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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📢 New preprint on bioRxiv! We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages ✅ 938 samples ✅ More novel ASVs Primer choice matters 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Season 5 is going to start 🔜 Check out the program and feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info... @kathlemon.bsky.social ‬ @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social

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Nela Nikolic @nelani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New paper out: E.coli uses the MazEF toxin-antitoxin system to help defend against RNA phages tinyurl.com/RNAphage The project that made it through maternity leave, pandemic, three institutions, an international move, and even unemployment 💪 @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #Resilience #ResearchJourney

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ASM @asm.org · 28/05/2025

Understanding microbiota resilience in the face of imbalances is crucial for maintaining host health. This #mBio review explores microbiota resilience, emphasizing the interplay between microbial communities and host-driven environmental controls. asm.social/2qW

During homeostasis, host-driven habitat filters, such as the maintenance of anoxia by epithelia β-oxidation and stable iron levels through dietary intake, curate a diverse microbiota dominated by beneficial obligate anaerobic primary fermenters. Upon onset of diverse inflammatory intestinal disease states, including inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer, host habitat filters become compromised. Inflammation-driven increases in luminal oxygen levels favor facultatively anaerobic pathobionts at the expense of commensal obligate anaerobes. In parallel, host nutritional immunity factors, such as lactoferrin, sequester iron to defend against potential bacterial pathogens. These environmental perturbations can drive the microbiota to an imbalanced, pro-inflammatory dysbiosis. However, a resilient microbiota can withstand or rapidly recover from these perturbations until host habitat filters are restored. The mechanisms that mediate this resilience and restoration of host habitat

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Alex Loy @loyteam.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New preprint @julkras.bsky.social et al. We show that degradation of sulfoquinovose, ubiquitous in plants and algae, is a core function of the cow rumen microbiome and describe novel SQ-metabolizing taxa. 🐄🧫🦠 #microbiomesky #microsky

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ASM @asm.org · 14/04/2025

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

New call for papers from mSystems! Submit your research on Microbial Ecology and Evolution.

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Check out this great #PhD opportunity at our School and join our growing #Microbiology team 👇

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Biological Sciences @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

🎉 Congrats to Luis Guerra & Ahmed Dawoud on their new paper in General and Comparative Endocrinology! They explore ligand-gated ion channels across Platyhelminthes—diversity, evolution in nematodes & sex-specific expression. 🔬🧬 #science #research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Global analysis of ligand-gated ion channel conservation across Platyhelminthes

Ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) are critical for neurotransmission, mediating responses to neurotransmitters and hormones, and influencing diverse p…

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Rasmus Kirkegaard @kirk3gaard.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Want @nanoporetech.com data for benchmarking microbe related stuff? Check our data for pure cultures, @zymoresearch.bsky.social mocks and metagenomes ( github.com/Kirk3gaard/M...). Basecalled reads with methylation is in @enasequence.bsky.social . Eventually the pod5s might go there as well.

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GitHub - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench: Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking

Overview of our data for microbial genomic benchmarking - Kirk3gaard/MicroBench

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Biological Sciences @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We are having a brilliant time at #winchestersciencecentre today for #SOTSEF #bsw25 Brains 🧠🤯 Bones 🦴 Beans 🫘 Plants 🌿 Ears 👂Phages @phagecollection.bsky.social Bugs 🧫🦠 @ukbiofilms.bsky.social & Worms 🔬 LOTs and LOTS of children and LOTs of sciencey fun! 🥳 🥼🧪🥽 #citizenscience #scienceforall

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social spent the day at our #ScienceFestival telling kids how important and cool are microbes&microbiomes. 🦠🧫 Lets hope the importance of science will never be forgotten by the new generations!

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Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

📢Join us for the upcoming webinar by Prof. Ted Dinan on the Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry. 🌍 Theme: Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis: Implications for Psychiatry 📅 Date: 13:00 (GMT) March 24, 2025, Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register here: www.oaepublish.com/webinars/mrr...

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Come check this out if you are in the south of England 👇🏻🦕

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

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Dr. Sue Ishaq @drsueishaq.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The 2025 #MicrobesandSocialEquity virtual speaker series is open for registration! Each month, we'll hear talks on microbiology and health of people, animals, plants, and the environment. Registration is required but free. Check the lineup and register: microbesandsocialequity.org/events/speak...

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Speaker Series 2025

Events will be hosted January – December, 2025, 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 i…

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Interested in #microbiome research? Please join me and many others for the first Microbiome Virtual International Forum of 2025! 🦠💊 Registration for #MVIF is free 👇 microbiome-vif.org

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

'Here, we show that this reagent appears to be unreliable due to providing false-positive signals at the expected molecular weight of Bax in immunoblotting experiments and likewise provides false-positive signals in immunofluorescence-based detection of Bax expression' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed - Cell Death & Disease

Cell Death & Disease - Why Bax detection in >1400 publications might be flawed

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Michael Fischbach @mfgrp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Comprehensive computational study on cardiometabolic disease drugs: "We quantify inferred effects of single medications, their combinations as well as additive effects, and show that the latter shift the metabolome and microbiome towards a healthier state" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Combinatorial, additive and dose-dependent drug–microbiome associations - Nature

An analysis of 2,173 individuals from the MetaCardis cohort quantifies the individual and combinatorial effects of a range of drugs on host health, metabolome and gut microbiome in cardiometaboli...

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

ᗪIᗪ YOᑌ KᑎOᗯ? BACITRACIN was named by Balbina Johnson, lab supervisor at Columbia Med School, since the producing (Baci)llus was isolated from compound fracture of a child Margaret (Trac)y where it was (in)hibiting pathogenic bacteria and helping her overcoming a septic infection? #IDSky 🦠 🧫 🧪

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Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

In order to honour the often unnoticed female scientists in microbiology bacteria were named after these remarkable women. In the upcoming weeks, we will briefly introduce you to these important women. Stay tuned! 🧫🔬 📷 Pixabay/Mohamed_hassan #herstory #WomenInScience

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Very excited that the Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology was approved. We are scheduled for July 13-18, 2025 in South Hadley, MA! The associated GRS will be July 12-13. Our fearless leader will be @deniseakob.bsky.social assisted by Thulani Makhalanyane and myself.

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Jan Homolak @janhomolak.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Our short piece highlighting the impressive work by @fatimacpereira.bsky.social on how the Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome via iron sequestration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Can colleagues amplify this appeal to journals and journal editors to open accounts on Bluesky, please? @MicrobioSoc @TrendsMicrobiol @CellCellPress @JBacteriology @jbiolchem @Nature @ScienceMagazine @PNASNews @MolMicroEditors @NAR_Open @NatureMicrobiol @NatureComms @ASMicrobiology 🙏 🦠🧪🧫🧬

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Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For those moving from X/Twitter, I just used this excellent tool to transfer 1000+ Followings in 5 min. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

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Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

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Ethan Garner @fleshball.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Registration is OPEN for 2025 Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Biology and Development @GordonConf and GRS. This will be oversubscribed, so register ASAP. We have an amazing lineup of speakers and discussion leaders. Apply now - www.grc.org/bacterial-ce... #MicroSky

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Please check out our new preprint! The Parkinson's drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great summary 👇 by @michiwagner4.bsky.social

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