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Marie C. Schölmerich

@mschoelmerich.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Environmental Microbiology at ETH Zurich | https://envmicrobiol.ethz.ch/

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Florian Mayer@florianmayer.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share our preprint on Ignicoccus cell divison: only the inner membrane divides, progeny cells accumulate in cell clusters and pop-out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work with the labs: @buzzbaum.bsky.social @curiousdina.bsky.social @anja1.bsky.social @tbharat-lab.bsky.social

The life cycle of an archaeon with multiple membranes

Many prokaryotes are diderms. They divide using an FtsZ division ring to simultaneously constrict physically coupled inner and outer membranes to form daughter cells with two membranes. Currently, onl...

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Alex Loy@loyteam.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New Paper 👇 Evolutionary trajectory of microbial sulfur oxidation pathways recapitulates Earth’s oxygenation history #microsky 🧫🦠 #microbiomesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolutionary trajectory of microbial sulfur oxidation pathways recapitulates Earth’s oxygenation history - Nature Communications

Microorganisms have long driven Earth’s oxidative sulfuric cycle using complex sulfur-oxidizing systems. This study shows that this molecular machinery first originated in the anoxic Archean eon and g...

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Roland Hatzenpichler@environmicrobio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am excited to announce that MSU's Thermal Biology Institute, for which I serve as director since July 2025, is now officially the EXTREME BIOLOGY INSTITUTE (EBI)! 🦠 🔬 Thread below but your TLDR: rebranding ourself the EBI will bring in new research teams, now research directions, and new funds.

Marie C. Schölmerich@mschoelmerich.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do microbes breathe peat? 🦠⚡🌿 New preprint: we sampled Swedish bogs to 7 m and found dominant, uncultured Acidobacteriota & Verrucomicrobiota encode conserved extracellular electron transfer (EET) machinery that was transcriptionally active all the way down.

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Prof. Ruth Ley FRS@microbiome.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Reinier Egas@raegas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Grab a coffee and enjoy reading up on CO metabolism in methanotrophs! Freshwater ANME (own work): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marine ANME (@Orphan lab): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to our collaborators at QUT! @sjmcilroy.bsky.social (Heyu/Andy/Gene!) @cuwelte.bsky.social

Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea - Nature Communications

Anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea mitigate methane emissions in anoxic environments. Here, Egas et al. show that these microbes can also oxidize carbon monoxide, prompting re-evaluation of their cla...

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The Banfield Lab@banfieldlab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Out now in Nature Communications: Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses www.nature.com/articles/s41... @luisvalentin.bsky.social @lingdong-shi.bsky.social @martianmicrobe.bsky.social @mschoelmerich.bsky.social

Convergent evolution of viral-like Borg archaeal extrachromosomal elements and giant eukaryotic viruses - Nature Communications

Borgs are large extrachromosomal elements of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea. Here, via in silico protein structure prediction of ~10,000 Borg proteins, the authors reveal that Borgs share numerou...

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