I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉 Introducing ArchaeaHQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)

I am excited to announce that MSU's Thermal Biology Institute, for which I serve as director since July 2025, is now officially the EXTREME BIOLOGY INSTITUTE (EBI)! 🦠 🔬 Thread below but your TLDR: rebranding ourself the EBI will bring in new research teams, now research directions, and new funds.

Do microbes breathe peat? 🦠⚡🌿 New preprint: we sampled Swedish bogs to 7 m and found dominant, uncultured Acidobacteriota & Verrucomicrobiota encode conserved extracellular electron transfer (EET) machinery that was transcriptionally active all the way down.

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

I highly recommend attending the #SSM2026 in Montreux 🇨🇭from 26-28. August 2026! You can expect a great mix of science and career development. Don't miss the abstract deadline May 24th.🦠🧬🧫 EnvMicrobiol ETH will be there! ➡️ Info here: www-tinyurl.com/ac21bbbb #Microsky

Grab a coffee and enjoy reading up on CO metabolism in methanotrophs! Freshwater ANME (own work): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marine ANME (@Orphan lab): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to our collaborators at QUT! @sjmcilroy.bsky.social (Heyu/Andy/Gene!) @cuwelte.bsky.social

New preprint alert 🚨: Who actually drives methane production in anoxic sediments 🧬🔥? We point to a transcriptionally dominant 🦠 clade: VadinHA17. shorturl.at/Rijc0 @bledinadede.bsky.social @taylorpriest.bsky.social

Gewinner des Tages der #Bild-Zeitung ist heute die Mikrobe des Jahres der @vaam-microbes.bsky.social , Penicillium! #moty

📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩‍🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... I participate as a host...

Out now in Nature Communications: Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses www.nature.com/articles/s41... @luisvalentin.bsky.social @lingdong-shi.bsky.social @martianmicrobe.bsky.social @mschoelmerich.bsky.social

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🦠Exciting PhD opportunity @ ETH Zürich! Our Environmental Microbiology group is looking for a motivated student to study microbial processes in peatland restoration — from fieldwork to metagenomics and lab experiments. 🗓 Start: Spring 2026 ⏳ Deadline: 3 Oct 2025 👉 Apply: lnkd.in/eSPiy6vQ Please 🔁

#PhD #position #alert 2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC #1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a #2 on virus-host stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru) Please share!

Excited to announce I’ve been awarded the SNSF Starting Grant for my project "New Drivers of Microbial Methane Cycling"! 🚀 We'll investigate novel elements of #C1Metabolism both in the lab and in peatland ecosystems. Huge thanks to @snsf-ch.bsky.social 🙌🌍@usyseth.bsky.social