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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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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Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

EMBL researchers are helping improve how satellites interpret tropical forests. EMBL researchers and collaborators are combining microbial DNA and RNA sequencing with airborne and satellite observations to give satellites a ’microbial sense’ of forests. More info 👉 www.embl.org/news/science...

Understanding tropical forest health from above and below | EMBL

EMBL, NASA, and partner institutions are combining genomics with remote sensing to give satellites a microbial sense of tropical forests.

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New preprint from the lab! "Planetary structure and drivers of diazotroph communities reveal key reservoirs of nitrogen-fixation potential" Nitrogen fixation is scattered right across the prokaryotic tree — but it's heterotrophs, not cyanobacteria, that dominate the potential. 🧵

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · last wk.

Planetary structure and drivers of diazotroph communities reveal key reservoirs of nitrogen-fixation potential https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.27.741065v1

Don‘t forget to register for what promises to be an end-of-the-year highlight in functional microbiome research 👇🏻 !

Typas Lab@typaslab.bsky.social · last mo.

How can we harness the vast functional diversity of microbes on our planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research. www.embl.org/about/info/c...

EMBL and partners carried out a new pilot project in Luxembourg to study how freshwater microbiomes respond to environmental change. By sampling rivers and soils along the Moselle and Rhine, researchers aim to provide a way to track ecosystem stress and pollution. www.embl.org/news/connect...

Tracing environmental change through river microbiomes in Luxembourg  | EMBL

EMBL and partners carried out a new TREC pilot project in Luxembourg to study how freshwater microbiomes respond to environmental change.

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Our new paper „Variations in the latitudinal diversity gradients of the ocean microbiome“ was just published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🥳 We present a global analysis of prokaryotic #biodiversity in the surface and mesopelagic layers of the ocean 🦠🌊 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Variations in the latitudinal diversity gradients of the ocean microbiome

Eriksson et al. conduct a global marine microbiome diversity analysis and demonstrate how the surface ocean latitudinal diversity gradient is disproportionately shaped by a few species-rich taxa. Mask...

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New in @natgenet.nature.com: a moving obituary for Peer. Francesca Ciccarelli, Jan Korbel & Christian von Mering reflect on his scientific vision, from protein domains and genome evolution to metagenomics, and on his generosity as a mentor and friend to so many. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Peer Bork (1963–2026) - Nature Genetics

Nature Genetics - Peer Bork (1963–2026)

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Our work exploring host-microbial co-metabolism of bile acids in patients with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) has been published in the JHEP Reports: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🪐 A big thank you to everyone involved, to the GALAXY and MicrobLiver consortia who made this possible! 🙌

Alcohol-related liver disease disrupts bile acid homeostasis and gut microbial bile acid metabolism

Alcohol overuse disrupts liver function and alters gut microbial communities, with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) causing half of all liver-relat…

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Our study describing `microntology` and annotations for >300k metagenomes is now online in Bioinformatics @academic.oup.com : academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Congratulations to @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @biocs.bsky.social ! See the thread below for more details.

microntology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe Earth’s microbial habitats

AbstractMotivation. Data-enabled studies of microbial ecology and evolution depend on high-quality descriptions of microbial habitats, based on curated and

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Sebastian Schmidt@tsbschm.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We just released a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social describing the *microntology*, a lightweight controlled vocabulary that we have been using for a while to tag metagenomes with contextual data. Study by @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social et al: 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨Take this 15 min survey to shape the future of #Hepatology: 👉 survey.alchemer.eu/s3/91085482/... 🦠 #Microbiome-based mechanisms & biomarkers for improved patient stratification + prediction of therapeutic response in decompensated #Cirrhosis / #ACLF ⏳Survey closes on 17 May @easlnews.bsky.social

Due to some IT problems, the Bork group homepage and various services such as SPIRE and Metalog are unfortunately going to be unavailable for a couple of days. We're sorry for that and hope that the outage can soon be resolved!

@fullam.bsky.social has pushed a new #GUNC release, v1.1.0: github.com/grp-bork/gun... It fixes some bugs, updates some underlying databases and brings new features (e.g. you can now BYODB – bring your own database). GUNC v1.1.0 is also live on #bioconda .

