6 Scientists. 1 Panel. Big ideas. From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱 Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology! 🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing 🔗 Join us: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...

Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap. Read more: isme-microbes.org/microbes-wit... #MicrobialEcology #ClimateAction

In the last edition of the series about our Early Career Scientist Committee, Leslie Daille talks about her commitment to the scientific community at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-le...

New ECSC Member Xiaohua Han tells more about herself and her research on geomagnetic fields and microorganisms at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-xi...

Two weeks left for students and postdocs to apply to receive support for international research, training, or lab visits. Submit your application by 1 October 2025! Learn more and apply: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Meet ISME Early Career Scientist Committee Member Samuel Eziuzor who recently joined the ECSC, as he explains about his work on the structure and function of prokaryotes, at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-sa...

🌟Join us for the 2nd ISME #UnityInDiversity Conference!🌟 📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing 🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan 🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t... Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨

New ISME Early Career Scientist Committee Member Akbar Adjie Pratama @adjiep.bsky.social has a joint position in Germany and the U.S. Learn more about his career and interests at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-ak...

My collaborator Ramunas Stepanauskas @rstepanauskas.bsky.social published a paper in ISME J @isme-microbes.bsky.social on horizontal gene transfer rates assessed by single-cell genomics academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #microsky #single-cell 🦠🧬🖥️🧪

The 12th World Sponge Conference @wscommunity.bsky.social is about to start, and I am happy that ISME @isme-microbes.bsky.social is supporting the "sponge symbioses" session through the ISME ambassador program! See you soon :)

Newly published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social's journal by Group Foster at DEEP.👇 A diatom’s cyanobacterial partner keeps a key bicarbonate transporter, helping sustain photosynthesis in low-CO₂ oceans. Discover how this shapes carbon cycling in the open sea below. 🌊🦠 @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

One of the seminal projects from my Genomics Aotearoa Postdoc position with Associate Professor Kim Handley is now published online at @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications!! 🥳🦠 "Salinity-driven niche differentiation within the aquatic Luna-1 subcluster"

✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology! Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there. 📅 Apply by 1 October 🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe!) Details: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar... #MicrobialEcology

Learn more about new ISME Early Career Scientist Member Pam Engelberts's research, career, and the work she's been doing for BrisJAMS. isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-pa...

Ann Gregory, Co-Chair of the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee, introduces herself and her work on viruses to the ISME community. Find out more at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-an...

In this new series, ISME would like to introduce the members of the Early Career Scientist Committee to you, starting with Chair Burak Avcı. Find out more at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-bu...

The ISME ECSC is glad to spotlight Marie Thomas, Postdoctoral researcher, and her paper "Development of a quantitative PMA-16S rRNA gene sequencing workflow for absolute abundance measurements of seawater microbial communities". doi.org/10.1186/s407... (1/2)

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

Second paper of my PhD just published in The ISME Journal!🕺🕺 A single genomovar of Haloquadratum walsbyi, the most abundant species in hypersaline environments, globally dominates due to its higher fitness compared to close relatives @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

@femsmicro.org @isme-microbes.bsky.social @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social @esci.eu @chronicle.com @superbugs.bsky.social

To celebrate that ISME20 is exactly one year from now, the ISME20 Local Organising Committee recreates the magic of their first video by taking you on a new adventure in the second installment. Watch the brand new video: isme-microbes.org/isme20-loc-v... #isme20

We are proud to announce the Keynote Speakers for ISME20, held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 16 - 21 August 2026! These eight internationally renowned microbial ecologists will each give a 45-minute presentation at the symposium. View them on isme-microbes.org/isme20-keyno... #isme20

The ISME Early Career Scientist Committee and ISME Publications welcomed 102 early career scientists to the inaugural ISME Early Career Scientist Reviewer Pool. Read more on isme-microbes.org/isme-launche... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

My experience in the Czech Republic has just come to an end. A huge thank you to everyone at the Aquatic Ecology Lab and the Institute of Hydrobiology for such a great time! I’m also truly grateful to @isme-microbes.bsky.social for the funding that made this experience possible!

🧵 New paper alert! Our first dive into non-human hosts: the gut microbiome of the critically endangered lemur Indri indri 🐒🌱 Led by talented MSc student Francisca Labisa-Morais! 📄 @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

The creation of the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group (MCSG) that is co-lead by ISME and @amiposts.bsky.social is a historic milestone in the global effort to protect microbial life. isme-microbes.org/microbial-ec... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #climatechange

According to @bmcgivern13.bsky.social, @kcwrighton.bsky.social et al., adding the plant compound catechin to peat cut methane emissions by up to 84%, likely by creating competition for hydrogen between catechin-degrading microbes and hydrogen-dependent methanogens. isme-microbes.org/how-does-cat...

