We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here: www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-... Please spread the word!

Universal microbiome signature for CRC Large gut microbiome meta-analysis of colorectal cancer uncovers CRC microbiome signatures universal across ages & sequencing methods & modifiable by dietary interventions, ie fiber. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Excellent work by our one and only #CharliePauvert. We use it in all our high-throughput anaerobic cultivation projects. More to come... 💫

Gut epithelium responses to bile acids 👉 rdcu.be/fmcUe

📝 Only a few days left to submit your abstract! Take the opportunity to present your research, workflows, tools, and #FAIR data management approaches at the Boosting Biodata Bootcamp 2026! 👉 Abstract submission: events.hifis.net/event/3702/a... 📅 Submission deadline: 1 June #biology #rdm #nfdi

So happy to see this out 🎉 it all started with a discussion group of ECR brought together by the NCCR Microbiomes and cumulated in this primer on microbial community ecology. This was such a fun group project, where I learned a lot about how cool both microbial and human communities are 🤩

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

Out Now! Benchmarking shotgun metagenomics #MicroSky

Check out our work on E. coli capsules! Including a 3x extended catalog of capsule loci from >37K genomes, a scalable tool to type them in silico (kTYPr) and new associations with ecology and disease! A joint effort from @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social at @ethz.ch.

Strain diversity influences microbiome functions, and can be assessed with metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). But many MAGs are inaccurate! Benchmarking of shotgun sequencing by ⭐ @treichelnicole.bsky.social ⭐ with @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social , in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/feAWc

In my latest column, I explain some of my reasons for being deeply skeptical about AI models that claim to understand DNA, genes, and genomes: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/ai-is-star...

📢 Are you at #VAAM2026? 👉 Stop by the NFDI4Microbiota booth to learn how we can support you with training, data analysis, and making your microbiome research easier to share, reuse, and scale. And don’t miss today’s panel discussion at 1:30 in Lecture Hall B! We’d love to meet you 👋!

Are you at #DGE26? 👋 So are we! Stop by the NFDI4Microbiota booth to explore how we can help make your microbiome research FAIR and easier to share, reuse, and amplify. Let’s connect, exchange ideas, and talk data. We’d love to meet you! #microbiome #NFDI #FAIR #rdm

Registration for the 18th Annual Seeon Conference on Microbiota, Probiotics and Host is now open! 🎉 We’re looking forward to welcoming you in Seeon! When: June 24-26 Where: Seeon Monastery, Germany (near Munich) Program: www.dghm.org/seeon/ Registration: app1.edoobox.com/SPP1656/Seeo...

☕ Join our next NFDI4Microbiota Tandem Coffee Talk! 📅 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 | 14:00–15:00 CET 🎙️ Prof. Dr. Bas E. Dutilh & Dr. Noriko Cassman 💬 “Learning phage-host interactions from curated big data” & “VirJenDB: a FAIR (meta)data and analysis platform for viruses” 👉 More info here: tinyurl.com/5y7h6wfh

Prof. Carolin Schneider von der Uniklinik RWTH Aachen forscht mit KI-Fachleuten zur Krebsprävention. Ziel ist die personalisierte Strategie: "Wir glauben, dass wir gute Modelle entwickeln können, die die Einzel-Faktoren berücksichtigen, die jemand mitbringt." ➡️ www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊 Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects. #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs Full job ad: lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...

Now published 🔥 Feeding your gut microbes with complex carbohydrates can help preventing colorectal cancer by reducing the production of secondary bile acids. Perhaps NiMe diet @jenswalter15.bsky.social? THX team & Sören Ocvirk ⭐ Thx www.sfb.tum.de/1371/microbi.... Article 👉 doi.org/10.1136/gutj...

Save the Date! 📅 The NFDI4Microbiota Annual Conference 2026 will take place 15–17 September 2026 and will be a joint event with other biodata-related NFDI consortia. Stay tuned for more details! #onenfdi #NFDI4Microbiota #rdm #microbiota

📍Our paper is out!📍 Here, we show the development of a GC-MS/MS method for the quantification of 120 compounds produced by gut bacteria, including short-chain fatty acids, indols, nucleotides, organic acids, and amino acid derivatives. Check it out! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Franziska Faber and I are recruiting shared postdocs, PhD students to work on Fusobacterium & new BGCs. www.helmholtz-hiri.de/fileadmin/HI...

New paper from the lab! Led by Patrick Müller: we show that non-antibiotic compounds — but not macrolide antibiotics — can induce an efflux pump that protects Bacteroidaceae from macrolides. A neat twist on drug–microbe interactions... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️ You will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the SILVA taxonomy🌳and more! 👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/... Read and share ‼️ #sciencejobs 🦠🧪 #career #taxonomy

Want to delineate genera? We have been optimising POCP, and propose POCPu, which stops the 'double counting' of proteins in POCP by only allowing unique matches. We also speed up, and benchmarked, the analysis using DIAMOND; peerj.com/articles/202... (now implemented in Protologger)

Great work from our FAIR science master Charlie (www.linkedin.com/in/charliepa...) to delineate bacterial genera: peerj.com/articles/202.... We hope this will help many. The POCPu calculation is now implemented in protologger.bi.denbi.de by @tcahitch.bsky.social. Thanks for the hard work you 2 ⭐⭐

Need a hand with your #Nextflow or #nfcore pipeline? Join our weekly drop-in session — every Friday 10–11 CET with Daniel Straub (Uni Tübingen). Ask questions, get tips, and connect with the community! 📍 Zoom: tinyurl.com/mwz84xvb#Nextflow#nfcore#Bioinformatics #OpenScience #NFDI4Microbiota

A place to be 👇 Highly recommended ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in my group at the Botnar Institute for Immune Engineering in Basel, Switzerland. The project is aimed at developing novel mucosal adjuvants for application in oral vaccines. Deadline to apply 16.11.25! Please re-post 🔬🧬 join.com/companies/im...

☕ Grab your coffee and join our next NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk! 📅 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 | 14:30–15:30 CET 🎙️ Daniel Straub (QBiC Tübingen) 💬 “Meta-omics Analysis at a Bioinformatics Core Facility – As FAIR as Possible”. More info here: nfdi4microbiota.de/c...

A toolkit for transposon libraries and functional genomics in intestinal Bacteroidales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681549v1

📍Paper alert 📍 Our new preprint is available on: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... Here, we show the development of a GC-MS/MS method for the quantification of 120 compounds produced by gut bacteria, including SCFA, indols, organic acids, and amino acid derivatives.

The main work from my time in Aachen is now out 🎉 if you have wanted to make a SynCom that captures the functional-landscape of microbiota, MiMiC2 makes that possible based on metagenomic data! 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Interested in the design of defined microbial communities for fundamental research and applications? Hope this work & tool will help you 👇 As always @tcahitch.bsky.social has been a driving factor ⭐⭐⭐! github.com/ClavelLab/Mi...; academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Come and be my colleague at the Dunn School! It‘s a brilliant place to work and exciting to be building up our immunology team. Do apply. Do pass on the news 💉🧬🦠🔬🧫

We’re heading to Jena for two exciting events! 📍 DGHM 2025 – 24 Sept Workshop: Data madness: Navigating Host Microbiomes Featuring VirJenDB – virus sequence discovery & analysis Details 👉 programme.conventus....

We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student Yuchen (Peter) Ge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and the accompanying news piece, www.science.org/content/arti...

Interested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social

Planning, sequencing… and now analysis. 📊 ☕ Coffee Talk: Getting Your Microbiome Research on the Road – Managing Your Data using Qiita 🗓️ Aug 25, 2025 | 14:30 CEST 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/2m9jpf2p 👉 Workshop (Oct 22–24, Gießen): tinyurl.com/4w8mczh7

🌍 Open Call! RWTH Aachen University invites postdocs from outside the EU to apply for the “Port to Europe” Fellowship (24 months funding, all disciplines). Start your research journey at one of Europe’s top universities! 🚀 Deadline: Oct 5, 2025. 👉https://rwth-aachen.de/go/id/botjje/lidx/1

Do you have experience in metabolomics/lipidomics/exposomics? Check out the EMBL ARISE2 Fellowship Programme! 🔗 www.embl.org/training/ari... 📩 Contact: Juan Antonio Vizcaíno — Team Leader, EMBL-EBI 🔗 www.ebi.ac.uk/people/perso... 📌 Applications close soon! 📆 30/09/2025 More info below👇

Ready to lead pioneering research that bridges systems-level investigations of biological systems to molecular mechanism? The EMBL Molecular Systems Biology Unit in Heidelberg is hiring a Group Leader!

Finally online! Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections. rdcu.be/ewwrG

A pure « délice » to have followed this story unfolding under our eyes. Congrats @ameliejoly.bsky.social brilliantly followed-up by @lucasrebiffe.bsky.social. @filipedevadder.bsky.social and I were/are so lucky to work with gifted Ph’D candidates like you!

Try cloud-based microbiome workflows with CloWM—no installation needed! 📍 4th NFDI4Microbiota Annual Conference |Cologne 📆 Oct 2 | Registration is free 🔗 events.hifis.net/eve...

Congrats @baerboletta.bsky.social 👏 Highly deserved & best possible ambassador for the field www.embo.org/press-releas...

#NewResearch 🚨Out now! Human gut bacteria bioaccumulate forever chemicals, in intracellular aggregates and colonization of gnotobiotic mice with these bioaccumulating bacteria increases faecal PFAS excretion. @kiranrpatil.bsky.social #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join our NFDI4Microbiota Coffee Talk: Ivan Belyaev @microverse.bsky.social presents BEXIS2, a flexible platform for microbiology metadata. June 30 at 14:30 CEST. More info here: tinyurl.com/mudhdnra

🧫 Registration is open! Join the 4th NFDI4Microbiota Conference in Cologne 📅 Sept 30–Oct 2 | Theme: From Lab to Publication Hands-on workshops, keynotes, posters | Registration is free 📝 Register by Aug 31: events.hifis.net/eve... #FAIRdata #Microbiome

Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io

The #NFDI4Microbiota Flex Funds Call 2026 opens June 16! Support for infrastructure, workflows, training & more in microbiology. Deadline: Aug 11. Details: nfdi4microbiota.de/n...#NFDI4Microbiota#OpenScience #FAIRdata