Excited to share the upcoming EMBO | EMBL Symposium “Metabolic interactions shape ecosystems” 🧬🌍 📍 Heidelberg & online 📅 21–24 July 2026 Abstract deadline: 14 April! More info & registration: www.embl.org/about/info/c... #Metabolism #Microbiome #SystemsBiology #Ecology #EMBL #EMBO

Metabolic interactions shape ecosystems

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'Phil was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the beloved Ten Simple Rules series. He was so prolific in the series that the meta-article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” literally includes, as Rule 4: “Be Philip E. Bourne.”

Remembering Phil Bourne

Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor

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We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology. Are you generating more research ideas than you can explore? Lead cutting-edge AI & biology research at EMBL-EBI. Apply by 11 April 2026: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ScienceCareers @ewaldlab.org @embl.org

Just published: "Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats" by @podlesny.bsky.social @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social and @jonas-bio.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... See the quoted post below for a thread on the preprint!

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats

A planetary-scale analysis of over 85,000 metagenomes establishes a framework for exploring the structure and drivers of global microbial habitats, revealing that generalist species bridge ecological ...

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Chan Yeong Kim@chanyeong-kim.bsky.social · last yr.

Our new preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide. @podlesny.bsky.social @jonas-bio.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social

In the largest study of its kind, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL have found that a small subset of microbes can carry and transfer genes across disparate habitats, creating a planet-wide, interconnected network of microbiomes 🌍 🦠 🔗 Read more here: www.embl.org/news/science...

Excited to announce my upcoming @snsf.ch Ambizione research group at EPFL on bacteria-host interactions, combining systems approaches and microphysiological models. 🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/ 🧪

It has been two weeks since the unexpected death of Peer Bork, and all of us in his research group are deeply missing him. His scientific vision brought us together as a team, and we are immensely grateful for the time we spent together. 🧵

EMBL@embl.org · 7mo ago

EMBL is deeply saddened by the passing of our Interim Director General Peer Bork, a pioneering scientist who left an indelible imprint on life science research in Europe and beyond. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. www.embl.org/news/people-...

EMBL is deeply saddened by the passing of our Interim Director General Peer Bork, a pioneering scientist who left an indelible imprint on life science research in Europe and beyond. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues. www.embl.org/news/people-...

We just released a @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social describing the *microntology*, a lightweight controlled vocabulary that we have been using for a while to tag metagenomes with contextual data. Study by @fullam.bsky.social @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social et al: 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

microntology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe Earth's microbial habitats

Summary. We introduce microntology v1.0, a pragmatic controlled vocabulary of 148 terms to describe microbial habitats and lifestyles, and provide manually curated microntology annotations for >300k m...

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We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊 Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects. #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs Full job ad: lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...

Text-mining tools have progressed a lot in the last two decades, and I'm excited to see what can be done now. More info chembl.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-... Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin... The position is at @ebi.embl.org #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #ChemSky #BioSky [3/3]

...but life intervened and funding changed, so SIDER sideeffects.embl.de is unfortunately gathering dust since its last update in 2015. But there's good news: @chembl.bsky.social and @opentargets.org are starting a new effort to mine the available data and produce a high-quality databases! [2/3]

During my PhD @borklab.bsky.social, we extracted drug side effect data from package inserts and used the dataset to predict new drug targets (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) and pinpoint proteins that mediate the side effects (doi.org/10.1038/msb....). We also published the underlying database... [1/3]

Drug Target Identification Using Side-Effect Similarity

Targets for drugs have so far been predicted on the basis of molecular or cellular features, for example, by exploiting similarity in chemical structure or in activity across cell lines. We used pheno...

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Congratulations, Julia Mahamid! Julia Mahamid receives the @dfg.de Leibniz Prize for her work on structural cell biology! #LeibnizPreis

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · 8mo ago

Und hier sind sie – die 10 Preisträger*innen des Gottfried Wilhelm #LeibnizPreis' 2026 – ausgezeichnet für ihre exzellenten Forschungsarbeiten und Errungenschaften in der Wissenschaft! 🏆👏 Die Verleihung der Preise feiern wir am 18. März in Berlin. Einzelheiten & Kurzprofile: sohub.io/1uv1

From @jhcepas.bsky.social and colleagues in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations | #Bioinformatics #ProteinCentric #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🇨🇭🇪🇸🇩🇪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations

Abstract. The eggNOG (evolutionary genealogy of genes: Non-supervised Orthologous Groups) database is a phylogenomic resource for orthology inference, evol

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We're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8