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Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Recent analyses out on ecogenomics of #Methylobacter led by Magda from our group! There sure is more to the genus than we tend(ed) to think 🤩

#microsky

Magda(lena) Wutkowska @wutkowska.bsky.social · 9d

🦠 Among #Methylococcales, the genus #Methylobacter has the most genomes and MAGs deposited in the dbs. We found interesting stuff, e.g., some M. spp. encode all three MMOs: pMMO, pXMO, sMMO! Have a look at our ms: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

with @anne-daebeler.bsky.social, Vojta, Justus&Julius

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Magda(lena) Wutkowska @wutkowska.bsky.social · 9d

🦠 Among #Methylococcales, the genus #Methylobacter has the most genomes and MAGs deposited in the dbs. We found interesting stuff, e.g., some M. spp. encode all three MMOs: pMMO, pXMO, sMMO! Have a look at our ms: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

with @anne-daebeler.bsky.social, Vojta, Justus&Julius

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · 15d

Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean? A new study in @nature.com, led by @barbarabayer.bsky.social @univie.ac.at shows that ammonia‐oxidizing microbes contribute much less to dark carbon fixation than previously thought – leaving room for unknown players.
Read more: 🔗 dome.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

Who fixes carbon in the dark ocean?

A new study led by Barbara Bayer (CeMESS, University of Vienna) discovered that ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms contribute much less to carbon fixation in the ocean than previously assumed. The study...

dome.univie.ac.at

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Roey Angel @roeyangel.bsky.social · 15d

📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts.
With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other

SEM images of the three newly cultured methanogens
from desert biocrusts. Methanobacterium sp. (A) with a long rod shape, Methanosarcina sp. (B)
with aggregated, coccoid cell clusters, and likely Methanocella sp.

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Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social · 16d

It was wonderful to take some time to think and develop new ideas ideas together on our annual retreat. And: great vegetarian food, amazing weather, and cats!
@roeyangel.bsky.social, @wutkowska.bsky.social

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Kyle Mason-Jones @kylemojo.bsky.social · 21d

We are hiring! On the search for an ambitious post-doc with hot skills in metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and bioinformatics to join our EcoEnergeticS project with
@michaeladippold.bsky.social

Find the ad here: uni-tuebingen.de/zh/266340

Opportunities

uni-tuebingen.de

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DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬 @dome-vienna.bsky.social · 28d

Application deadline: 17 September 2025

Apply now to join us at CeMESS!

ter.univie.ac.at/news-talks/n...

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PCI Microbiol @pci-microbiol.bsky.social · Sep 1

🤩New recommendation out: DNA capture for sequencing genes in N&C cycling microbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... by Siljanen et al.

Thanks to W. Orsi, @kennethwasmund.bsky.social, and C. Wurzbacher for their review and Lizzy Wilbanks & Craig Herbold for handling.
#microbesky #microbiomesky

A DNA capture approach for enrichment of nitrogen and methane cy...

microbiol.peercommunityin.org

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Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks Alex! Yes, SeqCode is on the to-do list for sure ;)

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Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social · Sep 1

📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microbesky #microbiomesky

Genomic and physiological characterization of 'Candidatus Methylocystis sumavensis', a novel acid-tolerant methanotroph from peatland

Methanotrophic bacteria in peatlands mitigate emissions of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas. Yet, the identity, physiology, and adaptive traits of methanotrophs inhabiting acidic peatlands are s...

www.biorxiv.org

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PCI Microbiol @pci-microbiol.bsky.social · Aug 11

📢 A new tool for the Identification of Viral Elements in Microbial Dark Matter
PCI Microbiol recommendation by C. Herbold on the
#preprint by R. Pérez-Bucio, F. Enault, and C. Galiez

Check it out here:
microbiol.peercommunityin.org/PCIMicrobiol...

microbiol.peercommunityin.org

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our recent paper by @julkras.bsky.social provides further insights into the metabolism of sulfoquinovose in humans and lab mice, and its prebiotic potential.

🦠🧫 #microbesky #microbiomesky

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Sulfoquinovose is exclusively metabolized by the gut microbiota and degraded differently in mice and humans - Microbiome

Background Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is a green-diet-derived sulfonated glucose and a selective substrate for a limited number of human gut bacteria. Complete anaerobic SQ degradation via interspecies metab...

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · Aug 7

You know sulfoquinovose (SQ)?

No?!

You should if you are interested in diet-gut microbiome 🦠🧫interactions 😉

SQ is a sulfosugar that this part of a ubiquitous sulfonolipid in photosynthetic organisms and thus part of your diet - if you like leafy greens and algae 🥬

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

Sulfoquinovose is a select nutrient of prominent bacteria and a source of hydrogen sulfide in the human gut - The ISME Journal

The ISME Journal - Sulfoquinovose is a select nutrient of prominent bacteria and a source of hydrogen sulfide in the human gut

www.nature.com

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 1

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV

go.nature.com/4ov7WZI

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people

Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

go.nature.com

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Hiro Imachi @hiro-imachi.bsky.social · Aug 1

“Isolation of a new methanotroph belonging to Mycobacterium” is now out! Awesome work by my former postdoc Hiromi Kambara, who led this project all the way.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

First isolation of a methanotrophic Mycobacterium reveals ammonia- and pH-tolerant methane oxidation | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Methane is a significant contributor to climate change (27 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide), and the largest biological sink is methane-oxidizing bacteria: methanotrophs. Alt...

journals.asm.org

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Anne Daebeler @anne-daebeler.bsky.social · Jul 15

It was truly a blast!

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jun 20

We're pleased to announce the University of Cambridge as a new supporter of PCI! We greatly appreciate their endorsement of our open, transparent, and community-driven peer review model.

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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · Jun 16

Welcome to the team Univ. Mlebourne!
@rachel.popelka.filcoff.com , @touremily.bsky.social @arcas.org.au

Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Jun 16

Many thanks to the University of Melbourne for joining the PCI supporters in 2025! ✨
blogs.unimelb.edu.au/researcher-l...

Open Access Publishing in 2025 – Researcher@Library

Post by Dr Zachary Kendal (Scholarly Communications Specialist, Scholarly Services).

blogs.unimelb.edu.au

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · May 26

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.

'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes

Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · May 21

New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al.

We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome

and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa.

🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · May 21

Extensive richness and novel taxa of sulfoquinovose-degrading bacteria in the cow rumen https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655074v1

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Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social · May 15

This promises to be a cool PhD project with a very inspiring and nice PI!

Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · May 14

New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#MEvoSky #MicroSky

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Eileen Kröber @organosulfur.bsky.social · May 11

We had a fantastic few days at the Euro C1 Meeting at the @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
It was a real pleasure to welcome an inspiring lineup of keynote and guest speakers. Thank you all who joined us and helped make the event such a success! @vaam-microbes.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

#EuroC1

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Eileen Kröber @organosulfur.bsky.social · May 12

We were thrilled to welcome @cuwelte.bsky.social as our second keynote speaker at the Euro C1 Conference. Her talk “Challenging Methanotrophy: Carbon Monoxide Metabolism in Anaerobic Methanotrophic Archaea” shed light on surprising new aspects of archaeal carbon cycling.

#EuroC1 #MPI #Keynote

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Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social · May 5

Just 2 days to go until we can welcome the participants of the EuroC1 Meeting 2025 here in #Bremen.

Young and established researchers will present findings & engage in insightful discussions on #C1 #metabolism and volatile #organic compound-related topics.

mpi-bremen.de/EuroC1-Sympo...

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