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Christine Moissl-Eichinger

@chmoei.bsky.social
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passionate archaea-microbiologist, microbiome researcher, #womaninscience, prof for microbiology, balancing family and science (she/her).

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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The textbooks say #archaea are non-pathogenic. True. But maybe we’re not as irrelevant as you thought.
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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Orientierung für Fachärzt:innen, praxisnah durch Fallberichte & Austausch mit Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social, CoE Key Researchers Gregor Gorkiewicz @gregorkiewicz.bsky.social und Alexander Moschen u.a.
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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Proud PI: Austrian microbiome research award for my PhD student Charlotte Neumann! Thanks @microbesplanet.bsky.social
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The Daum Lab @daumlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail
This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.
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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
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Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum - Nature Microbiology
Bona fide gene clusters for archaella are widespread across a bacterial phylum and encode functional motility machinery.
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 New preprint! We built the largest respiratory pan-microbiome atlas yet >4,000 metagenomes from nose to lung. 👉 In health: a connected microbial continuum 👉 In disease: this structure collapses #microbiome #microsky Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pan-microbiome analysis along the human respiratory axis reveals an ecological continuum in health and collapse in disease
The human respiratory tract (RT) harbors complex microbial communities whose functions are critical to health and disease. Yet, current insights remain fragmented across anatomical sites, populations,...
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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
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Medizinische Universität Graz @medunigraz.at · 08/08/2025
Neues aus der Mikrobiom-Forschung! Archaeen – kaum bekannte Mitbewohner in unserem Darm – senden winzige Bläschen, um mit ihrer Umwelt zu kommunizieren. Ein Team der Med Uni Graz hat das jetzt erstmals detailliert beschrieben. Veröffentlicht in Nature Communications ➡️ bit.ly/47gnl9R.
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome. 💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia 📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 🌍 Int’l applicants welcome! Application link below. #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Congratulations to all winners - and "happy World Microbiome Day"!!
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some big news: I’ve been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to further explore the roles of #archaea in gut #microbiomes and beyond. @erc.europa.eu #ERCAdG #ARCHMETH #Microbiome #Archaea #sciencepassion
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Medizinische Universität Graz @medunigraz.at · 17/06/2025
Klimaschutz trifft Darmgesundheit: Unsere Mikrobiomexpertin Christine Moissl-Eichinger erhält den prestigeträchtigen Advanced Grant (2,5 Mio. €) des für ihre Forschung zu Methanobrevibacter – einem winzigen Mikroorganismus mit großem Potenzial ➡ bit.ly/3FDDJpO. #ERCAdG
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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in NatureComms! @theviktoriaeffect.bsky.social from the lab of @chmoei.bsky.social @medunigraz.at profiled the proteome & metabolome of extracellular vesicles from key gut archaea, revealed immune-stimulating capacities and unique molecular cargo.
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨 New preprint alert! We report what might be the first mechanistic link between gut Archaea and human disease. Methanobrevibacter smithii is enriched in CRC patients—and boosts growth of cancer-associated bacteria like F. nucleatum. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @archaeasky @microbiomesky
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Methanobrevibacter smithii associates with colorectal cancer through trophic control of the cancer bacteriome
The human gut is colonized by trillions of microbes that influence the health of their human host. Whereas many bacterial species have now been linked to a variety of different diseases, the involveme...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 09/06/2025
What a missed opportunity... 🤔 We should have declared an official "Archaeal Week" at Nature Communications! 😆 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology! Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com ‬ in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
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Geo Santiago-Martínez @geosantiagom.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The Archaeacast! Yes, a podcast about #archaea! by Priyanka Chatterjee, @cjhines.bsky.social, Alex Phillips, Theopi Rados & guests! 6th episode: Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains? Guest: @chmoei.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social
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Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains?
