After an interesting and very exciting journey with my friends, we showed that this little guy (Microbacterium deferred A1-JK) not only produces electricity but also does it while breathing oxygen and uses a cross-Gram (Gram- &Gram+ genes combined) hybrid mechanism to do this ⚡🦠.

Thanks! Very sweet of you. ☺️

Congratulations! 😊

Huge congratulations! 🎉

Thank you, Jill! Your guidance as my PhD supervisor played an important role in this achievement. I truly appreciate it! 😊

Huge thanks to @cemau.bsky.social for being the perfect host institution for my project!

As a science-loving girl growing up in Poland, Maria Skłodowska-Curie was my role model, so much so that I once portrayed her in a school play! 😅 Now, 15 years later, receiving a positive result on my #MSCA application feels surreal. A full-circle moment I never imagined back then!

Oh wow! Somehow I have never came across this type of symbiosis. I’m mindblown. 😍 Thank you for sharing and congratulations on the great work😊

🌟 Exciting news! Our latest collaborative research with team @aarhusuni.bsky.social introduces pH-FISH, a novel technique combining pH ratiometry and FISH to simultaneously unravel microbial identity and local biofilm pH. 🔬 🧪 #MicroSky

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Microbiome #Biofilms

“Riftia” is a deep sea vent tubeworm that has no mouth or digestive tract. Rather, it hosts billions of symbiotic bacteria that provide them nutrition.
Wildly, they are among the fastest growing organisms on the planet! Our paper examines *how* they pull this off.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our study on drug-gut microbiome interactions is out!
🦠💊

We show that the #Parkinson's drug entacapone induces iron deficiency in microbes, leading to selective inhibition of microbial activity.

@cemess.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #BostonUni

Check the full story here: rdcu.be/d0ZAQ

A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote (Nature Communications)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Desulfobacteraceae (in phylum Deltaproteobacteria) symbionts help remove H2 produced by hydrogenosomes in the anaerobic protist Anaeramoeba:

#SymbioSky

It’s true, you only see what you’re looking for: After decades studying chemosynthetic symbionts in clam gills, we realized they colonize the digestive tract too 😱

academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

SoxY gene family expansion underpins adaptation to diverse hosts and environments in symbiotic sulfide oxidizers journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

SO excited that my team and I can continue our work on marine symbioses with an #ERCCoG SeaSym: Symbioses between plants and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria sustain coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems

Our preprint describing the unusual strategy of #symbiont transmission and previously unreported level of genome reduction and reorganization in a #planthopper symbiotic system has just been published - with @diecasfranco @sympiotr et al
doi.org/10.1101/2023... 
#SymbioSky #EvoSky #EvoBiol