📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems". co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥 It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers! Dec. 12th. Please share! isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...

2025 ISB Virtual Microbiome Symposium - Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)

Symposium Schedule All presentation times are shown in Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -07:00 / UTC -07:00) Time Talk / Session 9:00 Welcoming remarks by Sid Venkatesh Session One: Neural Effects

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Do you like microbes and insects, and would like to get your favourites printed on articles or clothing? check out my art prints on Redbubble: www.redbubble.com/people/Chaii... Happy to take requests to add to this collection too :) #sciart #art #symbiosis #microbes #insects

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Chai_ntist is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

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Another fantastic study from @lisamaierlab.bsky.social showing how non-antibiotics impact gut ecosytem. Congratulations @ghammeranne.bsky.social et al.!

Anne Grießhammer@ghammeranne.bsky.social · last yr.

Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out! #science #microbiome #health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇

Christian Kost@kostchristian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

The September Science Academy was a big success and a great experience. 31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking. #Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

Excited to share some key details on our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reporting intra-cellular accumulation of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria. #microsky #mevosky #microbiomesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better! Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁

Cell Host & Microbe@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · last yr.

Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Nature awards and Yakult have announced another round of 'Global Grants for Gut Health'. An excellent opportunity for gut microbiota researchers, at any career stage, to win $100,000 for a year to cover their interesting research! #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky www.nature.com/immersive/gu...

Nature Awards Global Grants for Gut Health

Grants for researchers investigating the gut microbiota and its role in human health.

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Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities

In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...

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Glen Dsouza@nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · last yr.

This story started when we put two Vibrio species commonly found in the coastal oceans under the microscope. V. anguillarum cannot grow on alginate, an algal polysaccharide, but V. cyclitrophicus can. So how does the former species grow? The answer: By killing the ones that can #Microsky #T6SS

We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems #MicroSky

µscale dynamics in microbial ecosystems

Our research develops general principles underlying the functioning of microbial communities by studying model systems and natural marine communities from disparate environments.

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Glen Dsouza@nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

Ever thought about a nose-to-nose bacteria transfer? 👃🦠 I wrote about it — and no, it's not as gross as it sounds. Check it out! #Microbiome #ScienceIsWeird #SciCom

MicroBites@microbites.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New MicroBites! Bacteria are on the Case 🦠 How can nasal bacteria cure infections? 👃

This study www.nature.com/articles/s41... expands gut microbiome knowledge into African populations, uncovering lifestyle-linked taxa shifts and novel genomes. It’s a crucial resource for future work, including our own interest in the loss of cellulolytic bacteria. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans

Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.

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ICYMI: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…

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A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

Nature Reviews Microbiology@natrevmicro.nature.com · 2y ago

New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social "Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature Microbiology

Using a cohort of nearly 1,000 genetically diverse mice undergoing dietary restriction over the lifespan, the authors reveal numerous insights into the interactions between the gut microbiome, host ge...

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Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

Now online! Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome

Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome

Plants are composed of diverse secondary metabolites. Here, we discover members of the human gut microbiome that have evolved enzymes to metabolize specific dietary phenolic small molecules that activate diverse functions important to the host, such as…

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Happy that our work on host-microbiome-interactions in aging is mentioned in this editorial from @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social that emphasizes the importance of modeling in microbiology research.

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2y ago

📝 In this month's editorial, we talk about the power of mathematical modeling 🧮, its importance in understanding of complex microbiology 🦠 , and how we assess papers addressing mathematical modeling. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Share your thoughts in the replies! #MicroSky #MathSky

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out. It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly

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I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness #ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness

Abstract. A key feature of natural communities is that the species within them stably coexist. A common metric used to test community stability is the abil

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Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published. Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028 📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

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Cool new paper by @shetoot.bsky.social Shitut et al. shows Bacteria with multiple different chromosomes can survive broad antibiotic exposure Check it out 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bacterial heterozygosity promotes survival under multidrug selection

Although bacterial cells typically contain a single chromosome, some species are naturally polyploid and carry multiple copies of their chromosome. Po…

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Career Webinar Alert! 📢 Join us on March 21st for a career webinar on "Transitioning to a PI Role"! Registration is now open. With the unstoppable and inspiring Lisa Maier @lisamaierlab.bsky.social Help spread the word and register embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Share with your network! #PIRole

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I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar Disentangling microbial interaction networks Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Nice to see how this project developed through the years & published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by Saheli Saha et al from @iamsamayp.bsky.social group 👏 Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities

Saha et al. show that the predatory bacterium M. xanthus enriches the frequency of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in soil communities. This occurs because starvation-induced mass lysis of M. xanthus ce...

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Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities

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