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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 1d

Training from Schiphol towards #Wageningen @w-u-r.bsky.social after #ECMNP25 (European Conference on Marine Natural Products), I will leave you with this (action) shot of #Piran, #Slovenia, in the morning light.... 😎

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 2d

Larissa Della Vedova (UU/WUR) on Optimization of a Mass Spectrometry and Computational Metabolomics Workflow to Unveil Microbial Dynamics in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

#metabolomics for #microbialecology

NWO-XL project by @lizscurious.bsky.social and colleagues
#NIME2025

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 9d

Ready for #ECMNP25 in Piran, Slovenia! 😎 It was great seeing many familiar faces at the welcome reception, and to meet new colleagues in the marine natural products field! 😊

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 9d

West Coast Metabolomics Center UCDavis @metabolomics-wcmc.bsky.social · 9d

We are truly proud of our Bits & Bites # 06: "Using MetaboAnalyst for Metabolomics Statistics and Data Visualizations" October 9, 2025, from 9 am to 1 pm Instructor: Dr. Jeff Xia, McGill University, register and pay: na.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.p...
#metabolomics @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social

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Netherlands eScience Center @esciencecenter.bsky.social · 10d

The eScience blog is back from a well-deserved holiday period. Checkout @egpbos.bsky.social 's latest post about user-friendliness.
blog.esciencecenter.nl/be-like-jurr...

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 11d

Me after a week of teaching..(and the other work activities)....

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Mitja M. Zdouc @mmzdouc.bsky.social · 12d

Aaand it's out! Meet MITE - the natural product tailoring enzyme database, just published in @narjournal.bsky.social! MITE DB captures the substrate- and reaction-specificity of tailoring enzymes, allowing to capture this information in a human- and machine-readable way! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 16d

Good morning from #Wageningen 😎

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · 17d

New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Using cross-species co-expression to predict metabolic interactions in microbiomes

In microbial ecosystems, metabolic interactions are key determinants of species’ relative abundance and activity. Given the immense number of possible interactions in microbial communities, their expe...

www.biorxiv.org

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Adriano Rutz @adafede.bsky.social · 17d

@mehdibeni.bsky.social drove it forward, and it was a pleasure to contribute with @robinschmid.bsky.social, @Wout Bittremieux, @Olivier Cailloux, and @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social.
It places the scalability of MS-based metabolomics for natural extracts as a central challenge rather than a side issue.

Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Great writing project with @adafede.bsky.social & Mehdi Bennidir and colleagues! @w-u-r.bsky.social
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts #discovery #libraries
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Scalability of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for natural extracts libraries exploration: current status, challenges, and opportunities

Covering: up to 2025This review explores the potential of bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools to advance the exploration of natural extracts libraries (NELs). Although metabolomics has become a ...

pubs.rsc.org

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Great writing project with @adafede.bsky.social & Mehdi Bennidir and colleagues! @w-u-r.bsky.social
#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #naturalproducts #discovery #libraries
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Scalability of mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for natural extracts libraries exploration: current status, challenges, and opportunities

Covering: up to 2025This review explores the potential of bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools to advance the exploration of natural extracts libraries (NELs). Although metabolomics has become a ...

pubs.rsc.org

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · 24d

Looking up in #TheHague today 😎

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Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're looking for a postdoc who wants to tackle multi-modal federated learning applied to drug discovery.

There will be:
- A great team
- Loads of data
- An interesting and important application
- A beautiful, modern campus
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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!

www.wur.nl

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Sep 7

Visited a green sanctuary in #Utrecht 😎

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Sep 3

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

www.nature.com

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Sep 4

Visited an exotic part of the Netherlands 😊 😎

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · Sep 3

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III.

Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham

Apply now for the Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Sep 3

#Wageningen tonight 😎

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 31

Street #theater festival in #Amersfoort #spoffin spinoff! Yesterday was one day full of acts across the city center 😎 With the future of #acrobatics (who controls who?), a tender dance of two, a slippery scene, and the premiere of an acrobatic group (who is loyal to whom?), it was an enjoyable day!

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 29

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#metabolomics #CompMetabolomics #BeNeLux #community

#leiden #bmd2025 #metabolomics #compmetabolomics #naturalproducts… | Justin J.J. van der Hooft

Traveling back from #Leiden Leiden Early Drug Discovery and Development (LED3) Universiteit Leiden after today's kickoff of the FAIRify your metabolomics TTDC project (watch this space!) Looking bac...

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great sessions today at the #BMD2025! 😎 This included talks by Alexandra Zhernakova on metabolic dynamics during pregnancy, Federico Padilla on retrospective mining for toxic alkaloids associated to wheat, and our own Felicia Wolters introducing her FAIR plant paired omics dataset! #CompMetabolomics

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ready for day 2 of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden 😎 #metabolomics #CompMetabolomics

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 27

#CompMetabolomics

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Justin J.J. van der Hooft @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great final session of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden today! 😎 With our own @mmzdouc.bsky.social presenting #FERMO, including a flashback to his talk 3 years ago in Utrecht at the #BMD2022, and a fantastic keynote by Jonathan Martin on the #metabolomics of #exposomics!

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