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A microbiologist who is passionate about microbes interactions and how they shape our lives.
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📣 Join us for the 2025
@isbscience.org
Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems". co-director -
@flash-point.bsky.social
🦠💥 It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers! Dec. 12th. Please share!
isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...
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2025 ISB Virtual Microbiome Symposium - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)
Symposium Schedule All presentation times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00 / UTC -07:00) Time Talk / Session 9:00 Welcoming remarks by Sid Venkatesh Session One: Neural Effects
https://isbscience.org/2025-isb-virtual-microbiome-symposium/
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Ramya Ganesan
4 months ago
Do you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble:
www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii...
Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :)
#sciart
#art
#symbiosis
#microbes
#insects
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Chai_ntist Shop | Redbubble
Chai_ntist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/Chaiintist/shop?utm_source=rb-native-app&utm_campaign=share-artist&utm_medium=android
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Kiran R. Patil
7 months ago
Another fantastic study from
@lisamaierlab.bsky.social
showing how non-antibiotics impact gut ecosytem. Congratulations
@ghammeranne.bsky.social
et al.!
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Christian Kost
4 months ago
Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇
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Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
6 months ago
The September Science Academy was a big success and a great experience. 31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking.
#Genderequality
is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.
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Christian Kost
4 months ago
#microsky
#mevosky
@spp2389.bsky.social
A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
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Kiran R. Patil
8 months ago
Excited to share some key details on our latest research in
@natmicrobiol.nature.com
reporting intra-cellular accumulation of
#PFAS
(aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria.
#microsky
#mevosky
#microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Erik Bakkeren
9 months ago
Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better! Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
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Sara Mitri
8 months ago
Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel,
@olimeacock.bsky.social
and
@annasophieweiss.bsky.social
, also by
@juliensluneau.bsky.social
and
@lambdapp.bsky.social
from our lab (not me :))
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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Bridging the scales: what can microbial ecologists learn from classic ecology?
https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9536/
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Atin Sharma
9 months ago
Nature awards and Yakult have announced another round of 'Global Grants for Gut Health'. An excellent opportunity for gut microbiota researchers, at any career stage, to win $100,000 for a year to cover their interesting research!
#MicrobiomeSky
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/immersive/gu...
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Nature Awards Global Grants for Gut Health
Grants for researchers investigating the gut microbiota and its role in human health.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/gutgrants/index.html?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=4de0a22bdc-nature-briefing-microbiology-20250612&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-4de0a22bdc-498835231
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Glen Dsouza
9 months ago
Our paper in
@science.org
👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Glen Dsouza
10 months ago
We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team
@arizonastateuni.bsky.social
microbialeco.systems
#MicroSky
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Ever thought about a nose-to-nose bacteria transfer? 👃🦠 I wrote about it — and no, it's not as gross as it sounds. Check it out!
#Microbiome
#ScienceIsWeird
#SciCom
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Mizrahi Lab
11 months ago
This study
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
expands gut microbiome knowledge into African populations, uncovering lifestyle-linked taxa shifts and novel genomes. It’s a crucial resource for future work, including our own interest in the loss of cellulolytic bacteria.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj9223
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Nature Reviews Microbiology
11 months ago
ICYMI: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
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Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-025-01163-0?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nrmicro
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Tobias Engl
11 months ago
A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects!
@naturerevmicro.bsky.social
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩
11 months ago
Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature Microbiology
Using a cohort of nearly 1,000 genetically diverse mice undergoing dietary restriction over the lifespan, the authors reveal numerous insights into the interactions between the gut microbiome, host ge...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-01963-3
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Glen Dsouza
11 months ago
Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now:
apply.interfolio.com/165601
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Cell - a Cell Press journal
12 months ago
Now online! Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
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Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
Plants are composed of diverse secondary metabolites. Here, we discover members of the human gut microbiome that have evolved enzymes to metabolize specific dietary phenolic small molecules that activate diverse functions important to the host, such as…
http://dlvr.it/TJNpzG
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Christoph Kaleta
11 months ago
Happy that our work on host-microbiome-interactions in aging is mentioned in this editorial from
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
that emphasizes the importance of modeling in microbiology research.
