A new preprint is out! 🚨 We show that trace metal availability directly controls microbial metabolism, forcing cells to shift to less efficient energy pathways—even when better electron acceptors are available! ⚡🔬1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social

We’re kicking off our Archean Park ERC project at @uni-muenster.de with @alexjprobst.bsky.social Jens Kallmeyer, Ivan Berg and Kai-Uwe Hinrichs & respective groups! Thanks very much to @donatogiovannelli.bsky.social and Prof. William Martin for giving invited talks to get us started!

We are collecting data on "periods of things not working" in the lab through a (very very short) poll, can you please complete it and share it? forms.gle/pLAUg43Uy8M7...

Ok, let's talk about it. Everyone complains that in Italy there are no opportunities for young researchers. Then you open a 2y position well paid (by Italian standards), funded by an ERC and you barely get any application? Really?!? #AcademicChatter donatogiovannelli.com/vacancies

Hello @bsky.app #science! Just landed here from X! I'm a prof of Microbiology at the Univ. of Naples, Italy, interested in extreme environments and geo-bio coevolution. Let's connect!