Alex Probst
@alexjprobst.bsky.social
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Professor for Microbiology at Research Alliance Ruhr, Uni-DUE, #ERCSyg awardee, member of CRC RESIST #microbiome #omics #microscopy #ecophysiology Free time: Dad, weight training, cs2, nature, bbq, board games, pottery
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New article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!
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Congrats, Ralf et al! :)
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it was a pleasure, Gary!
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cool paper, congrats!
have you considered naming it under the @seqcode.bsky.social instead of calling it a Candidatus which has no priority?
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Mein Beileid, liebe Sigrid. Fühl dich gedrückt.
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I also got only one spot here… they are really rare unfortunately…
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did you buy them or „hunt“ them? ;)
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Congrats, Matt! Can‘t wait to see your latest results! Hopefully some new cool tools :)
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geomicrosoares.bsky.social
The Central Collection of Algal Cultures (CCAC) at @unidue.bsky.social is advertising a 3-year PhD position supervised by the current Curator, Dr. Olga Matantseva!
This PhD will take place in close collaboration with the @jgi.doe.gov. 🦠🧬💻
Apply here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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We once collaborated with another lab by analyzing metagenomes (create MAGs, analyze the metabol. etc). The PI asked me for a conversation during which he explained to me that the work we do is technical & no real contribution. He does not consider bioinformatics science. Never worked w/ him again.
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There exist some metrics that do not consider multi-author papers even though someone is corresponding/first/last author. Itms these metrics that probably make people reduce the number of authors. Yet, I think this is bs & as long as someone has made a genuine contribution they should be an author.
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Take a photo with your iphone and you can copy from the photo!
(it’s a 16S rRNA seq of an uncultivated archaeon)
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For more information about the MEB team and the position, please visit:
www.uni-due.de/umb/enzym_ho...
www.uni-due.de
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probstlab.bsky.social
Want to know who’s replicating and who’s just hanging out in your enrichment cultures? Our new study led by @soansi.bsky.social shows how @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing can reveal replication states, shedding light on microbial growth. 🦠🧬

See our latest publication: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Inferring replication states of bacteria and viruses in enrichment cultures via long-read sequencing
Abstract. Most microorganisms cannot be cultured in isolation, necessitating sophisticated methods for studying their (eco)physiology. While numerous appro
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We never thought of giving the method a name. maybe we should have.
the project went by the name „shit show“ though 😅