🎉 Big congratulations to Dr James Volmer and @luispedrocoelho ! James has been awarded a TRI LINC Grant, and Luis has received a TRI Translation Fellowship. Both are fantastic opportunities to translate their research into clinical applications and drive real-world impact.👏🚀

New paper in mSystems! 🧵 - how much of your metagenome is actually bacterial/archaeal DNA? For many samples, nobody knows. We built SingleM prokaryotic_fraction (SPF) to answer this, then ran it on >100,000 public metagenomes. 🧬🖥️🦠 Here's what we found 👇 doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01062-25

First cake of the year! Thanks Pam!

The ISME Early Career Scientist Committee is glad to begin the year by spotlighting @aroneys.bsky.social, a Postdoctoral Researcher at QUT, and his paper, “Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes.” doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/2)

Celebrating Excellence at the Centre for Microbiome Research! We’re thrilled to share that Gene Tyson, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social and @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social have once again been named Highly Cited Researchers for 2025 by Clarivate! #HighlyCited2025

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

Spoiled today by two fantastic talks! Second by Prof Greg Cook about inhibiting greenhouse gas emissions in agricultural soils.

Excited to hear from Prof Lindsay Hall at our combined CMR and @ace-uq.bsky.social meeting! Bifidobacterium is really important for setting up our gut in early life.

Check out our teams paper on SingleM, a metagenomic taxonomy profiler that doesn't ignore unknown species! @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @aroneys.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02738-1

Check out our team's latest paper, published in @ISMEJournal, introducing GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique enabling strain-level visualisation of microbial communities @pam-engelberts.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme...

We used Great Oxidation Event as a planet-sized "fossil" to add ancient dates to the Bacterial tree of life. @theconversation.com and @science.org articles show oxygen was used by non-cyanos before that cataclysm, surprisingly. theconversation.com/1-trillion-s... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A fantastic talk from CMR's Prof Phil Pope (@microbesrule.bsky.social) at today’s QUT School of Biomedical Sciences seminar series. Phil shared how his team uses meta-omic technologies to interrogate the complex microbial communities that are integral to animal health, nutrition and gut function.

New Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at CMR! We are looking for a Gut Microbiome Specialist and Microbial Ecologist to join our team as we aim to unravel the complex mechanisms of methanogenesis in the cow rumen. Learn more and apply here: lnkd.in/gs83q68J

Don't miss the 2025 Science Festival Brisbane! CMR's Prof Gene Tyson will take part in a panel discussion at the session "Love Your Guts: Health and the Microbiome"—a fascinating exploration of how microbes in our gut shape our health. Find the full program below. worldsciencefestival.com.au

Congrats to CMR's Camila Ayala Pintos on submitting her PhD thesis! It has been a pleasure to watch your hard work and dedication over the past few years, and we are so proud of everything you've accomplished. And, as always, thank you to Pam for an incredible cake 🎂🎉

Congrats to CMR PhD student @iambrettb.bsky.social for taking home the best student speaker prize at this year's MGE Aus meeting 🥳 And another congrats to Ms Lara Carrington on securing the Australian Society for Microbiology Queensland Branch Mobile Genetic Elements Award. Excellent work both 👏👏

The Centre for Microbiome Research (CMR) is now engaging with our community on Bluesky! We look forward to using this platform to have meaningful conversations and build stronger connections with researchers and community members around the world. CMR: Asking questions no one has asked 🦠🔬