The textbooks say #archaea are non-pathogenic. True. But maybe we’re not as irrelevant as you thought.

Orientierung für Fachärzt:innen, praxisnah durch Fallberichte & Austausch mit Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social, CoE Key Researchers Gregor Gorkiewicz @gregorkiewicz.bsky.social und Alexander Moschen u.a.

Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea

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...