Christian Diener
Lifelong relationship with microbes, now studying them for a living. Assistant Professor at MedUni Graz. Opinions are my own. He/him 🦠+💻=❤️
More socials at cdiener.com. Lab website at dienerlab.com.
- Reposted by Christian DienerI joined efforts with D.A. Lucassen, @cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social and T. Wilson and got a really nice paper out on how to best integrate modern dietary assessment technologies to improve the accuracy of the current tools. Have a look here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by Christian DienerCheck out our review on emerging technologies for diet tracking in Nature Food. 👇 This paper was led by @catalinacuparencu.bsky.social, with @cdiener.com and others: www.nature.com/articles/s43... @isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christian DienerHow do we really assess dietary intake—and where is the field heading next? This is the topic of the keynote lecture at #GMFH2026 by Lawrence David. 👉 Register now & join us gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteen… 📍Porto | March 14–15
- Reposted by Christian DienerWe mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: embl.org/news/embl-announcem…
- Reposted by Christian DienerSo happy to host Dr. Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu - soon starting her lab at University of Montreal! She used population genomics and large data analysis to group gut microbiome into ecological units based on sweep events (major revision at Nature)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠
- Reposted by Christian Diener📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968 #Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology
- Reposted by Christian DienerApply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
- Reposted by Christian Diener📢 Our Q1 2026 Newsletter is live! Get the latest project updates, community news, and insights from the NFDI4Microbiota ecosystem. 👉 Read here: nfdi4microbiota.de/newsroom/new... 📬 Don’t miss future updates—subscribe to our mailing list: lists.nfdi.de/postorius/li...
- Reposted by Christian DienerAre you interested in #metaproteomics? We have a senior scientist position in my lab focused on metaproteomics, and xenobiotic- #microbiome -host interactions. Check it out. jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...
- Reposted by Christian DienerI am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF
- Reposted by Christian Diener📢 20 postdoctoral positions (full-time, 4 years) for outstanding female scientists 👩🔬 🔬 @univie.ac.at The E-STEEM programme call opens January 7th, 2026 and closes March 3rd, 2026. careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... I participate as a host...
- Reposted by Christian DienerOpen postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
- Reposted by Christian DienerUp to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
- Reposted by Christian DienerTop #Citations 2025: 9️⃣🧪 @cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social et al ( @isbscience.org @medunigraz.at ) present a new method to estimate dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
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📢 New preprint on bioRxiv! We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages ✅ 938 samples ✅ More novel ASVs Primer choice matters 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu - Reposted by Christian Diener🧑💻 Need help with #nfcore #nextflow #bioinformatics pipelines, running or developing? We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk. Please join our host @vagkaratzas.bsky.social, nf-core maintainer, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...
- Reposted by Christian DienerCome be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
- Reposted by Christian Diener📣 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...
- Reposted by Christian DienerDr. Nick Quinn-Bohmann will present a Keynote Talk at this year's Future of the Microbiome Winter Summit (Nov. 18-20). He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...
- Reposted by Christian DienerLess than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇
- #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
- Reposted by Christian Diener🧬 🦠 🏙️ Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host? Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Christian DienerLorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation. #LongRead #Metagenomics #MAGs #BinningMethods #UnsupervisedBinning @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Christian DienerGreat to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
- Reposted by Christian DienerCan you take a quarter cup of composite sewage, simply ask ‘what’s in there?’, and find out all of the pathogens circulating in that community? That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print. Turns out you can. 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Christian DienerLooks interesting 👀: Distinguishing diet- and microbe-derived metabolites in the human gut microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
- Reposted by Christian DienerCome and do a PhD with me! Are you looking for a PhD project at the intersection of #microbiome and #food science? This project, in collaboration with ADM milling, will explore novel microbiome targeted food ingredients
- Reposted by Christian DienerThinking about a postdoc in microbiome science? Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us! #PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs
- Reposted by Christian DienerOn Friday, Episode #110 of #MattersMicrobial became available. The brilliant Dr. Sean Gibbons joined the #QualityQuorum to describe what the microbiome can tell us about numbers, nutrients, and health. I learned so much. Sean is the #MicrobiomeWhisperer. @microbe.tv youtu.be/wdwTma0gV4k?...
- Reposted by Christian DienerThis morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine.... What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!
