Only 2 days remaining to submit your poster abstract for FEMS Regional COLLAB. Share your research, grow your network, and exchange ideas with renowned speakers including Christa Schleper, Katharina Wincor, Maja Rupnik, Marina Santic, Ines Mandić-Mulec, and Doris Ribitsch. 🔗 buff.ly/7quXJ4t

FEMS MICRO 2027 – Growing Microbial Futures ✨ Explore Ljubljana & the venue ✨ Submit a session proposal ✨ Save the date Be part of the conversations shaping the future of microbiology. Join us in Ljubljana next July and stay updated: buff.ly/5HEuk3g

🌟 Editor's Choice Closing the loop with green methanol 🌱🧪 Read how A. Mauri et al. optimize and scale up L-malic acid production in #Ogataea_polymorpha, advancing sustainable biomanufacturing from one-carbon feedstocks: 🔗 buff.ly/GKzIxkw #FEMSYeastRes

Phages play a fundamental role in shaping microbial communities, influencing ecosystem processes, and driving microbial evolution.This curated reading list brings together recent research from the FEMS Journals highlighting the ways phages shape our world. All open access: buff.ly/YAbMjzV

Once overlooked, small proteins are now recognized as widespread and functionally important players in prokaryotic biology. This reading list highlights recent discoveries in the field and offers a preview of an upcoming microLife thematic issue on the same topic: buff.ly/jmUbusn

Once overlooked, small proteins are now recognized as widespread and functionally important players in prokaryotic biology. This reading list highlights recent discoveries in the field and offers a preview of an upcoming microLife thematic issue on the same topic: buff.ly/jmUbusn

Recent cryo-electron tomography images show that bacterial flagellar motors are far more diverse and complex than previously imagined. This #FEMSmicroBlog dives into a long-overlooked and newly characterised component of the molecular motor: the “E-ring”. #FascinatingMicrobes buff.ly/ApRyeoL

📢 Meet our opening keynote speaker: Prof. Marion Koopmans. Hear from Prof. Koopmans as she shares her insights and helps kick off an inspiring programme of scientific exchange, innovation, and collaboration at FEMS MICRO 2027. Got a well-developed session proposal: submit by 30 Sep buff.ly/H7SdzrI

🔬 Looking to reach the global microbiology community? Exhibit at #FEMSMICRO2027 and connect with researchers, industry leaders, and innovators. Know an organisation that would be interested? Share this opportunity! 👉 buff.ly/oO8d1Eh

📢 Session proposal submissions are now open for #FEMSMICRO2027! Join us in Ljubljana, Slovenia (5–8 July 2027) under the theme Growing Microbial Futures and help shape the scientific programme. ⏰ Submit by 30 Sept 2026 (23:59 CEST) buff.ly/iXYOjPp #FEMSMICRO

⏳ Only 2 weeks left to submit a poster abstract to the FEMS Regional COLLAB programme at #ÖGMBT2026! Showcase your expertise, research focus, and collaboration potential through a research profile abstract. 👉 buff.ly/fdf9K16

A bacterial genome sequenced in hours shows how far we’ve come since the first decoded bacterial genome in 1995. Today, long-read sequencing reveals plasmid-borne antimicrobial resistance genes, showing how resistance can spread. Read on the #FEMSmicroBlog. #MicrobiologyIsEverywhere buff.ly/eAsvwvT

Back in Madrid after 3 months at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social! I recently wrapped up a research stay at @binfutrecht.bsky.social working on cereal metagenomics for my PhD thesis 🧬 Big thanks to @mfseidl.bsky.social and the TBB team, and to @femsmicro.org for the Research and Training Grant!

To understand the mechanisms of DNA-binding proteins, researchers adapted super-resolution microscopy techniques. 🧬 This #FEMSmicroBlog explains how this new imaging toolbox can unravel responses to UV light-induced DNA damage in the model Haloferax volcanii. #FascinatingMicrobes buff.ly/ciKcgEp

Geochemistry shapes microbial diversity and selected functional traits in flowback and produced waters from hydraulically fractured formations #microbiology #MicroSky @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Geochemistry shapes microbial diversity and selected functional traits in flowback and produced waters from hydraulically fractured formations

Abstract. Microbial communities inhabiting hydraulically fractured subsurface waters are increasingly recognized as important components of unconventional

