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Bas E. Dutilh

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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you into sequence graphs and looking for a PhD position in viral ecology? Join the VEO Group in beautiful Jena, Germany! 👇👇 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/a...
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Doctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics: Quantifying quasispecies: Tool development and applications
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Join us and be part of the VirusREvolution! Study the link between the environment and phage host range in soil and groundwater systems 👇👇
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Rafal Mostowy @rafalmostowy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🧬 Postdoc ad is now live: evolutionary genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae phages. How do prophage depolymerases vs SGNH-esterases shape phage host range? Krakow, Poland. Deadline 21 Sept: mostowylab.com/job-postdoc-...
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Join us and become part of PhageOrder: study the evolution of phage genetic modules!
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
There are many types of urinary tract microbiomes, and UTIs can happen with most of them. Even more interesting is that healthy individuals have almost the same microbial communities! Check out David's new preprint to see the details 👇
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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Please RT: Registration is ongoing for our International Symposium "Microbial Networking - from organelles to cross-kingdom communities" organized as highlight of the first funding period of CRC 1535 @mibinet.bsky.social www.sfb1535.hhu.de/internationa... @dfg.de, @hhu.de, @fz-juelich.de
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Piotr Rozwalak @prozwalak.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Mushuvirus is the most widespread phage genus in the human gut. 🌍 Together with other family members, these viruses occur in 89% of humans worldwide, including the Iceman Ötzi! How is it possible that they were hidden in previous metagenomic analyses? [1/7] Read: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New in Science Advances: A bacteriophage stayed genetically stable for months, then evolved rapidly in a new microbial community. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3884217/viru... @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @paulbrainey.bsky.social @uni-jena.de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social
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Jeroen Meijer @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thrilled that our paper "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities" is out! 🎉🦠🧬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... w/ @paulbrainey.bsky.social, Petros Skiadas, Paulien Hogeweg, @bedutilh.bsky.social
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities
A single bacteriophage can dominate microbial communities yet only evolves when migration changes its ecological context.
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
When the student surpasses his advisor: Mushu bigger than crAss? Check out Piotr's new preprint 👇
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The VEO Group has a position open for a PhD student to investigate Fungi-bacteria interactions in complex communities! Check out this position and many more at the JSMC website 👇👇 www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...
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Vacant Positions - JSMC Jena School for Microbial Communication
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Julia Bechteler @juliabechteler.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We search for a postdoc focusing on the molecular ecology of #bryophytes 🌱🧬🔬. Join our work @sgn.one Institute for Plant Form and Function and @uni-jena.de 🗓️Deadline: March 29, 2026 👉 More Infos and Apply here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan...
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Stellenanzeigen Archiv | Senckenberg Naturforschung
Heute geöffnet (9 — 20 Uhr)
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The VEO Group at @uni-jena.de @microverse.bsky.social has an open position for a Bioinformatics Technician until the end of 2032! Join us to unlock the secrets of the Microverse from big datasets: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/0...
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Bioinformatics technician
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The VEO Group has a position open for a Scientific Coordinator Bioinformatics: 👇 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/5...
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Scientific Coordinator Bioinformatics
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Everyone knows that space and spatial structure is super important in shaping the Microverse 🌎🌍🌏 Check out this amazing review where @marcelbaecker.bsky.social and @bramvandijk.bsky.social et al bring together a huge body of knowledge @microverse.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...
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PhD student bioinformatics: Viral strategies in the global Microverse
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
PhD position in Jena! Unique German-French collaboration to work on integrating phage genomic modules into VirJenDB.org - make sense of #phages, #big_data, #front_end, #back_end, #database. Please apply here 👇 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...
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PhD student bioinformatics: Phage genomic modules: data mining, visualisation, and databasing
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
VirJenDB.org: the database for all virus sequence- and curated metadata with API access, and version control 👇
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VirJen DB
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Böckerlab @boeckerlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 A quick reminder: the PhD and postdoc positions within the ERC project #BindingShadows are still open! We’ve just moved into a brand-new building, and during the transition our servers and website were occasionally down, meaning we might not have received some applications.
