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Ghada Yousif
@ghadayousif.bsky.social
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A microbiologist who is passionate about microbes interactions and how they shape our lives.
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Kiran R. Patil @kiranrpatil.bsky.social · Jul 2
Excited to share some key details on our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reporting intra-cellular accumulation of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria. #microsky #mevosky #microbiomesky
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Human gut bacteria bioaccumulate PFAS
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Erik Bakkeren @erikbakkeren.bsky.social · Jun 11
Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better!

Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
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Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · Jun 11
Metabolic ecology of microbiomes: Nutrient competition, host benefits, and community engineering

Review by Erik Bakkeren, Vit Piskovsky, and Kevin R. Foster
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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · Jul 1
Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Bridging the scales: what can microbial ecologists learn from classic ecology?
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Atin Sharma @atinsharma.bsky.social · Jun 13
Nature awards and Yakult have announced another round of 'Global Grants for Gut Health'. An excellent opportunity for gut microbiota researchers, at any career stage, to win $100,000 for a year to cover their interesting research!

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

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Nature Awards Global Grants for Gut Health
Grants for researchers investigating the gut microbiota and its role in human health.
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · Jun 13
Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · Apr 21
We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems

#MicroSky
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Ghada Yousif @ghadayousif.bsky.social · Apr 28
Ever thought about a nose-to-nose bacteria transfer? 👃🦠 I wrote about it — and no, it's not as gross as it sounds. Check it out! #Microbiome #ScienceIsWeird #SciCom
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MicroBites @microbites.bsky.social · Apr 19
📣 New MicroBites!

Bacteria are on the Case 🦠

How can nasal bacteria cure infections? 👃
Bacteria are on the Case
How can nasal bacteria cure infections?
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Mizrahi Lab @mizrahilab.bsky.social · Mar 26
This study www.nature.com/articles/s41... expands gut microbiome knowledge into African populations, uncovering lifestyle-linked taxa shifts and novel genomes. It’s a crucial resource for future work, including our own interest in the loss of cellulolytic bacteria. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.
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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · Mar 17
ICYMI: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…
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Tobias Engl @tcsengl.bsky.social · Mar 27
A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Microbiology @natrevmicro.nature.com · Mar 27
New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects
Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · Mar 31
Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature Microbiology
Using a cohort of nearly 1,000 genetically diverse mice undergoing dietary restriction over the lifespan, the authors reveal numerous insights into the interactions between the gut microbiome, host ge...
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Glen Dsouza @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social · Mar 30
Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology!

Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601
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Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Mar 7
Now online! Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome
Plants are composed of diverse secondary metabolites. Here, we discover members of the human gut microbiome that have evolved enzymes to metabolize specific dietary phenolic small molecules that activate diverse functions important to the host, such as…
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Christoph Kaleta @kaletalab.bsky.social · Apr 4
Happy that our work on host-microbiome-interactions in aging is mentioned in this editorial from @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social that emphasizes the importance of modeling in microbiology research.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Apr 4
📝 In this month's editorial, we talk about the power of mathematical modeling 🧮, its importance in understanding of complex microbiology 🦠 , and how we assess papers addressing mathematical modeling.

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Share your thoughts in the replies!

#MicroSky #MathSky
Model behaviour - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical models can distil complex systems into their key components, posit theories that spark experimental research and forecast future events. We discuss the power of models to address pressing...
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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Apr 7
Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.

It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.

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Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS
Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly
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Doran Goldman @goldmandoran.bsky.social · Mar 11
I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Mar 3
Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness

#ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling

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Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness
Abstract. A key feature of natural communities is that the species within them stably coexist. A common metric used to test community stability is the abil
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Insect Symbiosis Lab @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social · Jan 23
Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published.
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe
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Insect Symbiosis Lab @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social · Mar 13
We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs
IMPRS
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Samir Giri @isamirgiri.bsky.social · Mar 4
Cool new paper by @shetoot.bsky.social Shitut et al. shows
Bacteria with multiple different chromosomes can survive broad antibiotic exposure
Check it out 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bacterial heterozygosity promotes survival under multidrug selection
Although bacterial cells typically contain a single chromosome, some species are naturally polyploid and carry multiple copies of their chromosome. Po…
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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Mar 4
Career Webinar Alert! 📢
Join us on March 21st for a career webinar on "Transitioning to a PI Role"!
Registration is now open.
With the unstoppable and inspiring Lisa Maier @lisamaierlab.bsky.social
Help spread the word and register
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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Mar 5
I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar

Disentangling microbial interaction networks

Open access link:
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Feb 21
Nice to see how this project developed through the years & published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by Saheli Saha et al from @iamsamayp.bsky.social group 👏

Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities

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Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities
Saha et al. show that the predatory bacterium M. xanthus enriches the frequency of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in soil communities. This occurs because starvation-induced mass lysis of M. xanthus ce...
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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · Feb 20
Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Dec 18
The enigmatic, ultrasmall and largely uncultivated Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria represent a treasure trove of potential discoveries, argues this recent Perspective in PNAS🕵️👇 from the Mougous Lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Beyond genomics in Patescibacteria: A trove of unexplored biology packed into ultrasmall bacteria | PNAS
Patescibacteria, also known as the Candidate Phyla Radiation, are a diverse clade of largely uncultivated, small bacteria that comprise a significa...
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