Podcast Episode · ArchaeaCast · 05/20/2025 · 30m
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DFG RU5042 "miTarget" @ru5042mitarget.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🌍 #WorldIBDDay2025 Awareness for #IBD and support for patients worldwide: #IKMB and Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” will light up two buildings on #UniKiel campus in purple tonight. #IBDawareness #ChronicInflammation #ResearchMatters 💜 youtu.be/BgHa13cR0Ks
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Kiel is joining the global World IBD Day 2025 – Lightinstallation – IKMB, Kiel, Germany
YouTube video by IKMB – Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 08/05/2025
May’s ‘Microbe of the Month’ is a novel archaeon called Methanobrevibacter intestini which was isolated from a human faecal sample taken from an individual in the United States. Find out more about M. intestini and other exciting discoveries by clicking the link in our bio 🧫🔬
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 17/04/2025
Check out our press release from the Medical University of Graz. @chmoei.bsky.social and their team has discovered a novel species of archaea in the human gut, furthering our understanding of archaea in the human gut microbiome
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🚨 New publication: We describe a novel, cultivated #Archaea species from the human microbiome: #Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. ! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #Microbiome #GutMicrobiota #NewSpecies #archaeasky #microbiomesky
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Expanding the cultivable human archaeome: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. and strain Methanobrevibacter smithii ‘GRAZ-2’ from human faeces
Two mesophilic, hydrogenotrophic methanogens, WWM1085 and M. smithii GRAZ-2, were isolated from human faecal samples. WWM1085 was isolated from an individual in the United States and represents a nove...
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Medizinische Universität Graz @medunigraz.at · 17/04/2025
Mikrobiolog*innen unseres Forschungsfelds Mikrobiom & Infektion, dem Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social und der University of Illinois haben eine bisher unbekannte methanbildende Archaeenspezies aus dem menschlichen Darm identifiziert ➡ bit.ly/4ion4Ul @chmoei.bsky.social
zwei Frauen in Laborkitteln halten eine Flascheeine Gruppe von weißen oval geformten Objekten
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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Realized I never posted about our recent article: we revisited prior claims linking #Methanobrevibacter to #MS using metagenomes from 115 patients & 115 controls. No overall #archaeome differences, defeating earlier hypotheses. But treatment was associated with elevated M. smithii & M. sp900766745.
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New paper! We analyzed gut #microbiomes of 250+ individuals (ages 19–109). #Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging. Link: rdcu.be/egk03 @archaeasky
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Age-related dynamics of predominant methanogenic archaea in the human gut microbiome
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Nika Pende @nikapende.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky
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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is a small study with limited interpretation but I do love birds, and I really like archaea. Do I like them both at the same time? (I do!👌) 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Great news! New “Microbiome Science” Master Programme @univie.ac.at coordinated by CoE Key Researcher @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social. More brilliant minds with innovative ideas contributing to groundbreaking discoveries! 🦠🔬🌍 ❗Apply by April 7th! studieren.univie.ac.at/en/degree-pr...
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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Congrats to Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at on her PhD defense: "The woman-microbiome-child interplay!" Supervised by @chmoei.bsky.social, she explored pregnancy and early infant microbiomes. Excellent work! Excited about your contributions as CoE PostDoc! @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Simonetta Gribaldo @sgribaldo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Yes Archaea too can get fat 😁 New paper from the lab (by bsky-less Guillaume Borrel)! Check it out👇👇 #archaeasky #microsky @institutpasteur.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Halophilic archaea produce wax esters and use an alternative fatty acyl-CoA reductase for precursor synthesis
Abstract. Wax esters are fatty acid-based neutral lipids thought to be restricted to bacteria and eukaryotes that play a key role in the functioning and ma
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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Interesting work from @chmoei.bsky.social et al! They observed that gut archaeal methanogens don't associate with MS onset or progression in a case-control cohort, but vary in treated patients vs. untreated which could reflect microbiome health during treatment. 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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Reevaluation of the gastrointestinal methanogenic archaeome in multiple sclerosis and its association with treatment | Microbiology Spectrum
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory disease affecting the central nervous system, with approximately 2.8 million people diagnosed worldwide, mainly young adults aged 20–30 years. While recent studies have focused on bacterial changes in ...
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Medizinische Universität Graz @medunigraz.at · 21/02/2025
Ernährungsempfehlungen und #Darmgesundheit: Das Forschungsteam rund um @cdiener.com, @chmoei.bsky.social, @kl-fil.bsky.social und @gibbological.bsky.social hat mit MEDI eine innovative Technik entwickelt, um Ernährungsgewohnheiten aus DNA-Spuren in Stuhlproben zu analysieren
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DNA-Spuren entschlüsseln Ernährungsgewohnheiten
Darmdetektive im Einsatz: DNA-Fragmente aus Stuhlproben als wichtige Innovation für die Ernährungsforschung.
