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Kartik Aiyer @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happy to share our new paper on cable bacteria. Motivated by the lack of pure cultures, we developed a standardized artificial sediment system that supports repeated cultivation of freshwater and marine cable bacteria under controlled conditions. Link: doi.org/10.1093/isme...

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Artificial sediments enable reproducible cultivation and recapitulate ecological interactions of cable bacteria

Abstract. Cable bacteria are filamentous microbes that couple sulfide oxidation to oxygen reduction over centimeter distances via long-distance electron tr

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thanks to everyone for all these fruitful years of collaboration: @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social, @joanaseneca.bsky.social, Chuang Sun, Ornella Carrión and Jonathan D. Todd from UEA, Omaima Zaki, Olivier Gros, and Jay Osvatic.

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Genomic prediction of collaborative DMSP degradation is consistent with live incubations of the holobiont. The addition of antibiotics results in higher DMSP concentrations. Symbionts may cooperate to degrade excess DMSP, potentially protecting the host from pathogenic bacteria.

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We identified previously unrecognised microbial partner in lucinid symbioses (Endozoicomonas) and describe potential metabolic interactions with both the host and the sulphur-oxidising symbionts, highlighting the capacity of these widespread associations to influence global organosulfur cycling.

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We integrated field measurements, genomics, transcriptomics, and experimental assays to investigate organosulfur cycling in three lucinid species from temperate and tropical environments.

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It’s exciting to see converging evidence across systems! 😀 Alongside the new work on gutless worms, our study shows that organosulfur cycling is also essential in lucinid holobionts. Lucinid host provides DMSP to its symbionts, sulphur-oxidising Thiodiazotropha and, a new member, Endozoicomonas.

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Daan Speth @daanspeth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Respiratory endosymbionts, that allow their ciliate hosts to breathe nitrate instead of (or in addition to) oxygen are frequent members of the wastewater microbiome. 🦠 🖥️🧬 Great to see this work by @louison-nicolas.bsky.social published in ISME coummuncations! doi.org/10.1093/isme...

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Jamie Lustermans @jlustermans.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

After an interesting and very exciting journey with my friends, we showed that this little guy (Microbacterium deferred A1-JK) not only produces electricity but also does it while breathing oxygen and uses a cross-Gram (Gram- &Gram+ genes combined) hybrid mechanism to do this ⚡🦠.

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thanks! Very sweet of you. ☺️

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thank you, Jill! Your guidance as my PhD supervisor played an important role in this achievement. I truly appreciate it! 😊

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Huge thanks to @cemau.bsky.social for being the perfect host institution for my project!

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

As a science-loving girl growing up in Poland, Maria Skłodowska-Curie was my role model, so much so that I once portrayed her in a school play! 😅 Now, 15 years later, receiving a positive result on my #MSCA application feels surreal. A full-circle moment I never imagined back then!

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Marta Lidia Sudo @martasu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Oh wow! Somehow I have never came across this type of symbiosis. I’m mindblown. 😍 Thank you for sharing and congratulations on the great work😊

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Peter Girguis @pgirguis.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“Riftia” is a deep sea vent tubeworm that has no mouth or digestive tract. Rather, it hosts billions of symbiotic bacteria that provide them nutrition. Wildly, they are among the fastest growing organisms on the planet! Our paper examines *how* they pull this off. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Co-expression analysis reveals distinct alliances around two carbon fixation pathways in hydrothermal vent symbionts - Nature Microbiology

Live tubeworm incubations reveal that chemoautotrophic symbionts regulate the Calvin–Benson–Bassham and reductive tricarboxylic acid pathways to suit geochemistry and metabolism.

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Fatima Pereira @fatimacpereira.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Our study on drug-gut microbiome interactions is out! 🦠💊 We show that the #Parkinson's drug entacapone induces iron deficiency in microbes, leading to selective inhibition of microbial activity. @cemess.bsky.social @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #BostonUni Check the full story here: rdcu.be/d0ZAQ

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The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homoeostasis via iron sequestration

Nature Microbiology - Entacapone, a Parkinson’s disease medication, sequesters iron resulting in a selective inhibition of gut microbial activity.

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote (Nature Communications) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Desulfobacteraceae (in phylum Deltaproteobacteria) symbionts help remove H2 produced by hydrogenosomes in the anaerobic protist Anaeramoeba:

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Jillian Petersen @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

It’s true, you only see what you’re looking for: After decades studying chemosynthetic symbionts in clam gills, we realized they colonize the digestive tract too 😱 academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Microscopy images showing host cell nuclei in blue, signals corresponding to bacterial symbionts in red. A sketch of the host anatomy shows the location of the microscopy images.

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

SoxY gene family expansion underpins adaptation to diverse hosts and environments in symbiotic sulfide oxidizers journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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Jillian Petersen @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

SO excited that my team and I can continue our work on marine symbioses with an #ERCCoG SeaSym: Symbioses between plants and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria sustain coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems

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Anna Michalik @annamichalik.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Our preprint describing the unusual strategy of #symbiont transmission and previously unreported level of genome reduction and reorganization in a #planthopper symbiotic system has just been published - with @diecasfranco @sympiotr et al doi.org/10.1101/2023... #SymbioSky #EvoSky #EvoBiol

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