We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

Most microbes don't live in shaking flasks; spatial structure shapes how microbes interact and evolve at every scale, as we discuss in our recent review @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @simonvanvliet.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social and others academic.oup.com/femsre/artic... 🧵👇

Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities

Spatial structure naturally emerges in microbial communities, shaping growth, interactions, and evolution, and revealing how microscale processes scale up

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Wrapping up a productive week: very glad to have contributed to this review on how spatial structure shapes microbial ecology and evolution, led by @marcelbaecker.bsky.social, @bedutilh.bsky.social, @bramvandijk.bsky.social and many others. doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities

Spatial structure naturally emerges in microbial communities, shaping growth, interactions, and evolution, and revealing how microscale processes scale up

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Also excited to share our latest collaboration with @micsysecolab.bsky.social. Divvya Ramesh showed how spatial structure can limit evolution of metabolic dependencies.

Microbial Systems Ecology Lab@micsysecolab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share our new paper led by Divvya Ramesh: Limits to the evolution of metabolic dependency in spatially structured microbial communities 🧫 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share first preprint from our lab! @giubotti.bsky.social found that antibiotic tolerance in multispecies biofilms follows a surprising spatial pattern: cells survive only at intermediate distances from a partner species. 🦠 Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Excited to finally share the typeset version of our very first venture into microbial ecology! 🤩 Big thanks to @simonvanvliet.bsky.social for a rewarding collaboration within the NCCR Microbiomes. @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social

Yolanda Schaerli@yschaerli.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Uptake and leakage rates differentially shape community arrangement and composition of microbial consortia url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

How does metabolic dependency evolve at the single cell level? 🔄 In our new preprint, Divvya Ramesh combines microfluidics, microscopy and modelling to show that the benefits of gene loss are highly context dependent. Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Great to see this out! 🎉 Big congratulations to @type3lab.bsky.social for leading the project and to all involved! "Pseudomonas syringae subpopulations cooperate by coordinating flagellar and T3SS spatiotemporal dynamics to facilitate plant infection" 🌱🦠 rdcu.be/egczU 🧵⬇️ #MicroSky #PlantScience

Beuzón & Ruiz-Albert Lab@type3lab.bsky.social · last yr.

How Bacteria Outsmart Plants—Then Flee the Scene! #MicroSky #PlantScience #Pseudomonas Our new research in Nature Microbiology uncovers the sophisticated teamwork of Pseudomonas syringae, a notorious plant pathogen. 🔗 rdcu.be/egczU

🚨We have a fully funded open PhD position in bacterial synthetic biology available in our lab (www.yschaerli.com) in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social If you are passionate about #SynBio and #GeneCircuits, apply here: tinyurl.com/mry2xwa5

early career researchers: Do not miss this oportunity to present and discuss your work with an expert audience!

Benjamin Towbin@betowbin.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Join us for the LS2 Swiss #Systems #Biology Symposium in Bern! ❌ to talk marathons ✔️ to new connections and interactions ➡️Mini parallel sessions with Q&A during the talks. Keynotes by @ehannezo.bsky.social @leeat-keren.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5hf485ee @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social

Apply now: Eawag Postdoctoral Fellowship 📢💪 The Eawag postdoctoral fellowship is designed for outstanding early-career researchers with innovative ideas 👉 www.eawag.ch/en/about-us/...

This is one of the best features I have seen on blue sky yet- a custom feed of papers from people you follow. I had to un-follow the various biorxiv channels, as it was dominant, but now I am seeing lots of cool papers from people I follow. Great work on this feed, @paper-feed.bsky.social team!

Paper Skygest Team@paper-feed.bsky.social · last yr.

Welcome to your personalized Paper Skygest, a curated feed showing posts from your network. 📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here! ➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates!

We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!

There is still time to apply to the Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! The deadline has been extended till March 16th. We would especially welcome applications from members of underrepresented groups. Limited travel grants are available. Apply now and join us! almadalcoschool.github.io

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Simon van Vliet@simonvanvliet.bsky.social · last yr.

Only 3 weeks left to apply to the first Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! We have a great line-up of speakers and a program designed to maximize interactions between and among speakers and participants. Applications open to all ECRs (PhD - young PIs). More info: almadalcoschool.github.io

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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What determines the spatial structure of microbial communities? In our new review we discuss the factors and feedbacks that affect spatial patterning and methods to study them. Great collaboration w. @saramitri.bsky.social @adelpanta.bsky.social & @micsysecolab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🦠

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal: www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Closing date: 24th Feburary 🧪🧫🔬

Postdoctoral researcher –Understanding bacterial metabolism in the urinary tract

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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...

Only 3 weeks left to apply to the first Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour! We have a great line-up of speakers and a program designed to maximize interactions between and among speakers and participants. Applications open to all ECRs (PhD - young PIs). More info: almadalcoschool.github.io

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Our framework explaining why ecological interactions change between contexts is out in Ecology Letters! A lovely collaboration with @saramitri.bsky.social which provides experimentally-testable links between the physiology and ecology of microbes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Environment‐Organism Feedbacks Drive Changes in Ecological Interactions

Ecological interactions are central to our understanding of the composition and function of communities, but attempts to use them as a theoretical foundation for experimental ecology have been confou....

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Every two years, ISME celebrates the achievements of scientists who have substantially advanced the field of microbial ecology. If you know of outstanding members of the community worthy of an ISME Society Award, please fill in the nominations ballot by 31 Jan 2025👇🏼 isme-microbes.org/call-for-ism...

Call for ISME Society Awards nominations - ISME

We encourage our membership to nominate individuals worthy of winning one of our three prestigious awards.

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Amazing speakers & program at the inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior in Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This interactive meeting focuses on collective behaviour across biological systems. Apply now! almadalcoschool.github.io

Great school one collective behavior in memory of Alma Dal Co next Sept in Venice. Terrific lineup of speakers almadalcoschool.github.io Application deadline Feb 2025, travel grants available

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PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

Excited to share: The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior is coming to Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. 1/12

Very happy to present our latest preprint in collaboration with @simonvanvliet.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes. Estelle engineered uptake and leakage rates in synthetic communities of E. coli amino acid auxotrophs and studied the effects on spatial arrangement and community composition.

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 2y ago

Engineering microbial consortia: uptake and leakage ratedifferentially shape community arrangement and composition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.19.604250v1