📢 New preprint on bioRxiv! We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages ✅ 938 samples ✅ More novel ASVs Primer choice matters 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu

Season 5 is going to start 🔜 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info... @kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential. 🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New paper out: E.coli uses the MazEF toxin-antitoxin system to help defend against RNA phages tinyurl.com/RNAphage The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪 @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #Resilience #ResearchJourney

If you are into #posttranscriptional modifications, gut #inflammation, #immunology or #gutmicrobiome check out our latest work @jem.org 👇 Big team effort @miershawig.bsky.social @connyves.bsky.social Big thanks to @fwf-at.bsky.social for funding!

Understanding microbiota resilience in the face of imbalances is crucial for maintaining host health. This #mBio review explores microbiota resilience, emphasizing the interplay between microbial communities and host-driven environmental controls. asm.social/2qW

New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al. We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa. 🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

Check out this great #PhD opportunity at our School and join our growing #Microbiology team 👇

🎉 Congrats to Luis Guerra & Ahmed Dawoud on their new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology! They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Exciting opportunity! We're hiring a #postdoctoral fellow in #gutmicrobiome research to explore the activity and function of the gut microbiome in situ and its regulation by the immune system.🦠🔬 Post based at @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social Apply here 👇 jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Want @nanoporetech.com data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our data for pure cultures, @zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.

We are having a brilliant time at #winchestersciencecentre today for #SOTSEF #bsw25 Brains 🧠🤯 Bones 🦴 Beans 🫘 Plants 🌿 Ears 👂Phages @phagecollection.bsky.social Bugs 🧫🦠 @ukbiofilms.bsky.social & Worms 🔬 LOTs and LOTS of children and LOTs of sciencey fun! 🥳 🥼🧪🥽 #citizenscience #scienceforall

Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbes&microbiomes. 🦠🧫 Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

📢Join us for the upcoming webinar by Prof. Ted Dinan on the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry. 🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry 📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...

Come check this out if you are in the south of England 👇🏻🦕

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We have received many questions in the last week about some of the content on our website being under review. @asm.org asm.org/Press-Releas...

Out now in @nature.com: Gut microbiome diversity across African populations - a valuable resource for further research and foundational for global health equity. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint on sulfur metabolism in the gut by @julkras.bsky.social & the team and great collaborators 🤩 #microbiome #microsky 🧫🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment. Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register: microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...

Interested in #microbiome research? Please join me and many others for the first Microbiome Virtual International Forum of 2025! 🦠💊 Registration for #MVIF is free 👇 microbiome-vif.org

'Here, we show that this reagent appears to be unreliable due to providing false-positive signals at the expected molecular weight of Bax in immunoblotting experiments and likewise provides false-positive signals in immunofluorescence-based detection of Bax expression' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Comprehensive computational study on cardiometabolic disease drugs: "We quantify inferred effects of single medications, their combinations as well as additive effects, and show that the latter shift the metabolome and microbiome towards a healthier state" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ᗪIᗪ YOᑌ KᑎOᗯ? BACITRACIN was named by Balbina Johnson, lab supervisor at Columbia Med School, since the producing (Baci)llus was isolated from compound fracture of a child Margaret (Trac)y where it was (in)hibiting pathogenic bacteria and helping her overcoming a septic infection? #IDSky 🦠 🧫 🧪

In order to honour the often unnoticed female scientists in microbiology bacteria were named after these remarkable women. In the upcoming weeks, we will briefly introduce you to these important women. Stay tuned! 🧫🔬 📷 Pixabay/Mohamed_hassan #herstory #WomenInScience

Very excited that the Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology was approved. We are scheduled for July 13-18, 2025 in South Hadley, MA! The associated GRS will be July 12-13. Our fearless leader will be @deniseakob.bsky.social assisted by Thulani Makhalanyane and myself.

Our short piece highlighting the impressive work by @fatimacpereira.bsky.social on how the Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome via iron sequestration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study on drug-gut microbiome interactions is out! 🦠💊 We show that the #Parkinson's drug entacapone induces iron deficiency in microbes, leading to selective inhibition of microbial activity. @cemess.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #BostonUni Check the full story here: rdcu.be/d0ZAQ

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬

For those moving from X/Twitter, I just used this excellent tool to transfer 1000+ Followings in 5 min. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Registration is OPEN for 2025 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology and Development @GordonConf and GRS. This will be oversubscribed, so register ASAP. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and discussion leaders. Apply now - www.grc.org/bacterial-ce... #MicroSky

Please check out our new preprint! The Parkinson's drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great summary 👇 by @michiwagner4.bsky.social