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Lukas Malfertheiner

@lukasmalf.bsky.social
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PostDoc in the von Mering lab. Interested in microbial ecology, phages and bioinformatics. www.microbeatlas.org

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Microbiome Research Lab, ETH Zürich @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're at #ISME20! Come and say hi to Marija: 🎤 13:30-14:30 - DEIA Panel on funding policy and inclusion 📊 16:30-17:30 - poster session (PS3.22.386)
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Excited for my first #ISME20 conference next week! I’ll present "community conservatism"- closely related microbes tend to occur in similar communities - on Monday the 17th, 3:15 pm (AS03,ToL). Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02957-4 Feel free to reach out -happy to meet new colleagues!
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Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Autoinducer-2 functions as both a quorum sensing and metabolic signal in Escherichia coli www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Will Shoemaker @shoestrapped.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Now published! This was fun to write, thanks to @asanchezlab.bsky.social for the invitation. Feedback welcome as macroecology will be a core component of the forthcoming SOMA (Scales Of Microbial Architectonics) Laboratoire @ Genoscope enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Happy to see our research highlighted by @sib.swiss for Biological Diversity Day, alongside other great research! www.sib.swiss/news/from-co... We asked whether related microbes “keep similar company” - and found community conservatism across phyla and environments: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Very impressive to see all the diversity hidden and generally missed by common approaches!
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Happy to present tomorrow (Tuesday, 3pm CET) at MVIF 47. Online and free to attend! In my presentation, I will introduce "community conservatism": The global trend of closely related microorganisms being found in similar communities. 🌍🦠 Original article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
MicrobeAtlas is now published in Cell. 🌐🌎🦠 Explore the paper and resource to see what large-scale microbiome data reveal about global ecological patterns: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... For a concrete application, see our recent work on “Community conservatism”: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems
MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Really cool study and an impressive dataset!
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
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Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In case you missed our recent study out in @natecoevo.nature.com - now with open access PDFs: Related microbes globally share similar ecological communities, extending classical ecological patterns to the microbial realm 🦠🌎 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Research Briefing: rdcu.be/e0K14
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Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Closely related microbes tend to live in similar communities across Earth’s environments. We call this pattern community conservatism - extending established ecological patterns to the microbial world. 🧬🌍 #MicrobialEcology #Evolution Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Habitat filtering more than microbiota origin controls microbiome transplant outcomes in soil #ISMEJournal by Senka Causevic et al from Jan Roelof van der Meer at @dmf-unil.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Habitat filtering more than microbiota origin controls microbiome transplant outcomes in soil
Abstract. Human activities cause a global loss of soil microbiome diversity and functionality. One way to reverse this trend is through microbiota transpla
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🌍 Discover the microbial world! Our new preprint introduces MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org), a tool and web-interface to map and visualize global microbial diversity. Explore millions of microbiomes - open, interactive, and designed for discovery. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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microbeAtlas
The aggregated analysis of a large set of metagenomic sequenced samples enables the accumulation of information on the typical abundances and environments in which unknown or poorly studied microbial taxa are present. This provides a first line of information on the types of environments unknown microbial taxa are often found in and enables the inference of their abilities.
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Did you know that some phages can switch genetic codes during infection via the use of suppressor tRNAs? 🧬 One year ago we identified a ribozyme group which appears to be crucial for this process! Read the original article: rdcu.be/dANOT Or the press release: shorturl.at/7UPFX @kienbeck.bsky.social
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Lukas Malfertheiner @lukasmalf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New preprint 🦠 We introduce a new global microbial trend that parallels established ecological concepts in animals/plants. Closely related taxa occur in similar communities- traceable for billions of years in all phyla and environments. doi.org/10.1101/2024... #bioinformatics #microbiology #ecology
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