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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Redirecting carbon and electron flow in methanogenic laboratory scale anaerobic digestors with hypophosphite www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excited to be selected as one of the inaugural projects under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI. Our project, MOBILE-PATH, will develop AI-driven approaches to understand and predict horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities.

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Excited to share the first research paper from my group. This work started when I was a visiting postdoc at the @cemau.bsky.social and was a great collaboration with @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social developing artificial sediment matrices that support the growth of freshwater cable bacteria.

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our group to work on a team-oriented protein engineering project building light-controlled DNA polymerases lnkd.in/eDhBxpSj

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Zach LaTurner @micronaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The paper on my Ph.D. work is fully online! We used a ribozyme that barcodes 16S rRNA to track the transduction range of phage P1 in a synthetic community and real wastewater communities, while diving deeper into the unique range conferred by P1s two tail fibers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in microbial communities using RNA barcoding - Nature Communications

Bacteriophages are the most abundant life form on earth and can be applied to eliminate or engineer bacteria. Here, authors demonstrate RNA barcoding as a high throughput tool to measure bacteriophage...

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Cress Lab @cresslab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

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Amelia Rotaru @ameliarotaru.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Glad to see our paper published in Nature Communications We discovered how novel marine microorganisms interact via geoconductors to produce methane. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour: 🧵

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Farooq Moin Jalaluddin @farooqmoin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Impact of tiny anoxic pockets in #Nitrogen loss on sandy shores!! Our newly developed #microfluidic method revealed #microorganisms on sand grains create anoxic microenvironments allowing #denitrification in well-oxygenated sands www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Nitrogen-... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We're hiring! Do you have experience engineering yeast and using CRISPR? Jose Avalos and I are hiring a joint postdoc to work on an exciting fast-paced DARPA project with a great team at Neochromosome, Fermeate, and @joepeterslab.bsky.social puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I made a survey over at Mastodon and found that Fusilli are mostly right-handed spirals, but about a third of the brands is left-handed. So far there seems to be no racemic Fusilli brand. Pasta producerst have achieved a degree of enantiomeric purity chemists can only dream of. 🧪 #chemsky

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Zach LaTurner @micronaut.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very excited to share a manuscript at the heart of my PhD! We added an RNA-memory device (RAM) to phage P1 to identify transduction hosts in synthetic and wastewater microbial communities in high throughput. Also, I am on the post-doc market, so please reach out if interested! 1/6 t.ly/a8k9O

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Cross-order detection of bacteriophage transduction in communities using ribosomal RNA barcoding

Bacteriophages (phages) facilitate gene transfer and microbial evolution in all ecosystems and have applications as tools for engineering microbiomes and as antimicrobials. Historic efforts to map pha...

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jared toettcher @toettch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'd like to share a little bit of happy lab news in these chaotic times: a new preprint, driven by the brilliant Qinhao Cao! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We address a big challenge in synbio: If you give me a protein "X", how can I give you a version of X whose activity is controlled by a kinase?

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 10/02/2025

Detailed and concise 1-pager explaining what F&A does and how it underlies the competitive advantages of American sciences. F&A pays PEOPLE and allows universities to be the anchors of regional economies that they are! 🔗 www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...

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Ian Marshall @ianpgm.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The Center for Electromicrobiology (@cemau.bsky.social) has just joined BlueSky! This is the @dg.dk Center for Excellence at @aarhusuni.bsky.social. Follow @cemau.bsky.social for news about cable bacteria!

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Josh Atkinson @electromicrobe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Great way to start off 2025. Thanks to @kunjapur.bsky.social for organizing. Looking forward to the next one! #MASBN

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J. Craig Venter Institute @jcvi.org · 13/12/2024

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Hawaiʻi for the first International SynBYSS Conference! It was a successful and dynamic 4 days filled with insightful science, networking and fun.

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Hiro Imachi @hiro-imachi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Why did an engineer become a researcher in biological evolution? My esteemed research partner, colleague, and friend, Masaru K. Nobu, is sharing some side stories about strain MK-D1 research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Engineering history with Asgard archaea of the kingdom Promethearchaeati - Nature Microbiology

Multiple histories converge in Masaru Nobu’s story of culturing an archaeon closely related to us eukaryotes.

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The field of "biochemical genetics", as they called it.

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Conversation with the brilliant contemporary microbiologist and molecular biologist—HHMI and MacArthur Fellow Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University Pioneer in the chemical signaling mechanisms that bacteria use to communicate with each other known as “quorum sensing” www.hhmi.org/news/tapping...

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Tapping into Bacterial Conversations | HHMI

Over the course of 30 years, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler has helped usher in a new branch of science centered on quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another and orc...

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