This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eLtCH

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget #ClimateChange #CO2 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What if even the core of bacterial nanomachines wasn’t static? We found that the T3SS core protein SctD in Yersinia dynamically exchanges subunits — and this flexibility is essential for proper assembly & function. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @kit.edu @t3sss.bsky.social

Colonizing the clinic: tracking bacterial succession and longitudinal dynamics in five new hospital departments over an entire year #microbiology @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Metabolic Potential of Candidatus Saccharimonadia Including Rare Lineages in Activated Sludge #microbiology #bacteria enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Robust termite phylogenies built using transposable element composition and insertion events #termites #evolution #entomology @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Microbe of the month is ... Neisseria gonorrhoeae #microbiology #bacteria #STD #gonorrhea @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Methanogenic archaea encoding Pyrrolysine maintain ambiguous amber codon usage #methanogens #archaea #methane @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Assembly, architecture and functional roles of microbial surface layers #microbiology #archaea #bacteria @natrevmicro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plastic degradation by enzymes from uncultured deep sea microorganisms #microbiology #PlasticDegradation @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Metagenomic analysis sheds light on the mixotrophic lifestyle of bacterial phylum Zhuqueibacterota #microbiology #bacteria @imetascience.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thermophiles don’t just survive heat, they thrive in it. 🔥 They provide heat-stable enzymes, insights into early Earth, and tools for biotech. Our new thematic issue in #FEMSMicrobiolEcol captures how diverse this field is. Explore the collection👉 buff.ly/kD8fmOL

#Methane is the 2nd most potent #GreenhouseGas after #CO2. Satellite monitoring of #CH4 emissions from waste disposal sites reveals discrepancies when compared with data reported by the facilities. #CutMethane #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Geographical diversity in #microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

BRENDA in 2026: a Global Core Biodata Resource for functional enzyme and metabolic data within the DSMZ Digital Diversity #BioData #BioResources #enzymes @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2) 🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl 📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

The most common #methanogen in the human gut, Methanobrevibacter smithii (aka Methanocatella smithii), is the microbe of the month in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social @sgribaldo.bsky.social #microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #GutMicrobiome

Nickel: Geochemistry, biochemistry and its role in chemical and biological evolutions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Active microorganisms and potential metabolic pathways mediating anaerobic degradation of DMSP in anoxic saltmarsh sediment #microbiology #anaerobs #saltmarsh @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites #microbiology #protists #eukaryotes @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Diversity and Evolution of Prokaryotic Viral Lytic Proteins #microbiology #virus @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Distribution and activity of nitrate and nitrite reductases in the microbiota of the human intestinal tract #biochemistry #GutMicrobiota @febsj.bsky.social febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Decoding the genetic drivers of marine bacterial blooms through comparative genomics #microbiology @microbiomej.bsky.social microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Growth of candidate phyla radiation bacteria in groundwater incubations reveals widespread adaptations to oxic conditions #microbiology #bacteria #groundwater @microbiomej.bsky.social microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Denitrification is a community trait with partial pathways dominating across microbial genomes and biomes #microbiology #denitrification @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Novel Protistan Trait Database Reveals Functional Redundancy and Complementarity in Terrestrial Protists(Amoebozoa and Rhizaria) #protists #eukaryotes #amoeba onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Analysis of Mechanisms for Electron Uptake by Methanothrix harundinacea 6Ac During Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer #microbiology #methanogens #methane @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26...

The novel regulator HdrR controls the transcription of the heterodisulfide reductase operon hdrBCA in Methanosarcina barkeri #microbiology #methanogens #methane @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus and Alternative Methanogens: Archaea-Based Production #microbiology #methanogens #methane link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Salinity and nutrient availability dictate methane production and its temperature sensitivity in lakes #microbiology #methane #methanogens www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Gellan gum-based media recover more diverse microbial communities from soil material #microbiology #cultivation #microbes @springernature.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Methanogens and anaerobic ciliates - a match made in ... sediments 😉 #microbiology #methanogens #ciliates link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Moby Dick among termites 😀 Cryptotermes mobydicki (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae), an extraordinary new termite species from French Guiana #zoology #entomology #taxonomy #NewSpecies zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1660...

Insights on adaptive strategies and evolution of cable bacteria in saline lakes #microbiology #bacteria #CableBacteria aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A brief introduction to the #SeqCode is now online! Check it out, share it with your colleagues, and let us know what you think! Bravo to @rodriguez-r.bsky.social for preparing and recording this! Part# 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wk...

Originally defined by Rinke et al. (2013) as Candidatus Patescibacteria, the phylum #Patescibacteriota now has a validly published name and an official type! Explore the lifestyle, biogeography, and metabolic capabilities of its type genus, #Patescibacterium, here: doi.org/10.1093/isme... #SeqCode

Microbial enzymes hold the key to greener plastics! Rhodospirillum rubrum can produce ethylene without releasing CO₂. A team @rebeleinlab.bsky.social purified the enzyme and solved its structure, an important step towards #SustainableChemistry.

Turbo platform for plant research 🚀🪴 Extreme weather events due to #climatechange reduce crop yields. @reneinckemann.bsky.social & team led by Tobias Erb @synmikro.bsky.social has now developed a microalgae platform for fast and efficient tests of chloroplast gene variants s.gwdg.de/hznfNe

Reduction of NAD and NMN on mineral surfaces with H2 reveals a functional role for the AMP moiety in a prebiotic context #LifeOrigin #chemistry www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Marine endophytes: biosynthetic engines for novel bioactive metabolites #microbiology #endophytes www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

Carbon-monoxide-driven bioethanol production operates through a tungsten-dependent catalyst #BioEthanol #CarbonMonoxide www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temperature Increase in Paddy Soils Remodels the Relationship Between the Anaerobic Food Web and the Q10 of CH4 Production #microbiology #methane onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Names, classification, structure and function and their inter-relationship to the Q cycle, photosynthesis and ATP synthesis #microbiology #ATP www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lessons from the model gut Bacteroidales Bacteroides fragilis and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron and future opportunities #microbiology #bacteria @asm.org journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Beyond excited to share our new Perspective just published in ISME Journal! This work is a joint effort with Shamik Roy, @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont exploring how warming and antibiotics influence carbon use efficiency. We hope you enjoy reading it! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Nature research paper: A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time go.nature.com/4qqRwlO

Happy to share our latest review article, this time joining forces with 📌Seigo Shima, 📌James Birrell, 📌Giorgio Caserta, and 📌Oli Lenz. We wrote about hydrogenase catalysis because this is what we do best 😎 doi.org/10.1002/9783...

A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people #hydrogenase #GutMicrobiome #microbes @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...