Leonid Digel

Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.

Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#ctenophores #volumeEM

New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social & colleagues created a 3D model of the ctenophore apical organ, revealing cell-type diversity and exciting new insights into the evolution of central nervous systems 🧠🧪 Congratulations to the team! 👏

Exciting news from the Royal Society Publishing: our journals will be fully open access in 2026 as we move to adopt the 'Subscribe to Open' model:

#MicroSky

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

Marine biodiversity: Gone with the wind? Our dispatch out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social

New research shows that wind and currents act as invisible barriers, reshaping our view of ocean connectivity. 🌊🪼

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lYLj3QW8S...
@iramaegele.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

What’s hiding in your drawer?
Have a striking or off-the-wall photo from your research in Denmark? Enter the DNRF Photo Competition 2025 👇
dg.dk/en/dnrf-phot...

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

The biggest conference on Solar Fuels is coming to Newcastle in September! Join us there.

After 5 amazing years @pilhoferlab.bsky.social I'm starting my lab @embl.org Grenoble this November embl.org/wollweber
We'll image Asgard archaea and many other strange microbes ( #archaeasky, #protistsonsky..) to understand eukaryogenesis
First job ad: #teamtomo scientist!🔬❄️ tinyurl.com/2rdu2ze6

Dissecting Bioelectrical Networks in Photosynthetic Membranes with Electrochemistry Photosynthetic membranes contain complex networks of redox proteins and molecules, which direct electrons along various energy-to-chemical interconversion reactions important for sustaining life on Ea...

Our latest paper is out now in @jacs.acspublications.org . In this study we tried to push the limits of #electrochemistry beyond proteins, to studying entire pathways of biological electron transfer ⚡️🦠. Here's a summary 🧵 (1/10)

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Recent research has highlighted the ability of some microbes to simultaneously respire aerobically and anaerobically, a flexible strategy that reshapes our understanding of microbial metabolism. In my latest article for @asm.org , I explore this phenomenon.
Link: asm.org/articles/202...

🔬 We're Hiring: Become the next MBA Anne Warner Research Fellow

You’ll be at the forefront of groundbreaking research, leading a team of scientists to unlock new insights in the realms of cell and molecular biology.

Apply by 17th September 2025

mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/mba-anne...

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 ⚡🦠.

If you are interested in reading the "Behind the paper"story of how we discovered this electroactive microbe and simultaneous aerobic-anaerobic respiration, have a look at our blog post in the Nature Research Communities here: communities.springernature.com/posts/simult...

Please apply if you are interested in environmental microbiology topics such as microbial dark oxygen production and methane cycling under oxygen depletion.

Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT - Nature Communications In this study, the authors show that Microbacterium deferre A1-JK, a newly isolated Gram-positive bacterium, simultaneously reduces oxygen and iron under oxic conditions, revealing unexpected microbia...

Thrilled to share our latest work on simultaneous aerobic-anaerobic metabolism enabled by extracellular electron transfer. The microbe in focus, Microbacterium deferre A1-JK, was isolated from the oxic-anoxic sediment interface.
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@kartiksaiyer.bsky.social

Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKT - Nature Communications In this study, the authors show that Microbacterium deferre A1-JK, a newly isolated Gram-positive bacterium, simultaneously reduces oxygen and iron under oxic conditions, revealing unexpected microbia...

Out now! Simultaneous aerobic and anaerobic respiration enabled via extracellular electron transfer. Meet Microbacterium deferre A1-JK.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laboratory Technician at Section for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Mikrobiologi, Aarhus Universitet

Open position for a lab technician at the Section for Microbiology, Aarhus University: www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Our new paper is out: "The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ & the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals.

We reveal a remarkable cell type diversity, nerve net condensation, a multilayered circuit & gene expression profiles.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ctenophores

Introducing the Michael Sars Visitors Program The Michael Sars Centre is launching a Visitors Program designed to foster scientific exchange and collaborations across disciplines.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Michael Sars Visitors Program! ✨🧪 To spark new connections, we are opening our doors to visiting researchers who wish to conduct a project in #SunnyBergen. Applications are open, help us spread the word!

Photosynthetic cascade.

The evolutionary invention of oxygenic photosynthesis by ancestral cyanobacteria forever changed life on Earth. On a warm sunny day, we can appreciate the beauty of cyanobacterial biofilms making oxygen we breathe.
#BiofilmCreate #BiofilmAware @ukbiofilms.bsky.social

Two Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Microbiology!

Join us and work on microbial key players exposed to oxygen depletion.

Please share widely!
Deadline: 25 July

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/4kwzzt6p

Inactive “Ghost” Cells Do Not Affect Motility and Long‐Range Electron Transport in Filamentous Cable Bacteria Mechanisms for the creation of individual ghost cells within a cable bacterium filament. (A) Schematic overview of different stressors that can lead to cell lysis or cell death. (i) Viral particles i...

Do ghosts exist? They do for cable bacteria: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Tenured academic staff / Tenure track lecturer Plant-soil microbiome interactions- UHasselt

🚨 job alert 🚨

Tenure track position in plant-soil microbiome interactions at the University of Hasselt!!

Yes that’s the place with the really cool ecotron 😊
www.uhasselt.be/en/about-has...

Reading is overrated really

Did a “bottle opener” open the door to eukaryotes?
Meet the Hodarchaeales-related cells- yet another bizarre morphology from Asgard archaea! These curious structures sit at the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary and might offer fresh clues to the origins of complex life.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

If you are curious how cable bacteria conduct, give our paper a read. Starting today it’s on the cover of EMBO Reports! @emboreports.org
@embopress.org
@cemau.bsky.social