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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to share a collaboration with Yicen Lin's group at Kunming University of Science and Technology published in ISME Journal

Synergistic biodegradation of polyethylene by experimentally evolved bacterial biofilms
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

#MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · Aug 15

Manually curated and harmonized metadata for over 110k metagenomic samples! (58k samples from the human gut alone!)🦠

Proud to have contributed to Metalog, the latest @borklab.bsky.social resource:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#microsky #microbiome

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 14d

Cool PNAS paper by @jordivangestel.bsky.social and colleagues
Contributed by Carol Gross
[reviewed by @polzlab.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social]

Bacillus subtilis in defense mode: Switch-like adaptations to protistan predation

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social · 21d

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year!

Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists!

event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

event.fourwaves.com

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José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · Sep 9

Our second paper with @tcostalab.bsky.social and GoogleDeepMind
reports our experience with Google’s co-scientist: remarkably, the AI independently recapitulated our experimental discovery on cf-PICIs, showcasing AI’s potential to accelerate biology.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

AI mirrors experimental science to uncover a mechanism of gene transfer crucial to bacterial evolution

By solving a previously unsolved biological question, the AI co-scientist predicted a complex mechanism of gene transfer and generated hypotheses that opened new research directions, illustrating AI's...

www.cell.com

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lots of heterogeneity in capsule production in Klebsiella and Acinetobacter. Given the pleiotropic impact of capsules, this provides opportunities for multiple types of phenotypical heterogeneity. Check @julielebris.bsky.social thread on our recent publication.

Julie Le Bris @julielebris.bsky.social · Sep 5

Delighted to share our recently published work!
Ever wondered how Klebsiella (and others) deals with capsule production’s costs ?
The paper: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Thread👇

Phenotypic heterogeneity of capsule production across opportunistic pathogens | mBio

The polysaccharidic capsule is present in ~50% of species across the bacterial phylogeny, including all ESKAPE microorganisms, the six most significant multidrug-resistant (MDR) nosocomial pathogens. It is also an important virulence factor and a major ...

journals.asm.org

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Mozammel Hoque @mozammel.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s was a great experience being part of the awesome organising team. 🥳

MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Until next year, @mozztacular.bsky.social, Asad, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social, Mozammel, @wytamma.bsky.social , Bec, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social out!
#MicroSeq2025

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Sep 1

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years?

Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Genomic resistance in historical clinical isolates increased in frequency and mobility after the age of antibiotics

Antibiotic resistance is frequently observed shortly after the clinical introduction of an antibiotic. Whether and how frequently that resistance occurred before the introduction is harder to determin...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vibrio cholerae motility is associated with inter-animal transmission www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦠

Vibrio cholerae motility is associated with inter-animal transmission - Nature Communications

Determinants of Vibrio cholerae transmission are incompletely understood. Here, the authors use an infant mouse model to show that events in the intestine govern inter-animal transmission and that bac...

www.nature.com

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Pat Schloss @patschloss.bsky.social · Aug 30

My google skills are failing... Back in 2011, NCBI (started to?) close the SRA. The SRA is still with us. Anyone know of any articles from around then about how they saw the light? For those that this is news to...

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Closure of the NCBI SRA and implications for the long-term future of genomics data storage - Genome Biology

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · Aug 27

Awesome to see the transparent, systematic, and evidence-based approach behind the WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List 2024 out in the Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List 2024: a prioritisation study to guide research, development, and public health strategies against antimicrobial resistance

The 2024 WHO BPPL is a key tool for prioritising research and development investments and informing global public health policies to combat AMR. Gram-negative bacteria and rifampicin-resistant M tuber...

www.thelancet.com

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John Lees @bacpop.org · Aug 15

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology:
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

Mathematical modelling for biologists - Modelling concepts in biological research

www.ebi.ac.uk

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Aug 13

The countdown is on! Only three weeks to #MicroSeq2025 🎊

Abstract submission CLOSES this Friday, August 15th at 11:59pm. Successful applicants will be notified by Tuesday, August 19th.

Registration remains open until September 2nd 👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

Three weeks to MicroSeq! MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025 is supported by The Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australasian Virology Society, and Microbial Genomics. Registration open until 11:59pm, September 2nd, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com.

