We are happy to support an NSF PRFB application that makes use of AI to advance microbial cultivation for biotechnological purposes. Deadline=Sept 29th. More here: uncultured.carinilab.com/p/were-looki...

We're Looking to Sponsor Postdoc Fellows in AI-Driven Microbial Cultivation

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

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Check out the awesome read the docs here: accusnv.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ And the paper here: genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... Github here: github.com/liaoherui/Ac... Downstream analyses can be refined using either command line or notebook options.

Very happy that our paper Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities just came out in Nature Microbiology. See here 👇 Paywalled version: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free read-only version: rdcu.be/fBHAb

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities - Nature Microbiology

Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...

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The original #ISMEJ paper led by A. Magalie & A. Marantos with contributions from J. O'Brien, D. Schwartz, and J. Marchi can be found here: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Phage infection fronts trigger early sporulation and viral entrapment in bacterial populations

Abstract. Bacteriophages (phages) infect, lyse, and propagate within bacterial populations. However, physiological changes in bacterial cell state can prot

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Newest preprint 🎉 from phagefoundry.org Here we built one of the most comprehensive K. pneumoniae phage–host interaction datasets to date, an atlas of 8,484 interactions testing 84 taxonomically diverse phages vs 101 globally sourced clinical strains, including some of the most resistant kinds.

Excited for @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social’s new preprint on the Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation

The relative importance of genetic drift versus selection to evolutionary change has long been debated. This debate has mainly focused over long-time-scales (e.g. hundreds of thousands of generations)...

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I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

📣 We’re hiring a postdoc for @hot-mes-asu.bsky.social ! 🦠🔬 We’re looking for someone excited about microbial interactions, ecology & evolution, and using molecular genetics and microfluidics to understand microbial communities. Come do fun science with us! apply.interfolio.com/190859

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Join the faculty at UW–Madison Bacteriology! We have two faculty searches: • Asst Prof (Microbial Communities & Bioeconomy) • Asst / Assoc / Full Prof (Systems & Synthetic Biology) Check out the open positions and apply👇 #FacultyJobs #SynBio #Microbiology #Astrobiology #Evolution

We are looking for motivated Postdocs to join our lab to investigate the emergence and evolution of bacterial pathogens. If your profile and interests fit the description below get in touch! Please share.Thank you!

Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease Apply before 31st August, 2026: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

And here's a second NYU postdoc job ad, where I'm looking for a candidate that is interested in working on the gut-brain axis: apply.interfolio.com/189975 please share 🙏

I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉 Introducing ArchaeaHQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)

Thanks to this grant we will be hiring!! Our grad position ad is already live with more opportunities forthcoming. But if you’re interested in postdoc or technician positions, please reach out! fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/opportunities/

Dr. Lauren E. Fuess@laurenfuess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Alright now that I’m home I guess it’s time to officially announce some really good news: I have received an NIH R35 MIRA!! This award will fund five years of research in my group using Aiptasia to study context dependency and GxGxE interactions in animal-microbe symbioses!

In 2014, Jason Rosch and I met at a GRC in Tuscany and sketched an idea on a cocktail napkin: what if we evolved S.pneumo in mice, treated them with antibiotics, varied their immune systems and watched what won? 11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵

Hydrostatic pressure spectroscopy reveals the adaptation of microbial rhodopsins to high-pressure environment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that I've been awarded a 5-year NIH MIRA (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences! The lab is growing! We're recruiting postdocs and research techs interested in microbial ecology, quantitative microscopy, microfluidics, and molecular biology. Please share!

Humans and bacteria share strategies to defend against viruses. We wondered: could they use each other's genes? Yes, both can! Bacteria can use human immune genes to defend against phages AND Human cells can use bacterial genes for viral defense. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bacterial and human exonucleases mediate interkingdom antiviral immunity

All kingdoms of life have developed strategies to limit viral infection. In humans, interferons induce a suite of antiviral factors that collectively provide immunity. Some human immune genes are homo...

