We're up to 1000 studies in metalog.embl.de ! For the past year the focus was on finding inconsistencies in the data and creating the website, but now I have more time to go through the backlog of annotated issues to do QC and load them into the database.

Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

To learn more about #DrosEU visit droseu.net and join us!! DrosEU has been funded by a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network (7/7)

Phenotypic divergence among European populations was assayed in 173 isofemale lines, spearheaded by Esra Durmaz Mitchell and Thomas Flatt, we show that populations differed markedly in multivariate trait structure @evolletters.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... (5/7)

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

Huang, @tweethinking.bsky.social, Sepang et al. use phylogenetic analyses to reveal that the Njordarchaeales and Panguiarchaeales constitute the new class Njordarchaeia within Asgard archaea. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf201 #evobio #molbio #archaea

📣 It is my pleasure to announce our recent review with Margherita on the current approaches, challenges, and perspectives in studying human maternal-fetal interface using in vitro models www.cell.com/cell-stem-ce... 🚀✨️

A great talk by Svitlana Serga about cytopIasmic incompatibility caused by #Wolbachia in the pest fly #Drosophila suzukii. CBGP, INRAE, France and Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. #ESEB2025

⚡ Russian forces launched another attack against Ukraine. 270 drones and 10 missiles were deployed. Administrative buildings of energy sector enterprises were damaged. No casualties were reported, according to local authorities.

I will be at the #ESEB2025 conference! Text me if interested to meet or catchup:) My poster is on Thursday about one of my hobby-projects about evolvability. Poster number is P03.284.

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7 #microsky

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Esra Durmaz Mitchell et al. Drosophila melanogaster

Our preprint on estimating how many more prokaryotic taxa can be discovered in the unbinned fraction of metagenomic samples. We predict that there are 10 archaeal and 145 bacterial novel phyla across all habitats. #MicrobialDarkMatter #TreeOfLife #Microbiome #Archaea #Bacteria #Metagenomics

The team's first preprint is out! Led by ‪ ‪@vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social‬‬ & @omaistrenko.bsky.social , we asked a question (almost) as old as microbiology: how many prokaryotic species exist on Earth? More specifically, how much diversity is "hiding" in existing metagenomic data? A 🧵.

Join the EEBG 2025 Bioinformatics Workshop from July 7-12, 2025, in Kraków, Poland. Open to students and professionals; apply before May 12, 2025. Details at: https://oakland.edu/biology/directory/oleksyk #workshop

Happy to share our latest minireview on Drosophila symbionts in infection: when a friend becomes an enemy | Infection and Immunity journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #immunity #infection #antimicrobialpeptides #microbiome #Drosophila #AcademicSky #insect #endosymbiont #symbiosis

SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses 2025 with great lecturers: J. Akorli, @berasymbionts.bsky.social, M. Blaser, T. Bosch, @nicoledubilier.bsky.social, @fkttkm.bsky.social, I. Gabanyi, G. Dominguez-Bello, and... 1/2 #SymbioSky #MicroSky gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

We invite you to participate in the IX International Conference "Drosophila in Experimental Genetics and Biology", which will be held on June 16 - 18, 2025 in Ukraine. The event is hybrid with online and in-person participation. Working languages are Ukrainian and English. #Drosophila #genetics

We invite you to participate in the IX International Conference "Drosophila in Experimental Genetics and Biology", which will be held on June 16 - 18, 2025 in Ukraine. The event is hybrid with online and in-person participation. Working languages are Ukrainian and English. #Drosophila #genetics

I've attended the school in 2017. It is an amazing course with great lectures and opportunities to make friends and learn from leading scientists in the field! #symbiosis #microbiome #biology

Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal. Registration is opening soon! Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... @gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR

I've attended the school in 2017. It is an amazing course with great lectures and opportunities to make friends and learn from leading scientists in the field! #symbiosis #microbiome #biology

Day 5 of #USEB #evolution #biology #school YouTube live stream: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

Day 4 of #USEB #evolution #biology #school YouTube live stream: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

Day 3 of #USEB #evolution #biology #school YouTube stream: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

We have started the Day 2 of #USEB #evolution #biology #school YouTube stream available here www.youtube.com/@biologicnij...

The Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology is online! Talks which are happening now and previous talks can be viewed in YouTube: www.youtube.com/@biologicnij... #biology #evolution #school @eseb.bsky.social

It is my pleasure to invite you to the first Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology (USEB), which will take place in Uzhhorod University from January 27 to 31, 2025. The event is hybrid. Primary target audience is high school, undergraduate, Msc and Phd students, but everyone is welcome.

We have extended the deadline for the online participation for Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology (USEB) until January 15. Participation is free! #evolution #biology #school #workshop

New vacancy in my lab: explore microbial evolution in metagenomes in a 2 year post @TheQuadram @EarlhamInst , UK: quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/re... (closes 27th Jan) You will have access to unique software, 3rd gen deeply sequenced unique human cohorts.

We have extended the deadline for the online participation for Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology (USEB) until January 15. Participation is free! #evolution #biology #school #workshop

Only one week left to apply for Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology! #evolution

Only one week left to apply for Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology! #evolution

"Disentangling the impact of environmental and phylogenetic constraints on prokaryotic within-species diversity" by @omaistrenko.bsky.social (2020) investigated which factors contribute to pangenome size – e.g. it's higher in soil and lower in host-associated habitats academic.oup.com/ism...

My PhD work is now published in Nature Microbiology! Please, have a look!

It is my pleasure to invite you to the first Ukrainian School in Evolutionary Biology (USEB), which will take place in Uzhhorod University from January 27 to 31, 2025. The event is hybrid. Primary target audience is high school, undergraduate, Msc and Phd students, but everyone is welcome.

In our new study “Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?” doi.org/10.1111/1758... we summarise the diversity of terrestrial #invertebrates and discuss why #Wolbachia - the common #endosymbiont of invertebrates was not found in #Antarctica.

Pleased to announce that our latest paper is published in Cell! We developed a novel ML model that predicts fecal microbial load from relative species profiles, revealing it as a key factor shaping gut microbiome variation and disease-microbe associations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...