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Patricia Geesink

@micropat.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Researcher at Wageningen University | Microbiologist | Dogmom | (super slow) Runner | she/her

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Apr 14

🚨 New Perspectives article where, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research.
🦠🧮 #MicroSky

@gibbological.bsky.social

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Moving from genome-scale to community-scale metabolic models for the human gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology

In this Perspective, Deiner, Gibbons and colleagues describe the current strengths and limitations of microbial community-scale metabolic models in microbiome research.

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Patricia Geesink @micropat.bsky.social · Apr 14

Today we @mib-wur.bsky.social are on strike against the budget cuts in higher education.
#StopTheCuts

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Patricia Geesink @micropat.bsky.social · Apr 1

Great Science from „home“ at the #KNVM2025 by @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social from the #MPI-CEJena

Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Apr 1

First Keynote talk at #KNVM2025 by Martin Kaltenpoth @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social (from @mpi-ce.bsky.social in Jena) on insect-microbe symbiosis

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Joshua Hamm @joshnhamm.bsky.social · Jan 15

This year the GRS will have a keynote from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and a mentorship panel with Simon Rittmann, @geosantiagom.bsky.social, Susanne Erdmann, and Yan Liao!
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2025 Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology (GRS) Seminar GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Archaea: Ecology, Metabolism and Molecular Biology (GRS) will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Joshua Hamm @joshnhamm.bsky.social · Jan 15

In case you missed it the GRC and GRS for Archaea 2025 are both open for applications! Join us in Switzerland for the latest iteration of this awesome conference! #archaeasky

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Dec 5

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs 🌊

The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

The redox transformations of sulfur mean it is a key component of global biogeochemical cycles. This Review explores the sulfur cycle over geological time, including its role during major climate pert...

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · Dec 4

Not new here but will become more active at @bsky.app (I am no longer active on X)

Follow me to hear more about the wonderful world of microbes (evolution, archaea, symbiosis, new microbes, ...). Expect occasional rants about academia, 🇳🇱 politics, life, etc.

My research group: go.bsky.app/MzZPftE

Ettema Lab Wageningen

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Patricia Geesink @micropat.bsky.social · Nov 24

I am still to overwhelmed to get started again somehow.

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Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social · Nov 16

Excited to have our review 'Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes' in the @NatureRevMicro special issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woese and Fox's paper! With @anjspa1 @cstairs J. Lombard and @Ettema_lab
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.133

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Nov 21

Transcriptional landscape of the archaeal cell cycle is broadly conserved in eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624502v1

The cell cycle is a series of events that occur from the moment of cell birth to cell division. In e

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