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

STEPS To It

Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Aug 5

🏆 #MicroSeq2025 has plenty of awards on offer! 💰 Cash prizes for best talks are sponsored by @aussocmic.bsky.social, @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social, and #MGen.

Plus, loads of merch on offer for the best question of each session! 🖊️📔

Register to submit an abstract👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025's cash prizes for best talk ($150) and best lightning talk ($50) are sponsored by The Australian Society for Microbiology. The best virology talk ($100) is sponsored by the Australasian Virology Society. The People's Choice awards for best talk ($100) and best lightning talk ($50) are sponsored by Microbial Genomics. In 2025, the new Innovation in Bioinformatics prize ($100) is being introduced. This prize is specifically for a talk of any length featuring a newly developed bioinformatic software, tool, or pipeline applicable to research utilising the sequencing data of microbes. Merch prizes will be given to the best question asked in each session.

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Aug 4

⏱️ Closing THIS FRIDAY! ⏱️

Register for #MicroSeq2025 below to send through your abstract:
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨Heads up! 🚨 Abstract submission closes in ONE WEEK! Don’t miss out on this chance to share your research, register and submit your abstract for #MicroSeq2025 now 👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Jul 23

#MicroSeq2025 has many opportunities for medium and lightning talks. Submit your abstract by August 8 and take advantage of this valuable opportunity to present your work to a welcoming community of fellow ECRs and PhD students! 👇
www.microseqconference.com/registration...

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨Heads up! 🚨 Abstract submission closes in ONE WEEK! Don’t miss out on this chance to share your research, register and submit your abstract for #MicroSeq2025 now 👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Jul 23

#MicroSeq2025 has many opportunities for medium and lightning talks. Submit your abstract by August 8 and take advantage of this valuable opportunity to present your work to a welcoming community of fellow ECRs and PhD students! 👇
www.microseqconference.com/registration...

Registration and abstract submission for MicroSeq2025 is open. Abstract submission closes August 8, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com. Registration is free for the first 50 ECRs and PhD students who are ASM members. MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025 is supported by The Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australasian Virology Society, and Microbial Genomics.

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James Zou @jameszou.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Virtual Lab is open source and can be applied to many problems! github.com/zou-group/vi...

👏Great job @kylewswanson.bsky.social John Pak, Wes Wu, Nash Bulaong @czbiohub.bsky.social

GitHub - zou-group/virtual-lab: A virtual lab of LLM agents for science research

A virtual lab of LLM agents for science research. Contribute to zou-group/virtual-lab development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Jul 25

Have you registered for #MicroSeq2025? Are you keen to get even MORE involved? 🤔

Great news! We're seeking chairpeople for each session! To submit an EOI, hit up our DMs or send us an email at [email protected].

Register for MicroSeq2025 here👇
trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

MicroSeq2025 is seeking expressions of interests for chairing sessions during the conference. Participants can register at microseqconference.com. MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025 is supported by The Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australasian Virology Society, and Microbial Genomics.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Jul 24

Congratulations @anshika22.bsky.social and Anna Zemke on this useful paper demonstrating superiority of full length 16S sequencing for profiling respiratory samples from tracheostomy patients.
h/t @seqcoast.bsky.social

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Evaluation of V3–V4 and FL-16S rRNA amplicon sequencing approach for microbiota community analysis of tracheostomy aspirates | mSphere

The role of the respiratory microbiome in shaping outcomes for patients with chronic critical illness undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation via a tracheostomy remains poorly understood, despite ...

journals.asm.org

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Jul 23

#MicroSeq2025 has many opportunities for medium and lightning talks. Submit your abstract by August 8 and take advantage of this valuable opportunity to present your work to a welcoming community of fellow ECRs and PhD students! 👇
www.microseqconference.com/registration...

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MicroSeq2025 @microseqasm.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨Abstract submission & registration for #MicroSeq2025 is OPEN! 🚨Get in quick! The first 50 registrations are FREE for PhD students and ECRs who are current ASM members, thanks to @aussocmic.bsky.social.

Head to our website to register now 👇
www.microseqconference.com/registration...

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Jul 17

Interesting review on the contribution of resident bacteria in sewage infrastructure and how they can potentially skew wastewater monitoring efforts on AMR

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...