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Mike Jetten

@msmjetten.bsky.social

Anammox, anaerobic microbiology, methane, nitrogen cycle, microbial ecology, KNVM, Mike Jetten Award, archaea, comammox, Methylomirabilis, Methanoperedens, denitrification, metagenomics, biogeochemistry, coastal ecosystems

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STCmicrobeblog@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 12h ago

𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘆 Small Things Considered... #CryoEM #CryoET #TeamTomo #MicroSky

MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences@mpi-nat.bsky.social · 15h ago

Every electron counts⚛️! Researchers have determined the structure of the protein rubredoxin at an unprecedented 0.43 Ångström resolution. The method could now allow routine quantum crystallography of biological macromolecules. 👇More about this major advancement: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5314392/rn_2...

The image shows a valence electron deformation map of archaeal rubredoxin at 0.43 Ångström resolution: Refinement of the archaeal rubredoxin structure with the DiSCaMB transferable aspherical atom model (TAAM) library connected to BUSTER directly reveals quantum mechanical phenomena. The rubredoxin protein model (sticks) is surrounded by the electron density map (blue to red: low to high density). This valence electron deformation map derived from model refinement reveals electrons in the midpoint of chemical bonds and (valence) electron lone pairs.
Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash.bsky.social · yesterday

MetaCAT enables reconstruction of high-quality microbial genomes and their association with host traits from metagenomic data www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

MetaCAT enables reconstruction of high-quality microbial genomes and their association with host traits from metagenomic data - Nature Microbiology

MetaCAT is a computational framework to assess host–microbiome interaction via a combination of high-accuracy and efficient microbial genome reconstruction and metagenome-wide association studies with...

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Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash.bsky.social · 5d ago

MicroID Lab Guide: an open-source, customizable web application to guide students through unknown bacterial identification in undergraduate microbiology labs journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs

MicroID Lab Guide: an open-source, customizable web application to guide students through unknown bacterial identification in undergraduate microbiology labs | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education

Identifying the species of unknown bacterial isolates is one of the core competencies in many undergraduate microbiology courses, in which students have to apply various bacterial lab techniques to gather data on the unknown bacteria’s characteristics using a logical approach based on morphology, results of tests using selective and differential media, and biochemical test results (1, 2). The exercise develops critical thinking that parallels clinical and environmental workflows. However, the open-ended nature of the exercise poses challenges: students must decide which tests to run, interpret multi-observation assays such as Kligler’s Iron Agar, and maintain organized records across laboratory sessions (3). A paper or electronic record-based datasheet does not provide any feedback on the logical consistency of the results entered, and students may not realize gaps, errors, or inconsistencies in their results until a false result or inconclusive result is the final conclusion.

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Christian Kost@kostchristian.bsky.social · last wk.

Very happy that our paper Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities just came out in Nature Microbiology. See here 👇 Paywalled version: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free read-only version: rdcu.be/fBHAb

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities - Nature Microbiology

Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...

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