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Swagatika Dash
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Pursuing PhD @kostchristian.bsky.social‬'s lab.👩‍🔬 Microbial ecology and evolution| Survival strategies of soil bacteria| Bacterial cross-feeding interactions
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kostchristian.bsky.social
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.

Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia

Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.

Deadline: 11.01.26

More info:

shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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chaintist.bsky.social
FISH images of microbial cells in host organs/ tissues sometimes remind me of Van Gogh's starry night. Am I the only one? No? Yes? Maybe?
Anyways, I just wanted to recreate it ;)
#microbiomesky #microbiome #art
Inspired by Van Gogh's famous painting, "starry night", this digital artwork shows microbes swimming in the "night sky" just like stars above rolling hills and a town.
November 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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nonresidentdesi.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#MicroSKy #Microbiology
Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
www.science.org
June 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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kostchristian.bsky.social
I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar

Disentangling microbial interaction networks

Open access link:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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kiranrpatil.bsky.social
Kudos to Ghada @kostchristian.bsky.social team and @metagenomez.bsky.social et al. for this mammoth effort! An important step forward towards understanding natural microbial communities and determinants of their fascinating diversity.
January 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635426v1
January 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
swagatika.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to @ghada_myousif , @metagenomez and all the coauthors. 🎉 The project that truly shaped my PhD journey is finally on bioRxiv. Extremely grateful to be part of this.
January 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth

@naturephysics.bsky.social from Peter Yunker
with Brian Hammer

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth - Nature Physics
The growth of a biofilm—a bacterial colony attached to a surface—is governed by a trade-off between horizontal and vertical expansion. Now, it is shown that this process significantly depends on the c...
www.nature.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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isamirgiri.bsky.social
Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab.
Check it out here:
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
@typaslab.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM