroft Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics #metagenomics #microbiome

Our massive project "Microflora Danica: the atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes" is online! 5 years ago Per Halkjær Nielsen and I started the project of our dreams! To reveal the microbes of an entire country! But, why? 🧵Read on 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨Centre for Microbiome Research is currently recruiting PhD students in environmental microbiology 🦠🌳. For more info: seek.com.au/job/76604594. Please share 😀

Extremely pleased to be able to share this at last, our work on the Last Universal Common Ancestor: nature.com/articles/s4155… We estimate LUCA's genome, metabolism and age. Thanks to Sandra Álvarez Tom Williams Phil Donoghue Anja Spang (she/her) Tara Mahendrarajah Gergely J Szöllősi and many more!

Phylogenetic reconciliation: making the most of genomes to understand microbial ecology and evolution The ISME Journal from Gergely J Szöllősi with Phil Hugenholtz Anja Spang (she/her) Cecile Gubry-Rangin Paul Sheridan Laura Eme Rochelle Soo Ben WoOdcroft Lenard Szantho academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Our review article about phylogenetic (gene tree-species tree) reconciliation is out. We make the case that reconciliation methods provide a natural framework for modelling/studying microbial evolution, summarise some previous work... academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

I'll be teaching a session or two on the SingleM community profiler - come join us.

COMBINE is hosting a metagenomics workshop in Brisbane, taught by nine other than Rob Edwards Ben WoOdcroft ! Best opportunity to learn from experts. Don’t forget to register for the free event!

Nobody: Not a single person: Nary a lone individual: Me: Here's the definitive list of the best bird species in each of the 251 taxonomic families 🧵

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.

Samuel Aroney at ISME presenting Bin Chicken, a super useful computational tool for binning rare MAGs using targeted coassembly #isme19

Rossen Zhao at ISME presenting Lyrebird, for profiling viruses in metagenomic dataets using conserved sequence tags! #isme19

One of our team leads, A/P Luis Pedro Coelho (@Melbourne 8-9 September), presented at ISME conference currently taking place in South Africa. Luis spoke about microbes and the microbiome to local school children of Cape Town. To find out more about CMR's exciting research, chat to our team at ISME

Hope you can make it to the #isme24 biogeography session at 15:10 room 1.6 - if not try sandpiper.qut.edu.au and github.com/AroneyS/binchi… for your profiling and co-assembly needs

Great pleasure to work with Wei Shen 沈 伟 on a new indexing and alignment scheme, called LexicMap: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We have been working on uniformly reassembling, QC-ing and annotating all bacterial (+ now archaeal) data, & wanted to be able to do full alignment to it....