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Try our new Nanopore barcode trimming and data cleaning tool Barbell & get insights into the structure of your reads! 👇
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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 18/07/2025
Sassy is out now! Ever need to search for approximate matches of short DNA strings? Sassy is the tool to use! Available now wherever you get your code With @rickbitloo.bsky.social curiouscoding.nl/papers/sassy... github.com/ragnarGrootK...
Sassy solves approximate string matching: finding all matches of a pattern in a text.
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Xiu Jia @xiujia.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
💧🌊 What happens when freshwater bacteria meet their salty counterparts? Our new preprint explores the ecological factors driving community coalescence 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675091v1 @bedutilh.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social
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Bacterial community adaptation after freshwater and seawater coalescence
Microbial community coalescence, the merging of entire microbial communities, is common across ecosystems, particularly in estuaries where freshwater and seawater mix. The complexity of these habitats...
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New in @asm.org #MMBR Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins. How to annotate your #phage and #bacteria genomes by @susiegriggo.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social and Bob #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....
Examples of protein annotations across functional classification schemes. Yellow: hierarchical classification schemes, red: orthologous/homologous groups, and blue: methods using protein domain information. Protein structures were generated using the ColabFold Alphafold MMseqs2 interactive notebook (version 1.5.2) (57) and visualized using ChimeraX (58). (A) Functional labels associated with the glycogen synthase protein in Escherichia coli (UniprotKB P0A6U8). (B) Functional labels associated with Kehishuvirus sp. tikala major capsid protein (NCBI WEU69752.1).
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Susie Grigson @susiegriggo.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Thrilled to share our new review just published in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (@asm.org #MMBR): “Computational Function Prediction of Bacteria and Phage Proteins” with @gbouras13.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
SUMMARYUnderstanding protein functions is crucial for interpreting microbial life; however, reliable function annotation remains a major challenge in computational biology. Despite significant advance...
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Balance of the Microverse @microverse.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🎉 Roos Brouns (@bedutilh.bsky.social's #VEO-Group & @uni-jena.de) & Vikrant Minhas (mentee @kuesellab.bsky.social) won the ISME poster award at the AEM Gordon Conference! A great example of cross-institutional #excellence in microbial ecology. 👏 #Microbiology #ISME #AEMGordon #EarlyCareerResearchers
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Universität Jena @uni-jena.de · 21/05/2025
Researchers led by @bedutilh.bsky.social at the Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social investigate #phages, showing how viruses not only cause harm but also create the basis for diversity & balance. Read more in the #UniJena research magazine. ➡️ www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/en/3157/smal...
Angela Muraya (centre) examines her plants with Natia Geliashvili (left) and Bas E. Dutilh (right).
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF
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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
PhD position available at @binfutrecht.bsky.social. Join us if you are interested in modelling how plants respond to stress! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD Position in Modelling Regulation of Plant Stress Responses across Species
Join us to model plant stress responses and help breed climate-resilient crops in a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment!
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Balance of the Microverse @microverse.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🧬 New tool alert: Vclust helps researchers rapidly sort through millions of viral genomes—even fragmented ones. @bedutilh.bsky.social co-developed Vclust, a tool for ultrafast clustering of viral genomes. It's open-source, web-accessible, and just published. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Ultrafast and accurate sequence alignment and clustering of viral genomes - Nature Methods
Vclust generates fast and accurate estimation of average nucleotide identity for viral genomes, scaling clustering to millions of genomes.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 15/05/2025
Vclust generates fast and accurate estimation of average nucleotide identity (ANI) for viral genomes, scaling clustering to millions of genomes. @sdeorowicz.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @prozwalak.bsky.social @uni-jena.de @microverse.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Faster && more accurate virus sequence clustering with Vclust! Thanks to Andrzej, Sebastian, et al. for the great collaboration. The author list also includes @prozwalak.bsky.social from the VEO Group.
