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Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social · 12d

Research prizes for our lab: Anne has been awarded the DZIF Doctoral Award of the DGHM, and Lisa has received the DGHM Main Award. A wonderful recognition of the creativity, curiosity, and persistence of the entire team! www.dghm.org/dghm-preisve...

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Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de · 26d

#Job opportunity
The Key Lab @keyfm.bsky.social is looking for a #postdoc in evolutionary genetics - join a young team in the heart of #Berlin to investigate the evolution of ancient microbial pathogens.

⏰ Deadline: October 17
📌 More info and how to apply: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Postdoc in Evolutionary Genetics

Job Offer

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Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, SLU @mycopat.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌱 Soil microbes keep crops + ecosystems alive. But Laura J. Müller’s PhD shows pollution + drought disrupt the nitrogen cycle—with copper hitting hardest. Read more: www.slu.se/en/news/2025...
#SoilHealth #ClimateChange

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · Aug 27

💊 Non-antibiotic drugs & resistance

A new study shows common medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen can boost E. coli resistance to antibiotics, raising concerns for aged care settings.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#SciComm 🧪 #AMR

The effect of commonly used non-antibiotic medications on antimicrobial resistance development in Escherichia coli - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - The effect of commonly used non-antibiotic medications on antimicrobial resistance development in Escherichia coli

www.nature.com

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Sarela Garcia-Santamarina @sarsarela.bsky.social · Aug 12

Join our Deep Microbiome Metabolomics team as a Technician!

Work with LC/MS & ICP-MS in a cutting-edge microbiome lab @leibniz-hki.de

- CTA/chemical lab tech or BSc in chemistry/biochemistry
- LC/MS experience
- English

🔗 jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Technis...

#LabJobs #Technician #Metabolomics #LCMS

Stellenangebot Technische*r Assistent*in (m/w/div) bei Leibniz HKI Jobportal

Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

jobs.hki-jena.de

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Sarela Garcia-Santamarina @sarsarela.bsky.social · Aug 12

We’re hiring a Postdoc in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics!

Help us decode microbial metabolism and its impact on human health @leibniz-hki.de , Jena 🇩🇪

🔗 jobs.hki-jena.de/jobs/Postdoc...

Job opportunity Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/div) in Gut Microbiome Metabolomics at Leibniz HKI Jobportal

Wissenschaft/Forschung in Jena

jobs.hki-jena.de

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Cluster of Excellence CMFI @cmfi.bsky.social · Jul 24

Study finds #caffeine can weaken effectiveness of certain #antibiotics

Substances from natural environment can trigger bacteria's alert systems – implications for future therapeutic approaches?

Read the press release here: www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/en/news-even...

@unituebingen.bsky.social

Scientist Ana Rita Brochado and her lab team member Laura Sniegula look at data from the pipetting robot. With this laboratory tool the team investigated the effect of 94 different substances – including antibiotics, prescription drugs, and food ingredients – on the bacterium E. coli, a potential pathogen. © Leon Kokkoliadis/CMFI, University of Tübingen

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Cluster of Excellence CMFI @cmfi.bsky.social · Jul 17

Unexpected side-effect: how common medications clear the way for pathogens

CMFI's @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social show in @nature.com: many non-antibiotics weaken the natural protective function of the intestine.

Press release: www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/en/news-even...

Scanning electron microscopy image of a gut bacterial community (1:1.000.000). These interacting microorganisms form an ecosystem that is vital to human health. Medications can severely disrupt this fragile balance – they eliminate beneficial bacteria and thereby promote the growth of harmful species.
Image produced by the Maier Lab (Lisa Maier, Anne Grießhammer, Leonardo Boldt) together with the Tübingen Structural Microscopy Core Facility (Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, Stefan Fischer); Colouring: Elke Neudert.

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Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you so much, Kiran!

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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.

www.nature.com

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Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga @jdlcz.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is work of many years and many wonderful people! 🧑‍🔬

Led by Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social and me at the Maier lab @lisamaierlab.bsky.social in Tübingen @cmfi.bsky.social. Read the TL;DR and how the project and Lisa's lab grew hand in hand here: go.nature.com/3Ix8lu3

Research Communities by Springer Nature

Research Communities by Springer Nature provide a forum for all those interested in research to share the latest discoveries, news, and opinions.

