Esteban Bustos-Caparros
PhD in Environmental Microbiology
PostDoc at Nordcee, Southern University of Denmark (SDU)
Microbial ecologist interested in metagenomics
Ecology and diversity of AOA in marine systems
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosIn addition to the 2 postdoc jobs posted yesterday, we’re recruiting 2 PhD students (environmental microbiology/ molecular ecology) to join us from April. The projects will map microbial populations across niches in bioelectrochemical systems relevant to biomethanation & link them to performance.
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosI’m looking for two postdoctoral scientists in experimental evolution to join my team from April 2026 (or soon after). Please share! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosAmmonia oxidizers offset acidification stress via adaptive substrate affinity in aquatic ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosDeepKOALA: A Fast and Accurate Deep Learning Framework for KEGG Orthology Assignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosLooking for a tool to estimate abundances of aerobes versus anaerobes directly from metagenomes? Here you go: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosMaAsLin 3: a comprehensive, flexible framework for microbiome association studies. @hutlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosOur latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-Caparros🗜️⚡ If you use gzip/gunzip a lot in your pipelines, switch to the faster"libdeflate" versions instead! They use modern CPU capabilities to achieve a 2-3x speedup. libdeflate is in conda, and "libdeflate-gzip" and "libdeflate-gunzip" are drop-in replacements. #unix github.com/ebiggers/lib...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosWe just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org
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- I am very happy to share that I have recently started a two-year postdoctoral position in the group of @beatekraft.bsky.social at Nordcee (@nordcee.bsky.social), University of Southern Denmark (@sdu.dk)!! Stay tuned for exciting work on the ecology and diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea (AOA)!!
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosHow do new soils develop after glaciers vanish? ❄️🧬🦠🏔️ The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅ Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosDeepKOALA: A Fast and Accurate Deep Learning Framework for KEGG Orthology Assignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosI have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
- Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosReally important read for people working with long-read MAGs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosTroubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - @merenbey.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social go.nature.com/44P7nSm
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosNew preprint to close out the year! Led by Alana Papula and together with Daniel Fisher, we used single-cell genomes to infer the evolution of Prochlorococcus—one of the most abundant and genetically diverse bacteria on Earth. Check it out here: doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosThink you need large volumes for microbial experiments? Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-Caparros🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Attention students and recent grads! opportunity for #oceanscience interns to sail aboard #EVNautilus next year in a paid position for 3-5 weeks. Whether you’re studying #marinebiology, #geology, or any other type of #oceanography. Learn more and apply by Jan 4 at NautilusLive.org
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosISME20 Abstract guidelines are now available — start preparing your abstract to be able to share your latest research with the global community of microbial ecologists at ISME20, held in New Zealand, August 2026. Learn more: isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosMerry X-SMASH! My first first author paper is out on bioRxiv! 🖥 We present epsSMASH, a comprehensive and high-throughput tool for predicting exopolysaccharide (exoPS) biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in bacterial genomes 🦠🧬🧫 1/8
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosLooking back at a highlight from 2025: Great energy at the 2025 SALTO Symposium we organized at the MPI for Marine Microbiology! Researchers from Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, and Australia joined us in Bremen to explore the evolutionary links between specialized bacteria and their algal hosts.
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosAre you a long-time fan of Archaea, an extremophile-phile, or are you simply curious? Either way, we have good news. We’re delighted to announce the 2026 EMBO Workshop on Archaea, 6–10 July. Sign up: meetings.embo.org/event/26-arc... We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge, UK. Please repost!
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Interested in #nitrification? Check-out this new paper driven by the #MichaelPester group focussing on nitrification-driven chemolithoautotrophy in oligotrophic lake hypolimnia. Freshwater AOA contribute only a minor part to dark DIC fixation in these systems. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... - Reposted by Esteban Bustos-Caparros🧪🦠🌊 Curious on #niche differentiation of marine #AOA #Nitrosopumilus and #Nitrosopelagicus? #Urea is (part of) the answer! Very happy this fun study led by @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social is out: shorturl.at/wajjh Big shout out to Joerdis and Hannah for pushing this over the finish line!
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosFrom @jhcepas.bsky.social and colleagues in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations | #Bioinformatics #ProteinCentric #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🇨🇭🇪🇸🇩🇪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosUneven sequencing (coverage) depth can bias microbial intraspecies diversity estimates and how to account for it academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs
- Happy to share our latest paper focused on the effect of uneven sequencing depth in intraspecies diversity estimates (nucleotide diversity and ANIr) using environmental and synthetic metagenomes academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-Caparros🦠🧪🧬🚨 New paper and database alert: the new IMG/VR release is now MetaVR ! We have a new website - meta-virome.org - with quick search capabilities for the >24M viruses, >12M vOTUs, and >42M protein clusters (including >790k with predicted structures !). academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosWe're excited to release metaTraits.embl.de! 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes. Publication at NAR: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... @narjournal.bsky.social #microsky 🧵 1/8
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosAre 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!
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-Caparros📢 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 Esteban Bustos-CaparrosWe are hiring! If you're interested in exploring the #biogeography of #prokaryotes using #genomics and #metagenomics, are interested in biology and geographic information systems, and are passionate about #OpenScience, this is for you! New PhD and PostDoc positions in my lab at Aalborg University
- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosOur paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bioa... The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives. More information on globdb.org 1/5 🖥️🧬🦠
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- Reposted by Esteban Bustos-CaparrosWe have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany! Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇 anvio.org/workshops/20...