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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in Nature Metabolism: Study by @cdiener.com lab, @chmoei.bsky.social, @kl-fil.bsky.social @medunigraz.at and colleagues from the US, present MEDI to quantify food-derived DNA in human fecal metagenomes. www.nature.com/articles/s42... #microsky
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Did you ever wonder what other information you can retrieve from metagenomic reads? Well, you can estimate the dietary intake- just from sequences from human stool. Check this amazing work out by @cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social @kl-fil.bsky.social and others: bsky.app/profile/cdie...
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Christian Diener @cdiener.com · 18/02/2025
The article can also be read here: rdcu.be/eak0X and there is a nice commentary by Lars Dragsted, @hroager.bsky.social, and @catalinacuparencu.bsky.social that puts it into more context www.nature.com/articles/s42....
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Metagenomic estimation of dietary intake from human stool
Nature Metabolism - Diener et al. present a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
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Christian Diener @cdiener.com · 18/02/2025
Happy to announce that MEDI, our method to quantify dietary intake through metagenomics is out now. 🧬 🧪🧫🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s42... #metagenomics #microbiome #microbiomesky So what is MEDI? A combination of two things:
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Metagenomic estimation of dietary intake from human stool - Nature Metabolism
Diener et al. present a method that allows the estimation of dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Open PhD position! Do you want to work with the human #archaeome and understand the potential effect on the #immune system? Please check the call, including another exciting opening of @cdiener.com on #microbiome research www.medunigraz.at/doktoratsstu... #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
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PhD Application and Admission
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Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' @microbesplanet.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Make sure to tune in on January 21st, 3 pm (GMT+1) for our Deputy Director of Research @chmoei.bsky.social Keynote Lecture on 'Methane, Microbes and more: Archaea in the human microbiome' at @microbiomevif.bsky.social. Register for free: cassyni.com/events/Pp67V... #ArchaeaSky @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Martina Schweiger @schweigerlab.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I am looking for a #PhD working on this exciting project! In case you are interested in how #immunometabolism and #macrophages affect #adipose tissue function, check the link below and apply! www.immunometabolism.at/job-openings/
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CALL for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to join the special research program “Immunometabolism”
Three Austrian Universities located in Vienna and Graz combine forces to explore the immunometabolic interaction of macrophages with tissues. We are looking for 6 PhD and 6 postdoctoral researchers jo...
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We are recruiting!! PostDocs and PhD positions open for an exciting project on immunometabolism. In my lab, I am looking for a PostDoc, willing to work with microbiome metabolic modeling and archaea in beautiful Graz! Check it out: www.immunometabolism.at/job-openings/ #microsky #archaeasky
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CALL for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to join the special research program “Immunometabolism”
Three Austrian Universities located in Vienna and Graz combine forces to explore the immunometabolic interaction of macrophages with tissues. We are looking for 6 PhD and 6 postdoctoral researchers jo...
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hi microbiology colleages! #microsky Which journals do you suggest to publish a description of a novel microbe (except from IJSEM)? Any experiences? Thank you!
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Want to learn more about the human-associated archaea? I will be talking at the MVIF very soon, check this out and register for free! Would be great to see you there! www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...
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MVIF.35 | 21 & 22/23 January 2025
with Keynote talk by Prof. Christine Moissl-Eichinger
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My personal "Wrapped 2024"- what about yours?
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Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The new directors are officially announced! Proud to serve the BioTechMed science community in Graz together with amazing @schweigerlab.bsky.social and Thomas Pock from uni and tu Graz. Great power and enthusiasm approaching!
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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Great talk and visit of @chmoei.bsky.social, the co-director of our @fwf-at.bsky.social Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health" (@microbesplanet.bsky.social), at our Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (@cemess.bsky.social) @univie.ac.at. 🧪 #MicroSky
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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🤫 #MVIF #35 keynote is Christine Moissl-Eichinger @chmoei.bsky.social cassyni.com/s/mvif-35 (still working on program)
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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Follow @archaeabio.bsky.social: they want to connect researchers with an interest in #archaea www.archaea.bio
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Brian D. Wade @astrobrian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Towards a molecular picture of the archaeal cell surface #archaea #CellBiology #biology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Towards a molecular picture of the archaeal cell surface - Nature Communications
The model archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius produces several protein filaments with specialised functions, including flagellum-like archaella, Aap pili, and adhesive threads. Here, the authors descri...
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