Events will be hosted January - December, 2025, usually on the last Wednesday of every month, 12:00 - 14:00 pm ET. Presented over Zoom. After each talk, we will continue the discussions in an informal social meeting with MSE. All speakers and members of the audience are welcome to join the social meeting. Hosted by: Sue Ishaq, MSE, and finacially supported by the University of Maine Institute of Medicine and the UMaine Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Committee.

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 05 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01251-1The cryosphere remains one of the least-understood microbial ecosystems on Earth, but as climate change accelerates, cryosphere microbial communities will have an increasingly prominent role in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. In this Review, Whyte and co-workers discuss the effects of climate change on cryosphere microbial ecosystems.

Professor Joana Falcao Salles, a professor of Microbial Community Ecology at the University of Groningen, has been named as the newest winner of the Basil Jarvis Food Security and Innovation Award.

Anammox, as a cost-effective nitrogen removal technology, was widely applied for wastewater treatment. However, the microbial response mechanisms, par…

Published in Ecology letters

Understanding and predicting how communities assemble is a paramount challenge in ecology. Here we address these questions normatively by comparing the ecological distribution of growth surplus to a g...

Physicochemical parameters, heavy metals, and bacterial load analysis of Neelum River wastewater.