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Simon J. McIlroy

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Microbiologist at the Centre for Microbiome Research, QUT

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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Have a look at all the cute #nudibranchs pictures in our article just published in Microbiome! 🤩 We applied #museomics to a large collection of nudibranchs and discovered novel symbionts @i2sysbio.es @uv.es @csic.es #microsky #bioinformatics 👩‍🔬🦠🧪🧬🖥️🦑 🧵⬇️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Museomics reveals uncultured symbionts with biosynthetic potential in nudibranchs - Microbiome
Background Museum specimens are widely used for PCR-based pathogen detection, yet their potential for metagenomic discovery of beneficial microbes remains underexplored, largely due to difficulties in...
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Reinier Egas @raegas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Grab a coffee and enjoy reading up on CO metabolism in methanotrophs! Freshwater ANME (own work): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marine ANME (@Orphan lab): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to our collaborators at QUT! @sjmcilroy.bsky.social (Heyu/Andy/Gene!) @cuwelte.bsky.social
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Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea - Nature Communications
Anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea mitigate methane emissions in anoxic environments. Here, Egas et al. show that these microbes can also oxidize carbon monoxide, prompting re-evaluation of their cla...
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Reinier Egas @raegas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great work by @georginajoyce.bsky.social @sjmcilroy.bsky.social and team. The metabolic flexibility/ease of HGT in Methanoperedenaceae keeps us on our toes :). Arsenate reduction coupled to anaerobic oxidation of methane by members of the Methanoperedenaceae academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
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Arsenate reduction coupled to anaerobic oxidation of methane by members of the Methanoperedenaceae
Abstract. Anaerobic methanotrophic ‘Candidatus Methanoperedenaceae’ play a key role in mitigating methane emissions from freshwater sediments. Members of t
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Exciting new methane research: Huge credit to @annajwallenius.bsky.social & Andy Leu for using nifty bioinformatics to disentangle 8 novel MAGs of 'Candidatus Methanoborealis' This is version 1 of our #bioRxiv preprint. Aanalysis is ongoing & we welcome your feedback! doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Mike Jetten @msmjetten.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Great new trait of #Methanoperedens archaea: Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic #methanotrophic archaea #aom #anme Egas @cuwelte.bsky.social et al #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Georgina H Joyce @georginajoyce.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Hey BlueSky, nice to meet you! I'm an environmental microbiologist & science illustrator 🎨 here's some stuff I like to draw! I've done kid's books, graphical abstracts, lots of birds, and even a scientific journal cover on its way 💫 (Actually if you want anything drawn, I have some availability.. 🤔)
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Pam Engelberts @pam-engelberts.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7
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GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities
Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditio
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Pam Engelberts @pam-engelberts.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Excited to share GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social, @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social, @jamesvolmer.bsky.social doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵1/6
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GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities
Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditional FISH has several limitations, including ​​limited p...
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