Huge congratulations 🎉 to Dr. Martijn Wissink on defending his PhD thesis 'Wired for Methane' with flying colors at #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social 🎓 Microbes that mitigate greenhouse gases and produce electricity, groundbreaking research for a sustainable future. @cuwelte.bsky.social

Research by microbiologists @raegas.bsky.social and @cuwelte.bsky.social of @ribesresearch.bsky.social shows that many methane-consuming microorganisms actually prefer carbon monoxide over methane. When carbon monoxide is present, they consume far less methane. 1/2

Congrats to Martijn Wissink on handing over the printed PhD thesis "Wired for Methane"! ⚡️ From protein structures to green electricity, your work at #MICROBIOLOGY @ribesresearch.bsky.social is vital for sustainability. Scheduled Defense: May 18 👏🧪🎓 with 1st supervisor @cuwelte.bsky.social et al

Grab a coffee and enjoy reading up on CO metabolism in methanotrophs! Freshwater ANME (own work): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marine ANME (@Orphan lab): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to our collaborators at QUT! @sjmcilroy.bsky.social (Heyu/Andy/Gene!) @cuwelte.bsky.social

Early career microbiologist in the Netherlands are encouraged to participate in the KNVM Early Career Scientific Day on 18 September 2026 in Wageningen -announced by @cuwelte.bsky.social #KNVM2026

Mini-bacterioferritins: structural insight into a ferritin-like protein from the anaerobic #methane -oxidising archaeon Candidatus #Methanoperedens carboxydivorans @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 to our esteemed #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social colleague @cuwelte.bsky.social on being the proud recipient of a prestigious @erc.europa.eu consolidator grant on electroANME. All the best with your research. Very well deserved :) erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

💠 Happy to announce our latest paper in @natcomms.nature.com about the x-ray crystallography structures of three ANME MCRs purified from microbial enrichment cultures from @cuwelte.bsky.social and Gunter Wegener🌊🏞! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Great collaborative work #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social and @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social on structure & modifications of Methyl coenzyme M reductase from #Methanoperedens, an freshwater anaerobic archaeal methanotroph #methane #nitrate #mcrA

Microbiologists Martijn Wissink and @cuwelte.bsky.social, among others, are helping us understand how microorganisms regulate the methane balance. 🦠 🫧 The scientists have demonstrated how a methane-converting enzyme (MCR) works in detail. www.ru.nl/en/research/... #science #microbiology #enzymes

Great new trait of #Methanoperedens archaea: Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic #methanotrophic archaea #aom #anme Egas @cuwelte.bsky.social et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Out in ES&T: The Clumped Isotope Signatures of Multiple Methanogenic Metabolisms by Jiawen Li et al . A fruitful SIAM #methane collaboration #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Good week start, publication accepted Echeveste et al : Methanotrophic flexibility of ‘Ca. #Methanoperedens’ & its interactions with sulfate-reducing bacteria in the sediment of meromictic Lake Cadagno. SIAM collaboration Univ Basel & #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social

Mini-bacterioferritins: Structural insight into a new type of ferritin-like protein from the methanotrophic archaeon #methanoperedens #methane Wissink et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social @robertsjansen.bsky.social @pedroleao.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Congratulations ! Great to see Maider Echeveste et al work on Physiological Stress Response to #Sulfide Exposure of Freshwater #Anaerobic #Methanotrophic Archaea published @cuwelte.bsky.social #methane #microbiologie @ribesresearch.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Contrasting #Methane, #Sulfide and #Nitrogen-Loading Regimes in Bioreactors Shape Microbial Communities Originating From #Methane -Rich Coastal Sediment of the Stockholm Archipelago by @maider echeveste et al @cuwelte.bsky.social enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 job alert 🚨 Tenure track position in plant-soil microbiome interactions at the University of Hasselt!! Yes that’s the place with the really cool ecotron 😊 www.uhasselt.be/en/about-has...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

I’m honored to give a talk on ‘the role of pest-associated microbes in insect-plant interactions’ at the ‘International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions’ congress in Cologne (July). #MPMI @mrogowska.bsky.social, @cuwelte.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social, @guidopmi.bsky.social

One receives the most interesting gifts on becoming a female full professor. Looking forward to the read, @villanueva-laura.bsky.social!

📢We are #hiring a full time editor to handle areas including microbial ecology & plant microbiology🦠🌱 This position will work closely with @naturecomms.bsky.social #microsky #microbiomesky #ecologysky 🧪 Available in NYC, Madrid, or other US offices Read more & apply here: shorturl.at/yvdYJ

On my way to @uofglasgow.bsky.social for collaborative research funded by glasgow-radboud collaboration fund. Taking the scenic route by train! @ribesresearch.bsky.social

#Postdoc position - at the University of Marburg (Germany), funded within our ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH" Focus: CTP-dependent molecular switches as a new principle of cellular regulation in bacteria (including bacteriophages) Apply by 04 May: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/2...

