Merry X-SMASH! My first first author paper is out on bioRxiv! 🖥 We present epsSMASH, a comprehensive and high-throughput tool for predicting exopolysaccharide (exoPS) biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in bacterial genomes 🦠🧬🧫 1/8

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

Have you ever wondered what is the best way to sample a biofilm? Here we take real cm-scale biofilm sequencing data to show the impact of sampling strategies. Better check this out before your next sampling campaign!

Eawag scientist Serina Robinson receives the ERC Starting Grant. She is investigating how microbial enzymes bind PFAS. 👉 www.eawag.ch/en/info/port... @erc.europa.eu @ethz.ch #Eawag #pollutants #foreverchemicals #ERCStG

Protect Trans Scientists. cowritten with a lot of amazing people (I tagged those I could find but there are so many more incredible folks) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @thepunkscientist.bsky.social @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social @bfrancescol.bsky.social @drsueishaq.bsky.social

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Having fun catching up with #Eawag at #MEWE11

There is still time to apply for #PhD studentships with us! Thanks for spreading the word. #phdchat #phdlife #academiclife

Please support my students kickstarter to finish an educational wastewater video game we started building! I taught an interdisciplinary capstone class video game where programmers, artists, sound designers, and education students could work together! www.kickstarter.com/projects/que...

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

📢 Just 2 days left for #MEWE11 abstracts! Deadline: Jan 10 Submit ASAP at mewe11.ce.gatech.edu/call-for-papers The 11th International Water Association Conference on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering awaits your research! 🦠💧 #microbialecology #microbiomeengineering #water #sustainability

📢 Abstract submission deadline for #mewe11 extended to Jan 10, 2025! Early submissions (before Dec 15) are now under review. Later submissions reviewed rolling basis. Learn more & submit: mewe11.ce.gatech.edu/call-for-papers

We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o. More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20... Please apply and/or circulate 😇

Be sure to give a read to Alessio's latest work! Cool combination of cultivation, bioinformatics and LC-MS to understand Legionella antagonism 🦠

I just made a first release of TNA - new tool to compare 2 bacterial genomes. Is shamelessly inspired by ACT, but should be simpler to use. Drag-n-drop two genomes: it runs BLAST for you and then you can visualize. For Mac, Windows 11, Linux tna.readthedocs.io

Check out our new paper, led by Astrid Stubbusch and @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social on bacterial degradation-dispersal cycles, out in @elife.bsky.social!

My friend & colleague @micsysecolab.bsky.social Matthias has written this extremely insightful and fascinating perspective on bacterial collective metabolism, out now in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social. So happy to see this out & super excited for proteome allocation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint! A bit of new direction for my research program: How can bacteria get nutrients when autonomous growth is not possible or passive leakage is not enough to support high growth? Shoot spearguns with toxins into other cells and leak out nutrients! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How many species of Legionella exist? If you ask your petri dish the answer is around 75, but is this the real number? And how are they different? Excited to share the answer to those questions, after an analysis of over 5000 genomes! doi.org/10.1101/2024... 1/n

[ 📢 Job opportunity 📢 ] We are looking for a research assistant to investigate the prevalence of Legionella species 🦠 in WWTPs across Switzerland, here at Eawag Apply here apply.refline.ch/673277/1198/..., get in touch to know more or retweet 🙏

Poster up #ASMicrobe based on our latest preprint! Happy to chat about this work in case anyone is interested!

#ASM2024 is right around the corner and our research group has lots to share with the ASM community. We have four posters and two oral presentations at hashtag#ASM2024. Please do consider stopping by to hear about some of our recent research findings. read below thread!! (1/n)

What is the current best strategy to curate assemblies of Illumina-only bacterial isolates?🧐🧬 I want to curate some genomes for which a closed "species representative" is available and I'm wondering what people are using nowadays #bioinfo #microbiology

Very excited for this new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social led by @ashsudarshan.bsky.social! "New drinking water genome catalog identifies a globally distributed bacterial genus adapted to disinfected drinking water systems." Check it out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

VEGA conferences are great and unique opportunities (in my unbiased opinion) to get a sense for some of the latest viral ecogenomics research. This one will have a day 1 dedicated to "Viromics measurement", and day 2 around "virus-host interactions" and "atypical viruses

New preprint from our group just dropped in bioRxiv! Alessio @alecava.bsky.social investigated the impact of two common DNA extraction methods on microbial community analysis in general and specifically on Legionella quantification. 🦠🧫 @mgabrielli.bsky.social biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

Last 48 hours for early career researchers to apply to the Legionella symposium at @EawagResearch ! 🦠🔬🏘️ Prepare for lots of good science and heated workshops discussions 🔥 Link: bit.ly/LeCo_Symp

📣 Second announcement 📣 Come to Eawag to present your research and discuss with international researchers the state of Legionella research and future research directions! 🦠🔬 Travel and childcare grants available! Link: bit.ly/LeCo_Symp Deadline: 15 March

PhD student opening! We are collaborating with the team of David Johnson @EawagResearch to understand E. faecalis polymicrobial community assembly, interactions, and consequences for AMR and infection. Details of the position and how to apply can be found here: tinyurl.com/ywa52a6a.

A great opportunity for all interested in Legionella and the microbiology of building plumbing systems🦠🏘️! Prepare for discussion on epidemiology, ecology and beyond!! #MicroSky

The Population Dynamics Virtual Seminars has a new home sites.google.com/view/popdyn/ Check the webpage and get informed on the 2024 speaker's list!

Metatranscriptomic analysis reveals synergistic activities of comammox and anammox bacteria in full-scale attached growth nitrogen removal system. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.08.574720v1

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genomes from metagenomic sequencing data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology👇🏼

📢Listen up Microbial Ecology nerds! 🤓 #ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation! We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year! isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...

New postdoc position in our lab for a project led by Marie Touchon (bioinformatics) and with O Tenaillon (experiments) on the evolution and dynamics of microbial genomes to understand their diversification by gene flow. Check research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Our department is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor on microbial interactions linked to the NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch Don't miss this opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic department in a city with hard-to-beat quality of life. Apply tinyurl.com/4k2mevax by Jan 31!

I am actively recruiting students for my lab at UMass Dartmouth! Are you interested in a project on actin, amoebae, cell migration, and/or pathogenesis? Send me an email & apply to the Integrative Biology PhD program by Jan 15! Please RT More info: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science

Looking to recruit 3 grad researchers. (1) Drinking water micro-ecology, (2) Nitrogen micro (specifically comammox), and (3) Algal micro + imaging. as Spring 2024 & late as Fall 2024. if you know someone creative + motivated + interested in these topics - would appreciate u sharing this with them.

Eukaryotic genomes from a global metagenomic data set illuminate trophic modes and biogeography of ocean plankton journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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