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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 The Gutierrez Lab (@UArizona) will soon open a Research Professional I position Experience in molecular biology, microbiology, and bacterial genome sequencing is preferred. Apply through the University of Arizona Careers Portal. U.S. citizens or permanent residents only.

The 2026 Conference on Beneficial Microbes will be co-organized with the International Symbiosis Society from July 19th - July 23rd. Its not too late to register! #BeneficialMicrobes10 #BeneficialMicrobesMtg #ISS #SymbioSky

Great opportunity!

Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸@paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

Great final session of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden today! 😎 With our own @mmzdouc.bsky.social presenting #FERMO, including a flashback to his talk 3 years ago in Utrecht at the #BMD2022, and a fantastic keynote by Jonathan Martin on the #metabolomics of #exposomics!

Great to see it out! Congrats @mmzdouc.bsky.social !

Mitja M. Zdouc@mmzdouc.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Into natural product biosynthesis & tailoring enzymes? Frustrated by the lack of a dedicated resource to explore their functions? Tired of endless literature searches for reaction info? Meet the MITE database, freely available at mite.bioinformatics.nl. Preprint: doi.org/10.26434/che... (1/8)

🎉 I'm thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor starting January 2026! I’ll be recruiting PhD students, lab technicians, and postdocs—so if you're interested in host-microbe interactions, I’d love to hear from you!

A single python package for calculation of quality metrics like DockQ, LDDT, RMSD, & others peppr.vant.ai

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

Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.

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

Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.

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1/10 A 🧵of resources to learn about AlphaFold (2 and 3). IMO, the best way to get started with AF2 is "AlphaFold. A practical guide" from the EMBL-EBI. It explains how AF2 works in plain English, without code, and covers key metrics like pLDDT/PAE/etc. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

AlphaFold - A practical guide

AlphaFold - A practical guide

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If you have single cell data with metadata, this approach could be very helpful for you… check it out!

Jeremias Sulam@jsulam.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, on #WomenInScience day, this paper on biomarker discovery for breast cancer, by my amazing student Zhenzhen, has just appeared in @cp-patterns.bsky.social 🎉 Her work shows how to construct fully interpretable biomarkers employing bi-level graph learning! @jhu.edu @hopkinsdsai.bsky.social

Very useful!

Rauf Salamzade@raufs.bsky.social · last yr.

Difficult to focus on science during these times, but if you have the bandwidth, our study on zol is now out in NAR: academic.oup.com/nar/article/... GitHub: github.com/Kalan-Lab/zol Please give the software a try and let us know if you have any feedback! And stay tuned for new features...

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Happy to be part of @carnegiescience.bsky.social 🙂

Carnegie Science@carnegiescience.bsky.social · 2y ago

Karina Gutierrez-Garcia recently published a paper in Science Magazine identifying genes that help beneficial bacteria colonize the gastrointestinal tract. 🧫 Her work is shaping the future of microbiology! #HBDCarnegieScience Learn more: https://buff.ly/3Wwij2K

Finally, our paper, "A Conserved Bacterial Genetic Basis for Commensal-Host Specificity," has been officially published in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity

Animals selectively acquire specific symbiotic gut bacteria from their environments that aid host fitness. To colonize, a symbiont must locate its niche and sustain growth within the gut. Adhesins are...

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