How can we harness the vast functional diversity of microbes on our planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Join us tomorrow @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social

Please join the Symbiosis Alumni Network during our next seminar with talks by Rowan Hart and Naama Geva-Zatorsky 🗓️ June 24th 🕥 4pm WEST 📍register on gimm.idloom.events/symbnet_semi... for link @naamagz.bsky.social @symbnet.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social ECODIM

the "global biosphere connectome": doi.org/10.1093/fems...

GIMM FEST is dedicated to MICROBES - Join for this event in PORTUGAL. With amazing speakers. Register here fest.gimm.pt

@pilhoferlab.bsky.social @savitski-lab.bsky.social @cibiocm.bsky.social Justin Sonnenburg Erica Sonnenburg @soreklab.bsky.social @baerboletta.bsky.social Paul Wilmes @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social Maria Zimmermann Kogadeeva

Two days of scientific discussion and networking will be followed by a day open to the public — reinforcing our commitment to sharing research with society. Secure your ticket! 🔗 Get your ticket: fest.gimm.pt 🎟️ Early bird special rates

New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

New research led by @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social at 🇵🇹 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social demonstrates that a harmless strain of 🦠 #Klebsiella – discovered by chance in 🧫 laboratory experiments – can eliminate #infections and reduce gut inflammation in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease. #IBD

Great way to finish the year! Here showing that the amazing gut Microbiota Isolate - ARO112 can accelerate microbiota recovery after perturbations and protect against gut Inflammation. This work was possible given the hard and brilliant work of @vhrcabral.bsky.social and @aritaoliveira.bsky.social

Thrilled to share that our new paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Huge congrats to @vhrcabral.bsky.social and @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social on this major work. We found that our Klebsiella ARO112 can break the antibiotic/inflammation cycle in an IBD model

Wrapping up the coolest Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses at @gimmfoundation.bsky.social Portugal! Over this course, I had 2min flash talks on my PhD work, presented 2 posters and designed group projects. Thank you @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social #Waldan Kwong and #Martin Blaser for the guidance.

Fresh from the press (from my brother Joao Xavier) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big thanks to scientific writer Libera Lo Presti for this great little piece on our recent work exploring how proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and pH affect human gut microbes. Check it out here: go.nature.com/4lf6jNk

Do people in the same household share strains when they have the same species? How many cells transmit when a strain is shared? Can strain composition be dynamic when species composition is stable? We answer these and related questions for the facial skin microbiome in our latest paper. 🧵[1/10]

How the @embo.org postdoctoral fellowship helped me in developing my academic career... happy to see my profile featured on the EMBO website! www.embo.org/people/from-...

Congratulations, Edith Heard, former EMBL Director General! She was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List in the UK 👏 #kingshonours www.embl.org/news/awards-...

Call for our new PhD program is open. Come join one of our labs at Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine - Lisbon-Oeiras, Portugal. Help us spread the word

Call for Group Leaders - Join us at GIMM, 7 days till the deadline!

1/46 Hey folks, we have a new paper out on the MuLTEE. Strap in and I’ll tell you the story of how this “little paper on polyploidy” turned into the most data rich paper our lab has produced, largely thanks to the leadership and work ethic of @kaitong25.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great Microbiology meeting at the EMBL

Join our favorite microbiology meeting! Fantastic talks, poster sessions, new technologies, and all the hot areas of microbiology in a great environment - experts in cell & systems biology, microbiomes, environment & evolution, pathogenesis, phage & antibiotics DON’T MISS abstract deadline, April 1

More important now than ever before: vilcek.org/prizes/vilce...

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Laila: orcid.org/0000-0001-80... Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Follow @symbnet.bsky.social to hear about the speakers of our Symbnet Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses for PhD students - July 2025 Portugal

Interesting story on challenges and promises of microbial engineering www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Takema: bpri.aist.go.jp/en/staff/fuk... @fkttkm.bsky.social Registrations until 28th March. #SymbioSky #MicroSky

📢 Meet the speakers of the 2025 SymbNET Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... 👉 Know more about Jewelna: noguchi.ug.edu.gh/fellows/dr-j... #SymbioSky #MicroSky

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

Present study, the feed incorporated Enterococcus faecium probiotic converts the precursor L-dopa to dopamine with high efficiency to produce significant amounts of dopamine within the gastrointestinal tract.

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal. Students from all over the world are eligible, we sponsor selected students. Please Repost! gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

Hi BlueSkyers! I'm an evolutionary biologist, microbiologist, entomologist, lover of nature, and long-time researcher on symbiosis. I'm realizing that BlueSky is useful and generally non-toxic so here I am (having quit Facebook in Jan 2017, and Twitter in Oct 2022).

New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

What a better chance to read our review on how to counteract the negative effects of antibiotics and human targeted drugs 💊 our #microbiome🦠 if you haven't yet! www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Check out our new paper. It is a collaboration with Rita Ventura from ITQB, where we established a GC-MS method to quantify the Quorum Sensing signal AI-2 in intestinal samples www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Registration for the Symbnet PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses - Oeiras Portugal are open gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!

About the Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network: what are the alumni saying?

Last chance to join us at the SymbNet conference on Host-Microbe Symbiosis- Algarve Portugal. Catch the last available spots igc.idloom.events/symbnet-conf...