Bottom trawling doesn’t just alter the seafloor: it may also alter the gut microbiota of flatfish🐟🦠 New paper led by Michelle Gwinner evaluated how host traits, environment, and trawling intensity shape flatfish gut microbiota in North Sea. @icbm-uol.bsky.social @thuenen.de doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just published! doi.org/10.1111/1462... The microbiome of this seaweed is seasonal. It changes from season to season. This is not just variation, but a cycle, marking an annual transition between ☃️winter and ☀️summer microbiomes @geomarkiel.bsky.social @icbm-uol.bsky.social

Read our new paper in EcologicalMonographs esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We introduce a framework on how to partition species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities based on species absolute change in biomass and relative change in proportion.

Excited to share our new seaweed holobiont #Preprint! Over a 3-year bi-monthly sampling, we found that epibiota undergo seasonal succession cycles, shifting back and forth between winter and summer. We also found seasonal and permanent core taxa. Have a look: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi everyone, I tried assembling a Microbiome & friends starter pack. 🦠🧫🔬 Still learning to use bluesky and might have missed you, let me know if you would like to be included. go.bsky.app/Fq36egy

My talk in the SustainMare lecture series at @uni-hamburg.de on how bottom trawling in the North Sea may affect the benthic microbial biogeography is online! lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v... It was great fun to give a lecture in German for the first time (please forgive the accent!)

Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Very excited to announce a 20 year study of microbial ecology and evolution in a lake out today. This is the largest metagenomic seqing of a site resulting in >30k MAGs. We track shift in diversity and strains, and link sweeps to environmental factors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

mSphere of Influence: The complex world of bacterial biogeography mSphere J Commentary by Drew Bridges journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

New paper rdcu.be/dtGbZ in ISME Communications! Benthic microbiota in the NorthSea vary with sediment properties, but also with bottom trawling effort. Thanks to a great team of colleagues!

Benthic microbial biogeographic trends in the North Sea are shaped by an interplay of environmental drivers and bottom trawling effort www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs