Are you a postdoc or 4-5th year grad student working on any problem in environmental microbiology and are interested in giving a virtual seminar (via zoom) on your hard work to a crowd of interested researchers at Montana State's Thermal Biology Institute in spring? Email/DM me!

Congratulations @janbruewer.bsky.social to this appreciation of your excellent #PhD-thesis! mpi-bremen.de/en/Jan-Bruew... @unibremen.bsky.social

Ribosome -less zombies in the ocean 🦠🧟

Whooaaa My zombie cells and I received the Bremer Studienpreis for my PhD 🤩🤩🤩🧟‍♂️ I received a special price sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social Daltonics, who produce mainly mass specs. It was quite a surprise, considering I didn’t use mass spectrometry in my PhD. Why did they choose me? 🧵

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust, benchmarked thresholds for Hi-C linkages. Key results: 👇

Congratulations!! 👏👏 The Bremen Study Prize 2025 goes to @janbruewer.bsky.social for his outstanding #PhDThesis. Well deserved! 🥳 @brukercorporation.bsky.social special #award @unibremen.bsky.social Learn more about Jans research and the award: mpi-bremen.de/en/Jan-Bruew... (C)Jens Lehmkühler

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

Zombie cells in the ocean, a perfect topic for Halloween here at RD3 of GEOMAR. Great talk by @janbruewer.bsky.social it was great to have you here.

Zombie cells? 🧟😨 Sounds spooky, and it is past #Halloween. These #SAR11 are attacked by #viruses and in between life and death. Off #Helgoland, every 10th cell was a zombie. 🌊 Check it out: mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce... Let's look for more zombies with the simple sampling device by Thalassys.com

Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

Revolutionising Water #Monitoring with an Innovative #Filtration Machine: Meet our #MaxPlanck #StartUp Thalassys!👏🔬🧑‍🔬 Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes & @janbruewer.bsky.social created the "coffee machine", collecting data far faster than traditional methods. www.maximize-incubator.com/post/water-m...

Die SZ schreibt: “Würde ganz Deutschland auf Mineralwasser verzichten (also nur noch Trinkwasser aus der häuslichen Leitung trinken) könnten anderthalbmal so viele Treibhausgasemissionen eingespart werden, wie der gesamte innerdeutsche Flugverkehr verursacht.” www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Innovativ & idiotensicher: Die "Kaffeemaschine", entwickelt von unserem #Startup SEPARA, hilft mit einer einfachen Filtrationsmethode bei der Überwachung von Gewässern.🌊 Die Gründer: Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes und @janbruewer.bsky.social www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts... @maxplanck.de #MAXimize

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Vielen Dank @weserkurier.bsky.social für den tollen Bericht über Separa. 👏🏽 Separa: Take a sample. Easy. @maximize-incubator.bsky.social www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts...

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7

Many thanks to the great team for representing our institute and joining the fun at #BremerFirmelauf 2025!

Looking forward to exploring how algal symbionts enable anemones to cope with the environmental conditions of the Mediterranean and the Anthropocene. Thanks @pure-ocean.bsky.social! A fun project lead by @cpogoreutz.bsky.social and together with Christine Ferrier-Pagès. tinyurl.com/pureocean

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

Danke an alle, die gestern auf der Straße waren. (In Hamburg waren wir 65.000).

I always thought very little of my first publication … I mean: It was my BSc thesis, so expectations should be realistic. Anyways, today, I read it again and … I enjoyed reading it! Is this normal? Thanks to @reefgenomics.bsky.social & Shobhit, who helped me with writing back in 2017 🙏🏼

Application deadline now extended to January 12th, some extra time to enjoy the winter break! ☃️🛷🎅

Verrucomicrobiota are found everywhere, yet we know very little about this group. Here, @iwilkie.bsky.social described and named an unrecognized marine group (previously known as MB11C04). Here, we introduce Seribacter and Chordibacter bacteria.

AntiDefenseFinder! And it is available also as an option with DefenseFinder: defensefinder.mdmlab.fr Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages, and mobile genetic elements www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ZOMBIE CELLS!!! 😱🧟🦠 @janbruewer.bsky.social and colleagues discover how #viruses keep #SAR11 in check and even turn them into zombies! Out now @natureportfolio.bsky.social Nat Comms mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How many SAR11 cells are phage-infected in the environment? And what are zombies? We studied phage infection in SAR11 using the 🔬. Up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage infected and many host cells were devoid of ribosomes! What else did we find? A🧵 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

I handed in my PhD thesis today 🥳 What a great, yet weird feeling. If you are interested: my defense is 3rd May (will be available online). Hit me up, if you are interested ;) @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social

#Microbes like comics, too! #RNA is the language, #extracellularvesicles serve as speech bubbles. Out now in PNAS by Joshua Mills, Susanne Erdmann et al. Read more: mpi-bremen.de/en/Microbial... Full paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #archaea #GTPase #EV #evolution

Phage folks who do culturing… how do you preserve your environmental samples for later plaque assays? I was taught just 0.2 micron filter & store in fridge but anecdotally hearing more about glycerol and freezing? Thoughts? Advice? Papers to read? Working with fresh samples isn’t an option #phagesky

New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸 👇🏻

Carbohydrates and carbohydrate degradation gene abundance and transcription in Atlantic waters of the Arctic www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs

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Great news: Our director Rudolf Amann, head of our Department of Molecular Ecology, is a #highlycitedresearcher @Clarivate! Also, the Max Planck Society ranks amongst the Top 10 institutions! A great recognition! mpi-bremen.de/en/Rudolf-Am...

Congratulations! Our group leader Tristan Wagner wins an @ERC_Research #ConsolidatorGrant! His project #En­LightEn tar­gets the #C1-meta­bol­ism and will shed light on the #metabolism of #microbes in #anaerobic environments. mpi-bremen.de/en/ERC-Conso...

Sneak peek of #bacteria at work within an animal cell: #MALDI-MS Imaging creates snapshots of metabolites revealing host-microbe interactions Published in #Nature Protocols by P. Bourceau, M. Liebeke, B. Geier et al @UniKiel @MarineMicrobio nature.com/articles/s41... mpi-bremen.de/en/The-metab...