An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The math isn't out quite yet, but you can read about SaxA already from the preprint and keep an eye out in @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social lab

Our new preprint, led by Martin (@mfenk.bsky.social), is online. We address the microbiome’s role as a source and incubator of acute infections by combining prospective collection of native samples with population-wide, culture-based sequencing. Please check out Martin’s wonderful thread. ⬇️🧵🎉

Doctoral researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, and the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology came together for the first Max Planck PhD Day in Jena which included speed dating and skills-sharing sessions and networking.

📣 I’m excited to share two open positions in my lab @leibniz-hki.de. For this interdisciplinary project with @luziagyr.bsky.social, I’m seeking (1) an enthusiastic PhD student interested in fungal natural product research and genetic engineering, as well as (2) a technical assistant 👇🏻

I met another tree today, but he didn't have very much to say, just stood on tiptoe, leaves aflame, daring me to do the same. 🍂

After her excellent PhD defense, Maryam Mahmoudi goes on a ride with her supervisor Eric Kemen. Check out her work about temp variation in plant microbiota: doi.org/10.1093/isme... doi.org/10.1128/mbio... More to come soon! @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social @cmfi.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Interested in the chemical ecology of plant-bacteria interactions? There is still time to apply until October 20th!

Giving this a Friday bump, please share! Please apply to join us for some exciting science and good times here in Jena!

We are hiring! We are going to use some really, really cool new techniques to look at the chemical and spatial dynamics of how the plant micobiome takes shape and what it means. Join us! Apply online until 20th Oct here: www.microverse-cluster.de/files/conten...

Only 3 day left to apply 👇 #microbes #evolution #mevoSky #evoSky #microSky

A preprint for your viewing pleasure: After we prev. found that a bacterial virulence factor that detoxifies isothiocyanates can function as a public good (doi.org/10.1101/2025...), a simlar VF in the fungal pathogen Sclerotinia recruits the bacteriome of infected leaves doi.org/10.1101/2025....

Happy that my 3rd PhD paper is finally out 🎉 We show how maize root bacteria team up to degrade plant host toxins 🌱🦠🤝 Many thanks for the good teamwork to unravel this story!

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

How can we better understand the plant immune system? In my new @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social piece, I propose “immune cell states” as a framework for uniting molecular and cellular perspectives. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

New PhD position @uni-jena.de and at our #ClusterOfExcellence! Join @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social's group to study #ClimateChange & #FungalPathogens. Interdisciplinary training, vibrant research network & great working conditions. Apply by Aug 31: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/a... @uni-jena.de

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!

Midst of the labs Genetics publish-athon from @ccaseys.bsky.social. Infecting a population on host genotypes spread across 8 dicots we could show that a generalist pathogen has both generalist and specialist genes url:https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyaf079/8158657

I’m happy to share with you that I’m now Postdoctoral Researcher at the FSU Jena @uni-jena.de in the group of Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social

New Review: Kerstin Unger and I explore how plant-associated microbes interact with secreted plant specialized metabolites, and not just in roots! Microbial PSM modifications are key to shaping function and plant ecology and show striking similarity across diverse plants. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

New Review: Kerstin Unger and I explore how plant-associated microbes interact with secreted plant specialized metabolites, and not just in roots! Microbial PSM modifications are key to shaping function and plant ecology and show striking similarity across diverse plants. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

🌱 We will soon open the search for a new W3 Professor in Plant Stress Resilience / Molecular Plant Physiology. 🌏Where? Germany, RWTH Aachen University @rwth.bsky.social We plan to look widely. Please let me know, if you want to be updated on the job announcement. #AcademicJobs

We’re excited to share our new teaching guide “Mikrobiologie in der Schule”! 🎓 This guide equips educators with classroom experiments, lowering the barrier for teaching microbiology in class. You can download it here 👉 www.microverse-cluster.de/en/transfer/... #microbiology #stemeducation

The first day of sampling is finally over, and it has been a success! Hundreds of insects have been collected, can't wait to understand the interplay with tree chemodiversity! Exciting times ahead and fun below the canopy! 🦋🌿🔬 #insectdiversity #phytochemicaldiversity #microbialdiversity

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I am excited to start our field campaign to study the interaction between herbivory, leaf phytochemicals and microbiome under a simulated drought forest experiment at KROOF 🌿🦋🔬 @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social #Grams #MichaelEisenring #MartinGossner #WLS #TUM

🚨 job alert 🚨 Tenure track position in plant-soil microbiome interactions at the University of Hasselt!! Yes that’s the place with the really cool ecotron 😊 www.uhasselt.be/en/about-has...

Check out our new paper on novel and non-standard antifungals against Fusarium journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

The Trait Discovery Group @kwsgroup.bsky.social is looking for a new Leader. "The candidate will lead a team focused on identifying and characterizing genes for genome editing that contribute to key trait product launches in KWS crops." #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

🌱 Mosses thrive in extreme environments. At #LeibnizHKI, Jethro Hemmann’s team uses metabolomics to decode moss-microbe interactions in hunt for bioactive #NaturalProducts. 👉 lmy.de/BEXIo @mnd-hki.bsky.social

New Pre-print! Pseudomonas virulence factor SaxA detoxifies plant glucosinolate hydrolysis products, rescuing a commensal that suppresses virulence gene expression doi.org/10.1101/2025... Driven by Kerstin Unger, we find that a "virulence factor" has cool roles in microbe-microbe interactions

New paper in Microbiome (with fancy summary video): doi.org/10.1186/s401... 1. Many bacteria can realistically transition from soil to mature leaves. 2. Early stages post-germination shape colonization processes and diversity. 3. P-M-M interactions affect mostly deterministic colonzers. Enjoy!

Our director Sarah O'Connor, head of the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis @oconnorlab.bsky.social, has has been elected a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, the #Leopoldina! Congratulations! 👏 www.ice.mpg.de/492460/sarah...

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Our Junior Research Group started three months ago! We’ve successfully set up the lab and begun our first experiments. 🧫🧬 Excited to explore natural products produced by bacteria from the #moss microbiome and uncover their bioactivities and roles in microbial interactions! 🌱🦠🧪 #metabolomics

File an FOIA request for your personal information with DOGE! Pls re-skeet! 👇👇👇

🎉 It’s been over two years since we launched the eLife Model for publishing that places the focus on nuanced public assessments instead of publishing outcomes. 1/ Here’s how it’s going: buff.ly/wnJrXie

The general trend is crazy. Here is Twitter vs Bluesky volumes for the last week. On some days they are equal in volume.

I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar Disentangling microbial interaction networks Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

A reminder that mRNA vaccines are among the greatest scientific and medical breakthroughs ever, with almost unlimited potential against infectious diseases and many different types of cancer.

First up in our Genomes and Multiomics session is @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social The environment is a critical component of human fungal pathogens... But we know very little about the "environmental lives" of pathogenic fungi #efcg17

Preprint alert: Here we report MMF1 - "a microbiota receptor” - through which Arabidopsis plants perceive their soil microbiome. Perception optimises root microbiome composition, immune status and ultimately leads to better growth. Happy reading... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#TransposableElements A Homage to Barbara McClintock and Hopi Zea mays, artwork series by Megan Singleton in #KernelsOfCulture #MaizeAroundTheWorld This artwork commission is sponsored by Nancy Ridenour. megansingleton.com Pix: Hopi Purple and Hopi Turquoise photograph series and art book

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Here a short reminder that the closing date is approaching (30 January) - for this pretty exciting position (!) to work as a PostDoc on the B. subtilis circadian clock. shorturl.at/LKjWz

We begin reviewing applications on Monday!!!