When your papers are listed among the most read (of recent papers) and most cited at #ISMEJournal Congrats, Xinli and @jiyuxie.bsky.social! 👏 Great collaborations with Zhihui Xu's group at Nanjing Agricultural University #BacillusPseudomonas #Biostimulants #BacillusTrichoderma #Biocontrol

Weekend morning walk with 🐕

Constitutive, endogenous, fluorescent membrane reporters for dynamic cell cycle analysis in Bacillus subtilis bioRxix from Stephen C Jacobson #Bsubtilis #CellBiology #MicroSky

Starvation-independent alarmone production inhibits translation through GTP depletion - bioRxiv from @heatherfeaga.bsky.social #ppGpp #Bsubtilis

Evolutionary bioenergetics of sporulation "energetic cost of sporulation in units of ATP by integrating time-resolved genome, transcriptome, and proteome profiles" #Bsubtilis #MicroSky #PNAS by @ckarakoc.bsky.social @shoestrapped.bsky.social @jaytlennon.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Historical contingency limits adaptive diversification in a spatially structured environment @evolletters.bsky.social from @megbehri.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

Foggy morning run with sun on the horizon

Mutations in legume genes that influence symbiosis create a complex selective landscape for rhizobial symbionts -in #ISMEJournal academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

On the train and watching how the wind turbine blades are slicing the clouds

Nice to meet with my PhD promotor, Kornél Kovács on a grant panel… 23 year after PhD

Oxygen as a primary selective pressure for photosymbiosis evolution -in @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Two independent super-elegant studies from Maxwell & Laub labs find immune proteins that sense infection by binding to oligomeric phage protein rings (i.e phage portal), using them as a scaffold to assemble into their active immune effector form 🤯 Highly recommend read! 🤓📖l

Early morning run

BackToBack #PhageSky in @nature.com A pore-forming antiphage defence is activated by oligomeric phage proteins -from Maxwell & Norris www.nature.com/articles/s41... Bacterial immune activation via supramolecular assembly with phage triggers -from Laub & Ghanbarpour www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Synthetic community derived from the root core microbes of a desert shrub Caragana korshinskii enhances wheat drought tolerance -in Microbiome link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Context-dependent adaptation in structured environments Proc Biol Sci by @yuyakarita.bsky.social et al from @paulbrainey.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Seasonal cycles select for self-sustained circadian oscillators @currentbiology.bsky.social by @danichitrang.bsky.social et al from Carl Johnson www.cell.com/current-biol...

Check out our new preprint using 30 SynComs covering a phylogenetic diversity gradient, we uncover many interesting strain and community features involved in seed to seedling bacterial transmission 🧫🌱 @emersys-irhs.bsky.social in the SUCSEED project @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

Our paper is out! Hiding in plain sight among Cas12a nucleases, Cas12a3 cleaves not its RNA target but the 3′ ends of tRNA. Huge thanks to all who made this possible, especially the Beisel lab, Biao & Dirk for the structure, & @sebastianglatt.bsky.social for all things tRNA. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Brussels by night [La Monnaie - De Munt]

Morning Run sightseeing with Bartje #BartjeAroundTheWorld #Brussels

Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Experiments involving 276 soil-derived microcosms reveals that the ecological process of necromass recycling promotes diversity maintenance in bacterial communities 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in PNAS!!! 🎉 Do more plasmid copies mean faster evolution? 🧵 Dive into the story www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Discovery and cultivation of prokaryotic taxa in the age of metagenomics and artificial intelligence #ISMEJournal from @alexrosado.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Sigma B regulated motility and chemotaxis in Bacillus cereus Microbiology from Tjakko Abee at @w-u-r.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Biophysical properties and phenotypes of cell clusters detached from Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms after matrix-targeted disruption bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A widespread extended arbitrium system controls lysis/lysogeny through antirepression @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social from Avigdor Eldar www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adaptive responses of genome-reduced Bacillus subtilis during enzyme secretion in a breathing vessel culture Microbial Cell Factories by Ayşegül Öktem et al from Ken-ichi Yoshida and Jan Maarten van Dijl labs link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa PrrF sRNAs and PqsA promote biofilm formation at body temperature -in #JBacteriol journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Fungal extracellular vesicles mediate conserved cross-species communication and immunomodulation -in #mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Effects of legume-based rotation on subsequent sorghum rhizosphere microbial communities and their drought tolerance-related genes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

PhD assessment committees I have been involved during the last 12 months in Leiden, Wageningen, Groningen (🇳🇱), Copenhagen, Aarhus (🇩🇰) and Gothenburg (🇸🇪) with PhD booklets, in addition to Ljubljana (🇸🇮) and Malaga (🇪🇸) with no printed thesis

Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis suppresses tomato bacterial wilt by coordinating plant systemic resistance with microbiome antagonism preprint on ResearchSquare www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

High salinity sporulation in Bacillus subtilis results in coat dependant enhanced resistance to both heat and hydrogen peroxide Food Research International www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conservation and specificity in Bacillus biofilm dynamics: on structure and function of B. cereus Camelysins [CalY = TasA-like protein] @jmolbiol.bsky.social from Hartmut Oschkinat www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Preprint: Here we report a glass bead-based system suitable for the *simultaneous monitoring* of Arabidopsis root exudate and root microbiome dynamics. Teaser: some link between glucosinolates ~ SynCom composition. Happy reading. Credits to Charlotte Joller et al.! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wow. Journals like this should be immediately removed from the Clarivate database.

Circadian-shaped immune variability predicts infection outcome #ScienceAdvances from Alejandro Aballay [@aaballay.bsky.social] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ChronoBiology

Predation by soil protists shifts bacterial metabolism from competitive to cooperative interactions -in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social from Wu Xiong (Qirong Shen) with Stefan Geisen, Alex Jousset www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does local adaptation shape community assembly? Our new study led by @maijajoki.bsky.social available now! We combine viruses, the Åland metapopulation & HMSC modeling to uncover eco-evo drivers of within-host pathogen diversity 🦠 doi.org/10.32942/X2G... @erc.europa.eu @rececochange.bsky.social

We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

@anneosbourn.bsky.social (from @johninnescentre.bsky.social) is today’s @led3hub.bsky.social seminar speaker on Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications #NaturalProducts

Varietas delectat - white landscape during biking to work #BikeToWork

Elucidation of odd-chain dicarboxylate metabolism in Acinetobacter baylyi and application to polyethylene upcycling @cp-trendsbiotech.bsky.social research article from @taeseokmoon.bsky.social at @ncstate.bsky.social / @jcvi.org www.cell.com/trends/biote...

Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts @currentbiology.bsky.social by @kylethedavid.bsky.social et al from @rokaslab.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

A prophage-encoded abortive infection protein preserves host and prophage spread www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I treat reviewing as work-in-kind. I take out of a system, so I pay into that system. Since 2010, I have kept a spreadsheet where I track the number of reviews I "take" out of the system, and I make sure to at least put that many reviews back into the system. And that's on top of my work as an AE.

New paper by Saskia Wilmsen and me just came out BioEssays: A new classification framework to understand evolutionary transitions in individuality Please find the OA paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...