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- Reposted by Christian DienerExcited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential
- Bifido adaptations across hosts @halllab.bsky.social survey insects, reptiles, birds & mammals to uncover how Bifidobacterium adapts to hosts. Bifidobacterium & host exhibit strong co-phylogenetic associations, driven by vertical transmission & dietary selection www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
- Reposted by Christian DienerFecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social . Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team! Gift link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...
- Reposted by Christian DienerNew to @nextflow.io?✨Join us for Nextflow Training all of next week! Work through instructor-led videos and hands-on exercises at your own pace. Plus, the chance to earn an official completion certificate. 🎓 👉 Register now: hubs.la/Q03Jf_Zp0
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- Reposted by Christian Diener💥Personalized C. difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut💥 I'm very excited about this work, driven by Alex Carr & co-supervised by @cdiener.com @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social @isbscience.org @nitinbaliga.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-systems... 🧵...
- Reposted by Christian DienerOut in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵
- Reposted by Christian DienerNew RESOURCE! Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria @arzamasovalex.bsky.social @drlarsbode.bsky.social Andrei Osterman, Jeff Gordon & co #microbiomesky #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- @kl-fil.bsky.social will be presenting her work in our lab tomorrow in the @femsmicro.org poster session. Definitely check it out if you're there! 🦠🧬+💻=♥️
- Tomorrow, I will be presenting a poster 081.16P about mucin degrading specialists of the ✨Akkermansia✨ genus in patients that underwent 💩 transplants to treat their ulcerative colitis. Come for a chat, and pls give me feedback on my version of designing with microbes but only on paper 🙃 #FEMS2025
- Reposted by Christian DienerThis is my first time attending a big @femsmicro.org congress #FEMS2025 (thank you @cdiener.com 💚). I wanted to experience the FEMS congress since my baby PhD days in 2019 but did not get a chance to until now. It is absolutely exceeding my expectations, and I will tell you exactly why in the 🧵
- Reposted by Christian DienerJust published in @femsjournals.bsky.social🦠: Akkermansia muciniphila, Ruminococcus torques and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron differ in their preferences for degradation of porcine gastric mucin O- and N-glycans. #microsky #microbiomesky #glycotime @mib-wur.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/fems...
- Reposted by Christian DienerBluesky is now giving notifications for likes on reposts to the reposter. Excited that this may help folks recognize how high engagement is here. Just a reminder that reposts are critical here without the algorithm. Late reposts are especially helpful for those who log in infrequently.
- Reposted by Christian DienerCeMESS is hiring! Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research. 🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
- Reposted by Christian DienerToday, June 27, marks World Microbiome Day! We're celebrating with the inaugural Austrian Microbiome Research Awards. Congrats to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at, and Daniela Wöber @AIT. @fwf-at.bsky.social Details👇
- Reposted by Christian DienerOur latest preprint is online @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social: "Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Amazing work here by postdoc Nick Quinn-Bohmann @isbscience.org 🧵...
- Reposted by Christian Diener📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology! Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
- Reposted by Christian DienerWe are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬 Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
- Reposted by Christian DienerNice blog post by @charlottetolonen.bsky.social from a couple of weeks ago about how to use conda for #bioinformatics without running afoul of anaconda licensing: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-l... 🧬 🖥️
- Reposted by Christian DienerA stich in time saves nine. New paper in @nature.com shows you gotta keep eating those fibres 🥦🥬🥗, an FMT later might not be as great! 💩 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Christian DienerThe Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is one of the best research institutes in Portugal. It's currently recruiting for three Group Leaders (junior or senior) across different areas, including systems biology and bioinformatics. gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...
- Reposted by Christian DienerCome and work with me! The Nature Micro team is expanding and we're looking for someone to champion microbial ecology, plant micro & related areas for the journal Knowledge of microbial ecology/plant micro is desirable but we're open to applications from all microbiologists Link below 👇
- 📢We are #hiring a full time editor to handle areas including microbial ecology & plant microbiology🦠🌱 This position will work closely with @naturecomms.bsky.social #microsky #microbiomesky #ecologysky 🧪 Available in NYC, Madrid, or other US offices Read more & apply here: shorturl.at/yvdYJ
- Reposted by Christian DienerMost bacterial gene families are biased toward specific chromosomal positions www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
