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JAMS Brisbane @brisjams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧫 BrisJAMS is back this September! 🍕🎤 Join us for another evening of microbiology at our September BrisJAMS seminar! 📅 Wednesday, 30 September 2026 ⏰ 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 📍 The Burrow, Beer Garden Room, West End 👉 Register via the QR code on the poster! And yes… FREE PIZZA will be provided! 🍕

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Five years to work out what drives bronchiectasis in kids — persistent chest infection and the immune response to it. ACE is excited to be CRE-CLIMB's core for bioinformatic analysis and training, with @xrefugee13.bsky.social and @sewerynoz.bsky.social leading the charge.

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Menzies School of Health Research @menziesresearch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A new Menzies-led Centre of Research Excellence funded by NHMRC will focus on understanding the cause of bronchiectasis: a severe lung disease in children. Read more: www.menzies.edu.au/page/News_an...

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What drives coral larvae to settle? 🪸 New work led by Paul O'Brien, Inka Vanwonterghem & Laura Rix uses metagenomics to reveal how biofilms trigger/block coral settlement, pointing to GABA, nitric oxide, and other chemical cues behind the process. Microbes are cool 🦠😎 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s407...

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

wonderful! 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘢 no longer a rare outlier, but member of a worldwide (maybe) distributed clade.. #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A very busy Day 4 yesterday featured our research in the theme of marine microbes and symbiosis More marine microbes on #ISME20 final Day 5 today: Laura Rix AS29 14:55 speaks about harnessing microbial inducers of coral larval settlement for reef restoration Come say hi 👋

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Busy day #ISME20 today Check out also works involving our researchers presented by our close collaborators: Yun Kit Yeoh AS22 15:45 on the planktonic microbes of the GBR 🪸 Shauna Murray AS20 16:15 on dinoflagellates causing the recent devastating harmful algal bloom in South Australia 🟥

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#ISME Day 4 Thu double duty! Georgina Joyce (PS2 poster) returns to speak AS15.1 15:00 on coupling of arsenate reduction & anaerobic methane oxidation 🦠 Hisatake Ishida doubles up: AS20 15:15 GBR sediment microbes THEN poster PS3.16.137 16:30 Symbiodiniaceae in coral holobionts 🪸 Come say hi 👋!

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

While everyone is taking a breather today, #ISME20 Day 2 yesterday did not disappoint with great engagements with our poster presenters, more fantastic talks from the ECRs, and an evening social event a packed dance floor. More exciting science continues tomorrow!

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Our award-winning group leader Michaela Blyton presented at #ISME20 yesterday on Muribaculaceae in the guts of captive vs. wild koalas 🐨, and their possible role in pouch death syndrome 💀😱 Celebrating Queensland Young ##TallPoppy Award 2026 Winner 🎉 #WomeninSTEM

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Feeling the buzz #ISME20 Fruitful Day 1 with many hard at work @ace-gtdb.bsky.social Day 2: 16:30 Poster Session 2 PS2 Check out Georgina Joyce 26.326 on broad-spectrum antibiotic-degrading metallo-β-lactamases 🛡 Olga Shopina 27.364 on how long reads are cool for metagenomics 😎 Come say hi! 👋

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#ISME20 Day 1: 10:00 Posters PS1 - Zeran Li: 05.199 Planctomycetota in koala gut, Gemma Laird: 06.323 microbiome of Aussie hotspring MS03 & AS03 Tree of Life sessions co-chaired by our Director @xrefugee13.bsky.social AS05.1 Michaela Blyton on Muribaculaceae in koala gut & pouch Come say hi 👋

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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Which country is the exact antipode of New Zealand? Spain 🇪🇸! Meet the most exotic team at #ISME20 congress in Auckland: microbial #single-cell genomics lab from @i2sysbio.es in Valencia! Check out our posters PS2.13.166, PS.1.06.296 and PS3.16.112 #microsky

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also check out the fantastic research from our neighbours at @cmrqut.bsky.social at #ISME20 — a strong Brisbane contingent this year! 🙌

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🔬Our researchers at ACE and UQ Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences are heading to #ISME20 in Auckland next week. Catch our talks and posters, on the microbes shaping #koala gut health, #coral reef resilience, methane cycling, #symbiosis, and #antibiotic resistance. See full list below, come say hi!

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donovan-parks.bsky.social @donovan-parks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Our paper identifying a stop codon reassignment in Eggerthellaceae species found in mammalian guts is now out! Great collaborative effort with Pierre Chaumeil, Maria Chuvochina, and Phil Hugenholtz (@xrefugee13.bsky.social). www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... @microbiologysociety.org

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Stop codon reassignment to tryptophan in members of the bacterial phylum Actinomycetota

Reassignment of stop codons is a significant evolutionary event with recoding of UGA to tryptophan being previously identified in only three bacterial phyla, the Bacillota, Pseudomonadota and Verrucom...

