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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio

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Microbial ecology // Postdoc at the FU Berlin studying microbial responses to global change 🦠🌏 // Characterization of unknown prokaryotic genes 🧬🔍

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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio @alvarordr.bsky.social · Dec 19

Extremely excited to share that our effort to identify and characterize novel gene families exclusive of uncultivated taxa is now published in Nature!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional and evolutionary significance of unknown genes from uncultivated taxa - Nature

Nature - Functional and evolutionary significance of unknown genes from uncultivated taxa

www.nature.com

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Jul 18

A periodic table of bacteria?: Mapping bacterial diversity in trait space www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

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Macarena Toll-Riera @mtoll8.bsky.social · 29d

We are hiring a PhD student! Are you fascinated by microbes and evolution? Come join us in Barcelona!

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 29d

#WeAreHiring

📣 The #IBE_Barcelona is seeking a #PhD Student for the Evolutionary #Microbiology Lab.🔬🧫

⏳ Apply before September 30th and #JoinOurTeam!

#UnravellingEvolution #ConservingBiodiversity

✍ https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · Aug 28

Season 5 is going to start 🔜

Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...

@kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Aug 21

Celebrating the small wins in academia….a reminder to myself (and maybe you….)

Please share with someone you think might also need this reminder :)

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Celebrating the small wins in academia

A little reminder...

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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio @alvarordr.bsky.social · Aug 21

Will be presenting our results on the effect of multiple global change factors on soil prokaryotes in #ESEB2025 poster 127 today, come say hi if you wanna know more!

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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio @alvarordr.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is heartbreaking and needs to stop

www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza

A joint statement says the Israeli government's "siege" has left aid supplies "totally depleted".

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Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social · Jul 17

Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out!
#science #microbiome #health

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Non-antibiotics disrupt colonization resistance against enteropathogens - Nature

Non-antibiotic drugs from a wide range of therapeutic classes can alter the ability of gut commensals to resist invasion by enteropathogens, a previously underappreciated side effect of such drugs.

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Jaime Huerta-Cepas @jhcepas.bsky.social · Jun 20

Awesome work by Ziqi Deng: TreeProfiler: a tool for large-scale metadata profiling along gene and species trees.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive dynamic visualization of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes

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Jaime Huerta-Cepas @jhcepas.bsky.social · Jun 25

The rare microbial biosphere harbors many chemosensitive microorganisms undetectable by regular shotgun metagenomics. We can now explore them using our custom target-capture sequencing approach. Impressive work by
Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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DEEMteam_Orsay @deemteam.bsky.social · Jun 17

📣 We are proud of the publication of the second paper of @bbaker24.bsky.social PhD thesis. In collaboration with friends in Halifax we have studied the difficult question of the phylogeny of the DPANN archaea, composed of several phyla of highly reduced, fast-evolving epiparasites 🧵

rdcu.be/erkkU

Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors

Nature Microbiology - Phylogenetic reconstructions with conserved protein markers from the 11 known DPANN phyla reveal their monophyletic placement within the Euryarchaeota.

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Ziqi DENG @dengziqi1991.bsky.social · Jun 19

We have updated our work "TreeProfiler: a tool for large-scale metadata profiling along gene and species trees"
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive viz of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes.

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Jun 2

Paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com by @alvarordr.bsky.social

Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics - Nature Communications

Soils are usually exposed to multiple global change factors (like warming or contamination by pollutants), but the response of soil communities to combined global change factors is poorly understood. ...

www.nature.com

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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio @alvarordr.bsky.social · Jun 2

Our paper on the effect of multiple global change factors on soil prokariotes and viruses, just published in @natcomms.nature.com !

@mrillig.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics - Nature Communications

www.nature.com

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Sarahi L. Garcia @sarilog.bsky.social · Apr 29

Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria
Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate:
1) abundant microorganisms
tinyurl.com/miintmodcom

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · Mar 7

✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Jan 16

#NatureCommunity Behind the paper by Damian Hernandez
Big box, small box: bacteria either have all around big niches or all around small niches

communities.springernature.com/posts/big-bo...

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Feb 13

A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion - Nature

A metalloenzyme capable of oxidatively cleaving cellulose, found in a microbial community specialized in lignocellulose degradation, could enable sustainable biofuel production.

www.nature.com

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Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov · Jan 17

In Science Advances: "We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we’ve actually captured. Turns out that despite all the genomes we’ve sequenced, we’ve only scratched the surface." -Dongying Wu

🖥️🧬🦠

biosciences.lbl.gov/2025/01/17/t...

Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space - Biosciences Area

Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, JGI researchers assess the known fraction of microbial diversity.

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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · Dec 12

Looking for a new target microbes for cultivation? Check out our new review on "Earth's most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes"!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio @alvarordr.bsky.social · Dec 19

Felicidades Puri!! 🎉

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · Dec 5

New YouTube video out

Soil in Crisis: global environmental change

#Soil #WorldSoilDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzN...

Soil in crisis: global environmental change

YouTube video by Life in the Soil

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Indra Roux @indraroux.bsky.social · Oct 25

First go at using bsky! An opportunity to share our recent preprint on the off-purpose impact of 1000+ industrial and agricultural pollutants on 22 gut microbiome species 🧪🧫🧬 at the MRC Tox. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Off-purpose activity of industrial and agricultural chemicals against human gut bacteria

Contamination by industrial and agricultural chemicals like pesticides are a cause of great concern due to the risk to human and environmental health. While these chemicals are often considered to hav...

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bigdatabiology.bsky.social @bigdatabiology.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hello World!

We are new here, but we will be posting about our work, opportunities to engage, reaching out to other microbiome researchers &c

www.big-data-biology.org

Big Data Biology Lab

Website of the BDB-Lab (run by Luis Pedro Coelho) at the Centre for Microbiome Research (Queensland University of Technology)

www.big-data-biology.org

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Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio @alvarordr.bsky.social · Nov 17

Would like to be in the list too!