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Cristina Legido-Quigley @legidoquigley.bsky.social · Jul 24

Super happy to share our latest preprint in #liverdisease & #gut microbiota mechanisms.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Background: Alcohol overuse disrupts liver function and alters microbial gut communities, with alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) accounting for half of all liver-related deaths worldwide. Bile acids...

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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social · Jul 21

New preprint from the lab: "Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats" analysing 85k metagenomes across the world, e.g. looking into generalism across habitats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... – see the thread below for more details!

#MicroSky 🖥️🧬🦠

Chan Yeong Kim @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our new preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide.
@podlesny.bsky.social @jonas-bio.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats

Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...

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Chan Yeong Kim @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our new preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide.
@podlesny.bsky.social @jonas-bio.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats

Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sebastian Schmidt @tsbschm.bsky.social · Jun 27

The team's first preprint is out!

Led by ‪
‪@vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social‬‬ & @omaistrenko.bsky.social , we asked a question (almost) as old as microbiology: how many prokaryotic species exist on Earth? More specifically, how much diversity is "hiding" in existing metagenomic data?

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Jun 27

A census of hidden and discoverable microbial diversity beyond genome-centric approaches https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661807v1

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Jaime Huerta-Cepas @jhcepas.bsky.social · Jun 25

The rare microbial biosphere harbors many chemosensitive microorganisms undetectable by regular shotgun metagenomics. We can now explore them using our custom target-capture sequencing approach. Impressive work by
Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5

Europe’s choice is clear.

To put science at the heart of its economy.

To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration.

And to welcome talent from all over the world.

I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative.

→ europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

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Daniel Podlesny @podlesny.bsky.social · Apr 28

Live in 2h: Metagenomic microbial strain tracking in the cloud! I'll be doing a quick demo showing how to use the SameStr workflow on the @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social Cloud-based Workflow Platform (CloWM) - GUI / no-install / scalable / free for scientific use.

NFDI4Microbiota @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join our next Coffee Talk on 28 April at 14:30 CEST!
@podlesny.bsky.social (EMBL) presents SameStr—a new tool for strain-resolved metagenomics. Track microbes with high precision.
🔗 Zoom: ID 687 6408 9023 | PW: 826218
#Microbiome #Metagenomics #OpenScience

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Apr 9

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:

rdcu.be/eg4OA

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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression

Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.

rdcu.be

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Michael Kreil @michaelkreil.bsky.social · Feb 20

Die Faschisten sind auf dem Vormarsch - schon wieder - und wir machen genau die gleichen Fehler - schon wieder.
datajournal.org/schon-wieder/

Schon wieder

Der Aufstieg der NSDAP/AfD

datajournal.org

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Wählerwille des Grauens @mdbdesgrauens.bsky.social · Jan 21

Dass nur eine einzige Redaktion sich hier traut, zu schreiben, was jeder sehen konnte: "Musk macht Hitlergruß" – das ist so dystopisch, ihr werft uns denen zum Fraß vor.

Screenshot von Google News: Zeit Online schreibt von vermeintlichem Hitlergruß, NTV sagt Geste ähnelt, SZ von möglichem Hitlergruß, Welt spricht von römischen Gruß oder Geste von Herzen

Weitere Screenshots von Google News. ZDF spricht von fragwürdiger Geste, T-Online schreibt Mast ihre Tiere mit Geste, BR schreibt von Hitlergruß ähnlicher Geste und so weiter

Weitere Screenshots von anderen Medien im selben Ton

Weiteres Screenshots, diesmal aber mit Watson, die als einziges Medium den Hitlergruß als solchen benennen

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · Jan 21

Die deutschen Mainstream-Medien sind soweit nach links gerutscht, dass sie einen Hitlergruß nicht mehr Hitlergruß nennen.

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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · Jan 8

NEW ONLINE! New online! A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics

A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 08 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-024-00803-0Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests.…

go.nature.com

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Chan Yeong Kim @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social · Dec 28

I’m excited to share our new paper published in Nature Communications!
In our work, we discovered TANB77, a bacterial clade previously obscured by a polyphyletic grouping in conventional taxonomy, as a reliable biomarker across diverse immunotherapy recipient groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A conserved pilin from uncultured gut bacterial clade TANB77 enhances cancer immunotherapy - Nature Communications

Here, the authors show that higher levels of the gut bacterial clade TANB77 associate with better response to cancer immunotherapy, and further demonstrate in mice that a conserved pilin from TANB77 p...

www.nature.com

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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · Dec 23

Excited to share our preprint with @savitski_lab led by @tarabartolec.bsky.social, @KMitosch & Clément Potel! We uncovered a mechanism by which the T7 phage broadly counteracts DNA-targeting bacterial defenses by deploying a loose cannon kinase in its genome @embl.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive phosphorylation by phage T7 kinase disarms bacterial defenses

Bacteria and bacteriophages are in a constant arms race to develop bacterial defense and phage counter-defense systems. Currently known phage counter-defense systems are specific to (the activity of) ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jotham Suez (SuezLab@JHU) @suez.bsky.social · Dec 13

🚨 New review in @natrevgastrohep.bsky.social:
Should you take probiotics with antibiotics?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bottom line: current evidence does not support the common perception that probiotics can facilitate the gut microbiome's recovery from antibiotics. BUT! 1/🧵

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Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social · Dec 11

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

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Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic @svetlanaup.bsky.social · Dec 9

If you missed #MVIF 34, no worries, here is Vedanth's talk and other amazing talks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnDy...

Vedanth Ramji - argNorm: Normalization of antibiotic resistance gene annotations to ARO | S04 MVIF34

YouTube video by Microbiome Virtual International Forum

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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social · Dec 5

About one week left to apply! Open postdoc position for analysing environmental microbiome data, e.g. from @embl.org 's TREC expedition along the coastlines of Europe www.embl.org/about/info/t...

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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hot off the press: "Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

See below for @suguru-nishijima.bsky.social 's thread on the preprint!

#microsky #microbiome

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Mike-ghoul Half-man @michaelhoffman.bsky.social · Nov 11

1/AlphaFold 3 code now available, following researcher criticism for not providing it with the initial publication. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now open source

The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.

www.nature.com

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Jan Claesen @claesengroup.bsky.social · Oct 19

Hi everyone, I tried assembling a Microbiome & friends starter pack.
🦠🧫🔬

Still learning to use bluesky and might have missed you, let me know if you would like to be included.

go.bsky.app/Fq36egy

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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social · Nov 7

We're looking for a postdoc on the Computational Analysis of Environmental #Microbiome Data! www.embl.org/jobs/positio...
In the past two years, #EMBL scientists have gathered more than 3000 soil, sediment and water samples from Europe's coastlines within the #TREC expedition. (1/4)

EMBL Jobs

We offer a wide range of challenging scientific and non-scientific positions at all of our European locations and encourage applications from international candidates at all career levels.

www.embl.org

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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social · Oct 23

The first day of our lab retreat is underway. We didn't venture far from EMBL, just up the hill to Königstuhl overlooking Heidelberg and the Rhine valley. However, we did invite guest from other labs who are working on the microbiome and are enjoying the discussions across the groups!

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Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg @borklab.bsky.social · Aug 15

⚡️ Our latest preprint "Refined Enterotyping Reveals Dysbiosis in Global Fecal Metagenomes" led by @maelschermarisa.bsky.social is now available! We’ve revisited the concept of #enterotypes using a massive dataset of 16,772 human fecal #metagenomes from 38 countries! 🌍🧬 doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🧵

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