2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap. Read more: isme-microbes.org/microbes-wit... #MicrobialEcology #ClimateAction

The University of Vienna celebrates its Tenure Track professors. 🌍 With a new international symposium #univie highlights the importance of #TenureTrack as a catalyst for change and a vital path for research excellence. 🤝 More about it here: ⤵️ www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Von Wien nach Kanada: #Permafrost und heiße Quellen ❄️♨️ Warum macht man eigentlich #Feldforschung in #Kanada? 🔍 Was treibt uns Forscher*innen dazu, mit Bären- und Mosquitospray bewaffnet, bei jedem Wetter in Wäldern oder #Mooren zu graben? 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Erfahre mehr darüber in der #Rudolphina: ⤵️

Nice summary from Songcan & Marc 🙏 on our discovery of a new microbial energy metabolism 🦠 🧫 ⚡ 🔌 Microbial Iron oxide respiration coupled to Sulfide Oxidation (MISO) @nature.com Research Briefing 😍 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📰 Original paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #microbiomesky

Deadline approaching on Sept 17! We are hiring a Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals at #CeMESS at the University of Vienna. Learn more: 🔗 edge.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n... @edge-vienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at #EnvironmentalBiochemistry

One week to go! Apply by Sept 17 for the Full Professor position in Soil Ecosystems and Global Change at #CeMESS at the University of Vienna. More info: 🔗 ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n... @univie.ac.at #SoilEcosystems #WeAreHiring

We now show that this redox reaction also powers 🔋🔌 a new chemolithoautotrophic lifestyle of anaerobic microbes 🦠🧫

Plastic‐Microbial BioRemediation DB: A Curated Database for Multi‐Omics Applications enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Struc­tures of meth­ane-ac­tiv­at­ing en­zyme in elu­sive ar­chaea @mariecmueller.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social #methane #ANME #archaea #MCR #microbiology #biochemistry #StructuralBiology mpi-bremen.de/en/Structure...

Metabolic biochemical models of N2 fixation for sulfide oxidizers, methanogens, and methanotrophs journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Translational coupling of neighboring genes in prokaryotes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Fantastic news: Megan Sørensen has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project TRANSITIONS! In her upcoming research at #CeMESS she will explore how endosymbiosis evolves, from protist partnership to organelle. Read more: 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-... #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

#Editorial In this month's editorial, we talk about microbial foods. Bacteria and fungi can augment the flavour, composition and sustainability of foods, but more research is needed to push microbial foods — and consumer palates — to new heights. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Review. Dissecting microbial communities with single-cell transcriptome analysis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Final program of the 8th AMICI Symposium is now set! 🦠🧫 microbiome.at/sites/microb... September 22, 2025 ‪@bokuvienna.bsky.social Vienna, Austria Register now and for free! tinyurl.com/AMICI8-ATBI #AMICI8 #AMICI2025 #ATBI #microbiome #bioinformatics #microbiomesky #microsky

Nature research paper: Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation go.nature.com/425wlLA

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication @nature.com! A study from the lab of CoE Researcher Alexander Loy @loyteam.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at uncovers bacteria that “breathe” rocks using toxic sulfide in oxygen-free environments. Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microbesky #microbiomesky

Microbes that oxidize toxic sulfide while reducing iron minerals have been identified as key drivers of sulfide detoxification in oxygen-free environments, accelerating this process beyond chemical reactions. doi.org/g9zqq2

Lithosyntrophy: Obligate syntrophy in a phosphite-oxidizing, methanogenic culture www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Bacteria that 'breathe' rocks and sulphur. 🦠🧫 An international team of scientists led by #microbiologists @loyteam.bsky.social and Marc Mussmann have uncovered #bacteria that remove toxic sulfide and use iron #minerals for growth. 🧪🧑‍🔬 Read more here: ⤵️ @cemess.bsky.social

also the HMM suite for an extensive array of sulfur enzymes is very handy (already used it!) ! :-)

For life to emerge on Earth, peptides must first have formed without the aid of enzymes — but how? Reactions of sulfur-containing molecules might have been key go.nature.com/4oX04jC

An exciting new study from Alexander Loy and team (@loyteam.bsky.social), now in @nature.com! It describes a previously unknown microbial energy metabolism: Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation (MISO). Read more: 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

Two-billion-year transitional oxygenation of the Earth’s surface www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

New paper alert! We suggest caution in the analyses of viral auxiliary metabolic genes and propose a new overarching term - 'auxiliary viral genes' (AVGs) to describe different types of such genes. @simrouxvirus.bsky.social #phagesky #Microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 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...

I cannot fully put into words what publishing this Review has meant to me, so I leave you with how we closed the paper. "The humble bacterium is still a relevant tool for the study of the underlying mechanisms that are conserved throughout life." 🧪🧫🧬📚 doi.org/10.1093/gene...

#NatMicroPicks ACL Circuit: Gut Signal Switch! 🦠 ACL is a density-dependent signaling mechanism in Bacteroidota that regulates the production of diverse secreted molecules via a unique lysine-based biosynthetic pathway playing an active role in the host. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The University of Vienna launches #ViCAS to foster innovative, interdisciplinary #research and to create a space where ideas thrive beyond borders - #academic, disciplinary, and national. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Find out more about ViCAS and its #fellowships: ⤵️🔍 vicas.univie.ac.at #AcademicSky #edusky #PhDSky

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

#NewResearch Prion-like proteins in Escherichia coli trigger an abortive infection mechanism in response to phage infection—a process similar to amyloid-mediated immune signalling in fungi and animals. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecophysiology and global dispersal of the freshwater SAR11-IIIb genus Fontibacterium www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Saddened to learn of the passing of Moselio "Elio" Schaechter—Distinguished Professor at Tufts, SDSU and UCSD—humanist and visionary leader in the fields of microbiology and scientific communication—mentor, friend, and inspiration to me and so many others Small Things Considered Big Things Achieved

Looking for a read for the long-weekend? Check out this @profil.at article with Alexander Loy (@loyteam.bsky.social) on the possible link between gut microbes and chronic pain (paywall)🔗 www.profil.at/wissenschaft...

Leafy greens may do more than nourish you! A new study by #CeMESS researchers @julkras.bsky.social and @loyteam.bsky.social shows that sulfoquinovose is metabolized by key gut microbes into hydrogen sulfide, revealing intriguing prebiotic potential. Read more:🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

I'm beyond excited to share that our last work is now published in Nature Communications. The South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA): enriching the microbiome field by studying neglected populations 📄: shorturl.at/wq9pr

The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Life in the Frozen Ocean www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs 🌊

Unusual Plastoquinones in Non‐Phototrophic Nitrifying Bacteria enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in Microbiome! CoE Researcher @loyteam.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at reveals that sulfoquinovose from leafy greens acts as promising prebiotic by boosting beneficial gut bacteria. microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential. 🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Check this nice first first-author paper by Ning Hall—now out in Nature Geoscience! Our team had a blast supporting Ning on the isolation workflow, and a few of the standout Methanococcoides strains even trace back to our Danish waters. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You know sulfoquinovose (SQ)? No?! You should if you are interested in diet-gut microbiome 🦠🧫interactions 😉 SQ is a sulfosugar that this part of a ubiquitous sulfonolipid in photosynthetic organisms and thus part of your diet - if you like leafy greens and algae 🥬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial dispersal into surface soil is limited on a meter scale #ISMEJournal by Kendra Walters, Kristin Barbour, John Powers, Jennifer Martiny academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬 Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026! -> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...