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Belated happy birthday to the #LTEE. Started 24-Feb-1988. Evolve cells, evolve! #science #evolution #bacteria #microsky @barricklab.bsky.social

COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️ github.com/linxingchen/...

COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes - Nature Microbiology

Contig overlap-based reassembly enables the generation of accurate and high-quality viral genomes from assembled metagenomes.

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We now have a fully funded (3 year) PhD position available in disease ecology (Lyme disease with focus on modeling of ecological interactions and processes influencing disease dynamics). Please help spread to interested applicants! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

3rd protistology Nordics meeting now open for registration #protistsonsky protistologynordics.netlify.app/upcoming/pro...

Protistology Nordics Meeting 2024 | Protistology Nordics Society

Join us for the 3rd Protistology Nordics Meeting in Uppsala on 2-3 May 2024!

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Interested in drinking water flow cytometry? Check out our new studying evaluating near real-time FCM for disinfection system monitoring! @lutraskin.bsky.social 🧪 #MicroSky

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 3y ago

Assessing the effectiveness of near real-time flow cytometry in monitoring ozone disinfection in a full-scale drinking water treatment plant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.29.23300640v1

Ten days remaining to apply to this exciting PhD position - join us in our quest to explore novel archaeal lineages!

Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 3y ago

Want to do a #PhD focusing on discovery, cultivation and characterization of novel prokaryotes? Come and join my group in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #cultivation #microscopy #archaea #PhDposition Please share & repost

📢Listen up Microbial Ecology nerds! 🤓 #ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation! We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year! isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...

The protist cultural renaissance www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs

"Gene duplication as a major force driving the genome expansion in some giant viruses"-Machado et al describe a new giant virus, Cedratvirus pambiensis, and show that its 623,564 kb genome has evolved through gene duplication, a common theme among giant viruses. #giantViruses doi.org/10.1128/jvi....

Want to do a #PhD focusing on discovery, cultivation and characterization of novel prokaryotes? Come and join my group in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #cultivation #microscopy #archaea #PhDposition Please share & repost

~85% of animal species are Arthropods. ~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont. ~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO. -#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia -Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy. link.springer.com/protocol/10....

Isolation of Phage WO Particles from Wolbachia-Infected Arthropods

Nearly all arthropod-associated Wolbachia contain intact and/or genomic remnants of phage WO, temperate bacteriophages that facilitate horizontal gene transfer, genomic rearrangement of the bacterial ...

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Difficult to be more #protistsonsky that this. Very cool 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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Amazing work by @annamichalik.bsky.social and co., from the Jagiellonian University, showing a quite interesting "trick" from an #endosymbiont to insure its maternal transmission. As a puls, an "unstable" #Sulcia genome and a tiny #Vidania #SymbioSky #MicroSky doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Facultatively intra-bacterial localization of a planthopper endosymbiont as an adaptation to its ver...

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🔍 Exciting news from @ettema.bsky.social ! Stay tuned for a forthcoming PhD position in cultivating novel microbial lineages, specifically #archaea, at Microbiology lab, at WUR campus in Wageningen. Spread the word to potential candidates! #ScienceCareers

Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺@ettema.bsky.social · 3y ago

First post here: I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!!!). If you are interested in joining our lab at WUR campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.

First post here: I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!!!). If you are interested in joining our lab at WUR campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.

I am just so fascinated by this image. From this paper: analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #protistsonsky

It was good to hang around in #London, a first since Covid lockdown! Always pleasant to (re)discover places that makes this city such a great venue !

Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum ISME Journal by Margaret I. Steele et al from David Queller and Joan Strassmann labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

happy to contribute to the new fees #protistsonsky with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

Yay let’s get the #protistsonsky party started 😉

STCmicrobeblog@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 3y ago

happy to contribute to the new fees #protistsonsky with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

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!

DNA metabarcoding focused on difficult‐to‐culture protists: An effective approach to clarify biological interactions ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs

Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence sp...

ISME Communications - Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space

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Come work with us🤩! Postdoc in microbial ecology – investigating soil biodiversity in different farm types in Sweden molecularly and morphologically via #soilchips – embedded in an interdisciplinary network at @BECC_sweden @LundUniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Nice to see that Huimin's paper has been selected as an Editors’ highlight 🤩 #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🧫 www.nature.com/collections/...

Microbiology and infectious diseases

This page highlights recent articles on all aspects of bacteriology, mycology, parasitology and virology, covering the biology of pathogens, host-pathogen ...

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Just published - our latest review in FEMS Microbiology reviews on the incredible array of 'virologs' in diverse giant viruses- pushing the limit of viral mimicry! Sincere thanks to all the co-authors and Monir Lab students who have participated! academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

I see the geNomad paper is out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad - Nature Biotechnology

geNomad identifies mobile genetic elements in sequencing data.

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There is a new 🐁 gut bacterium on the block that likes to hang out with other bacteria that feed it with taurine and bullies some pathogens Please welcome Taurinivorans muris 💩🦠🧫 #Taurinivorans #taurine #sulfide #H2S #bileacids #metabolism #microbiome #pathogen #prophage

Ecophysiology and interactions of a taurine-respiring bacterium in the mouse gut - Nature Communicat...

Authors utilise a multi-omics approach for the ecophysiological characterization of a taurine-respiring mouse gut bacterium.

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