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

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community

@natcomms.nature.com from @oventurelli2.bsky.social

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

Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community - Nature Communications

Here the authors leverage a crossfeeding, engineered microbial community to demonstrate that strain abundance cycles are robust across environmental conditions. They pair this with a nonlinear dynamic model to elucidate population cycles.

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm going to be advertising for a few positions in my group in the next couple of months for a big project on synthetic microbial communities.

I would love to hear from you if you are interested and I'd also appreciate if everyone could share this far and wide!

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · 15d

What, where, when?
📅 October 31st, 2025 | 12:00 – 18:00
📍 Auditorium, O2 building, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
🎟️ Free, register here (before 1st Oct with a talk title; 15th Oct regular): forms.office.com/e/qCrRcXhsyA

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · 15d

We’ll explore these questions (and more!) together at the AIMMS Symposium “Modeling metabolism: successes, challenges, and prospects”

With talks by:
✨ Djordje Bajić (TUD)
✨ Meike Wortel (UvA)
✨ Ursula Kummer (Uni Heidelberg)
✨ María Suárez Diez (WUR)
🔷 selected early-career researcher talks.

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · 15d

Metabolic modeling has advanced over decades, built on the dedication and behind-the-scenes work of countless researchers. But some big questions remain:

💡 What are the biggest challenges ahead?
🚀 What is the next frontier in modeling metabolism?

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · 15d

🔬 Recent breakthroughs in understanding metabolism, and applying this knowledge, have only been possible thanks to the creative blending of multiple disciplines. Among them, mathematical modeling has become a cornerstone for many successful interdisciplinary studies in the life sciences.

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · 15d

Metabolic modeling aficionados in the Netherlands (and close to border), attention please! (promo thread)

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Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social · 20d

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · Aug 31

Embracing computational models in their research feels like crossing the Rubicon for many people, although it should not be so. That was my red thread while overseeing the writing of this manuscript. Modeling is an essential ingredient for the next grand advance(s) of the 21st century biology!

Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · Aug 31

This text (in another format) will become a chapter in the Euglenozoa book of the Methods in Molecular Biology series soon (details TBD). The copyediting and other formalities are pending; in the meantime, I am very happy to share the manuscript version of the chapter.

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · Aug 31

We (me and Jurgen Haanstra from the Vrije Universiteit, and colleagues from Uni Sao Paulo in Brazil) spelt some wisdom out on how experimental data becomes some zeros and ones in genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) - focusing on organisms that exhibit metabolically distinct life stages.

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Pranas Grigaitis @pranasag.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's a common wisdom that the whole genome is not expressed at the same time. Is trying to make a map of the 'entirety' of the metabolic potential (aka genome-scale model) useless, and potentially reckless? It's only an intermediate stop. Especially for unicellular parasites. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

From genome to function: metabolism-wide models of lifecycle stages of parasites

Abstract Metabolism is a complex network of biochemical reactions that cells use to obtain free energy transduced from nutrients and synthesize new cellular components. Understanding the wiring of met...

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Aug 25

Good ideas come from having lots of experience. And experience comes from having lots of bad ideas.

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · Aug 21

@berasymbionts.bsky.social speaking about socially transferred materials and her amazing beetles and fungal symbiont transfer opening the @socialtransfernet.bsky.social symposium at #ESEB2025

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 12

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

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BejaLab @bejalab.bsky.social · Jul 30

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference www.nature.com/articles/d41... @odedrechavi.bsky.social @sheilaroitman.bsky.social @alinapi.bsky.social @barakrotblat.bsky.social

Scientific bedlam at the world’s weirdest and wildest research conference

Woodstock Bio2 + Night Science aimed to encourage collaborations through creativity. The walk-on music for presentations was fun, too.

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Jürgen Zanghellini @juergenzanghellini.bsky.social · Jul 30

🎬 Straight from the red carpet to the green screen 🎥

The Glorious Four, @diana-sz.bsky.social #EladNoor #FelipeScott #MarceloRivas close out our summer school saga in style

🎞️ Fall release coming to a thread near you, don’t miss it
@economic-cell.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @cecamevents.bsky.social

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Diana Széliová @diana-sz.bsky.social · Jul 26

Today wrapped up our 4th summer school on Economic Principles in Cell Biology organized by @economic-cell.bsky.social at the beautiful @univie.ac.at 🤩
Huge thanks to all the students, teachers and @cecamevents.bsky.social for the support! ✨️
See you next year!

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miki92.bsky.social @miki92.bsky.social · Jul 26

Last day of our summer school! 🥹 So happy to have seen you all here in Vienna! 🇦🇹
@economic-cell.bsky.social

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Jürgen Zanghellini @juergenzanghellini.bsky.social · Jul 25

The cast keeps growing faster than E. coli in rich medium

#SteffenWaldherr’s in, slate’s up, the signal is strong: Hasta la vista, baby.

🎥 @economic-cell.bsky.social @univie.ac.at 📚🌱

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Jürgen Zanghellini @juergenzanghellini.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎬 Hollywood called, but @meikewortel.bsky.social said: “I’m booked – starring in Economic Principles in Cell Biology: The Sequel.”

Catch her and the rest of the cast at the @univie.ac.at summer school 👉 @economic-cell.bsky.social 🎥🌱📚

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Jürgen Zanghellini @juergenzanghellini.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎥 @pranasag.bsky.social understood the assignment: “Put your head in the game.” 🎬

The @univie.ac.at summer school Economic Principles in Cell Biology is in full swing! Catch us before we all lose our heads 👉 @economic-cell.bsky.social 🌱📚

supported by @cecamevents.bsky.social

@pranasag.bsky.social sticks his head through a film slate

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Jürgen Zanghellini @juergenzanghellini.bsky.social · Jul 23

📸 #MarkusKöbis. Green screen. Slate snap.

Filming is underway for "Economic Principles in Cell Biology" at our summer school @univie.ac.at 🌱📚

Check us out at @economic-cell.bsky.social before #Netflix grabs exclusive rights 🎬

Supported by @cecamevents.bsky.social

Markus Köbis in front of a green screen, snapping a slate before he records his video on Economic Principle in Cell Biology

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Social Transfer Network @socialtransfernet.bsky.social · Jul 22

🌐 Welcome to the Social Transfer Network (STN) on Bluesky! We’re an interdisciplinary community exploring how materials/signals (from molecules to microbes) transfer between individuals and shape health, behavior, and evolution. #STM

Redirecting

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Jul 18

Dear early career scientists! Why not join us in September in Lithuania’s beautiful capital city for the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum? We will have have a full Night Science workshop & exciting research sessions. Abstract submission: August 1 meetings.embo.org/event/25-eysf
@evogytis.bsky.social

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