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Sarahi L. Garcia
@sarilog.bsky.social
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Scientist: microbial interactions & carbon cycle. Professor, mom, queer, expat, first-gen, neurodiverse... inclusion & sustainability
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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 3d
Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

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Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology
The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 1d
Metabolic interplay drives population cycles in a cross-feeding microbial community www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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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Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón @alejandrorgijon.bsky.social · 2d
I am extremely happy to share our latest manuscript "Widely-distributed freshwater microorganisms with streamlined genomes co-occur in cohorts with high abundance". This project started back in 2021-2022 and after a long time, it sees the light today!

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Widely-distributed freshwater microorganisms with streamlined genomes co-occur in cohorts with high abundance - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Widely-distributed freshwater microorganisms with streamlined genomes co-occur in cohorts with high abundance
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Vesna Grujcic @vesnagrujcic.bsky.social · Aug 30
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Chris Greening @greening.bsky.social · Jul 25
Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
ATP synthesis driven by atmospheric hydrogen concentrations | PNAS
All cells require a continuous supply of the universal energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to drive countless cellular reactions. The un...
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🇨🇦Cath Ennis🇨🇦 @enniscath.bsky.social · Jun 16
This is wild! Stay weird, evolution | Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus
With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses
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Florian Trigodet @floriantrigodet.bsky.social · Apr 28
I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors
Genomes from metagenomes have revolutionised our understanding of microbial diversity, ecology, and evolution, propelling advances in basic science, biomedicine, and biotechnology. Assembly algorithms...
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Sarahi L. Garcia @sarilog.bsky.social · Apr 29
4) a community that is potentially interdependent
5) ubiquitous microorgansims
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Sarahi L. Garcia @sarilog.bsky.social · Apr 29
3) microorgansims with lower biosynthetic potential
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2) more of the diversity out there
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Sarahi L. Garcia @sarilog.bsky.social · Apr 29
Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria
Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate:
1) abundant microorganisms
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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · Feb 27
Just out - The first global ocean 3-Domain microbial survey where all organisms can be directly compared quantitatively. Unfractionated and amplified from just 2 primers (vetted with mock communities and metagenomics), so all with the same denominator. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sergio Tusso @stusso.bsky.social · Apr 20
Do you like potatoes? Don't miss our most recent work on tetraploid potato genome!
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#potato #genomics #history #evolution
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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Apr 15
We offer a 5-year research position in the #PlanktonEcology lab in Wilhelmshaven. Are you interested in empirically testing ecological concepts? We offer a stimulating scientific environment, experimental facilities & support to establish an independent research profile
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Postdoctoral researcher in Plankton Ecology // University of Oldenburg
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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · Apr 15
Our microbiologist Prof. Dr Kirsten Küsel has been elected as member of @leopoldina.org. 💐

The speaker of the Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social and @crc-aquadiva.bsky.social at #UniJena studies microbial communities in soil, water and deep underground.

➡️ www.uni-jena.de/en/310794/pr...
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Küsel. Foto: Jens Meyer / Uni Jena
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Maliheh Mehrshad @mehrshmali.bsky.social · Mar 26
Check out this amazing evolutionary story!

The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses

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The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses
A few genera of diatoms are widespread in the oceans and form stable partnerships with N2-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria Richelia spp. A unique feature of the diatom-Richelia symbioses is the symbio...
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Ilnam Kang @ilnamkang.bsky.social · Feb 3
"~demonstrating the successful expression and assembly of this (Archaeallum) machinery in Bacteria and its function in swimming motility."

Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria
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Horizontal gene transfer of the functional archaellum machinery to Bacteria
Motility in Archaea is driven by a nanomachinery called the archaellum. So far, archaella have been exclusively described for the archaeal domain; however, a recent study reported the presence of arch...
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Robin Rohwer @robinrohwer.bsky.social · Jan 22
Today is the one-year anniversary of finishing my recent @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social paper's final draft 📝. It is also my son's 1st birthday 🐣. Seems like a good time for an explainer thread! (1/n)

@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social

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Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake - Nature Microbiology
A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response to environmental extremes.
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Sarahi L. Garcia @sarilog.bsky.social · Jan 7
Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician.
uol.de/en/job/bioin...
The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years.
Please share!
https://uol.de/en/job/bioinfo…
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jan 4
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

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Robin Rohwer @robinrohwer.bsky.social · Jan 3
It has been amazing to continue this long-term research through a PhD with @quendi.bsky.social and a postdoc with @archaeal.bsky.social . Not everyone gets to see a project through like this as an ECR- thanks to supportive PI's and the NSF-PRFB fellowship that let me design my own postdoc 💙🧪
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · Jan 3
After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social

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Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake
Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · Dec 16
We are very happy to announce a free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR symposium in Oldenburg to discuss integrated microbial 'omics and learn applications of anvi'o.

More information and application link (application deadline is Jan 10): anvio.org/workshops/20...

Please apply and/or circulate 😇
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Sarahi L. Garcia @sarilog.bsky.social · Dec 14
Yesterday was epic! The first member of my research group @alejandrorgijon.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD thesis. My heartfelt congratulations, Alejandro!!! May the future bring a lot more reasons to celebrate with super heroe/villain costumes 🙌🏽
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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · Aug 2
Eight years later, I revisit the tree of life. “Future trees may need to distinguish not only between cultured and uncultured lineages, but between extant and extinct”

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The ever-changing tree of life
Nature Microbiology - The tree of life is a galvanizing image, anchoring biological diversity within a common framework. From a new view in 2016, the tree has continued to grow, and with it, our...
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Trina McMahon @quendi.bsky.social · Feb 8
Very excited to share this most amazing story about Lake Mendota's microbes!! A herculean effort on behalf of @robinrohwer.bsky.social and such a rewarding collaboration with some of my favorite scientists @archaeal.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social Hurray for LTER! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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