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- 🌀 How do spirochete bacteria swim through thick fluids like champions? We solved T. denticola flagella structure - asymmetric proteins expand one side, compress the other for perfect corkscrew motion! @debnathghosal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202... #StructuralBiology #CryoEM #Microbiology
- The Romantic Discovery of Radiolaria in the Ocean #microbiology #Radiolaria #protists #MicroSky doi.org/10.1111/jeu....
- I am so happy when my students truly *get* #MicrobialCentrism. DocMartian Chianna put it best in today’s research lab meeting. Delighted to share that accurate change in perspective with you all. #StudentResearch #Microbiology @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology @microbe.tv
- Why rename Pseudomonas putida KT2440 to P. alloputida🦠? This is an excellent example of why taxonomic changes require caution. We shouldn't blindly follow rules while ignoring decades of established practice. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #microbiology @asm.org @microbiologysociety.org
- ✨Save the Date ✨ Connect with fellow early-career microbiologists & start new collaborations🤝: Meeting of the #VAAM Young Scientist Network: "Establishing Collaborations within the Network" 📆 13.02.2026 ⏲️ 2 pm 🔗https://t1p.de/hmbhw #EarlyCareer #Networking #Microbiology #YoungScientists
- 👩🔬 #IRNASA-CSIC researcher @carmen-agro.bsky.social is in Ventura (California, USA) to participate in the ‘Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms’ conference, where she is giving an invited talk. 🔗 More info: grc.org/sensory-tran... #Microbiology #Microorganisms (1/2)
- Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
- Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s... STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
- LPSN becomes an ELIXIR Core Data Resource! This database tracks bacterial names, aiding scientists worldwide. Easier microbe research ahead. Press release: tinyurl.com/fuud42xk #ScienceNews #Microbiology #Innovation #BioData
- Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments #microbiology #microbes #MicroSky @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Proud of this international effort led by NTU Singapore, @scelse.bsky.social and the University of Geneva. Huge props to first author @aarontan.bsky.social and my co-lead @kimingeneva.bsky.social and other authors including @cenkcelik.bsky.social. #ScienceAdvances #Microbiology #NTUsg
- Join us in March for the Centre for Microbial Interactions annual conference. The CMI connects and supports the extensive #microbiology research community across the Norwich Research Park. 🦠 ⏰ 👉 Registration closes 25 February: buff.ly/EKiCaJw @norwichmicro.bsky.social
- Oxyplasma meridianum gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely acidophilic organotrophic member of the order Thermoplasmatales #microbiology #archaea #extremophiles #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky @microbiologysociety.org doi.org/10.1099/ijse...
- 📢 DSMZ is hiring! We are looking for a Scientific Lead for the SILVA Database, a key tool for understanding microbes and biodiversity. Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/y973v547 #HiringNow #ScienceJobs #Microbiology #ResearchCareers @dsmzd3.bsky.social
- Guided tour through the small protein landscape of Methanosarcina mazei using proteomics and biochemical approaches #microbiology #methanogens #methane @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org doi.org/10.1093/fems...
- Structure of the Prokaryotic Community in Bottom Sediments of the Alginsky Hydro-Mineral Natural Complex (Barguzin Depression, Russia) #microbiology #bacteria #archaea #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky @springer.springernature.com doi.org/10.1134/S002...
- Excited to share that I will continue working on bacterial regulatory networks and interactions, with a research project funded by @cienciagob.bsky.social that has just started! 🎉 #microbiology More info (in Spanish): www.irnasa.csic.es/el-irnasa-cs...
- 🔬 We're back! Kicking off 2026 with the 23. Industry Academia Panel: 📅 Jan 15, 2026, 4:00 PM CET 💻 Online via Zoom 🦠 Topic "New class of bacteriophage-based antibacterial solutions" Register: t1p.de/rqk1z Looking forward to seeing you there! 🎉 #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #VAAM #AMR
- The Human Archaeome: Commensals, Opportunists, or Emerging Pathogens? #microbiology #archaea #GutMicrobiota #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/14...
- 💾 snp-dists 1.2.0 Major upgrade to this distance matrix tool - huge performance gains from multithreading (-j), max distance short circuiting (-x) and lower triangle output (-L). #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/snp...
- 💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released! The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your scripts and pipelines that accept FASTA to also accept other formats, even if compressed! eg. .gbk.gz #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs github.com/tseemann/any...
- Out Now! Candida auris skin tropism and antifungal resistance are mediated by carbonic anhydrase Nce103 #CandidaAuris #AntifungalResistance #Microbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 💾 mlst 2.25.0 has been released! Fixed a bug that missed alleles in increasingly larger schemes like senterica (thanks @microbiologikat.bsky.social) and updated the databases. #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/mls...
- #JobAlert! BSc in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences & a background in #Microbiology or #Ecology? Our Community Ecology research group is looking for a Temporary Research Assistant in Soil Microbiology: apply.refline.ch/273855/1820/... 🪱🌱#ScienceJobs
- 📢 PhD positions 🐛🦠🌿 Join our team to investigate how to "Harness antagonistic fungi to disrupt insect gut microbiota for sustainable pest management". 👩🎓 🧑🎓 Full scholarships and stipends across Canterbury, New Zealand. ⏰ Apply now lnkd.in/eDppRKEC Please repost #PhDJobs #Microbiology #Entomology
- 💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released! This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to. #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/pro...
- #PhDAlert in soil carbon biochemistry! MSc in #EnvironmentalSciences, #SoilScience or #Microbiology & interested in the transfer of deadwood-derived #carbon into #soil? apply.refline.ch/273855/1818/... #ScienceJobs 4/5
- Mapping the metagenomic diversity of the multi-kingdom glacier-fed stream microbiome #microbiology #microbiome #glacier #MicroSky @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Microbial occurrence and symbiont detection in a global sample of lichen metagenomes #microbiology #metagenomics #lichen #MicroSky @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- 💾 Shovill 1.4.1 has been released! The best way to de novo assemble microbial genomes from Illumina FASTQ. Major fixes to the SKESA module, plasmid mode for the Spades module, and more error checking. #bioinformatiocs #genomics #microbiology github.com/tseemann/sho...
- Like last year, I compiled a little collage of all our monthly issue covers published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com Another year full of new discoveries, stunning advances and marvelous #microbiology. Thanks to all our authors for all their hard work in pushing the field of microbiology forward.
- 💾 ABRicate 1.2.0 has been released! This 'oversight' lasted 6 years, but with help from @finlaym.bsky.social we got CI working and updated all the databases. #bioconda #conda #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/abr...