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Tatiana Demina @deminatanja.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Interested in #soil #viruses? We are! Excited to share our study on #Acidobacteriota #phages in #Arctic #tundra #soils being now published together with an easy-to-follow video abstract: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils - Microbiome
Background Arctic soils are climate-critical areas, where microorganisms play crucial roles in nutrient cycling processes. Acidobacteriota are phylogenetically and physiologically diverse bacteria tha...
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
We are looking for a #postdoc to join the VEO Group @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de and build an experimental research line into the dynamics and functioning of microbial communities: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/1...
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Postdoctoral Researcher experimental “Microverse-scale Viral and Microbial Ecology”
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Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU @binfutrecht.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📣 New, free webtool by the Snoek lab! Meet SpeSpeNet, an intuitive platform for automated network analysis of microbiomes to uncover complex interactions between microbes and their environments @ismepublications.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... #microsky #mevosky
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SpeSpeNet: an interactive and user-friendly tool to create and explore microbial correlation networks
Abstract. Correlation networks are commonly used to explore microbiome data. In these networks, nodes are taxa and edges represent correlations between the
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you interested in the distribution of microbes, viruses, and #phages throughout the Microverse? Come and do a PhD with us in experimental microbial ecology @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/d...
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PhD student experimental “Mapping the Microverse: Everything is Everywhere?”
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Are you interested in the distribution of microbes, viruses, and #phages throughout the Microverse? Come and do a #bioinformatics PhD with us @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/b...
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PhD student bioinformatics “Mapping the Microverse: Everything is Everywhere?”
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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Exciting opportunity to join our group as postdoc! Apply now for this project on computational (meta)genome mining as part of a collaborative European research consortium: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please share!
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Postdoc position on computational (meta)genome mining for natural products
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🇩🇪 German speaker? Join us in Jena as a Professor of Bioinformatics and Digital Health: stellenticket.eah-jena.de/de/offers/19...
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Professur für Bioinformatik und Digital Health (ID: 192006, de) - Stellenangebote - Stellenticket Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
Stellenangebot: Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena @ Stellenticket EAH Jena - Professur für Bioinformatik und Digital Health (ID: 192006, de)
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Get a grasp of the chemistry of microbiomes! Check out Pilleriin Peets' preprint: she developed chemical characteristics vectors to reanalyze EMP's untargeted metabolomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with Aris Litos, Daniel Garza, Kai Dührkop, @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social & Sebastian Böcker
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
One more week until the deadline!
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Two weeks until the deadline! Please repost:
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere
Contribute to plant health and our understanding of the metabolic interactions between microbes and plants in the rhizosphere by computational modelling!
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Do you (plan to) use genome-scale metabolic models in your research? DNNGIOR facilitates model reconstruction from incomplete genomes and MAGs. See Meine Boer's new publication 👇 and the code on Github: github.com/MGXlab/DNNGIOR
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🚨🚨 Reminder: the deadline for ICTV's Computational Taxonomy Challenge is coming up! Remind your bioinformaticians and colleagues to submit: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... 🦠🧬
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Why do we need a computational taxonomy?
A community challenge to evaluate and compare viral genome taxonomy classifiers
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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
We found new #Crassvirales clades on #Antarctica (prospective families): @goncalopiedade.bsky.social's new paper on the viruses in Antarctic waters is out! Check out the manuscript (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and Gonçalo's "Behind the Paper": communities.springernature.com/posts/unveil...
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Unveiling the Hidden World of Antarctic Marine Viruses
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Amelia Barber @ameliabarberphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
My group is recruiting a postdoc to study how environmental interactions shape the virulence of human fungal pathogens. Please share! Full job description and how to apply at barber-lab.com/join.
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Science Journal for Kids & Teens @sj4k.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Scientists at Adam Mickiewicz University turned to poop to learn about how bacteria-killing viruses found in the human gut have changed over time, including 1 from 5,300 yr old Ötzi the Iceman! Learn more in our new adapted article: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how... @bedutilh.bsky.social
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Anna Heintz-Buschart @a-h-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Is there a link between the microbes in your food and your gut microbiome? and how about the soil that your food grew on? join us for a postdoc to find out: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiome Analysis of the Soil-plant-gut-health Axis
Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiome Analysis of the Soil-plant-gut-health Axis
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