Jan Brüwer
(Marine?) microbiologist @Höfer lab, Uni Marburg | SCUBA diver | sailor | co founder Thalassys
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerAre you a postdoc or 4-5th year grad student working on any problem in environmental microbiology and are interested in giving a virtual seminar (via zoom) on your hard work to a crowd of interested researchers at Montana State's Thermal Biology Institute in spring? Email/DM me!
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerCongratulations @janbruewer.bsky.social to this appreciation of your excellent #PhD-thesis! mpi-bremen.de/en/Jan-Bruew... @unibremen.bsky.social
- Whooaaa My zombie cells and I received the Bremer Studienpreis for my PhD 🤩🤩🤩🧟♂️ I received a special price sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social Daltonics, who produce mainly mass specs. It was quite a surprise, considering I didn’t use mass spectrometry in my PhD. Why did they choose me? 🧵
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerRibosome -less zombies in the ocean 🦠🧟
- Whooaaa My zombie cells and I received the Bremer Studienpreis for my PhD 🤩🤩🤩🧟♂️ I received a special price sponsored by @brukercorporation.bsky.social Daltonics, who produce mainly mass specs. It was quite a surprise, considering I didn’t use mass spectrometry in my PhD. Why did they choose me? 🧵
- To be honest, I don’t know … Let me speculate: Bruker uses MALDI to analyze ribosomal proteins and thereby identify microorganisms. The zombie cells I discovered are devoid of ribosomes. An identification would, thus, not be possible … The original publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Irrespective, I am feeling extremely honored to receive such a prestigious prize 🤩 Thanks everyone who helped me on the way! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @buergerschaft-hb.bsky.social @ondilerouge.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerI 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 Jan Brüwer🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust, benchmarked thresholds for Hi-C linkages. Key results: 👇
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerCongratulations!! 👏👏 The Bremen Study Prize 2025 goes to @janbruewer.bsky.social for his outstanding #PhDThesis. Well deserved! 🥳 @brukercorporation.bsky.social special #award @unibremen.bsky.social Learn more about Jans research and the award: mpi-bremen.de/en/Jan-Bruew... (C)Jens Lehmkühler
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerYes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerZombie cells in the ocean, a perfect topic for Halloween here at RD3 of GEOMAR. Great talk by @janbruewer.bsky.social it was great to have you here.
- Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerZombie cells? 🧟😨 Sounds spooky, and it is past #Halloween. These #SAR11 are attacked by #viruses and in between life and death. Off #Helgoland, every 10th cell was a zombie. 🌊 Check it out: mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce... Let's look for more zombies with the simple sampling device by Thalassys.com
- Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
- Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
- Interested in Zombie cells (SAR11 phage infection)? Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerRevolutionising Water #Monitoring with an Innovative #Filtration Machine: Meet our #MaxPlanck #StartUp Thalassys!👏🔬🧑🔬 Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes & @janbruewer.bsky.social created the "coffee machine", collecting data far faster than traditional methods. www.maximize-incubator.com/post/water-m...
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerDie SZ schreibt: “Würde ganz Deutschland auf Mineralwasser verzichten (also nur noch Trinkwasser aus der häuslichen Leitung trinken) könnten anderthalbmal so viele Treibhausgasemissionen eingespart werden, wie der gesamte innerdeutsche Flugverkehr verursacht.” www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerInnovativ & idiotensicher: Die "Kaffeemaschine", entwickelt von unserem #Startup SEPARA, hilft mit einer einfachen Filtrationsmethode bei der Überwachung von Gewässern.🌊 Die Gründer: Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes und @janbruewer.bsky.social www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts... @maxplanck.de #MAXimize
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerDo you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
- Vielen Dank @weserkurier.bsky.social für den tollen Bericht über Separa. 👏🏽 Separa: Take a sample. Easy. @maximize-incubator.bsky.social www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts...
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerVery excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerMany thanks to the great team for representing our institute and joining the fun at #BremerFirmelauf 2025!
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerLooking forward to exploring how algal symbionts enable anemones to cope with the environmental conditions of the Mediterranean and the Anthropocene. Thanks @pure-ocean.bsky.social! A fun project lead by @cpogoreutz.bsky.social and together with Christine Ferrier-Pagès. tinyurl.com/pureocean
- Reposted by Jan Brüwer🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerDanke an alle, die gestern auf der Straße waren. (In Hamburg waren wir 65.000).
- I always thought very little of my first publication … I mean: It was my BSc thesis, so expectations should be realistic. Anyways, today, I read it again and … I enjoyed reading it! Is this normal? Thanks to @reefgenomics.bsky.social & Shobhit, who helped me with writing back in 2017 🙏🏼
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerApplication deadline now extended to January 12th, some extra time to enjoy the winter break! ☃️🛷🎅
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerVerrucomicrobiota are found everywhere, yet we know very little about this group. Here, @iwilkie.bsky.social described and named an unrecognized marine group (previously known as MB11C04). Here, we introduce Seribacter and Chordibacter bacteria.
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- Reposted by Jan BrüwerAntiDefenseFinder! And it is available also as an option with DefenseFinder: defensefinder.mdmlab.fr Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages, and mobile genetic elements www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Jan BrüwerZOMBIE CELLS!!! 😱🧟🦠 @janbruewer.bsky.social and colleagues discover how #viruses keep #SAR11 in check and even turn them into zombies! Out now @natureportfolio.bsky.social Nat Comms mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- How many SAR11 cells are phage-infected in the environment? And what are zombies? We studied phage infection in SAR11 using the 🔬. Up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage infected and many host cells were devoid of ribosomes! What else did we find? A🧵 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
- In a previous study, we found that SAR11 divide rapidly 📈, while their cell counts decrease 📉 ... How is it possible? We speculated it's phages infecting SAR11. We designed FISH probes to visualize phage-infected cells. 🔬👀 The previous story: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... 2/n
- Turns out: We were right! ✅ When SAR11 cell division were highest, up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage-infected (compared to <5% during low division rates). 3/n
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View full threadPlease reach out if you have any questions and/or feedback! : :) And: Please share 😉 Thanks to all collaborators: Chandni Sidhu, Yanlin Zhao, Andi Eich, Leonard Rößler, @cotoorellana.bsky.social, & Bernhard Fuchs. :) @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social 8/8
- I handed in my PhD thesis today 🥳 What a great, yet weird feeling. If you are interested: my defense is 3rd May (will be available online). Hit me up, if you are interested ;) @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jan Brüwer#Microbes like comics, too! #RNA is the language, #extracellularvesicles serve as speech bubbles. Out now in PNAS by Joshua Mills, Susanne Erdmann et al. Read more: mpi-bremen.de/en/Microbial... Full paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #archaea #GTPase #EV #evolution
