📢 New paper in @nature.com Microbes rock 🎸🤘 with sulfide and iron minerals I am very excited to share our recent study, which describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism ⚡⚡⚡🦠🧫⚡⚡⚡ 🆕 Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation - MISO www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How streptococci bacteria infect the brain to cause meningitis revealed in zebrafish 📹 Sumedha Ravishankar et al, School of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

What drives the self-organization of life? By linking three major ecological theories, we show that ecosystems maximize power at intermediate efficiency close to bifurcation points. Energy flux meets life's organizing principles. @sfiscience.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

CeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

phys.org/news/2025-06... I recently found this note. This is a good subject for discussion, I wish I knew more.

Looking for Master's thesis projects? Join us in Vienna to study : - bacterial ecology - fungal-bacterial interactions - microbial modeling

A new Master in Microbiome Science 🦠🧫🔬👨‍🎓 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓 @univie.ac.at Apply now! Registration till April 7th, 2025 studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr... #microbiome #master #uniwien #univienba #vienna #education #research #science #facts

📣 Our paper on the effect of microplastics on decomposition is out in Applied Soil Ecology: "No short-term response of microbial or isopod-driven litter decomposition to microplastics". ​ ⚠️ Spoiler: We do not report any significant effect, and yes it matters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us in at #ESEB2025 Barcelona for our symposium on microbial adaptation to changing conditions. Organised by @mtoll8.bsky.social @javierdelafuente.bsky.social and me. Amazing invited speakers @saramitri.bsky.social and Itzik Mizrahi!! @eseb2025.bsky.social

A milestone for @cemess.bsky.social , a milestone for me too. Thank you @univie.ac.at for the support and recognition, thanks to all team members past and present - you’ve been the real reward! cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Fantastic work by first-author Dr. Julia Wiesenbauer, who also defended her PhD-thesis on Monday. Big congratulations! 😀🥳🎉. 5/6

Not sure if this message is being spread yet but if not here it goes: I want everyone to have an opportunity to be a scientist! It is an amazing place to focus your energy and a wonderful community! I want people to know that they should all want this as an opportunity for their kids.

Are cells like small liquid "brains"? Cells can gather and process complex sets of signals and respond in adaptive ways. How close are they to standard neural networks? Here's the seminal 1995 paper by Dennis Bray on cells as computers nature.com/articles/376...

In 2025, Vienna will celebrate the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II - happy birthday! 🎉 Musicologist Michele Calella & theatre studies scholar Anke Charton discuss the socio-cultural context of Strauss the Younger’s life & work. His musical legacy continues to shape the City of Music to this day!

Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual? #CurrOpinMicrobiol by @salazarafra.bsky.social and @saramitri.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What do conspiracy theorists, incels & Trump supporters have in common?🤔 They are all connected to the concept of resentment - or as philosophers call it, ressentiment. But what exactly is resentment, and is it always a negative force? Leah Ritterfeld, #PhD researcher at the #univie, explains this ⤵

TER - We had our annual Science Retreat yesterday. Great science, discussions, and fun! #TerrestrialEcosystemResearch @cemess.bsky.social

Congratulations to @kseniaguseva.bsky.social for becoming Senior Scientist at @ter-cemess.bsky.social, @cemess.bsky.social, @univie.ac.at Wonderful to have you on board! ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release Review in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social by Yonatan Chemlaet al from Christopher A. Voigt www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WWTF Grant awarded to CoE Key Researcher @davidberry1.bsky.social from @cemess.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at with Stefanie Widder from MedUni Wien. www.wwtf.at/funding/prog...

Microbial diversity and interactions: Synergistic effects and potential applications of Pseudomonas and Bacillus consortia -in Microbiological Research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... panel A with reference to [83], while no numerical references in paper, so I assume Sun et al 2022 ISME J

A study in Nature Microbiology suggests that consuming more healthy plant-based foods could increase the proportion of gut microbes that favour human health. The findings are based on an analysis of more than 21,000 vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores. https://go.nature.com/40kHGqN 🧪

Ten species comprise half of the bacteriology literature, leaving most species unstudied www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

One of the biggest questions we get is when will our journals be here. We thank you for your patience. You can now follow our journals with this starter pack!

