Aerobic syngas conversion: opportunities, challenges, and solutions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our work is published today: ‘Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor’. This was a huge effort lead by @katyappler.bsky.social. Extremely grateful to have been a part of this amazing project! 😊🦠🧬 Links: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.growkudos.com/publications... New work with @ckarakoc.bsky.social and @shoestrapped.bsky.social in @pnas.org

New online! Tree bark microbiota in climate-active gas cycling

Fantastic new paper from @the-de-lab.bsky.social showing how the CMV m11 protein drives immune evasion by blocking CD44-dependent, FRC-mediated DC migration in the spleen, ultimately dampening antiviral CD8⁺ T cell priming @monashuniversity.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do new soils develop after glaciers vanish? ❄️🧬🦠🏔️ The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅ Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 DSMZ is hiring! We are looking for a Scientific Lead for the SILVA Database, a key tool for understanding microbes and biodiversity. Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/y973v547 #HiringNow #ScienceJobs #Microbiology #ResearchCareers @dsmzd3.bsky.social

Our revised manuscript is up on BioRxiv and is coming soon to an ASM journal in your neighborhood. We show that metabolome & transcriptome profiles are frozen in desiccated Arthrobacter and that water vapor induces resuscitation. Happy to answer any Qs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(1/8) 🚨Thrilled to share our new research, now published on the cover of @science.org ! 🌳🦠 We discovered that tree #Bark — largely regarded as inert — hosts vast #Microbial communities that actively interact with the atmosphere. 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The ARC’s processes are back to being farcical, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone. How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Turns out, each tree hosts trillions of bacteria in its bark, and these bacteria 'eat' certain gases right out of the air: methane, carbon monoxide, and especially hydrogen. This is important info because hydrogen helps methane persist longer in the atmosphere. theconversation.com/we-discovere...

Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New research reveals that paperbarks, among other trees, host abundant, specialized, and metabolically active bark-dwelling microbial communities that modulate climatically relevant gases, including methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4bp9hgl

In this week’s @science.org cover article, we discover tree bark is a hidden habitat for abundant, diverse, and specialized microbial life that actively regulate our climate 🦠. Bark isn't just an inert armor of tree but an active interface for climate and biodiversity www.science.org/eprint/7H9PX...

A quick microbio present before the holidays 🎁 >150 years after their first description, filamentous "Crenothrix bacteria" are now in stable laboratory culture! In our pre-print, we probe the unique physiology & ecology of the "lacustrine" group of these enigmatic methane-oxidizing microbes... 1/2

“Cultivation of Methanonezhaarchaeia, the third class of methanogens within the phylum Thermoproteota” by @kohtzarchaeota.bsky.social, Sylvia Nupp, and myself is out in Science Advances. 90% enriched culture of a methyl-dismutating thermoproteotal methanogen. #Microsky 🧪 tinyurl.com/bdcc3uzs

New #PrePrint by #PhD @jodittmann.bsky.social open for discussion on @egubg.bsky.social investigating the question: 'Are #GhostForests a substantial source of #Methane from #Reservoirs?' 👻🪵 👇 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

📢 Extra, extra: our collaborative study on trace gas oxidizers in a warmer soil is out as a preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Big thanks to @thanh0109.bsky.social @bobpmleung.bsky.social @wutkowska.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social @mathildebio.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social ...

New preprint: Methyl co-enzme M reductase encoding (potentially methanogenic) Thermoproteota are widespread and transcriptionally active in diverse anoxic ecosystems! @dr-zj.bsky.social, Matthew Kollom & @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Funded by the DOE BER program.

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria blocks many antibiotics. Our latest work reveals that L-type pyocins bypass this barrier by inactivating the BAM complex, killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa without entering the cell, providing a new blueprint for beating antibiotic resistance.

Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676500v1

📢 PLEASE RT! ❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere 🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database 🖥️ Build HMM profiles 🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs ☀️ Marseille, France Apply by 15 Oct

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

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

🧪 🥼 🥽 Looking for tools to answer questions related to energy and infrastructure security? Now's your chance to apply for an investigator role at Berkeley Lab's @jgi.doe.gov. Apply today! ⬇️ Deadline: September 9 Please share!

“Isolation of a new methanotroph belonging to Mycobacterium” is now out! Awesome work by my former postdoc Hiromi Kambara, who led this project all the way. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

📣 New paper alert! One of the most exciting projects we've done in recent years is now out on BioRxiv: "An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats". Glimpse into early complex life! ❄️🦠 🔬🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread...

Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulations 🎉 now on line at @isme-microbes.bsky.social : Comparative genome analysis reveals broad phylogenetic and functional diversity within the order #Nitrospirales Linnea Kop et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social (RIBES) icw @univie.ac.at academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

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 🧵

New #methanogen culture just dropped! Check out the 'Methanonezhaarchaeia'! Happy to see this one out. A new methylotrophic methanogen cultivated from a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. Gives insights into the metabolic diversity and evolution of this group. #microsky 🦠🔥 tinyurl.com/yw8ku2bj

Preprint🚨 #microsky 🦠 “Cultivation of Methanonezhaarchaeia, the third class of methanogens within the phylum Thermoproteota”, authored by @kohtzarchaeota.bsky.social & Sylvia Nupp, expands the diversity of methanogens! 90% enriched, methylotrophic culture from a hot spring. A 🧵 tinyurl.com/yw8ku2bj

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io

Would you like to work with us? At JAMSTEC, we are recruiting postdoctoral researchers through the Young Research Fellow program. This program allows fellows to independently pursue their own research projects. www.jamstec.go.jp/recruit/e/jy...

Very excited to share that I’ve been awarded the @aussocmic.bsky.social 2025 Jim Pittard Award! (alongside the fantastic Rhys Parry and Heema Vyas!) 🦠 🌾 The award recognises the important contributions of Aus researchers to microbiology at the ECR stage, as well as their contributions to ASM.

We are recruiting for a PhD student who wants to understand how bacterial membranes are built and how they function. It would be a biology meets maths project … if this piques your interest take a look here: macsys.org/monash-phd-s... for project details and contact info

Very proud of this story - driven by @laurenbird.bsky.social -uncovering the ways Coxiella messes with the lysosome. This has been such a fun collaboration with @lauraem-lab.bsky.social raising many new questions! @monashuniversity.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social @natcommag.bsky.social

The T-series bacteriophages have impacted my career and are microbes our lab's research continues to use as model organisms. You can read more as part of @natmicrobiol.nature.com 'Microbes Matter' series below: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to the 30 new users whose proposals have been accepted for our New Investigator call, part of our #CommunityScience Program. Learn more about their projects below. jointgeno.me/CSPNI_FY25 🖥️🧬🧪🦠🌱🍄 @nigelmouncey.bsky.social @axelvisel.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Innovations in the electron transport chain fuel archaeal methane metabolism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Centre for Microbiome Research @cmrqut.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc dedicated to advancing our understanding towards the microbiological, biochemical and genetic processes that cause methanogenesis in the cow rumen. More info 👇

Hydrogenase-driven ATP synthesis from air www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... New work from us where we put the Huc hydrogenase to work to see if it can generate a proton motive force. It can! cc: @ashleighkropp.bsky.social @rhyswg.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social

An excellent letter by Dennis Hazelett: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And below is my attempt to motivate people in my group and others elsewhere to read it. Putting it here as well in case it may work on you, too :p

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

The ARC have tweeted that they will released Discovery Projects Expression of Interest outcomes tomorrow.

New isolates from eukaryote's closest archaeal relative: ‘Hodarchaeales’!! Syntrophic microaerotolerant peptide-degrading anaerobic archaea w/ simple cell structure & protrusions. Features conserved across the phylum provide new insight into our ancestor’s biology! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Isolated in just 3 years! (previously, 12 years). We obtained two strains from 'Hodarchaeales', proposed to be closest to our archaeal ancestor. Our analysis suggests the ancestor was an anaerobic, syntrophic, peptidotrophic, archaeon with a simple intracellular structure and possible aerotolerance.