#MVIF 49 is live in the Pacific time zones! @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social just opened the event, join us here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-49

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

You missed the last #MVIF... No problem, now you can enjoy reading #MVIF 48 reflections! @memartino.bsky.social (ATL) & @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social (PAC) opened the event w/highlights: @pamferretti.bsky.social talked abt how breast milk directly seeds & stabilizes the infant gut microbiome, 1/n

A truly rewarding experience—both in shaping programs that support our community and connecting with microbiologists across sectors. If you’re considering getting involved, I’d really encourage you to apply!

#MVIF 48 starts next week! Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-48 ⭐️ Highlights: 🇺🇸 Rachel R. Rock 🇺🇸 @pamferretti.bsky.social ⭐️ Keynote: 🇦🇺 @pam-engelberts.bsky.social and @jamesvolmer.bsky.social ⭐️ Talks: 🇨🇳 Linxing Chen 🇨🇳 Zhemin Zhou 🇦🇺 Hoai-An Nguyen

Catch up on our latest episodes while you wait 👇 www.youtube.com/playlist?app... Read the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 💐 Thanks to @cpavloud.bsky.social @tosina.bsky.social @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social Merel van Gogh and @microbiomevif.bsky.social #MVIFconversations podcast team. 2/2

Out Now! Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome #MicroSky

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Start 2026 with us! Join us in discussing microbiome science: register here → cassyni.com/s/mvif-45

Join #MVIF 44 cassyni.com/s/mvif-44 the Pacific team is ready to welcome you soon!

On #WAAW2025, AMI urges global policymakers to strengthen the revised Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP-AMR), calling for a more inclusive, clear and equitable approach to tackling one of the world’s most urgent health challenges. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-war...

Join an Advisory Group, Shape the Future 🌐 AMI is inviting members to apply to join our Advisory Groups. Each group is a global network of experts helping to steer AMI’s priorities, strategies, and initiatives in line with six #UNSDGs. Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...

👏👏GREAT talk! Ready for Q&A! Moderator: Kate Lagerstrom X: @kate-lagerstrom Bluesky: @kate-lagerstrom.bsky.social

💫 #MVIF Season 5 💫 Feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/how-to... #MVIF is proudly supported by #illumina @corundumsb.bsky.social and our non-commercial co-organizing partners Seerave Foundation @cunysph.bsky.social

Thanks Annie Roth! Great article on our new IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group in National Geographic. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Could you be the next President of Applied Microbiology International? We're recruiting our next President to join our Board of Trustees and lead our organisation into the future. Find out more & apply: appliedmicrobiology.org/about/our-te... Deadline: 30 September 2025, 10pm (BST)

🥁 We’re thrilled to announce the beginning of #MVIF Season 5 with #GloMiNe2025 event jointly organized by @microbiotavault.bsky.social and #MVIF Save the date: 9 & 10/11 September 2025 & register here: cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...

Nice article on the presentation i gave at ADLM last week. read.nxtbook.com/kiva_communi...

Applied Microbiology International is to lead a new conservation committee dedicated to the protection of microbial biodiversity. IUCN has approved the creation of the first-ever Species Survival Commission (SSC) group dedicated to microbial biodiversity. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/ami-to-...

Join us at this meeting to learn more about AMI's key achievements and strategic progress made during 2024. You'll also be invited to: 🟣 Approve the minutes of the 2024 AGM 🟣 Approve changes to our Articles of Association 🟣 Welcome new trustees and thank those retiring from the Board

🌍🦠 World Microbiome Day shout-out: we’ve just unveiled the Microbiota Vault—a planetary backup for microbial diversity. Built on equitable, One Health values & linked to the new IUCN SSC Microbiomes. Read our Nature Comms piece: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #MicrobiotaVault #Conservation #WMD2025

I’m so proud to be a part of AMI. Congratulations to the whole team!

A new type of immune defense discovered in E. coli turns viral machinery against itself. Dubbed "Kongming" after the Chinese military strategist who used enemy's weapons to defeat them, this novel immune signaling pathway could benefit the future of phage therapy: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome! @patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social @waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach. There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

Not only is it authored by a few of my scientific idols, it also has a foreword by Jared Diamond?! I need this book now! Check out the new book by Paul Ehrlich and Rodolfo Dirzo of Stanford and Gerardo Ceballos of UNAM bit.ly/3BjimXZ

Hey microbiologist friends! What bugs like to grow in coffee?? 😅 (Note to self: Don’t forget to wash out the coffee pot next time you go on a month-long trip…)

Today, 14 journals published the same call-to-action. It succinctly outlines microbe-based strategies to combat the climate crisis. The authors volunteer to spearhead the creation of a task force, but need our help! Contact them @ [email protected] www.the-microbiologist.com/news/scienti...

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added! A thread (1/3) go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi

The last chapter of my dissertation describes E. coli diversity in wildlife at Stanford’s Jasper Ridge & offers insights into the role of humans in the occurrence of antibiotic resistant & pathogenic strains. Thanks to my co-authors and collaborators🙏🏼 Read it now! www.cell.com/iscience/ful... (1/8)