Our analysis of the characteristics and distribution of uncultivated soil prokaryotes is now published in BMC Genomics! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Genomic characteristics and geographical distribution of uncultivated soil prokaryotes - BMC Genomics

Most soil prokaryotic species remain uncultivated, limiting our understanding of the terrestrial microbiome. Metagenomic sequencing, and particularly the study of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), ...

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Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings | Nature by Hannah Docter-Loeb in Nature Careers Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing (including a contribution from our lab) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings

Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.

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The CGMLab is seeking an experienced postdoctoral researcher to work on an international project focusing on the clinical associations of the microbiome of the female reproductive tract and heavy menstrual bleeding disorder. Applications and info at jobs.cgmlab.org/o/postdoc-po...

Postdoc position - Microbiome Signatures of Heavy Menstrual Blee…

The Comparative Genomics & Metagenomics Lab (CGMLab, https://cgmlab.org) at the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP, Madrid) is seeking a postdoc…

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The CGMLab is seeking an experienced postdoctoral researcher to work on an EU project focusing on the bioprospecting of novel microbial enzymes and pathways through metagenomics. Further information and application form can be found at: jobs.cgmlab.org/o/postdoc-po...

Postdoc position - Metagenomic mining & Bioprospecting of novel …

The Comparative Genomics & Metagenomics Lab (CGMLab, https://cgmlab.org) at the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP, Madrid) is seeking a postdoc…

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Check out our new review: Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome just out in @natrevmicro.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature. Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#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

Our work on 'hidden diversity' in unbinned contigs is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... See the linked threads for more details!

Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome - Nature Microbiology

Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.

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Sebastian Schmidt@tsbschm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We've updated our recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on 'Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome', led by @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @omaistrenko.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final version published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment: Constraining the effect of global change on antifungal resistance @natrevearthenviron.nature.com @changchao-li.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Beyond thrilled to share that our study has been published! This project encompasses years of work, including my thesis research on Asgard archaea in the @archaeal.bsky.social lab at @utmsi.bsky.social and @texasscience.bsky.social!!! #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky 1/12

🌍🧬 Our Environmental #Metagenomics course with @oskolkov.bsky.social & @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social is back (Oct 12–16)! Learn state-of-the-art metagenomic analysis with real Illumina & @nanoporetech.com data. From reads to high-quality #MAGs using modern #bioinformatics workflows shorturl.at/Pi4Qt

Environmental drivers can shift in effect direction when acting in concert with other factors open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

Environmental drivers can shift in effect direction when acting in concert with other factors

Results from a recent paper from our group in Nature Communications

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It's Friday! ...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩 Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-46 Highlights: 🇺🇸 Rebecca L. Knoll 🇯🇵 Akito Sakanaka Keynote: 🇺🇸 @simrouxvirus.bsky.social ⭐️ Talks: 🇦🇺 @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @erikbakkeren.bsky.social 🇨🇳 Guanxiang Liang

Closely related microbes tend to live in similar communities across Earth’s environments. We call this pattern community conservatism - extending established ecological patterns to the microbial world. 🧬🌍 #MicrobialEcology #Evolution Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Last days to apply for these postdoctoral positions, including one in my group. auspire.eu/research-tea...

I woke up to some very sad news... Peer was a giant of bioinformatics and computational biology and an inspiring mentor to everyone who had been in his group. I find myself repeating things he said all the time and will probably keep doing so for the rest of my life www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

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Interested in working on the theory of and concepts behind multiple factor impacts on ecological systems and beyond? Please send expressions of interest. Starting Jan 2026, I would be awarding up to three postdoctoral fellowships on this topic (12 months; 2,5K €) to drive progress on this topic.

New paper up - inspired by the periodic table of the elements, we attempted to organize bacterial diversity in genome-inferred trait space academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Constructing a “periodic table” of bacteria to map diversity in trait space

Abstract. Despite an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmen

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MetaPointFinder: A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads. Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss. github.com/aldertzomer/...

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

Enjoyed the presentation 'Chrysalis. Artists in Labs' today as part of Berlin Science Week. Up on the stage also the lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and artist Helena Nikonole, who gave a presentation on their planned interaction. Organized by our friends at Art Laboratory Berlin.

As a part of Berlin Science week, I look forward to the event "Chrysalis. Artists in Labs", also featuring our lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and our artist-in-residence Helena Nikonole berlinscienceweek.com/programme/ch...

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

During 2025 and 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories...

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A genomic catalog of Earth's bacterial and archaeal symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

Very happy to participate in the Berlin Science week 2025 w/ @artlaboratoryb.bsky.social ! Come join us in this exciting event 👇

@artlaboratoryb.bsky.social · 12mo ago

SAVE THE DATE! Join us as part of Berlin Science Week 2025 for the presentation of CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS, an interdisciplinary conversation between artists and scientists Where: Holzmarkt 25, 10243 Berlin When: 8 November 2025 | 13:00 - 14:30 Register here: www.eventbrite.de/.../chrysali....

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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A periodic table of bacteria?: Mapping bacterial diversity in trait space www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

We are hiring a PhD student! Are you fascinated by microbes and evolution? Come join us in Barcelona!

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE)@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · last yr.

#WeAreHiring 📣 The #IBE_Barcelona is seeking a #PhD Student for the Evolutionary #Microbiology Lab.🔬🧫 ⏳ Apply before September 30th and #JoinOurTeam! #UnravellingEvolution #ConservingBiodiversity  ✍ https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers

Season 5 is going to start 🔜 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info... @kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social