ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology

We are looking for photos or videos of microscopy images and microbial ecologists at work! The winning photos and videos will be used to promote the ISME Society and our publications. Submit your entry by 11 November! More information: isme-microbes.org/call-for-mic...
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Last chance to send in your application to the ISME Scholar Mobility Fund to visit a host institution outside of your country of study. The deadline is tomorrow!
Learn more and apply: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
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6 Scientists. 1 Panel. Big ideas.

From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱
Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology!

🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing
🔗 Join us: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...

Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap.
Read more: isme-microbes.org/microbes-wit...
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In the last edition of the series about our Early Career Scientist Committee, Leslie Daille talks about her commitment to the scientific community at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-le...

New ECSC Member Xiaohua Han tells more about herself and her research on geomagnetic fields and microorganisms at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-xi...

Two weeks left for students and postdocs to apply to receive support for international research, training, or lab visits.
Submit your application by 1 October 2025!
Learn more and apply:
isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
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Meet ISME Early Career Scientist Committee Member Samuel Eziuzor who recently joined the ECSC, as he explains about his work on the structure and function of prokaryotes, at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-sa...

🌟Join us for the 2nd ISME #UnityInDiversity Conference!🌟
📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing
🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan
🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨

New ISME Early Career Scientist Committee Member Akbar Adjie Pratama @adjiep.bsky.social has a joint position in Germany and the U.S.
Learn more about his career and interests at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-ak...

Net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryoplankton Abstract. Lateral gene transfer is a major evolutionary process in Bacteria and Archaea. Despite its importance, lateral gene transfer quantification in na

My collaborator Ramunas Stepanauskas @rstepanauskas.bsky.social published a paper in ISME J @isme-microbes.bsky.social on horizontal gene transfer rates assessed by single-cell genomics
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#microsky #single-cell 🦠🧬🖥️🧪

The 12th World Sponge Conference @wscommunity.bsky.social is about to start, and I am happy that ISME @isme-microbes.bsky.social is supporting the "sponge symbioses" session through the ISME ambassador program! See you soon :)

Retention of a SulP-family bicarbonate transporter in a periplasmic N2-fixing cyanobacterial endosymbiont of an open ocean diatom Abstract. Symbioses between diatoms and the N2-fixing, heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Richelia spp. are widespread and contribute to primary production.

Newly published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social's journal by Group Foster at DEEP.👇

A diatom’s cyanobacterial partner keeps a key bicarbonate transporter, helping sustain photosynthesis in low-CO₂ oceans. Discover how this shapes carbon cycling in the open sea below. 🌊🦠

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social

New publication! One of the seminal projects from my Genomics Aotearoa Postdoc position with Associate Professor Kim Handley is now published online at ISMEJ Communications. The background behind this particular paper is that we found clear niche differentiation of two Actinomycetota sister lineages (Aquiluna and Rhodoluna) across the saline divide of the Waiwera River estuary. As both lineages were initially described and isolated from freshwater environments, this natural population represented a great opportu

One of the seminal projects from my Genomics Aotearoa Postdoc position with Associate Professor Kim Handley is now published online at @isme-microbes.bsky.social Communications!! 🥳🦠 "Salinity-driven niche differentiation within the aquatic Luna-1 subcluster"

✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology!
Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there.
📅 Apply by 1 October
🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe!)
Details: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
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Learn more about new ISME Early Career Scientist Member Pam Engelberts's research, career, and the work she's been doing for BrisJAMS.

isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-pa...

Ann Gregory, Co-Chair of the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee, introduces herself and her work on viruses to the ISME community.

Find out more at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-an...

In this new series, ISME would like to introduce the members of the Early Career Scientist Committee to you, starting with Chair Burak Avcı.

Find out more at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-bu...

Her work reveals a workflow that overcomes key limitations of RMP, improving the accuracy of microbial community dynamics representation and enabling more reliable modelling of stress-response.

To know more from her academic career:
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The ISME ECSC is glad to spotlight Marie Thomas, Postdoctoral researcher, and her paper "Development of a quantitative PMA-16S rRNA gene sequencing workflow for absolute abundance measurements of seawater microbial communities".

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Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly on model marine particles Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism

🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/

Global dominance of Haloquadratum walsbyi by a single highly clonal genomovar with distinct gene content and viral cohorts from close relatives Abstract. Haloquadratum walsbyi is generally the dominant species in hypersaline ecosystems at salt saturation conditions. Here, we followed the dynamics o

Second paper of my PhD just published in The ISME Journal!🕺🕺

A single genomovar of Haloquadratum walsbyi, the most abundant species in hypersaline environments, globally dominates due to its higher fitness compared to close relatives

@isme-microbes.bsky.social
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@femsmicro.org @isme-microbes.bsky.social @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social @esci.eu @chronicle.com @superbugs.bsky.social

To celebrate that ISME20 is exactly one year from now, the ISME20 Local Organising Committee recreates the magic of their first video by taking you on a new adventure in the second installment.
Watch the brand new video: isme-microbes.org/isme20-loc-v...
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We are proud to announce the Keynote Speakers for ISME20, held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 16 - 21 August 2026! These eight internationally renowned microbial ecologists will each give a 45-minute presentation at the symposium.
View them on isme-microbes.org/isme20-keyno...
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The ISME Early Career Scientist Committee and ISME Publications welcomed 102 early career scientists to the inaugural ISME Early Career Scientist Reviewer Pool.
Read more on isme-microbes.org/isme-launche...
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My experience in the Czech Republic has just come to an end.

A huge thank you to everyone at the Aquatic Ecology Lab and the Institute of Hydrobiology for such a great time!

I’m also truly grateful to @isme-microbes.bsky.social for the funding that made this experience possible!

Bacterial transmission within social groups shapes the underexplored gut microbiome in the lemur Indri indri Abstract. The Indri indri is a critically endangered lemur species that has not successfully been maintained or bred under human care. Investigating this l

🧵 New paper alert!
Our first dive into non-human hosts: the gut microbiome of the critically endangered lemur Indri indri 🐒🌱
Led by talented MSc student Francisca Labisa-Morais!
📄 @isme-microbes.bsky.social
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The creation of the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group (MCSG) that is co-lead by ISME and @amiposts.bsky.social is a historic milestone in the global effort to protect microbial life.
isme-microbes.org/microbial-ec...
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According to @bmcgivern13.bsky.social, @kcwrighton.bsky.social et al., adding the plant compound catechin to peat cut methane emissions by up to 84%, likely by creating competition for hydrogen between catechin-degrading microbes and hydrogen-dependent methanogens.
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