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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Belated happy birthday to the #LTEE. Started 24-Feb-1988. Evolve cells, evolve! #science #evolution #bacteria #microsky @barricklab.bsky.social

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Yngvild Vindenes @yvinden.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

We now have a fully funded (3 year) PhD position available in disease ecology (Lyme disease with focus on modeling of ecological interactions and processes influencing disease dynamics). Please help spread to interested applicants! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

A diagram showing a simplified overview of a tick life cycle (larvae, nymphs and adults) and Lyme pathogen transmission, illustrating main hosts classified as small or large.

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Kate Dowdell, PhD, PE @katedowdell.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Interested in drinking water flow cytometry? Check out our new studying evaluating near real-time FCM for disinfection system monitoring! @lutraskin.bsky.social 🧪 #MicroSky

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Ten days remaining to apply to this exciting PhD position - join us in our quest to explore novel archaeal lineages!

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Pedro Leão @pedroleao.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

📢Listen up Microbial Ecology nerds! 🤓 #ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation! We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year! isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...

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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

"Gene duplication as a major force driving the genome expansion in some giant viruses"-Machado et al describe a new giant virus, Cedratvirus pambiensis, and show that its 623,564 kb genome has evolved through gene duplication, a common theme among giant viruses. #giantViruses doi.org/10.1128/jvi....

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Want to do a #PhD focusing on discovery, cultivation and characterization of novel prokaryotes? Come and join my group in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #cultivation #microscopy #archaea #PhDposition Please share & repost

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Seth Bordenstein @symbionticism.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

~85% of animal species are Arthropods. ~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont. ~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO. -#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia -Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy. link.springer.com/protocol/10....

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Isolation of Phage WO Particles from Wolbachia-Infected Arthropods

Nearly all arthropod-associated Wolbachia contain intact and/or genomic remnants of phage WO, temperate bacteriophages that facilitate horizontal gene transfer, genomic rearrangement of the bacterial ...

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Stephan Köstlbacher @stephkoe.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

🔍 Exciting news from @ettema.bsky.social ! Stay tuned for a forthcoming PhD position in cultivating novel microbial lineages, specifically #archaea, at Microbiology lab, at WUR campus in Wageningen. Spread the word to potential candidates! #ScienceCareers

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Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

First post here: I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!!!). If you are interested in joining our lab at WUR campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I am just so fascinated by this image. From this paper: analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #protistsonsky

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Vincent Delafont @vincentdlft.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

It was good to hang around in #London, a first since Covid lockdown! Always pleasant to (re)discover places that makes this city such a great venue !

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum ISME Journal by Margaret I. Steele et al from David Queller and Joan Strassmann labs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

happy to contribute to the new fees #protistsonsky with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

Halteria sp. dorsal view looking down showing the adoral zone of membranelles (AZM). (Modified) Image by Robert Berdan. [Source: https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/ciliates.html]

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Yay let’s get the #protistsonsky party started 😉

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Alejandro Manzano Marín @amanzanom.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

For all the people migrating here that work on #Symbiosis, I have now created a (hopefully) working feed for us. For now, simply tag posts with #SymbioSky and they will be collected there. No sign-up needed!

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Edith Hammer @edithhammer.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Come work with us🤩! Postdoc in microbial ecology – investigating soil biodiversity in different farm types in Sweden molecularly and morphologically via #soilchips – embedded in an interdisciplinary network at @BECC_sweden @LundUniversity lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Just published - our latest review in FEMS Microbiology reviews on the incredible array of 'virologs' in diverse giant viruses- pushing the limit of viral mimicry! Sincere thanks to all the co-authors and Monir Lab students who have participated! academic.oup.com/femsre/advan...

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