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Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

Finally online!
Our latest research is out @nature.com: We show that non-antibiotic drugs can disrupt colonization resistance, raising the risk of enteric infections.
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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...

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Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga @jdlcz.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's finally out!🎉

We known that the #microbiome confers colonization resistance against #pathogens, we know that some meds 💊 affect gut microbes 🦠

So, do 💊 alter colonization resistance? It turns out that some do! If you wanna know more, check out our latest work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com

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Cambridgeshire @cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social · Jul 1

Scientists discover protection from PFAS chemicals

#Cambridgeshire #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Scientists' discovery could help protect against PFAS chemicals

Cambridge University scientists say a certain species of microbe in the human gut can absorb PFAS.

www.bbc.com

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Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social · Apr 13

So happy and proud to have been part of such an incredible research group 👩‍🔬🧫 Huge thanks for all the support, the laughs, and the amazing friendships♥️ These five years were truly unforgettable! #PhD

Lisa Maier Lab | Tübingen @lisamaierlab.bsky.social · Apr 13

🎓 Big milestone for our lab — our very first PhD is finished! Huge congratulations to @ghammeranne.bsky.social for an incredibly impressive piece of work. We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what you’ll do next. 💫 #PhD #proudPI

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Jan Homolak @janhomolak.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thanks for sharing @drpaulwicks.bsky.social I think next time we also have to bring cheese! (-:

Paul Wicks, PhD. @drpaulwicks.bsky.social · Apr 2

A novel take on #betterposter at #adpd2025 - turn your preclinical experimentation into an AI generated comic strip! Truly novel scicomms approach from this Croatian team! 🧀

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RuthLeyMicro @microbiome.bsky.social · Feb 25

So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!!
She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet

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Lauren Radlinski @laurenradlinski.bsky.social · Jan 23

Microbiome science needs more microbiologists- A new commentary authored by myself and @abaumler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbiome science needs more microbiologists - Nature Microbiology

Microbiome science is a multi-disciplinary field, but classical microbiologists are needed to ensure advances are grounded in our understanding of basic microbiological concepts.

www.nature.com

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Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social · Jan 14

My favourite tit from 2024 - it just came for the fame, wasn’t hungry
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#birds
#birdsbutt
#nature

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Kiran R. Patil @kiranrpatil.bsky.social · Jan 13

IMHO, given the vast number of chemicals (and growing), and their varied chemical/biological properties, systematic in vitro studies under comparable conditions will be essential towards accelerating toxicity assessment of chemicals. My lab's 2 cents towards this: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

www.biorxiv.org

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Segata Lab @cibiocm.bsky.social · Jan 10

Starting the new year with a new paper out, led by @fackelmeister.bsky.social, check it out 👇

Dr. Gloria Fackelmann @fackelmeister.bsky.social · Jan 7

🧵 How does being a #vegan, #vegetarian or omnivore impact your gut #microbiome? 🥦 Find out in our new paper on gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian & omnivore diets & associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social!🎉 1/10

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

Gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets and associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals - Nature Microbiology

Using 21,561 individuals, the authors present a cross-sectional study of how gut microbiome signatures are associated with dietary intake patterns and with host health outcomes.

www.nature.com

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Dec 26

Fascinating work showing that ants working in groups outperform individual ants in solving the piano movers’ puzzle. Human groups do not show such improvement and can even perform worse than an individual person, if communication is restricted. #neuroscience 🧪 🧠

itsthemind.bsky.social @itsthemind.bsky.social · Dec 25

Ants Solving A Puzzle

Credit: "Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans" (scientific paper, doi.org/10.1073/pnas...,
Tabea Dreyer, Amir Haluts Amos Korman and Ofer Feinerman)

When ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly.

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Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social · Nov 27

I wanted to share our beautiful synthetic gut community Com20, highlighting my favourites

🧪cutie little R. intestinalis shaped like a banana

🧫big boss C. perfringens needs privacy around its rods

🧪E. ramosum showing it’s spores

@lisamaierlab.bsky.social
#microbiome
#MicrobiomeSky
#microscopy

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · Nov 25

In case you needed this.

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Anne Grießhammer @ghammeranne.bsky.social · Nov 25

#addBirder #birds

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