Check out our new manuscript, in collab with Efrat Sheffer, Guy Dovrat and Amir Erez, where we looked at shotgun metagenomes of wild legume nodules, providing an unbiased view of the taxonomic genomic content of legume nodules, and how these relate to plant performance.

Wild legume performance is shaped by whole nodule microbiome profile, including non-rhizobial endophytes (NREs). Sulfur assimilation by NREs and type VI secretion system in rhizobial symbionts strongly associated with host traits. New Preprint! @finkel-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Finally out! BBERT - an LLM that can detect bacterial reads using as little as 100 base pairs! Go try it! @amirerez.bsky.social @finkel-lab.bsky.social

@naturalist1986.bsky.social has done it again, this time with 3rd prize at the ISPS meeting in the beautiful Sde Boker. Poster title: A rhizobial trickster: Legume symbiont simultaneously fixes atmospheric nitrogen and denitrifies. Time to turn these posters into manuscripts.

Carving out the microbiota of Earth’s largest biomass reservoir @naturalist1986.bsky.social @finkel-lab.bsky.social highlight work of Peccia lab on microbiome of trees- an overdue dive into unique & diverse prokaryotic & fungal communities of heartwood & sapwood www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Check out this preview @naturalist1986.bsky.social and I wrote about the fantastic paper on wood microbiota from Wyatt Arnold and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm really grateful to have @naturalist1986.bsky.social as a post-doc in the lab, and am glad to see his work being recognized with a best poster award at the annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Microbiology.