Thrilled to see this article out! 🎉 It's a roadmap for starting microbial ecologists with key concepts in community ecology, their history and application to microbiomes #NicheTheory #TrophicLevels #KeystoneSpecies #Succession #Metacommunities 🤩 What I wish I'd had when I got into microbial ecology

Check out our pre-print led by the fantastic Massimo Amicone, collaborating with the Bollenbach lab! tinyurl.com/4h9p8mfb We build a simple intuition on how ecological interactions affect resistance evolution by expanding evolutionary rescue theory and testing it with two large sets of experiments

Who would have thought, five years ago when I first looked at P-bodies under the microscope, that this journey would lead here. 🔬 Very happy to see this work finally out in #ScienceAdvances. Proud of this collaborative effort and grateful to everyone involved. 👏🏻🎉

Happy to finally share these results: Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa #microsky

Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Also excited to share our latest collaboration with @micsysecolab.bsky.social. Divvya Ramesh showed how spatial structure can limit evolution of metabolic dependencies.

1/ With @maxencevincent.bsky.social, we ask: when single bacterial cells behave differently under stress, is it really just “noise”? Read more @cp-cellreports.bsky.social : Unveiling hidden variables in stressed bacteria (doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...)

Do you have an interest in quantitative microbiology and interdisciplinary research? I'm recruiting a UK PhD student to develop high-throughput ecological screens to help us understand how chemical inputs impact microbial ecosystems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fantastic story how bacteria exploit a host pathway to dissolve plant tissue and obtain nutrients 🤯 Uncovering these mechanisms about plant-pathogen interactions is so cool! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New preprint from our lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! Andrea Dos Santos and Clément Vulin combine experiments and models showing how adding glucose can strengthen negative interactions between microbial species. This can be used in tandem with antibiotic treatment to inhibit pathogens!

Very excited to see our @nikogeldner.bsky.social lab x Feng Zhou lab work featured on the cover of Science! (1/5) We reveal how root architecture and nutrient leakage shape spatial patterns of microbial colonization, moving beyond traditional models of uniform exudation.

Congrats Snorre!!! 👏 It's great to see this coming out 🎉 and thank you for giving the chance to be a (small) part of this very cool work! "Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates" 🦠

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Pint of Science was again a great success in Lausanne, with >500 people attending our events! Kudos to co-coordinators @miriamlisci.bsky.social and @juliensluneau.bsky.social, and to the fantastic team of 19 volunteers at the bars 🥳! #PINT25 #scicomm

Excited to share my new Tansley Review @newphyt.bsky.social on emerging single-cell and spatial omics technologies, many of which are just beginning to be applied in plant biology! Big opportunities lie ahead for the field. [1/n]  nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

3 nights, 3 venues, 2 languages, 27 (!) speakers, this is Pint of Science 2025 in LAUSANNE. 📌 19-21 May 2025 🧬🔭 🌐https://pintofscience.ch/events/lausanne Free entry 🧠 just come quench your thirst for knowledge! @pintsworld.bsky.social @icepfl.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social #pint25 #pintCH

We present MetaFlowTrain, an easy-to-build, highly parallelized, and cost-effective fluidic system for studying microbial exometabolites and their roles in modulating microbe–microbe–host interactions. Kudos to @chesneau-g.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social Give it a try: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see this out! 🎉 Big congratulations to @type3lab.bsky.social for leading the project and to all involved! "Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and T3SS spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection" 🌱🦠 rdcu.be/egczU 🧵⬇️ #MicroSky #PlantScience

There is still time to apply to the Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! The deadline has been extended till March 16th. We would especially welcome applications from members of underrepresented groups. Limited travel grants are available. Apply now and join us! almadalcoschool.github.io

Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

➡️ New insights into the evolution of the vascular pathogen Xanthomonas campestris involving the genome defense system CRISPR-Cas! www.cell.com/current-biol... Our data wizard 🪄@mpaauw.bsky.social sequenced almost 100 genomes and this is what he found … /

It is with great pleasure that I inaugurate my Bluesky account sharing our last @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social at @theustunlab.bsky.social, about pathogen-mediated modulation of host P-bodies and translation. 🆕 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 (1/14)

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events We’re out in Nature !! doi.org/ntzk Very exciting for my first bluesky post! – it’s been a long haul by an excellent team from across Europe, led by @frantecol.bsky.social

Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I initiated a plant pathology/plant microbe starter pack, feel free to self-nominate 🥀 go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k

Our bacterial community breeding experiment is now published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Huge congratulations to Flora, Björn and all co-authors on making a very ambitious project a reality! In short: you can select communities to improve pollutant degradation (with caveats)

We're looking for an enthusiastic experimentalist PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group interested in the ecology & evolution of microbial communities unil.ch/mitrilab. Apply tinyurl.com/mu5swnk8 before Aug 31! Bonus: Lausanne is a beautiful place to live!

Almost a decade after proposing this experiment in a grant application, we have a preprint! A huge experiment by Philippe Piccardi with many helping hands to generate and analyze the data especially genomic & transcriptomic analysis by Eric Ulrich! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A really useful and nicely done review about microfluidics and their use in ecological studies. 'Microfluidic Approaches in Microbial Ecology' - now published in Lab on a Chip. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Amazing to see this finally out!!From competition to collaboration: we show how 2 bacterial species that compete for a carbon source can interact positively in a toxic environment, with one species removing ROS to the benefit of the other plos.io/3SOvRnZ congrats Aurore Picot & Rita Di Martino

Interested in how phages deal with dormant bacteria? After a looong and difficult peer review our paper by Enea Maffei and colleagues has finally been published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool case of #Microfluidics being used to answer #PlantBiology questions 🌱👏 "Passive phloem loading and long-distance transport in a synthetic tree-on-a-chip" www.nature.com/articles/npl...

Identifying microbiota community patterns important for plant protection using synthetic communities and machine learning @NatureComms from Julia Vorholt www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fabulous work by my colleagues - Stick'em with the pointy end ... UNLESS ...??? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a fun study to work on - what we know (or think we know) about bacterial amino acid auxotrophies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last year we lost our dear friend and colleague Alma Dal Co. Last week, we had to honor of hosting many of Alma’s former co-workers. Together, we commemorated and celebrated Alma’s life by doing what she did best: connecting people across disciplines, countries, and career-levels [1/3].

New collaborative review by our NCCR Microbiomes network covering the N+1/N-1 concept we are working with accross diverse microbiomes 🦠 "From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...