Congratulations 🎉 🎉 to Martijn Wissink for being awarded the Kiemprijs for best 1st author Microbiology paper. see publication on probing anaerobic methane oxidation pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social

#ProudPI day!!

Kicking off our #KNVM Spring Meeting 2025 #SSM25 with a sparkling keynote talk by @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social on insect microbe symbiosis

🚨Do not miss the deadline: April 1st!🚨 The Electromicrobiology Conference 2025 is happening this May!🔬⚡Want to join? Submit your abstract by April 1st!📝 📅Dates: May 21-23📍Location: Aarhus, Denmark 🔗 Submit your abstract by the link in the comments: #Electromicrobiology2025 #CallForAbstracts

Next week I'll give my inaugural lecture as Professor in Microbial Physiology at Radboud University! Excited!!

Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe! 🦠😎👍 Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇 2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social

#proudPI day! My PhD student Maider Echeveste Medrano handed in her printed PhD thesis today on the stress physiology of #anaerobic #methanotrophoc #archaea @ribesresearch.bsky.social co-supervised w/ @msmjetten.bsky.social Irene Sanchez Andrea

We're hiring! 3 year #postdoc position in microbial ecology of gut and soil at University of Sydney. Suits folk with expertise in experimental microbial ecology (e.g. microbiome manipulation, chemostat measurements, metabolomics, metagenomics) tinyurl.com/4yn4ed5u

We are looking for a PhD candidate in Environmental Microbiology to join the multidisciplinary CLIMET consortium that studies methane, microbes, and their environment in Greenland’s freshwater lakes. Interested? Please apply via the link below before April 15! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Join us in Nijmegen as a PhD Candidate for a fantastic project on methane cycle in Greenland, led by colleagues in Microbiology and Ecology!

the abstract submission for ISMET9 at Leipzig is now open. Check the website below and be noted the deadline for an oral presentation submission of March 31, 2025. Looking forward to seeing you all in Leipzig/Jena, Germany www.ismet9.org

Submitted. Accepted. Published! My last and final PhD paper has been published in @femsmicro.bsky.social. We described egg microbiome of Nezara viridula and characterized novel symbiotic Sodalis nezarae species 👇

Check out our latest work on the genome and localization of bacterial symbiont Sodalis nezarea in the pest insect Nezara viridula. @mrogowska.bsky.social, @robertsjansen.bsky.social , @cuwelte.bsky.social, @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, @ribesresearch.bsky.social, #Nezara, #shieldbug #Symbiosis

🚨Keynote Spotlight (1/5)🚨 @cuwelte.bsky.social, Prof. in Microbial Physiology at Radboud University 🇳🇱 ⚡Expertise: Microbial physiology and environmental microbiology. ⚡Focus: Metabolism-Particularly microorganisms involved in the methane cycle. We’re thrilled to have her at #EM-Conference-2025!

Register now for the EuroC1 Meeting 2025, taking place on from May 7 to 8 in #Bremen. Young and established researchers will present findings & engage in insightful discussions on #C1 #metabolism and volatile #organic compound-related topics. Register by March 31 mpi-bremen.de/EuroC1-Sympo...

Novel insights into the factors that shape insect gut microbial communities were found! Rogowska-van der Molen et al. demonstrate that N.viridula harbors toxin-degrading bacteria that could support its resistance to plant defenses. https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/100/12/fiae150/7885361

Atomic resolution structures of key enzyme MCR in #anaerobic methanotrophy reveal novel and extensive post-translational modifications #methanoperedens #methylcoenzymeM #methane www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Off to Einsiedeln in Switzerland to meet the Swiss Microbial Ecology community! #DeutscheBahn

Early career researchers in microbial ecology, please consider joining the Early Career Scientist Reviewer Pool at ISME Journal. A great way to widen your scientific community. @ismeoffice.bsky.social www.isme-microbes.org/isme-early-c...

The Radboud-Glasgow collaboration fund will support this exciting #microbiology 🧪 research! The researchers will bring together their expertise across anaerobic microbial cultures, bioreactor systems, and modelling of biotechnology. #wastewater #nitrogen www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Catching the early bird train at 6.13 to go to Brest, France, by multi-country train journey. Looking forward to a PhD defense @ifremer.bsky.social on exciting new #anaerobic #methanotroph #research!

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...

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Independent junior research group leader. The University of Marburg, Germany. stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/e...