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Tami Lieberman
11 months ago
Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from
@goldmandoran.bsky.social
@ksxue.bsky.social
et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2502663122
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Doran Goldman
12 months ago
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
With mentorship from the amazing
@ksxue.bsky.social
, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322440122
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Ákos T Kovács
12 months ago
Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness
#ISMEComms
by
@mcastd.bsky.social
,
@padpadpadpad.bsky.social
and Angus Buckling
academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness
Abstract. A key feature of natural communities is that the species within them stably coexist. A common metric used to test community stability is the abil
https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf040/8046850
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Insect Symbiosis Lab
about 1 year ago
Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published. Read the full story
@currentbiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe
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Insect Symbiosis Lab
12 months ago
We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here:
www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs
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IMPRS
https://www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs
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Samir Giri
12 months ago
Cool new paper by
@shetoot.bsky.social
Shitut et al. shows Bacteria with multiple different chromosomes can survive broad antibiotic exposure Check it out 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bacterial heterozygosity promotes survival under multidrug selection
Although bacterial cells typically contain a single chromosome, some species are naturally polyploid and carry multiple copies of their chromosome. Po…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225001460
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Typas Lab
12 months ago
Career Webinar Alert! 📢 Join us on March 21st for a career webinar on "Transitioning to a PI Role"! Registration is now open. With the unstoppable and inspiring Lisa Maier
@lisamaierlab.bsky.social
Help spread the word and register
embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Share with your network!
#PIRole
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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
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Christian Kost
12 months ago
I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar Disentangling microbial interaction networks Open access link:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0966-842X(25)00027-7
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Ákos T Kovács
about 1 year ago
Nice to see how this project developed through the years & published in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
by Saheli Saha et al from
@iamsamayp.bsky.social
group 👏 Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities
Saha et al. show that the predatory bacterium M. xanthus enriches the frequency of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in soil communities. This occurs because starvation-induced mass lysis of M. xanthus ce...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00131-9?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
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Sara Mitri
about 1 year ago
Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab!
@adelpanta.bsky.social
on spatial patterning in microbial communities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
and
@salazarafra.bsky.social
on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-025-00666-1
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Nature Microbiology
about 1 year ago
The enigmatic, ultrasmall and largely uncultivated Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria represent a treasure trove of potential discoveries, argues this recent Perspective in PNAS🕵️👇 from the Mougous Lab
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Beyond genomics in Patescibacteria: A trove of unexplored biology packed into ultrasmall bacteria | PNAS
Patescibacteria, also known as the Candidate Phyla Radiation, are a diverse clade of largely uncultivated, small bacteria that comprise a significa...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419369121
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Samir Giri
about 1 year ago
Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab. Check it out here: Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
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Rolf Kümmerli
about 1 year ago
New paper out in ISME Journal. Social interactions between strains shape bacterial communities. However, their impact on community functioning is lower compared to basic strain identity features.
@joskramer.bsky.social
@alexfig.bsky.social
@simonmarech.bsky.social
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Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions
Abstract. Microbial communities can shape key ecological services, but the determinants of their functioning often remain little understood. While traditio
https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wraf025/8005810?login=false
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MicroBites
about 1 year ago
📣 New MicroBites! Together We Achieve More 🤝 A beneficial relationship between bacterium, fungus, and plant 🦠 🍄 🌿
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Together We Achieve More
A beneficial relationship between bacterium, fungus, and plant
https://micro-bites.org/2024/12/27/together-we-achieve-more/
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After years of dedication, countless hours, and a passion for science—one major manuscript, three science communication articles, and one translated into Dutch! Science thrives when we share it with the world
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
micro-bites.org/author/ghada...
#soil_microbes
##SciComm
about 1 year ago
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Kiran R. Patil
about 1 year ago
Kudos to Ghada
@kostchristian.bsky.social
team and
@metagenomez.bsky.social
et al. for this mammoth effort! An important step forward towards understanding natural microbial communities and determinants of their fascinating diversity.
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Christian Kost
about 1 year ago
New paper from my group and the group of
@kiranrpatil.bsky.social
: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif
@metagenomez.bsky.social
with
@swagatika.bsky.social
@isamirgiri.bsky.social
Sharvari Harshe et al.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities
Many microorganisms are refractory to laboratory cultivation. One possible explanation, known as the great plate count anomaly, is metabolic dependencies among community members. However, systematic s...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635426v1
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