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🦠 Your next collaboration could start at FEMS Regional COLLAB 2026. Explore #EcoInnovations, #HealthHorizons & #Biotechnology, connect with funders, industry partners & fellow researchers, and turn ideas into projects, publications & new opportunities. 📢 Submit your abstract today buff.ly/5lPe9CP

Unfermented cocoa beans are highly bitter & astringent, nothing like the delicious chocolate flavour we all know & love. To celebrate #WorldChocolateDay, our #FEMSmicroBlog walks you through the microbial process behind cocoa fermentation & the challenges that come with it 🍫 buff.ly/tVwNVCO

We started today our "Increasing the Incorporation of #Microbiology Topics into Secondary School Curricula Through a Professional Development #Summer #Workshop" with Mary Allen from #Hartwick College and high school teachers from teachers. #education @femsmicro.org @asm.org

Happy Birthday, Fanny!

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In 1881, drawing on her experience as a cook, Fanny Hesse suggested using agar instead of gelatin to culture bacteria: a simple idea that helped shape microbiology today. Happy birthday to a pioneer who deserved far more recognition. 🧫 Illustration by Veronica Pisano

To fix carbon, primary producers rely on various autotrophic pathways, which they tweak to suit the environmental context. 🦠 This #FEMSmicroBlog explores whether microorganisms would do the same with the reductive and the reverse oxidative citric acid cycles. #FascinatingMicrobes

#FEMSmicroBlog: Building biomolecules from carbon dioxide and bicarbonate in unusual places

This #FEMSmicroBlog explores whether microorganisms tweak autotrophic carbon-fixing pathways to suit their environmental context. #FascinatingMicrobes

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⏳ Deadline tomorrow ⏳ Final chance to secure an oral presentation at FEMS Regional COLLAB while registering at early bird rates. Connecting microbiologists, industry & funders across: 🧬 Biotechnology 🌱 Eco Innovations 🩺 Health Horizons 🤝 Engagement & Growth 📅 Register and join us buff.ly/MSXbtOM

In 1881, drawing on her experience as a cook, Fanny Hesse suggested using agar instead of gelatin to culture bacteria: a simple idea that helped shape microbiology today. Happy birthday to a pioneer who deserved far more recognition. 🧫 Illustration by Veronica Pisano

New in @femsmicro.org xtag034 #OpenAccess "Revealing the bacterial diversity and variation of white filamentous microbial mats in marine mangroves of Guadeloupe Island in relation to human activities" Martínez-Noriega,M., Jean-Louis,P.,Gonzalez-Rizzo,S. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Dr. Michael Sauer, FEMS Board Member and ÖGMBT President, invites you to join him this year in Vienna as collaboration takes centre stage at the FEMS Regional COLLAB. Discover how collaboration can transform ideas into impact. ⏰ 23 June EB Deadline: buff.ly/pg2yXvN

Más info ➡️ lnkd.in/eawmcxYW #JISEM #Microbioma #Microbiome @csic.es @femsmicro.org @mncn-csic.bsky.social

From the Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbiology Letters 👇

Clare T 🏳️‍🌈@claret-micro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At FEMS Microbiology Letters, we have an open call for our next thematic issue on pathogenic E. coli, guest edited by Nicola Holden, Janet Nale & Todd Callaway. Submission deadline 30 November 2026. #MicroSky @femsjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/femsle/pages...

Converting carbon into biomass is the job of primary producers— many of which rely on the acetyl-CoA pathway to fix carbon. 💨 This #FEMSmicroBlog discusses the enzymatic reactions of this pathway and how it provides insights into how life evolved on Earth. 🦠 #FascinatingMicrobes

#FEMSmicroBlog: What carbon-fixating microbial enzymes tell us about evolution

#FEMSmicroBlog: the enzymatic reactions of the acetyl-CoA pathway could provide us with valuable insights into how life originated and evolved on Earth

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Dr. Matthias Steiger, FEMS Delegate of ÖGMBT, warmly invites you to join him this Sept at the FEMS Regional COLLAB, taking place within the 18th ÖGMBT Annual Meeting in Vienna. ⏰ Don’t miss the 23 June early bird and oral abstract deadline: buff.ly/pg2yXvN

#RRB2026 Congratulations to the FEMS poster award winner at RRB2026! thank you Fems Microbiology Letters! @pedrofardim.bsky.social @chsteven.bsky.social @femsmicro.org @synbioc.bsky.social