Benjamin Coltman

Looks interesting @nmjgeerlings.bsky.social

Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

Function-Based Selection of Synthetic Communities Enables Mechanistic Microbiome Studies Abstract. Understanding the complex interactions between microbes and their environment requires robust model systems such as synthetic communities (SynCom

It’s also timely to present about SynCom design considering the recent work from @tcahitch.bsky.social @tclavel.bsky.social. I highly recommend reading!

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It’s great to be at #mbkceesme2025 so far, hearing about all things microbial! It’s always rewarding to present one’s work and hear the community’s feedback. Thanks for the support @isme-microbes.bsky.social

Interested in the design of defined microbial communities for fundamental research and applications? Hope this work & tool will help you 👇 As always @tcahitch.bsky.social has been a driving factor ⭐⭐⭐! github.com/ClavelLab/Mi...; academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Branched-chain amino acid assimilation promotes mixotrophy of ammonia-oxidizing archaeal sponge symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - Nature Biotechnology Hyperspectral reporter genes allow imaging of ground bacteria from aerial vehicles

Holy cow - hyperspectral detection of bacteria at long distance.... "The bacteria were detectable outdoors under ambient light from up to 90 m in a single 4,000-m2 hyperspectral image taken using fixed and unmanned aerial vehicle-mounted cameras." 🤯
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jan Erisman presenting a slide at the European Nitrogen Cycle meeting. The slide demonstrates that less Nitrogen is lost from plant-based diets than meat-based diets - but regardless, nitrogen is still lost

Jan Erisman closed the 28th European Nitrogen Cycle Meeting with a raw reminder: the nitrogen cycle is out of sync!

Still, the meeting was full of inspiring research on all things N and some promising paths to reduce our impact!

Big questions remain… #ENC28

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“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician

Rapid species-level metagenome profiling and containment estimation with sylph - Nature Biotechnology The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases.

The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases go.nature.com/3BBVqDC
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Engineering non-exponential proliferation in Escherichia coli using functionalized protein aggregates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.23.671898v1

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation - Nature Microbiology An in-depth microbiological and metagenomic analysis of Colombian farm and fermentation facilities resulted in the design of a defined microbial community that can reproduce the flavour of fine chocol...

Out now!

🍫🦠A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour #chocolate fermentation

By Gabriel Castrillo, David Salt & co

#microsky #microbiomesky 🧪

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨4yr Technical Assistant Position on #Microbial Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...

Great podcast recording with Nicole Geerlings for #MattersMicrobial about weird and wonderful cable bacteria! I truly enjoyed the session. Releasing next week. @nmjgeerlings.bsky.social

Followed up with a keynote on a subject close to my heart! Great to see @dmattanovich.bsky.social again and nice to see the work of my PhD colleagues and friends presented as part of the broader story of harnessing K. phaffii for the C1 bioeconomy

@juergenzanghellini.bsky.social kicked off the 10th Metabolic Pathway Analysis conference yesterday, hosted @univie.ac.at. A nice use of EFMs but despite Jürgen’s years of attempts, I’m still not convinced that the best ice cream is found at Schwedenplatz

Today wrapped up our 4th summer school on Economic Principles in Cell Biology organized by @economic-cell.bsky.social at the beautiful @univie.ac.at 🤩
Huge thanks to all the students, teachers and @cecamevents.bsky.social for the support! ✨️
See you next year!

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Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

An awesome resource for probing who, where and how often specific microbes are found!

I'm happy to announce the latest release of the GlobDB, available at globdb.org.

The GlobDB is a database of "species dereplicated" microbial genomes, and as of release 226 contains twice the number of species-representative genomes (306,260) than the latest GTDB release.

Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

We are hosting the 28th European Nitrogen Cycle meeting at @univie.ac.at in Vienna from Sept 8-11.

Join us for a varied program featuring many aspects of the microbial N-cycle.

Deadline for abstract submission (and early bird registration):
June 15th!

More info:
univie.eventsair.com/enc2025/

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🚨 Last call! #MPA2025 @univie.ac.at

Abstract submission for the Metabolic Pathway Analysis Conference closes today!

Don’t miss your chance to join a stellar lineup, including invited speakers @chmoei.bsky.social & @flamholz.bsky.social

Submit now 👉 univie.eventsair.com/Presentation...

Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice - Nature Experiments in mouse models show that proper recovery of the intestinal microbiota following depletion, with or without faecal microbiota transplant therapy, is dependent on syntrophic interactions that occur only with specific dietary interventions.

Nature research paper: Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice.

https://go.nature.com/42R2PJ5

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.

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

Contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the dark ocean Ammonia-oxidizing archaea are the most abundant chemolithoautotrophs in the ocean, comprising up to 40% of microbial cells in deep waters, and are assumed to dominate dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) ...

I am super excited to share our new preprint "Contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the dark ocean". This has been my absolute favorite project from my Postdoc at the Santoro Lab (UCSB) and @dome-vienna.bsky.social 🌊🦠

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