Esteban Bustos-Caparros

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions Abstract. Multi-omics analyses have significantly advanced the understanding of complex marine microbial communities and their interactions. Despite notabl

Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs 🌊

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples Abstract. Metagenomic sequencing enables the in-depth study of microbes and their functions in humans, animals, and the environment. While sequencing data

Great to see this finally published!

Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples

now out in @narjournal.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

The average nucleotide identity (ANI) underpins how we map microbial diversity, compare species, and connect genomes to ecology.
I wrote a short piece reflecting on the discovery and significance of this metric (and really enjoyed digging into the context and story behind it!) #microsky 🧬

🚨 Come and work with us 🦠🧪🖥️
Postdoc position with lots of freedom available in my group

- 1.5 years with options to extend
- work on ecogenomics and physiology of N/CH4-cyclers
- remote work possible 🤓

more info here: isme-microbes.org/postdoc-ecog...

#microbesky

📣📣📣📣now open for applications!!

Nitrogen fixation under declining Arctic sea ice - Communications Earth & Environment Nitrogen fixation occurs under Arctic sea ice and is positively correlated with primary production, according to analyses of transects across the marginal ice zone and in the Central Arctic Ocean.

So cool to see this one out!! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@noc.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social

Predicting functions of uncharacterized gene products from microbial communities - Nature Biotechnology FUGAsseM predicts protein function in microbiomes using coexpression patterns from metatranscriptomes and diverse community-wide data.

NEW publication from our lab: One of the first methodologies (FUGAsseM) for gene function prediction from microbial community multi-omics data!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :)
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes Abstract. The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) provides a phylogenetically consistent and rank normalized genome-based taxonomy

Our @narjournal.bsky.social manuscript is out! It explores the growth of the GTDB (gtdb.ecogenomic.org) since its inception, as well as updates to the website, methodology, policies, and major taxonomic and nomenclatural changes over the past three years.

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣

Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!

Please share widely!

Deadline: 17 November

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Activity-targeted metaproteomics uncovers rare syntrophic bacteria central to anaerobic community metabolism - Nature Microbiology An approach combining BONCAT, stable isotope probing and metaproteomics showcases the hidden metabolic interconnectivity of microorganisms within an anaerobic digestion community.

OUT NOW Activity-targeted metaproteomics uncovers rare syntrophic bacteria central to anaerobic community metabolism by @ryanziels.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Overturning circulation structures the microbial functional seascape of the South Pacific Global overturning circulation partitions the deep ocean into regions, each with different physicochemical characteristics, but the extent to which these water masses represent distinct ecosystems rem...

a PHYLOCLINE! love the concept www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
again, remember looking at physics when you try to understand how microbial communities are structured in the ocean

Archaeal symbioses all the way down - Nature Microbiology Ethiopian salt lakes feature unique microbial communities with nesting layers of symbioses, where haloarchaea and their ultra-small archaeal symbionts are prey to viruses, which are in turn hijacked b...

Archaeal symbioses all the way down
by Mike Dyall-Smith

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection Abstract. The order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic bacteria in the global surface ocean, where individual sublineages

I'm delighted our paper is out: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
With new SAR11 isolate genomes and time-series metagenomes, we reveal coastal and offshore SAR11 ecotypes, identify associated metabolic traits, and pinpoint selective gene sweeps as a likely evolutionary driver to niche partitioning. 🌊🦠

Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time

🚨Exciting 🧪👩‍🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk

Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Explore how BONCAT, SIP & single-cell tools revolutionize microbiome research!
🔗 inpst.net/new-chemical...

🌐 #Microbiome #CRBIOTECH @georgeradics.bsky.social @martinbue.bsky.social @holyunknown.bsky.social @raoulxkessel-aland.bsky.social @hipecsurvivor.bsky.social @shawneexo.bsky.social

An upland landscape in Scotland with trees and open areas.

PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP.

On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network.

Pic: one of our Scottish sites.

e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

Viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their nanosized DPANN symbionts reveal intricate nested interactions - Nature Microbiology An exploration of the viromes of haloarchaea and their ultra-small DPANN symbionts reveals plasmid-derived satellites of viruses from both archaeal groups, highlighting the complexity of nested symbio...

Our work on viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their DPANN symbionts is out today in Nature Microbiology!
@mkrupovic.bsky.social @deemteam.bsky.social @anagtz.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predicting functions of uncharacterized gene products from microbial communities - Nature Biotechnology FUGAsseM predicts protein function in microbiomes using coexpression patterns from metatranscriptomes and diverse community-wide data.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#microsky #microbiome

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Variations in the latitudinal diversity gradients of the ocean microbiome Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs), typically declining from the equator to the poles, are among the most pervasive macroecological patterns, yet their generality and underlying drivers in the oce...

Interested in how microbial #diversity is structured across the global #oceans?

Check out our newest preprint!
We show that latitudinal diversity gradients are taxon-specific, reflecting differing ecological strategies and their responses to environmental gradients

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Illuminating the active virosphere with BONCAT and single virus genomic sequencing technologies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.05.666878v1

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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Neat paper!

Way back when, we speculated SAR11 could assimilate glycolate by oxidizing to glyoxylate and slapping an ammonia on it to produce glycine. Perhaps other taxa assimilate it similarly.
www.nature.com/articles/ism...

Marine Microbiology: Ecology & Applications The fourth edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new discoveries and concepts since 2019. This new edition reflects important new findings in marine microbiolog...

🚨Our book is now available for pre-order🚨

It was such an honour to contribute to this, as this was the book that opened my eyes to, and inspired me to study #marine #microbiology!

Highly recommend for students/academics wishing to learn about marine microbes.

www.routledge.com/Marine-Micro...

Metagenomics reveal allopatric speciation and higher connectivity among coastal vs. inland hypersaline lakes and solar salterns www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs