Merry X-mas from the Aquatic Ecology group!

The complex #microbialcommunities in #rivers and streams are essential for stable #ecosystems. However, #microbes in sediment are under constant stress. This has been revealed by a study led @probstlab.bsky.social. #heatstress www.uni-due.de/2025-12-10-s... @crc-resist.bsky.social

They made up the Data Reuse Core Team along with @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social @folker.bsky.social and had the support of the Data Reuse Consortium, composed of 167 scientists globally who were pivotal in driving this effort forward! Thank you all! 🧬 @unidue.bsky.social

See UDE press release on our latest paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution! www.uni-due.de/2025-11-11-e...

New paper out in Global Change Biology! We show that the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in freshwaters intensifies as the number of stressors rise. Multiple stressors make ecosystems more dependent on biodiversity—and amplify the impacts of its loss. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Led by Wim Kaijser, we published a global analysis on how five different organism groups respond to seven stressor categories. New paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution. www.nature.com/articles/s41....

It’s happening again! Our @crc-resist.bsky.social team from @unidue.bsky.social is in Hesse to prepare the next large #ExStream experiment. Stay tuned. #freshwater #biodiversity #multiplestressors

Check out this new article on null model selection for multiple stressor research. Fantastic work by Iris Pimentel from @leeselab.bsky.social within the @crc-resist.bsky.social. Freely available at: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Multiple-stressor effects on the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship were largely predictable from single-stressor impacts. Great community effort with many colleagues from @crc-resist.bsky.social

New article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!

Fair Rules for Sharing Sequence Data - new paper in Nature Microbiology by @probstlab.bsky.social @alexjprobst.bsky.social, associated to @crc-resist.bsky.social. www.uni-due.de/2025-09-26-f...

Excited to welcome @hsintunglai.bsky.social and @renaandraes.bsky.social as PhD students to our group!! They will be working within Phase 2 of @crc-resist.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social under the supervision of @alexjprobst.bsky.social and @cristinamoraru.bsky.social.

Want to know more about aquatic parasitology? For free? Check out the link below for online open access ⬇️

Great News: Our book Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites has been published online open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @nicojsmit.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

We are looking for a large coordinated research project on multiple stressors in river ecosystems for a postdoc that could syntheses like meta-analyses. @crc-resist.bsky.social www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

We published a special issue on #multiplestressors in #rivers: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... Stories about #ExStream experiments and the impact of 9 stressors on 5 organism groups from Europe and New Zealand. @crc-resist.bsky.social, @berndsures.bsky.social

Bernd Sures presenting achievements of Phase I!

Today, we have the kickoff of Phase 2 of our #multistressor #CRC1439 #RESIST @crc-resist.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social @danielheringude.bsky.social

Daniel Hering explaining the ideas of Phase II!

Bernd Sures giving an overview on achievements of Phase I of RESIST!

New paper out by #MandySander via @umweltstiftung.bsky.social fellowship &supported by @crc-resist.bsky.social Capture—Incubate—Release: An Animal-Friendly Approach to Assess Local Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Species Diversity Through eDNA Metabarcoding onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How is a restored #watershed, formerly open sewers, recolonised by invertebrates? Which role play habitat development, #dispersal and #competition? Answers in our recent paper @svgillmann.bsky.social et al. in Ecological Processes. doi.org/10.1186/s137... @crc-resist.bsky.social #restoration #rivers

Two postdoc positions in Peter Haase's lab @Senckenberg, one in connection with @crc-resist.bsky.social. Long-term ecological research in a highly productive group. www.senckenberg.de/de/karriere/... (search for "Gelnhausen").

Happy #DNAday 🧬 Just on time: our new study that appeared today showing how urbanization leaves a genetic footprint in 2 stream amphipods in river Emscher catchment. Tools like #ddrad help map connectivity & recovery paths #Ruhrgebiet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @crc-resist.bsky.social

Erster Spatenstich für ACTIVE SITES! 🎉 Auf dem Turmfeld in Essen griffen dafür NRW-Wissenschaftsministerin Ina Brandes, Essens OB Thomas Kufen, Rektorin Barbara Albert, Kanzler Ulf Richter und Prof. Dr. Stephan Barcikowski gemeinsam zur Schaufel. 1/3

Interested in the CRC RESIST? Watch this video to get informed about the main ideas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgFK...

#TBT to @joernstarke.bsky.social and @katharinasures.bsky.social presenting their amazing work at the @vaam-microbes.bsky.social AC 2025 which took place at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de just last week! Well done you two! @crc-resist.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

Small study from our lab @unidue.bsky.social shows advantage of having wings to surpass barriers in urban environments. High population connectivitiy of Sialis lutaria in the #Emscher region. Different in purely aquatic species like isopods. @crc-resist.bsky.social bdj.pensoft.net/article/1419...

