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RuthLeyMicro @microbiome.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about a postdoc in microbiome science?
Our lab at the MPI for Biology (Tübingen) builds on the culture I established at Cornell: collaborative, creative, and internationally diverse. Postdocs lead their own projects with secure funding. Join us!
#PostdocJobs #HostMicrobe #AcademicJobs

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 3d

On Friday, Episode #110 of #MattersMicrobial became available. The brilliant Dr. Sean Gibbons joined the #QualityQuorum to describe what the microbiome can tell us about numbers, nutrients, and health. I learned so much. Sean is the #MicrobiomeWhisperer. @microbe.tv

youtu.be/wdwTma0gV4k?...

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ISB @isbscience.org · 2d

This morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine....

What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!

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Ram Savan @ramlabuw.bsky.social · 2d

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦

Key takeaways:
🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution
🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes
🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 27d

Bifido adaptations across hosts

@halllab.bsky.social survey insects, reptiles, birds & mammals to uncover how Bifidobacterium adapts to hosts. Bifidobacterium & host exhibit strong co-phylogenetic associations, driven by vertical transmission & dietary selection
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Host-specific microbiome and genomic signatures in Bifidobacterium reveal co-evolutionary and functional adaptations across diverse animal hosts

Bifidobacterium are beneficial members of the microbiota across animal hosts. Kujawska et al. demonstrate that bifidobacteria have likely co-evolved more closely with mammals, particularly primates, a...

www.cell.com

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · 16d

Fecal filtrate is less effective than donor stool (FMT) for the treatment of C. difficile recurrence. Now shown in a multicentre trial, out today in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social .

Congratulations to Dina Kao @ualberta.bsky.social & team!

Gift link:

authors.elsevier.com/c/1lphg8nByr...

authors.elsevier.com

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Seqera @seqera.io · 24d

New to @nextflow.io?✨Join us for Nextflow Training all of next week!

Work through instructor-led videos and hands-on exercises at your own pace. Plus, the chance to earn an official completion certificate. 🎓

👉 Register now: hubs.la/Q03Jf_Zp0

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 28d

The next @nextflow.io Training Week is coming up - September 2025 📆

Grab the opportunity to book some time in your calendar and pester some of the nice Seqera folks who will be around to help out in the training office hours 😊

Nextflow @nextflow.io · 28d

🚀 Nextflow Training Week is back on Sep 22-26! 💻 This self-paced online training features on-demand walkthrough videos and support via office hours and the community forum!

🔗 Register now: hubs.la/Q03HWK4L0

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · Aug 6

💥Personalized C. difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut💥

I'm very excited about this work, driven by Alex Carr & co-supervised by @cdiener.com

@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social @isbscience.org @nitinbaliga.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut

Carr et al. show how microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) predict personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk and probiotic efficacy. MCMMs reveal key metabolic strategies ex...

www.cell.com

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Ben J Woodcroft @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social · Jul 16

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Jul 16

New RESOURCE!

Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria

@arzamasovalex.bsky.social @drlarsbode.bsky.social Andrei Osterman, Jeff Gordon & co

#microbiomesky #microsky

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

Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria - Nature Microbiology

A comprehensive genomic analysis reveals species- and strain-level heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization potential across bifidobacteria of human origin.

www.nature.com

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Christian Diener @cdiener.com · Jul 16

@kl-fil.bsky.social will be presenting her work in our lab tomorrow in the @femsmicro.org poster session. Definitely check it out if you're there! 🦠🧬+💻=♥️

Klara Filek @kl-fil.bsky.social · Jul 15

Tomorrow, I will be presenting a poster 081.16P about mucin degrading specialists of the ✨Akkermansia✨ genus in patients that underwent 💩 transplants to treat their ulcerative colitis. Come for a chat, and pls give me feedback on my version of designing with microbes but only on paper 🙃
#FEMS2025

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Klara Filek @kl-fil.bsky.social · Jul 15

This is my first time attending a big @femsmicro.org congress #FEMS2025 (thank you @cdiener.com 💚). I wanted to experience the FEMS congress since my baby PhD days in 2019 but did not get a chance to until now. It is absolutely exceeding my expectations, and I will tell you exactly why in the 🧵

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Maryse Berkhout @maryseberkhout.bsky.social · Jul 15

Just published in @femsjournals.bsky.social🦠:

Akkermansia muciniphila, Ruminococcus torques and Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron differ in their preferences for degradation of porcine gastric mucin O- and N-glycans.

#microsky #microbiomesky #glycotime @mib-wur.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Distinct in vitro utilization and degradation of porcine gastric mucin glycans by human intestinal bacteria

The degradation and utilization of mucin glycans depend on microbial composition and the interactions between the present bacteria.

doi.org

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Jul 10

Bluesky is now giving notifications for likes on reposts to the reposter. Excited that this may help folks recognize how high engagement is here.

Just a reminder that reposts are critical here without the algorithm. Late reposts are especially helpful for those who log in infrequently.

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cemess_vienna @cemess.bsky.social · Jul 7

CeMESS is hiring!

Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.

🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...

We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change

Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.

cemess.univie.ac.at

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Christian Diener @cdiener.com · Jul 2

Congrats Sean!

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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today, June 27, marks World Microbiome Day! We're celebrating with the inaugural Austrian Microbiome Research Awards. Congrats to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at, and Daniela Wöber @AIT. @fwf-at.bsky.social Details👇

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our latest preprint is online @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:

"‪Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work here by postdoc Nick Quinn-Bohmann @isbscience.org

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Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of synbiotic efficacy in a human intervention trial.

Synbiotic interventions show variable effects across individuals, likely driven by ecological interactions with the endogenous microbiota and the host diet. Rationally predicting individual-specific s...

www.medrxiv.org

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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · Jun 3

📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology!

Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com ‬ in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.

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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · May 15

We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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Christian Diener @cdiener.com · May 5

Thanks for the shout-out Itzik! 🤩

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Tim Fennell @tfenne.bsky.social · May 1

Nice blog post by @charlottetolonen.bsky.social from a couple of weeks ago about how to use conda for #bioinformatics without running afoul of anaconda licensing:
blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-l...
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Anaconda Licensing Changes

How to use Conda without running afoul of Anaconda licensing.

blog.fulcrumgenomics.com

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Atin Sharma @atinsharma.bsky.social · Apr 30

A stich in time saves nine.
New paper in @nature.com shows you gotta keep eating those fibres 🥦🥬🥗, an FMT later might not be as great! 💩

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

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

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature

Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions th...

www.nature.com

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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · May 1

The Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is one of the best research institutes in Portugal. It's currently recruiting for three Group Leaders (junior or senior) across different areas, including systems biology and bioinformatics.
gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...

Research Group Leaders – GIMMResearch Group Leaders – GIMM

Thank you very much for your generous donation and for sharing your testimony.We hope to more people feel inspired to join this mission of discovery and innovation!

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