Variability of functional and biodiversity responses to perturbations is predictable and informative - Nature Communications @jamesaorr.bsky.social et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper published in @JournalSpectrum 😍 doi.org/10.1128/spec... co-authors: @pelleohlsson.bsky.social , Saleh Moradi, and @edithhammer.bsky.social We observed that the sole connectivity of a microhabitat can determine the function (substrate degradation) of a soil community. How? (1/5)👇

Every two years, ISME celebrates the achievements of scientists who have substantially advanced the field of microbial ecology. If you know of outstanding members of the community worthy of an ISME Society Award, please fill in the nominations ballot by 31 Jan 2025👇🏼 isme-microbes.org/call-for-ism...

@wmschneider.bsky.social and I are thrilled to invite you to the 7th series of the International *Systems Virology Journal Club*! 🎉 🥂🌟 We are hosting a stellar line-up of speakers working at the intersection of virology and systems biology. Registration (free): forms.gle/edTyLwR8jWkh...

If you signed up for the Soil Carbon Research starter pack and are heading to #AGU2024, don’t miss our session on integrating microbial complexity to advance soil carbon predictions! 🦠🌍 Featuring invited speakers: Christina Kaiser, Jackie Weissman, Katie Rocci, and Will Wieder 🤩.

Happy #worldsoilday !! Have you ever looked INTO soil ? If no, join us at Soilwatching: Windows to the #soil let us peek at all its inhabitants. If you know the channel already - stay tuned, there will soon be two new episodes:) www.youtube.com/@Soilwatching

Open Tenure Track Positions at the University of Vienna! 👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 #univie is currently accepting applications for several #tenuretrack positions across a range of disciplines. 🧪 🏛 Work with us to find answers to the questions for tomorrow. 🔍 ⤵ #academicsky jobs.univie.ac.at/go/Tenure-Tr...

Virophage infection mode determines ecological and evolutionary changes in a host-virus-virophage system academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Microbial Diversity Losses Constrain the Capacity of Soils to Mitigate Climate Change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

In case you missed it: @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social surveyed the clinical literature to reveal how #AMR evolves within patients, why eco/evo mechanisms vary among infections, & what we can do better to improve treatments www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky

New publication out from the @fungi-lover.bsky.social lab! Was very nice to work on this together to explore resistance of final communities to global change! Fungi can be very tough! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Soil microbes prefer organic acids over sugars in simulated root exudation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.03.626624v1

📣Join our team! We looking for a root microbiome and phenotyping technician to join our Roots2Resilience root2res.eu team @teagasc Wexford. Mixture of lab and fieldwork.Further details and application here topjobs-teagasc.thehirelab.com/LiveJobs/Job.... Closing date 2nd Jan. 🥔🦠🌱

PhD opportunity!! Here's the link www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come visit us in Vienna! Submit your abstract to the EGU session BG3.13: Mycorrhizal fungi in forest ecosystems. I am happy to be working with Matthias Mayer and Eva Demullier to create an unforgettable session! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Flagellar rotation facilitates the transfer of a bacterial conjugative plasmid @embojournal.bsky.social from Sigal Ben Yehuda www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

2 fully funded 4-years PhD positions at my group at the fantastic Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in Vienna!! @univie.ac.at to start in February 2025 (or as soon as possible). The students will work on ERC SHADOWS project 🦊🐶🐺😀. PhD 1 on sedaDNA, PhD 2 on Megafauna genomics 🦁🐅🪨⚒️

Making waves: Intelligent phage cocktail design, a pathway to precise microbial control in water systems. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.122594 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39405620/

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

📢 Add to your #AGU2024 schedule our 3 sessions on integrating microbial complexity to advance soil carbon predictions! 🦠🌍Invited speakers: Christina Kaiser, Jackie Weissman, Katie Rocci, Will Wieder 🤩. Co-conveners: @ultracricket.bsky.social, @hhollandmoritz.bsky.social, Gianna Marschmann, Jing Tao🙏

Spatial sensing as a strategy for public goods regulation by gut microbes #ISMEJournal from @janfmvi.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Optimizing microbiome reference databases with PacBio full-length 16S rRNA sequencing for enhanced taxonomic classification and biomarker discovery www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes -in @plos.bsky.social Biology from Andrew Bridges journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I am offering a PhD opportunity at University of Edinburgh as part of the E5 DTP. CASE partner: Forest Research On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Application deadline: 6th Jan. Please share with your network. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...