Celebrating women in science affiliated to the CRC RESIST: www.linkedin.com/posts/zwu_in...

Postdoc position in RESIST at the Faculty of Biology, UDE! Working location will be Senckenberg, Department of River and Floodplain Ecology, Gelnhausen. www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

Another position in @crc-resist.bsky.social, a postdoc position based in Senckenberg (Gelnhausen). If you are interested in large-scale data analysis, this position will boost your career. You will work in a very successful lab that publishes many high-ranking papers every year.

Schadstoffe in Flüssen beeinträchtigen die #Artenvielfalt. Ein #UDE -Forschungsteam & @sgn.one identifiziert nun die Ausbreitungsfähigkeit der Arten als Faktor für die Wiederbesiedlung renaturierter #Flüsse. @globalchangebio.bsky.social www.uni-due.de/2025-02-04-b... 📸Rolf Müller - stock.adobe.com

Promising start of the year for @crc-resist.bsky.social with two major publications from Peter Haase's lab on recovery of riverine communities: www.uni-due.de/2025-01-29-r... (Global Change Biology) and www.nature.com/articles/s44... (Nature Reviews Biodiversity).

Another PhD position in the framework of @crc-resist.bsky.social: Food web analysis, based at UFZ Magdeburg. recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...

Why I do research? - Statement from one of our RESIST doctoral resarchers: www.uni-due.de/2025-01-30-w...

Even as a child, Julian Enß marveled at the diversity of creatures in streams - today he conducts research in #aquaticecology at the #UDE and @crc-resist.bsky.social and also introduces non-scientists to #aquaticspecies. To the interview 👉 www.uni-due.de/2025-01-28-w... #whyidoresearch

📣 #Forschungsnews: Wie retten wir die Artenvielfalt unserer Flüsse? 🌊🌏 Viele Schutzmaßnahmen greifen zu kurz und bringen nur geringe Erfolge. Nötig sind ganzheitliche, länderübergreifen Ansätze, die ökologische und gesellschaftliche Aspekte verbinden.💧 @unidue.bsky.social ⬇️ sgn.one/7jt

Why I do research! Interview with one of our doctoral researchers about his experience of scientific work! www.uni-due.de/2025-01-28-w...

Parasite conservation sounds like a counterintuitive idea, but actually there are lots of reasons why this is important for the long term sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem processes. #parasitology #ticks #ectoparasite 🪱🧪🌍 therevelator.org/ryukyu-rabbi...

Another open postion for 3 years doctoral researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum in one of the RESIST subprojects! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/0...

Interested in multiple stressor research in rivers? Interested in a PhD under excellent supervision in one of Europe’s largest freshwater research centres? We seek 8 doctoral researchers for the CRC RESIST at the University of Duisburg-Essen! sfb-resist.de/people/open-... #rivers #PhDjobs

@probstlab.bsky.social @crc-resist.bsky.social #1 on virus-host stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/43cjd6es #2 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a @alexjprobst.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social Pls RT!

We seek PhD students fascinated by aquatic 🧫🦠🪱🦟🐟 who want to unravel tolerances, dispersal patterns and biotic interactions with field studies, field experiments, metagenomics, statistical and mechanistic models.

Become part of the @crc-resist.bsky.social as a 𝗣𝗵𝗗 student based in my lab at #UDE working on '𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀' 🔬 🧫 🦐 🪱 🌊 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... Please share!

New Phd positions in our group (Essen, Germany): 1) Multiple stressors and fungi in streams (with Verena Schreiner) 2) Modelling of meta-communities under multiple stressors in streams both in @crc-resist.bsky.social Please share www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste... www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

The last PhD defense of the year! 2024 was an all-time high with 8 defenses in the wider group. Svenja Gillmann with a great dissertation on the recolonisation of urban streams that were formerly open sewers (@crc-resist.bsky.social).

Planning of Phase II of @crc-resist.bsky.social. Phase I was very productive, bit we learned a lot in terms of organising 60k samples, more realistic planning of experiments and connecting models.

SFB 1439 RESIST wird verlängert 😀. Wir freuen uns auf die 2. Phase unserer Forschung zu multiplen Stressoren in Fließgewässern. sfb-resist.de @unidue.bsky.social @dfgpublic.bsky.social

#5 of our 2024 papers and (if I would need to choose) my personal favourite. Svenja could show that with time since restoration less dispersive, but more competitive species establish. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... #rivers #multiplestressors #restoration

More cool results of RESIST Phase I!