Ghada Yousif

Impressions from the Science Academy. left: women in a workshop, listening, right: group photo on staircase

The September Science Academy was a big success and a great experience.
31 talented women in their PhD or Postdoc from all over the world came to the MPI-TM for 3 days full of science, workshops and networking.
#Genderequality is not about favoring women - it’s about empowering them 💪.

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
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Human gut bacteria bioaccumulate PFAS

Excited to share some key details on our latest research in @natmicrobiol.nature.com reporting intra-cellular accumulation of #PFAS (aka forever chemicals) by certain human gut bacteria. #microsky #mevosky #microbiomesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better!

Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁

Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Nature Awards Global Grants for Gut Health Grants for researchers investigating the gut microbiota and its role in human health.

Nature awards and Yakult have announced another round of 'Global Grants for Gut Health'. An excellent opportunity for gut microbiota researchers, at any career stage, to win $100,000 for a year to cover their interesting research!

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

www.nature.com/immersive/gu...

Our paper in @science.org 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

is accompanied by an especially thoughtful perspective by Carey Nadell and Chris Marx 👉🏽
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team @arizonastateuni.bsky.social microbialeco.systems

#MicroSky

Ever thought about a nose-to-nose bacteria transfer? 👃🦠 I wrote about it — and no, it's not as gross as it sounds. Check it out! #Microbiome #ScienceIsWeird #SciCom

Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.

This study www.nature.com/articles/s41... expands gut microbiome knowledge into African populations, uncovering lifestyle-linked taxa shifts and novel genomes. It’s a crucial resource for future work, including our own interest in the loss of cellulolytic bacteria. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…

ICYMI: New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities

A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice - Nature Microbiology Using a cohort of nearly 1,000 genetically diverse mice undergoing dietary restriction over the lifespan, the authors reveal numerous insights into the interactions between the gut microbiome, host ge...

Interesting new mouse study on the microbiome & aging, out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

"Gut metagenomes reveal interactions between dietary restriction, ageing and the microbiome in genetically diverse mice" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology!

Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome Plants are composed of diverse secondary metabolites. Here, we discover members of the human gut microbiome that have evolved enzymes to metabolize specific dietary phenolic small molecules that activate diverse functions important to the host, such as…

Now online! Functional diversification of dietary plant small molecules by the gut microbiome

Happy that our work on host-microbiome-interactions in aging is mentioned in this editorial from @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social that emphasizes the importance of modeling in microbiology research.

Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly | PNAS Mixing microbiomes in vitro reveals rules of community assembly

Our commentary on the elegant in vitro microbiome coalescence experiments from @goldmandoran.bsky.social @ksxue.bsky.social et al is out.

It was a pleasure to write about one of my favorite microbiome papers of the last few years.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness Abstract. A key feature of natural communities is that the species within them stably coexist. A common metric used to test community stability is the abil

Estimates of microbial community stability using relative invader growth rates are robust across levels of invader species richness

#ISMEComms by @mcastd.bsky.social, @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and Angus Buckling

academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published.
Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028
📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe

IMPRS

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

Bacterial heterozygosity promotes survival under multidrug selection Although bacterial cells typically contain a single chromosome, some species are naturally polyploid and carry multiple copies of their chromosome. Po…

Cool new paper by @shetoot.bsky.social Shitut et al. shows
Bacteria with multiple different chromosomes can survive broad antibiotic exposure
Check it out 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Career Webinar Alert! 📢
Join us on March 21st for a career webinar on "Transitioning to a PI Role"!
Registration is now open.
With the unstoppable and inspiring Lisa Maier @lisamaierlab.bsky.social
Help spread the word and register
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Share with your network!
#PIRole

I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar

Disentangling microbial interaction networks

Open access link:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities Saha et al. show that the predatory bacterium M. xanthus enriches the frequency of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in soil communities. This occurs because starvation-induced mass lysis of M. xanthus ce...

Nice to see how this project developed through the years & published in @currentbiology.bsky.social by Saheli Saha et al from @iamsamayp.bsky.social group 👏

Mass lysis of predatory bacteria drives the enrichment of antibiotic resistance in soil microbial communities

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities

Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab! @adelpanta.bsky.social on spatial patterning in microbial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... and @salazarafra.bsky.social on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond genomics in Patescibacteria: A trove of unexplored biology packed into ultrasmall bacteria | PNAS Patescibacteria, also known as the Candidate Phyla Radiation, are a diverse clade of largely uncultivated, small bacteria that comprise a significa...

The enigmatic, ultrasmall and largely uncultivated Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria represent a treasure trove of potential discoveries, argues this recent Perspective in PNAS🕵️👇 from the Mougous Lab www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab.
Check it out here:
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
@typaslab.bsky.social

Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions Abstract. Microbial communities can shape key ecological services, but the determinants of their functioning often remain little understood. While traditio

New paper out in ISME Journal. Social interactions between strains shape bacterial communities. However, their impact on community functioning is lower compared to basic strain identity features. @joskramer.bsky.social @alexfig.bsky.social @simonmarech.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Together We  Achieve More A beneficial relationship between bacterium, fungus, and plant

📣 New MicroBites!

Together We Achieve More 🤝

A beneficial relationship between bacterium, fungus, and plant 🦠 🍄 🌿