The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050. 🔗 bit.ly/3W7rxlP

New EAT-Lancet warns: food systems breach Planetary Boundaries. “EAT-Lancet 2025 places justice at the centre, not only as a goal but also as a vital part of enabling transformation,” says Centre Director Line Gordon, one of the report’s lead authors. www.stockholmresilience.org/5.5e96ff7d19...

#Perspective Estrela and Huang discuss nutrient starvation in the context of the gut microbiome, outlining what is known and highlighting key questions for future research to address knowledge gaps. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Showcase your microbiome research at our 2026 conference! #Microbiome26 Demonstrate how #genomics tools and technologies are contributing to a deeper understanding of the microbiome. 🗓️ 2-4 March Submit an abstract by 24 November ✍🏼 📎 bit.ly/4kttBOX#Microbiome26#genomics#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

ICYMI: Non-model bacteria as platforms for endogenous gene expression in synthetic biology

Aaand it's out! Meet MITE - the natural product tailoring enzyme database, just published in @narjournal.bsky.social! MITE DB captures the substrate- and reaction-specificity of tailoring enzymes, allowing to capture this information in a human- and machine-readable way! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

This week @science.org Dual #transposon sequencing profiles the #genetic interaction landscape in #bacteria | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦠🔬🧫🧬

🧪🦠🖥️🧬🧫🔬 The Roadmap for equitable use of public microbiome data -including the Data Reuse Information Tag (DRI)- by the #DataReuseConsortium. Must read if you use or produce microbiome data! Kudos to the Data Reuse Core Team for their hard work! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I am learning so much as a @engbioirc.bsky.social committee!✨ Don't miss the opportunity and join the network and even the committee!

Marchantia berteroana at 3000 meters above the sea level. Vallecitos, Mendoza.

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️ science.org/doi/10.1126/... @andrewpountain.bsky.social

🚨Applications open! ❄️Winter School 2026 (12–23 Jan, Lausanne) ➡️Advanced methods in microbial community analysis 🧬Hands-on training in 16S, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, functional annotation & ML 📍Free course, apply now: nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/january-short-course/ #NCCR #Microbiomes

One of my favourite papers of 2025 so far and its on chocolate! 🍫 A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation 🧪 Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔎 The associated news & views here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ready to explore what's next in the life sciences? 🧬🔍 Then check out our new 2026 EMBL Annual Poster 👉 s.embl.org/2026-poster Join us for another year of asking the big questions in the life sciences. See you in 2026? #EMBL #lifesciences #molecularbiology #bioinformatics

An overlooked aspect of becoming a scientist is realizing that you have a particular brand; a unique approach, an attraction to a certain kind of problem and a set of connections that you like to make. Uri calls it finding your internal tuning fork. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

We’re hiring a Postdoc in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics! Help us decode microbial metabolism and its impact on human health @leibniz-hki.de , Jena 🇩🇪 🔗 jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠 Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiome

Quantitative essentiality in a reduced genome: a functional, regulatory and structural fitness map www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Pretty amazing. The extracellular injection system (what I call: "T6SS understudied cousin") can inject both proteins and ssDNA into target cells. Quite useful for biotech applications. Another great job from Joe Krietz from Feng Zhang's lab.

Putting the Global South on the Microbiome research map - Really proud of Chilean PhD student @bvalderrama.bsky.social who championed this new important paper just out in ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ "If microbiome science is to benefit everyone, it must include everyone." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm beyond excited to share that our last work is now published in Nature Communications. The South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA): enriching the microbiome field by studying neglected populations 📄: shorturl.at/wq9pr

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

#NatMicroPicks Engineering Peace in the Gut Microbiome ☮️🔧🦠 BACTRINS, a microbiome engineering platform that precisely edits gut pathogens by inserting therapeutic payloads and neutralizing virulence genes, transforming them into allies. @natbiomedeng.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gut-microbe-brain mechanism controlling feeding behaviour Specialised colon cells (neuropods) detect bacterial flagellin via TLR5 receptor & quickly signal the brain through vagal nerves to suppress appetite. Disruption of this pathway causes overeating & weight gain in mice.   rdcu.be/exCl7

Finally out! A small screen helps understand a little more about how E. coli regulates major transporters, and reveals how caffeine induces phenotypical antibiotic resistance. Huge thanks to collab @andrenmateus.bsky.social (Umeå) and Christian L. Müller (Munich)! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Whenever rain or snow falls from the skies, human-made trifluoroacetic acid falls with it go.nature.com/41aWPeb

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve. Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

New online! Experimental evolution in an era of molecular manipulation

New Pre-print! A long-standing question for transcription factor biology is how their chromatin context dependency works in plants. In this collaboration with Fred Berger lab, we present some new ideas not only in Arabidopsis but also in Marchantia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📢 New preprint alert! We used comparative genomics on 72,000+ bacterial genomes to uncover the genetic basis of microbial adaptation to multicellular hosts—plants and animals alike. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Engineering the gut microbiome in people with hyperoxaluria to avoid kidney stones science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org

Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out! #science #microbiome #health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's finally out!🎉 We known that the #microbiome confers colonization resistance against #pathogens, we know that some meds 💊 affect gut microbes 🦠 So, do 💊 alter colonization resistance? It turns out that some do! If you wanna know more, check out our latest work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally online! Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections. rdcu.be/ewwrG

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper! Combining epidemiology and experiments uncovers surprising drug-host-microbiome-pathogen interactions. Congrats @amankumar25.bsky.social, Robyn Tamblyn, and the rest of the team. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Find out about the story behind recent findings from the Patil lab that gut bacteria can absorb forever chemicals, with this feature article written by our Science Communications Manager Rachel Fellows. @kiranrpatil.bsky.social

The latest feature in #TheMicrobiologist explores research at the MRC Toxicology Unit that asks whether our gut microbes might protect us from ‘forever chemicals’ www.the-microbiologist.com/features/tin...

A potent bacterium in the human gut can supercharge the effects of some cancer drugs go.nature.com/4lqaBBI

New paper showing that gut bacteria absorb "forever chemicals" (PFAS) at high levels. This bacterial "sponge effect" could influence PFAS levels in our bodies and explain individual differences in PFAS exposure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows

Today's reading: Nature should be the model for microbial sciences journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... by @brettbakker.bsky.social @emilyraehyde.bsky.social and @pedroleao.bsky.social Looks ideal for a talk I am working on on model organisms ...

The findings of a study in Nature Microbiology show the high bioaccumulation capacity of gut bacteria for PFAS, commonly known as forever chemicals. go.nature.com/4le7Svk #microbiome #medsky 🧪

Building scientific capacity in the global south is key to solving today’s most pressing planetary challenges, says Marcelo Knobel, executive director at the World Academy of Sciences. https://go.nature.com/43WhALs

Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@skamrad.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social show xenobiotics impact growth of gut bacteria and their metabolic homeostasis by affecting amine metabolism ➡️ www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....