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#MicroSky Please share with your network: We have a 4-year PhD position open at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Come work with me and my team in deep peat in Pallas, Lapland. Mountains, swamps and microbes, what more could you ask for? 🦠

Katharina Kujala@kkujala.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please share: Thrilled to announce that I am recruiting a PhD student for the recently funded Research Council of Finland project "Sleeping Beauty". If you want to work in a great team on a fun project (and are not scared of mosquitoes 😉), apply by July 24th: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

I had a really fun time joining @blarson.bsky.social on @scifri.bsky.social to talk about the strange and fascinating world of microbial weapons: swords, bombs, cannibalism, poison, and what this means for how microbes compete, feed, and shape communities. www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kil...

Swords, cannibalism, poison: inside the world of killer microbes

Some microbe species have evolved to stab, bomb, cannibalize, or poison each other. Can we harness their weapons for good?

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Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Researchers like Ben Larson and Glen D’Souza are piecing together the world of killer microbes, including why they turn on each other and if their tiny weapons could be harnessed to fight disease. Listen to the podcast now: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kil...

I had a ton of fun the other day talking with @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social and @scifri.bsky.social 's Flora Lichtman and Rasha Aridi about murderous microbes and the things that we are trying to learn from them. Happy for the opportunity to bring some new awareness to the world of protists!

Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Researchers like Ben Larson and Glen D’Souza are piecing together the world of killer microbes, including why they turn on each other and if their tiny weapons could be harnessed to fight disease. Listen to the podcast now: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/kil...

New preprint! How do you engineer one of biology’s most complex enzymes without breaking it? We used evolution as a guide to map a protein interface in nitrogenase, screening >9,000 variants to reveal sequence-function rules for future nitrogen fixation engineering. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution-guided engineering of an ancient nitrogenase interface enhances enzyme activity and stability

Nitrogenase is the only enzyme capable of biological nitrogen fixation and a major target for sustainable agricultural engineering, yet its functional and structural complexity has made it difficult t...

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Can we use ecological principles to increase coexistence in synthetic bacterial communities? Our new paper is now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: "Environmental complexity shapes maintenance of bacterial diversity through context-dependent interactions among niche axes" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Environmental complexity shapes maintenance of bacterial diversity through context-dependent interactions among niche axes

Abstract. Microbial communities are often more species-rich than predicted from classical ecological models. The high levels of coexistence observed in nat

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Do you study human microbiomes? Have you used the word "commensal"? Then this paper was written with you in mind! It was an absolute pleasure to write this with the incomparable @ginalewin.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

mGem: Tapping into the language of symbiosis to advance human microbiome research | mBio

An overarching goal in microbiome research is to understand how the complex communities in our bodies contribute to health and disease, and ultimately, we aim to leverage and control these communities...

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Excited to be speaking at #Vibrio2026 in Berlin this September! Abstracts for oral presentation consideration are due June 15. Please share with students, postdocs, colleagues, and fellow Vibriophiles. Looking forward to a great meeting with the Vibrio community! 🦠

Microbe 2026 is just over, but it's already time to think about ASM Microbe 2027 ! Excited about specific topics, methods, ideas, or microbes ? Then you should consider submitting a session proposal, and help us shape the program ! Any question ? please reach out, we're here to help ☺️

ASM@asm.org · 4mo ago

Thank you for being part of ASM Microbe 2026! Save the date for ASM Microbe 2027, taking place June 22–25 in Chicago. Got big ideas? Session proposals open tomorrow—help shape next year’s program and push the microbial sciences forward. #ASMicrobe asm.social/2XY.

Any phage ppl at #ASMMicrobe2026 ? I’ll be a panelist at the Science & Society Lecture on phage therapy & AMR, Sunday June 7, 2026, 4:30 PM, Ballroom AB, Washington D.C. Will be sharing experience - phagefoundry.org on platform techs needed fo translation #PhageTherapy #AMR #phagesky #microsky

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Sad to miss but the lab is well represented ASM Mechanism Discovery Meeting! Sunil talks metabolic dependency and antagonism: Sat Jun 6, 3:30–3:45 PM, 151AB. Somok presents resident–invader dynamics under reciprocal antagonism: rapid fire 10:45–11:35 AM + poster MECH-SAT-516.

New preprint “𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝘁𝗼-𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Using C. elegans as host, we find that bacterial predators (bdellovibrio) act through suppression of host to host transmission of gut-expelled prey