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ace-gtdb.bsky.social @ace-gtdb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🎉 We are honoured and excited to share that our team has been named a finalist in the the Australian Research Data Commons Eureka Prize for Excellence in #DataPlatforms! 🎉 Check out our video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nzt... @ardc.edu.au @eurekaprizes.bsky.social #EurekaPrizes

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Genome Taxonomy Database – Finalist, 2026 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Platforms

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🎉 "New" phylum officially on the books. Work led by our PhD student Gemma Laird formally describes Bipolaricaulota in the #Bergeys Manual. 🧬 From environmental genomes to taxonomy - another reminder of how much microbial diversity is still out there. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/9781...

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Huge credit to the EMCR-led team behind JAMS15 Brisbane last week showcasing a vibrant microbiology community in the region. It's great to see our EMCRs stepping up to lead. 👏 Congratulations to the organisers @brisjams.bsky.social and all award winners. A job well done!

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🎉🐨 Huge congratulations to our own Dr Michaela Blyton on being named a 2026 Queensland #YoungTallPoppy! Michaela's work helps us understand how microbes contribute to #koala health. A well-deserved honour, and proof that sometimes great scientists really do come with koalas! #WomenInSTEM

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Congratulations @ace-gtdb.bsky.social to make one of the finalists for the Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Platforms this year!! @xrefugee13.bsky.social

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

JAMS Brisbane happening this Friday is a great opportunity for all microbiologists reagrdless of career stages to share, connect and learn from each other jams.org.au/index.php/ja...

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JAMS Brisbane – JAMS

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dr-skitch.bsky.social @dr-skitch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My lab at @stonybrooku.bsky.social Dept of Ecology & Evolution is recruiting a 2-year Postdoc! They will split time between genomics and symbiosis dynamics of cnidarians 🪸, and the development of STAGdb. Start date as early as Sept 2026. Please share this post with anyone who might be a great fit!

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Postdoctoral Associate

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

ACE researchers @chancx.bsky.social @hisatakeishida.bsky.social shared their work in coral hologenomics & symbiont genomics at #ICRS2026 🪸 alongside the GBR-MGD @nature.com presented by @markoterzin.bsky.social this week. Marine genomics continues to make an impact! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New work led by @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social @markoterzin.bsky.social finally published - we now have a reference of microbial genomic resources from the Great Barrier Reef. The paper came out just hours after the work presented by Marko at #ICRS2026 @icrs.bsky.social See thread here for more detail

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Cheong Xin (CX) Chan @chancx.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our new work @natecoevo.nature.com shows Karenia cristata produces brevetoxins and is the dominant player in the prolonged bloom & mass mortality event in Southern Australia. Glad to be part of this work with Shauna Murray & the whole team! rdcu.be/fse9r The Conversation: tinyurl.com/3rnyxrnj

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A catastrophic marine mortality event caused by a complex algal bloom including the brevetoxin producer Karenia cristata

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Genomic characterization and toxicity assays identify Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal...

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Horrible omission, @julianzaugg.bsky.social as well. Didn’t realize he had a BlueSky.

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Please check out our recent preprint from @ace-uq.bsky.social researcher’s @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social, @xrefugee13.bsky.social, and former ACEr @pam-engelberts.bsky.social on their work generating the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD).

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JAMS Brisbane @brisjams.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🦠 The first JAMs event of 2025 is happening on Feb 19th at The Burrow. Don’t miss out! #JAMs2025 #microbiologyseminars

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hi all, come join us for the first JAMS of the year! And please share @brisjams.bsky.social stuff around so we can rebuild our following on BlueSky. We’re new here and the intent is to shut off our Twitter account.

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Please check out AIMS and ACE researchers @markoterzin.bsky.social and @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social’s new manuscript in Microbiome identifying potential bioindicators of reef health!

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hi all! Please check out @markoterzin.bsky.social's new paper in Microbiome investigating the relative reliability of taxonomy vs metagenomic gene predictions as bioindicators of 17 physicochemical variables (temp, nitrogen, etc) on the Great Barrier Reef. Spoiler: genes > taxonomy. Link below.

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hey all! If you’re a Brisbane based microbiologist that’s interested in catching up with other microbiologists every few months over a beer, good food, and cool science, please follow @brisjams.bsky.social’s new Bluesky page to stay up to date.

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Australian Centre for Ecogenomics (ACE) @ace-uq.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hey Jan! May we be added to this list please? 🙂 Thanks for helping people get linked up!

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Danny Miller, MD, PhD @danrdanny.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I created a long-read sequencing starter pack. I'm still finding people on here, so apologies if I missed you. Please suggest people who should be added and I'll add them! go.bsky.app/JGkefsJ

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It's all built to this...the starter pack of starter packs...😂 One Pack to rule them all, One Pack to find them, One Pack to bring them all and in the Blueness bind them.

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Jan Claesen @claesengroup.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

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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Jan Claesen @claesengroup.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Wow, Bluesky really took off in the last couple of days! The first microbiome starter pack is full now and I started a second one with non-overlapping profiles. Check out these people below and please let me know if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/6vPBEty

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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Love this idea for helping the community make the transition to Bluesky, so I’ve compiled a woefully incomplete list of microbial ecologists and -omics peeps I know are here. Please make suggestions and share. Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/TQpaTqF

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