Proud PI: Austrian microbiome research award for my PhD student Charlotte Neumann! Thanks @microbesplanet.bsky.social

Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint! We built the largest respiratory pan-microbiome atlas yet >4,000 metagenomes from nose to lung. 👉 In health: a connected microbial continuum 👉 In disease: this structure collapses #microbiome #microsky Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

Neues aus der Mikrobiom-Forschung! Archaeen – kaum bekannte Mitbewohner in unserem Darm – senden winzige Bläschen, um mit ihrer Umwelt zu kommunizieren. Ein Team der Med Uni Graz hat das jetzt erstmals detailliert beschrieben. Veröffentlicht in Nature Communications ➡️ https://bit.ly/47gnl9R.

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome. 💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia 📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 🌍 Int’l applicants welcome! Application link below. #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

Congratulations to all winners - and "happy World Microbiome Day"!!

Some big news: I’ve been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to further explore the roles of #archaea in gut #microbiomes and beyond. @erc.europa.eu #ERCAdG #ARCHMETH #Microbiome #Archaea #sciencepassion

Klimaschutz trifft Darmgesundheit: Unsere Mikrobiomexpertin Christine Moissl-Eichinger erhält den prestigeträchtigen Advanced Grant (2,5 Mio. €) des für ihre Forschung zu Methanobrevibacter – einem winzigen Mikroorganismus mit großem Potenzial ➡ https://bit.ly/3FDDJpO. #ERCAdG

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in NatureComms! @theviktoriaeffect.bsky.social from the lab of @chmoei.bsky.social @medunigraz.at profiled the proteome & metabolome of extracellular vesicles from key gut archaea, revealed immune-stimulating capacities and unique molecular cargo.

🚨 New preprint alert! We report what might be the first mechanistic link between gut Archaea and human disease. Methanobrevibacter smithii is enriched in CRC patients—and boosts growth of cancer-associated bacteria like F. nucleatum. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @archaeasky @microbiomesky

What a missed opportunity... 🤔 We should have declared an official "Archaeal Week" at Nature Communications! 😆 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠

📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology! Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com ‬ in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.

Archaea https://xkcd.com/3095/

The Archaeacast! Yes, a podcast about #archaea! by Priyanka Chatterjee, @cjhines.bsky.social, Alex Phillips, Theopi Rados & guests! 6th episode: Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains? Guest: @chmoei.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social

🌍 #WorldIBDDay2025 Awareness for #IBD and support for patients worldwide: #IKMB and Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” will light up two buildings on #UniKiel campus in purple tonight. #IBDawareness #ChronicInflammation #ResearchMatters 💜 youtu.be/BgHa13cR0Ks

May’s ‘Microbe of the Month’ is a novel archaeon called Methanobrevibacter intestini which was isolated from a human faecal sample taken from an individual in the United States. Find out more about M. intestini and other exciting discoveries by clicking the link in our bio 🧫🔬

Check out our press release from the Medical University of Graz. @chmoei.bsky.social and their team has discovered a novel species of archaea in the human gut, furthering our understanding of archaea in the human gut microbiome

🚨 New publication: We describe a novel, cultivated #Archaea species from the human microbiome: #Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. ! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #Microbiome #GutMicrobiota #NewSpecies #archaeasky #microbiomesky

Mikrobiolog*innen unseres Forschungsfelds Mikrobiom & Infektion, dem Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social und der University of Illinois haben eine bisher unbekannte methanbildende Archaeenspezies aus dem menschlichen Darm identifiziert ➡ https://bit.ly/4ion4Ul @chmoei.bsky.social

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

Realized I never posted about our recent article: we revisited prior claims linking #Methanobrevibacter to #MS using metagenomes from 115 patients & 115 controls. No overall #archaeome differences, defeating earlier hypotheses. But treatment was associated with elevated M. smithii & M. sp900766745.

New paper! We analyzed gut #microbiomes of 250+ individuals (ages 19–109). #Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging. Link: rdcu.be/egk03 @archaeasky

Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky

This is a small study with limited interpretation but I do love birds, and I really like archaea. Do I like them both at the same time? (I do!👌) 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Great news! New “Microbiome Science” Master Programme @univie.ac.at coordinated by CoE Key Researcher @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social. More brilliant minds with innovative ideas contributing to groundbreaking discoveries! 🦠🔬🌍 ❗Apply by April 7th! studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...

Congrats to Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at on her PhD defense: "The woman-microbiome-child interplay!" Supervised by @chmoei.bsky.social, she explored pregnancy and early infant microbiomes. Excellent work! Excited about your contributions as CoE PostDoc! @fwf-at.bsky.social

Yes Archaea too can get fat 😁 New paper from the lab (by bsky-less Guillaume Borrel)! Check it out👇👇 #archaeasky #microsky @institutpasteur.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Interesting work from @chmoei.bsky.social et al! They observed that gut archaeal methanogens don't associate with MS onset or progression in a case-control cohort, but vary in treated patients vs. untreated which could reflect microbiome health during treatment. 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Ernährungsempfehlungen und #Darmgesundheit: Das Forschungsteam rund um @cdiener.com, @chmoei.bsky.social, @kl-fil.bsky.social und @gibbological.bsky.social hat mit MEDI eine innovative Technik entwickelt, um Ernährungsgewohnheiten aus DNA-Spuren in Stuhlproben zu analysieren

New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in Nature Metabolism: Study by @cdiener.com lab, @chmoei.bsky.social, @kl-fil.bsky.social @medunigraz.at and colleagues from the US, present MEDI to quantify food-derived DNA in human fecal metagenomes. www.nature.com/articles/s42... #microsky

Did you ever wonder what other information you can retrieve from metagenomic reads? Well, you can estimate the dietary intake- just from sequences from human stool. Check this amazing work out by @cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social @kl-fil.bsky.social and others: bsky.app/profile/cdie...

The article can also be read here: rdcu.be/eak0X and there is a nice commentary by Lars Dragsted, @hroager.bsky.social, and @catalinacuparencu.bsky.social that puts it into more context www.nature.com/articles/s42....

Happy to announce that MEDI, our method to quantify dietary intake through metagenomics is out now. 🧬 🧪🧫🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #metagenomics #microbiome #microbiomesky So what is MEDI? A combination of two things:

Open PhD position! Do you want to work with the human #archaeome and understand the potential effect on the #immune system? Please check the call, including another exciting opening of @cdiener.com on #microbiome research www.medunigraz.at/doktoratsstu... #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

Make sure to tune in on January 21st, 3 pm (GMT+1) for our Deputy Director of Research @chmoei.bsky.social Keynote Lecture on 'Methane, Microbes and more: Archaea in the human microbiome' at @microbiomevif.bsky.social. Register for free: cassyni.com/events/Pp67V... #ArchaeaSky @fwf-at.bsky.social

I am looking for a #PhD working on this exciting project! In case you are interested in how #immunometabolism and #macrophages affect #adipose tissue function, check the link below and apply! www.immunometabolism.at/job-openings/

We are recruiting!! PostDocs and PhD positions open for an exciting project on immunometabolism. In my lab, I am looking for a PostDoc, willing to work with microbiome metabolic modeling and archaea in beautiful Graz! Check it out: www.immunometabolism.at/job-openings/ #microsky #archaeasky

Hi microbiology colleages! #microsky Which journals do you suggest to publish a description of a novel microbe (except from IJSEM)? Any experiences? Thank you!

Want to learn more about the human-associated archaea? I will be talking at the MVIF very soon, check this out and register for free! Would be great to see you there! www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

My personal "Wrapped 2024"- what about yours?

The new directors are officially announced! Proud to serve the BioTechMed science community in Graz together with amazing @schweigerlab.bsky.social and Thomas Pock from uni and tu Graz. Great power and enthusiasm approaching!

Great talk and visit of @chmoei.bsky.social, the co-director of our @fwf-at.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health" (@microbesplanet.bsky.social), at our Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (@cemess.bsky.social) @univie.ac.at. 🧪 #MicroSky

🤫 #MVIF #35 keynote is Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social cassyni.com/s/mvif-35 (still working on program)

Follow @archaeabio.bsky.social: they want to connect researchers with an interest in #archaea www.archaea.bio

Towards a molecular picture of the archaeal cell surface #archaea #CellBiology #biology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting news! 🚀 We're launching #ARCTECH, the first EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network focused on #archaea —a fascinating and resilient domain of life with great #biotech potential. By addressing key gaps in archaeal research, we aim to unlock the vast potential of these #microorganisms. 🦠🔬

📢Call for Papers!📢 Applied and Environmental Microbiology is actively seeking submissions on the topic Anaerobic Microbiology. We welcome reviews and new research insights into strict and facultative anaerobes (archaea, bacteria, eukarya, viruses). Learn more: journals.asm.org/journal/aem/...

Make sure to tune in tomorrow, Tue Nov 26 from 7 pm, for the @artefr.bsky.social Saloon Live Talk on 'The Power of Microbes' with Microplanet Director of Research @michiwagner4.bsky.social Join live: so.arte/mikroben @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @cemess.bsky.social