We are starting a new series where we introduce our BrisJAMS committee memebers in a fun-microbiology-kinda way 😊 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧪 Starting with none other than our wonderful Director - Meghann Thai 😎 😁

Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience? The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you! Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own. www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos... @sangerinstitute.bsky.social #postdoc #sciencecareers 🧬🖥️🔬

We're looking for an awesome computational #postdoc to join our group @PioneerCampus. You'll explore native cells with #cryoET, get long-term funding (5+ years), and live in Munich! For more info, see our new Cell Architecture Lab website:...

📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/ Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic ⚔️🦠❄️🔬

We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt

Are you interested in microbes that are rare but active? We combined BONCAT with SIP and metaproteomics to improve the recovery of labeled proteins from such microbes. In this case, it illuminated a new anaerobic syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium. tinyurl.com/a8j29dsr #microbiomesky #microsky

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7

Hello BrisJAMS Community :) BrisJAMS returns this July with an Antimicrobial Resistance Special featuring three fantastic speakers. 📅 Wednesday, 23 July 2025 🕕 6:00–7:30 PM 📍 The Burrow, West End 🍽 Free food provided! This free event is open to all in the microbiology community.

We are happy to announce that @isme-microbes.bsky.social offers 12 travel awards for early-career scientists who will join the #mbkceesme2025 conference. forms.gle/ExVETmU6XZYz...

First code release of "SingleM for dsDNA phage"! Lyrebird scans metagenomic reads for marker genes to give a “phage community profile”. It detects many novel phages, many more than standard contig-centric methods. @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social wwood.github.io/singlem/Lyrebird

Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.

Please check out our recent preprint from @ace-uq.bsky.social researcher’s @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social, @xrefugee13.bsky.social, and former ACEr @pam-engelberts.bsky.social on their work generating the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD).

Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

📅 Join us at The Burrow | Wednesday, April 30th at 6 PM An evening of insightful talks 🎤, great company 🧑‍🔬, and delicious food 🍽️ Come connect, learn, and enjoy the night with our fantastic line-up of speakers. We’d love to see you there! #brisbanescience #microbiology #jams #academia

GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published gtdb.ecogenomic.org

Postdoc available in Grenoble (France), funded by the ERC SymbiOCEAN, to work on the metabolic connectivity in planktonic photosymbiosis. 👉Passionate by symbiosis & marine protists? skills in bioinfo and molecular biology? Join us! Info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #protistsonsky #SymbioSky

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to [email protected]. See lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

Want to know who’s replicating and who’s just hanging out in your enrichment cultures? Our new study led by @soansi.bsky.social shows how @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing can reveal replication states, shedding light on microbial growth. 🦠🧬 See our latest publication: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025. 🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/ #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Don't hesitate, time is almost up🧑‍🔬🧑‍🎓: Join us now at our #MaxPlanck #Research School #IMPRS #MarMic @maxplanck.de and take an interdisciplinary approach t #marine #microbiology 🦠🌊 👉 Apply by Feb 28 @marumunibremen.bsky.social #womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience #PhD #MSc @nicoledubilier.bsky.social

Hey BlueSky, nice to meet you! I'm an environmental microbiologist & science illustrator 🎨 here's some stuff I like to draw! I've done kid's books, graphical abstracts, lots of birds, and even a scientific journal cover on its way 💫 (Actually if you want anything drawn, I have some availability.. 🤔)

This week our class had an awesome discussion on this review article discussing #transformers for #SingleCell. One of my favorite parts was discussing Figure 3 on current strategies for how to transform the counts to a format that can be used by transformer. 1/n 🧪🧬💻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking for PhD students to join us at the Centre for Microbiome Research. A range of projects covering gut microbiome in animal health and nutrition, microbial responses to climate change and microbial methane mediation. More info found here 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/81728956...

🦠 The first JAMs event of 2025 is happening on Feb 19th at The Burrow. Don’t miss out! #JAMs2025 #microbiologyseminars

🚨🚨🚨 New pre-print alert: "Stable states in an unstable landscape: microbial resistance at the front line of climate change" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Probably the most complex paper I have ever worked on. It took 4 (!) co-first authors to accomplish and literal years to decipher the story.

🧬🖥️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re thrilled that our first paper on the Human Microbiome Compendium, an integrated dataset of over 168,000 uniformly processed human gut microbiome samples, is officially out today in Cell! @richabdill.com @blekhman.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited to introduce the preprint for CoverM: the Swiss Army knife of coverage calculators for metagenomics! 🧬🖥️ DOI: doi.org/10.48550/arX... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @viralinstruction.bsky.social @apcamargo.bsky.social

🦠 Gut Microbiome Dynamics A global study of 12,238 metagenomes across 45 countries revealed how gut microbes regulate Enterobacteriaceae, key pathogens linked to infections. The findings offer new pathways for non-antibiotic therapies. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

🚨Postdoc position(s) alert🚨 If you like to develop new bioinformatic tools for *human* microbiome analysis, are interested by virus/phages, we (JGI Viral Genomics and Microbiome Data groups) may have a great position for you ! No official job posting yet, but email or DM if you are interested !

Excited to share GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social, @jamesvolmer.bsky.social doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵1/6

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla. doi.org/10.1101/2024... @wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT 🧵1/6

Our study on drug-gut microbiome interactions is out! 🦠💊 We show that the #Parkinson's drug entacapone induces iron deficiency in microbes, leading to selective inhibition of microbial activity. @cemess.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #BostonUni Check the full story here: rdcu.be/d0ZAQ

Are you running antiSMASH across many genomes? Check out multiSMASH, my simple wrapper that streamlines comparative BGC analyses by parallelizing antiSMASH runs and tabulating the results. Runs BiG-SCAPE too! WIP, so feedback and bug reports appreciated. github.com/zreitz/multi...

Check-out our new preprint on the characterization of novel nitrifier lineages that are widespread in marine sponges #AOA #Nitrospira #verticaltransmission #BettinaGlasl @kathikitzinger.bsky.social and many others biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Currently, we have the following open positions in the Rinke Group for Microbial MultiOmics and Biorecycling (MMOB) @ the University of Innsbruck, Austria: 1x postdoc 3x PhD 1x RA More info @ rinkelab.org/index.php/op...

Machine learning for microbiologists | Nature Reviews Microbiology "we examine the main machine learning concepts, tasks and applications that are relevant for experimental and clinical microbiologists". www.nature.com/articles/s41...