Alexander Eiler

Metabolically flexible microorganisms rapidly establish glacial foreland ecosystems - Nature Communications An enduring question in ecology is how new ecosystems form. Studying retreating glaciers, this study shows that life’s first foothold in these new environments is not established by photosynthetic org...

How do new soils develop after glaciers vanish? ❄️🧬🦠🏔️

The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅

Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social

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

Trajectories of freshwater microbial genomics and greenhouse gas saturation upon glacial retreat - Nature Communications Diverse microbial trajectories in carbon and nitrogen cycle processes represent a positive feedback loop of deglaciation on climate warming.

Interesting study. Very similar to what we did a few years ago in lakes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert!

How do 2,600km of river shape a microbiome? We surveyed the #Danube to quantify bacterial turnover at a continental scale.

The key takeaway: Water Travel Time (WTT) is the master regulator of macroecological patterns, while local environment "fine-tunes" the response.

Hydrological regime of a continental river system predicts bacterial macroecological patterns Abstract. Modelling bacterial dynamics in large river systems is crucial for predicting continental-scale ecosystem functioning under anthropogenic pressur

Check out how we use WTT to predict diversity and functioning of the microbiome in a continental river: academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... 🦠💧 #MicrobialEcology #Hydrology

Bacterial diversity turnover estimates in a continental river system Understanding bacterial dynamics in large river systems is crucial for predicting continental-scale ecological functioning under anthropogenic pressures. Here, two consecutive surveys 6-years apart al...

If you are interested in bacterial macroecology in river systems check out our newest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD Research Fellow in Arctic-Boreal vegetation modeling (278890) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Arctic-Boreal vegetation modeling (278890), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, May 5, 2025

Vegetation modeling PhD position with great supervisor in Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Anthropogenic imprint on riverine plasmidome diversity and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes following pollution and urbanization Plasmids are key determinants in microbial ecology and evolution, facilitating the dissemination of adaptive traits and antibiotic resistance genes (A…

A new plasmidome study that we were involved in is out. It shows that plasmid diversity behaves differently to chromosomal diversity along a pollution gradient where antibiotic resistance increases. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Redox determines greenhouse gas production kinetics and metabolic traits in water-saturated thawing permafrost peat Abstract. Redox conditions, influenced by the availability of oxygen, are expected to dictate the rate of CO2 and CH4 production and to shape the compositi

New accepted manuscript on greenhouse gas production kinetics and underlying metabolic rewiring in thawing permafrost under different redox conditions academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

64 ;)

Vacancies - The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

Wow. 65 open positions www.mn.uio.no/english/abou...

Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria’s light-harvesting system - Nature Ecology & Evolution Cyanobacteria use both chlorophylls and phycobilins to absorb light energy, and authors here use cultivation experiments, numerical simulations and protein phylogenetics to argue that cyanobacteria ev...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... - real enjoyed that read

Picturing plankton: Complementing net‐based plankton community assessments with optical imaging across diverse marine environments aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊

A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion - Nature A metalloenzyme capable of oxidatively cleaving cellulose, found in a microbial community specialized in lignocellulose degradation, could enable sustainable biofuel production.

A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims

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Hyperplex PCR enables highly multiplexed analysis of point mutations in wastewater: Long-term SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance in Sweden as a case study Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) allows the analysis of pathogens, chemicals or other biomarkers in wastewater to derive unbiased epidemiological i…

Impressive !

“4–5-week earlier mutation detection relative to NGS with comparable performance of mutation frequency quantification. Hence, hpPCR is shown to be a powerful complementary tool to the current workflow involving NGS and qPCR”

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Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems Revealing overlooked threats in marine ecosystems explores cumulative effects of climate change and human activities on food webs.

An inspiring research:
Ecological interactions amplify cumulative effects in marine ecosystems | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

DSTrain Postdoctoral programme - dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.

There are also open postdoc positions on the interface of data and marine sciences at our section. The EU funded DSTrain www.uio.no/dscience/eng...

PhD Research Fellow in freshwater microbial ecology (274477) | University of Oslo Job title: PhD Research Fellow in freshwater microbial ecology (274477), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

A first job related post. We have an open PhD student position in freshwater microbial ecology in our lab. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

On my way to Gothenburg setting up my new account. Looking forward to scientific interactions on this platform.