Global microbiology societies gathered in Washington, DC, USA, to unite microbial science with climate action and create a shared planetary strategy. isme-microbes.org/microbial-le... @kcwrighton.bsky.social ‪@amiposts.bsky.social @aussocmic.bsky.social #MicrobialEcology #microbes #climatechange

‪Congratulations to @noahfierer.bsky.social, the winner of the ISME Winogradsky Award 2026. This award is dedicated to mid-career scientists who have substantially advanced the field of microbial ecology. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

A microbiome that produces more methane may be a sign that your gut microbiome is a super-harvester, according to a new ASU-led study by Blake Dirks et al., allowing you to unlock extra energy from a high-fiber diet. Read more on: isme-microbes.org/is-your-gut-... #MicrobialEcology #microbiome

ISME is proud to support the “Advancing Mechanistic Microbial Science Using Fabricated Ecosystems” event to take place at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, United States, from 6-9 August 2025. For registration, travel and lodging, please visit: eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-...

ISME congratulates @ilafores.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

#esm2025 is proud to publish @isme-microbes.bsky.social award winners: Anna Burns, Nompumemelo Dammie and Agnieszka Rzepczynska. Congrats for the memberships!

ISME is delighted to celebrate Janet Jansson’s outstanding lifetime contribution to microbial ecology and her enduring legacy in the field with the Tiedje Award. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

Pleased to share our publication in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal, reporting a novel extracellular electron transfer mechanism combining multiple systems in one organism to respire minerals, including the Mtr, Omc, and Pcc pathways found in model electroactive organisms Geobacter and Shewanella

Uri Sheyn et al. reveal that swirling ocean currents (eddies) create short-lived pockets that favor certain Prochlorococcus strains, showing how “ocean weather” shapes microbial diversity. isme-microbes.org/ocean-eddies... #Microbes #Prochlorococcus #mesoscaleeddies #oligotrophicocean #upwelling

Excited to announce that our study on the impact of host-level #biodiversity and habitat complexity on shaping #coral reef-associated #microbiome dynamics has been accepted in ISME Communications - @isme-microbes.bsky.social @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Thank you @isme-microbes.bsky.social for the support they have provided through the ISME Scholar Mobility Fund! For more details about the project see: www.davidboukal.com/index.php/en... x.com/davidb_cz/st...

We are happy to announce that @isme-microbes.bsky.social offers 12 travel awards for early-career scientists who will join the #mbkceesme2025 conference. forms.gle/ExVETmU6XZYz...

Excited to share: Phage–phage competition & biofilms affect interactions between two virulent bacteriophages & Pseudomonas aeruginosa academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #phagephagecompetition #biofilm #phagetherapy #pseudomonas @isme-microbes.bsky.social @geraldinen.bsky.social @midna002.bsky.social

Really proud of @arthurcoet.bsky.social for his fantastic first first-author paper about particle colonisation by diazotrophs in the #Arctic in @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @noc.ac.uk @mioceanologie.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @centuri-ls.bsky.social

Functional prediction of proteins from the human gut archaeome #microbiology #microbiota #archaea @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Many phytoplankton are affected by climate change via changes in temperature & pH, but to winter diatoms, it appears the issue is light. 🔗rebrand.ly/jsfhiow @zepernickbn.bsky.social @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social @eechase.bsky.social @utkmicrobiology.bsky.social @unc-emes.bsky.social

Read The ISME Journal Best Paper "Inter-Plasmid Gene Transfer Fuels AMR in Pathogens" by Xialong Wang et al. 🔗https://isme-microbes.org/inter-plasmid-gene-transfer-fuels-amr-in-pathogens/ #MicrobialEcology #microbes

It looks like you had a wonderful time during your research visit in Switzerland! Keep up the good work!

ISME congratulates Tess Brewer, Hans Bernstein, and @rkmicrobes.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards for their contributions to The ISME Journal. 🔗 isme-microbes.org/editorial-bo... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Congratulations to @jianhuaguo.bsky.social; @zepernickbn.bsky.social, R. Michael L. McKay, @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social; and Fabian Grein for their outstanding and impactful articles published in The ISME Journal. View the articles on isme-microbes.org/the-isme-jou... #MicrobialEcology #microbes

Last chance to send in your application to the Scholar Mobility Fund to visit a host institution outside of your country of study. You have until Monday to submit! ⏰⏳ 🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/ #MicrobialEcology #microbes

ISME Climate Change Committee members contributed to the Scientific Advisory Group convened by @asm.org and IUMS and produced a report, an article and factsheet on Microbial Solutions for Climate Change. Read more on bit.ly/3Y72JLT #MicrobialSolutions #ClimateAction #ResilientFuture

Welcome to Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University, United States, who has been has been appointed as the new ISME Ambassador Program Director! Find out more about Kelly and her new role: isme-microbes.org/kelly-wright... #MicrobialEcology #microbes