#NatMicroPicks Microbiome in drought resistance! 🦠🌱 Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance #MicroSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance

Plant-microbiome interactions are crucial in maintaining plant health and productivity under stress; however, little is known about these interactions…

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Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded the @ec.europa.eu MSCA Postdoc Fellowship! Excited to work at the @algaeFamLAB with @alexdubini & the rest of the Fam to break new ground in algal #symbiosis research for sustainable solutions 🌱🔬🧬 Huge thanks to everyone who supported me on this journey!! 💚✨

"The Twenty-Year Story of CRISPR Unfolded across Twelve Cities in Nine Countries" Source: The Heroes of CRISPR by Eric S. Lander  🔗https://www.broadinstitute.org/files/news/pdfs/PIIS0092867415017055.pdf

So glad to see this work led by the fantastic @freddybunbury.bsky.social published in @pnas.org! #Cyanobacteria, and #Chloroflexota from hot springs ♨️ teaming up to chase the light!☀️

Freddy Bunbury@freddybunbury.bsky.social · 2y ago

How does light structure microbial mats? To explore this, we studied #Cyanobacteria and Chloroflexota from hot springs. Using simple synthetic communities, we found that these species cooperate, forming stronger #biofilms and moving further together. Paper now in PNAS: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey folks, microbial evolution (and I interpret this super broadly- bacteria, archaea, viruses, theory, Alife, field, lab, biophys, etc) now has a feed thanks to @atinygreencell.bsky.social. I hope this will be my ye olde Science Twitter v2. Come join us! 🧪 #MEvoSky Link: bsky.app/profile/did:...

New paper from my group and the group of @kiranrpatil.bsky.social: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

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

Many microorganisms are refractory to laboratory cultivation. One possible explanation, known as the great plate count anomaly, is metabolic dependencies among community members. However, systematic s...

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#HaceOchoAños Cómo se comunican las bacterias Una conferencia de la Dra. Bonnie Lynn Bassler 

Cómo se comunican las bacterias - Mujeres con ciencia

Bonnie Lynn Bassler. Biología molecular. Bioquímica. Bacterias. Percepción de quórum. Regulación de la expresión génica. Lenguaje químico

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Modes and mechanisms for the inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in pathogenic protists #PLOSPathogens @plos.org journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Modes and mechanisms for the inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in pathogenic protists

Pathogenic protists are responsible for many diseases that significantly impact human and animal health across the globe. Almost all protists possess mitochondria or mitochondrion-related organelles, ...

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Gracias @cordobaciencia.bsky.social por compartir nuestro trabajo y ayudarnos a acercar nuestra investigación a tod@s 🔬🌍🙏🏻

UCCi Córdoba@cordobaciencia.bsky.social · 2y ago

La investigadora @vickiecalatrava.bsky.social te cuenta🎥 uno de sus últimos trabajos en el que han descubierto cómo las algas producen la hormona auxina para comunicarse 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0P...

Fascinating paper on making new genes from random sequences! Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology

Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein home...

Screening 100 million random genes, which lack homology to natural sequences, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of Escherichia coli cells caused by the toxin MazF, the authors find ~2,000 hi...

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Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity

The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...

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Since this is the new 💙 place, I’ll post it here too: The vibrant cyan from cyanobacteria will just never cease to amaze me 💙 Am I alone?? (Certainly I am not!)

Coral endosymbiont growth is enhanced by metabolic interactions with bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coral endosymbiont growth is enhanced by metabolic interactions with bacteria - Nature Communication...

A new study reveals that bacterial partners supply essential metabolites to the vital microalgal symbionts of corals, including metabolites that boost symbiont growth. This breakthrough increases our ...

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For all the people migrating here that work on #Symbiosis, I have now created a (hopefully) working feed for us. For now, simply tag posts with #SymbioSky and they will be collected there. No sign-up needed!

Had a fantastic time at the #ISE23 @cellinsidecell in Chicago last week. Got to hear so many exciting talks, a fantastic panel discussion and live jazz! AND finally met in person so many amazing scientists… Really nicely organized meeting 💙