Isolation of Crenothrix bacteria reveals the distinct ecophysiologies of filamentous methanotrophs and adaptations to redox stress www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

BioGeoFormer: A deep learning approach to classify unknown genes associated with critical biogeochemical cycles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Urea-driven nitrification contributes to N2O production in the oligotrophic euphotic ocean academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs 🌊

Deep metatranscriptomic sequencing data of wastewater from Los Angeles, USA, 2023–2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Reconstruction of 2,965 Microbial Genomes from Mangrove Sediments across Guangxi, China www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Towards stable chemical fossils for anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing #anammox bacteria in palaeoenvironmental studies: novel cyclic aliphatic hydrocarbons as potential dia- and catagenetic products of #ladderane lipids www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Potassium modulating aquatic microbial processes: dynamics of #nitrogen cycling and #nitrous oxide www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/...

Hypoxia and the microbiome: Significance and application for ecotoxicological studies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lanthanide utilization in newly found methylotrophs www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Two Small Proteins Enable N2O Reduction in Acidic Environments #Nitrous oxide #denitrification #nosP #nosQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The glycine betaine-cobalamin feedback loop drives cross-feeding between marine bacteria and algae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan. Join us in the best city in the UK 😜 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Preprint now, submit to journal in January

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

A quick microbio present before the holidays 🎁 >150 years after their first description, filamentous "Crenothrix bacteria" are now in stable laboratory culture! In our pre-print, we probe the unique physiology & ecology of the "lacustrine" group of these enigmatic methane-oxidizing microbes... 1/2

Late job posting: My department is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in microbiology! Please share with anyone interested in working at a PUI. We have a preference for someone who can teach Medical Microbiology, but other than that the focus is open-ended. Happy to answer qs.

Meta-PepView: a metaproteomics performance evaluation and visualization platform www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A matter of salt: Global assessment of the effect of salt ionic composition as a driver of aquatic bacterial diversity aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

💡Your questions, answered. The ERC Plus Grant webpage is now live, and the Q&As on this new funding scheme are available on the website, too. 🔗 ERC Plus Grants 👉 bit.ly/3N7BJcr 🔗 Q&A 👉 bit.ly/4j4G5gA

En hälsning inför det nya året. Jag vill passa på att tacka för ett gott samarbete under året som gått. Jag lämnar kontoret med ett rent skrivbord. Under 2026 kommer min verksamhet att få ett ökat fokus på samarbete med Sverige, något jag ser mycket fram emot :) Vi hörs och ses i ett spännande 2026!

Calling all archaeal enthusiasts! 🔬🔥 From molecular machines to microbial communities, Archaea never fail to surprise us! We are excited to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Archaea, 6–10 July in Cambridge, UK! Sign up here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... #ArchaeaSky

New in #SubtiWiki: Clusters of structural homologs! Enjoy the new feature! Thank you, Oskar Geissel & @c-elfmann.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @imprsgs.bsky.social

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Warming alters temporal patterns of microbial-mediated #nitrogen cycling under microplastics stress in intertidal #sediment ecosystems www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Redox-active biochar as insoluble electron acceptors for anaerobic oxidation of ammonium #anammox doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩‍🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... I participate as a host...

Happy to post our latest paper: doi.org/10.1111/1751... Biases accumulate with age, so it is essential to begin teaching critical thinking as early as possible. The problems are HOW, given the complexity of its theory, and IN WHAT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT? The solutions we propose in this paper are...

@isme-microbes.bsky.social offers a great opportunity to publish uncultured microbes via #SeqCode using #genomes as type material. A fantastic step toward embracing the true diversity of microbes! But isolates are also welcome 🧫🔬🦠😁 @seqcode.bsky.social

Gempipe: a tool for drafting, curating, and analyzing pan and multi-strain genome-scale metabolic models journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Cultivation of Methanonezhaarchaeia, the third class of methanogens within the phylum Thermoproteota www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Long in the making, just appeared online: Clumped isotopes as fingerprints of microbial #methane production pathways in marine sediments by now Dr. @annajwallenius.bsky.social congratulations 🎉 🎉 🎉 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“Cultivation of Methanonezhaarchaeia, the third class of methanogens within the phylum Thermoproteota” by @kohtzarchaeota.bsky.social, Sylvia Nupp, and myself is out in Science Advances. 90% enriched culture of a methyl-dismutating thermoproteotal methanogen. #Microsky 🧪 tinyurl.com/bdcc3uzs

#Urea: The Hidden Fuel for Ocean Microbes 🦠🌊 Study in @natcomms.nature.com shows how #ammonia-oxidizing #archaea thrive in nutrient-poor waters: Urea is a major energy source for #AOA in the open #ocean, while coastal AOA prefer #ammonium. www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Urea-The-...

Fresh from our group, a new role for oxygen production in ammonia-oxidizing archaea: Oxygen production as an electron overflow pathway in ammonia-oxidizing archaea Congrats to Thomas Pribasnig for this great work! Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

hypeR-GEM: connecting metabolite signatures to enzyme-coding genes via genome-scale metabolic models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

The GTDB website now has an ANI calculator based on skani that supports uploading of user genomes. Try it at gtdb.ecogenomic.org/tools/skani. Find more information about @jimshaw.bsky.social fantastic tool at www.nature.com/articles/s41....

On behalf of the #MARIX @erc.europa.eu synergy team at #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social we wish you a healthy and prosperous 2026. @carolineslomp.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social @annajwallenius.bsky.social @jessicavenetz.bsky.social et al

On Monday 15 dec 1630h @Anna J. Wallenius will defend her PhD thesis "Muddy Affairs, Microbial #methane cycling in coastal ecosystems" please find the @ribesresearch.bsky.social coverage at www.ru.nl/en/research/...

So happy this is finally out! We reconstructed the 1st large-scale spatiotemporal dataset of 600+ MAGs from San Francisco Bay and show they have functional redundancy in key N and S pathways. These functions may better recover from disturbance in this highly urban estuary 💧

Coastal nitrogen drives respiration quotient in the Southern California Bight bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... #jcampubs 🌊

We congratulate Cornelia Welte with her @erc.europa.eu #Consolidator grant 🥳 for "electroANME": a project which will uncover how anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea oxidize methane, interact with bacteria, and use diverse metabolic pathways. Read more: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

While coalition talks are in full swing, higher education is already putting pressure on the government to be. During a strike, lecturers and students are demanding that parties involved in forming the coalition – with D66 leading – scrap the budget cuts. www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

Het was weer een fantastische dag! Alle actievoerders heel erg bedankt 👊 www.at5.nl/artikelen/23...

Stop de sloop! Vanmiddag stond ik met duizenden op de Dam om te protesteren tegen de desastreuze onderwijsbezuinigingen, nota bene doorgezet door een demissionair, ultraminoritair rompkabinet. Lees hierover ook dit opinieartikel in NRC van afgelopen donderdag 4 december: lnkd.in/ety2QdZe

Mijn favoriete spanbord vandaag las "Bezuinig dan op Microsoft Teams” ❤️

Een paar foto's van de demo. #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs 🟥

Purifying selection and low recombination facilitated sequential colonization of benthic and pelagic coastal ocean by ammonia-oxidizing archaea academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs 🌊

8000 mensen protesteerden vandaag tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs en de verdere afbraak van de publieke sector. Nederland wordt echt een land van private rijkdom en publieke armoede.

Het was druk op de Dam, politie zegt 7500 mensen. Trots en vastberaden. Want we gaan door! #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs