Host-Microbe Interactions - International MSc Program

Oluwatobi's thesis: Analysis of the effects of microbial inputs on #soil #microbial #communities due to #pig #manure #fertilisation

Nadya'w thesis: Biogeographical analysis of the #microbiome of the #invasive skeleton #shrimp #Caprella scaura along the southern #coast of #Spain

Happy and proud of our students Oluwatobi Fasiku & Nadya Pechnikova who successfully defended their theses this week!

This year we were pleasantly surprised by the quality of our 35 applicants. We selected 14 of them (max positions is 15) and we can’t wait to meet our new students and start collaborating with them in the 2025-6 academic year! #msc

Starting ticking the final tick boxes before #mbkceesme20025 kickoff !!!

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@scinews.bsky.social @esci.eu @chronicle.com @superbugs.bsky.social @scienseed.com #SciComm #ArchaeaSky
#ProtistsOnSky #MicrobesOnSky #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

ASAPbio - Accelerating Science And Publication In Biology A scientist-driven nonprofit accelerating discovery by promoting innovation and transparency in life science communication through preprints and open peer review.

Promoting #transparency and innovation in #life #science #communication
@sciencenews.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social
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Our student Stahtis Alonaris will defend his thesis "Ecological water quality of Western Macedonian #Lakes based on classical #phytoplankton and #eDNA -based indicators" on 16 Jul. 2025, 14:00 Athens,GR time zone' please DM if interested to attend it remotely
#limnology

Like many of you, we are gravely concerned about recent Federal government actions in regard to higher education. While we recognize that the government plays an important role in addressing discrimination and ensuring good stewardship of public resources, we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression. We do not know what demands the Federal government may make of Berkeley, but do know that we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values. A Berkeley without academic freedom, without freedom of inquiry, without freedom of expression is simply not Berkeley. We recognize that some of you may find our statement too timid or too bold or deficient in some other way. That’s okay—a key to Berkeley’s excellence is our diversity of opinion and perspective. Robust debate is essential to scholarly advance. The purpose of a university is not to present us with ideas with which we are comfortable. To borrow from Clark Kerr, it is to make us safe for ideas. We don’t know what will happen. In part because we don’t know what may be demanded of us and in part because we won’t be the only decision makers. But what we do know is that we will stand up for Berkeley’s values and defend them to the very best of our ability. For 157 years, through the education it provides and the research it produces, Berkeley has produced immense economic and societal benefit to its students, California, the nation, and the world; this societal jewel needs to be preserved and defended, and we will toil tirelessly to see that it is. Fiat Lux. Rich Lyons Chancellor Ben Hermalin Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost

Leadership from UC Berkeley.

"...we see recent actions going beyond those purposes in ways that threaten core values: academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, & freedom of expression.... we will be steadfast and unrelenting in our efforts to defend those core values."

Integrating isotopic niche metrics and gut microbiota assembly reveals coexistence mechanisms in subtropical riverine fish Understanding interspecific niche overlap is fundamental for evaluating resource partitioning and competitive interactions among sympatric species. Mi…

Integrating isotopic #niche metrics and #gut #microbiota assembly reveals coexistence mechanisms in subtropical riverine #fish
#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology
@superbugs.bsky.social @microbiomevif.bsky.social #phylosymbiosis #holobiont
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Targeted analysis of metagenomes: divide and conquer The rapidly developing field of targeted analysis of metagenomes focuses on retrieving information about specific genes and/or genome(s) from environm…

Targeted analysis of #metagenomes: divide and conquer

#SymbioSky #MicroSky #microbiomesky #Microbiology

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We are working on fitting the 185 submitted abstracts to the #mbkceesme2025 program. The abstracts came from 27 countries, 15 of which are from central and eastern Europe!
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NAFSA 2024 - University of Thessaly

https://hosmic.uth.gr/nafsa-2024-university-of-thessaly/

The care and maintenance of your adviser - Nature Graduate students bear as much responsibility as their mentors for ensuring that they are well guided through their degrees, say Hugh Kearns and Maria Gardiner.

Everybody hurts and everybody needs love ... not just science ...
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Call for applicants!!! MSc Host-Microbe Interactions hosmic.uth.gr
#AcademicJobs #AcademicJob #phdlife #highereducation #postdocjobs #postdocposition #postdoclife #research #studyabroad

@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @femsmicro.bsky.social #SciComm @scinews.bsky.social

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A new contribution from @pci-microbiol.bsky.social to @peercomjournal.bsky.social 🐟🦠🧪

So nice to work hand in hand for #openscience

Variable phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny patterns in wild fish gut microbiota of a large subtropical river The persistence and specificity of fish host-microbial interaction during evolution is an important part of exploring the host-microbial symbiosis mechanism. However, it remains unclear how the enviro...

Do you like #fish? #freshwater fish? showing (some) #phylosymbiosis? Then here is a good read: Variable phylosymbiosis and #cophylogeny patterns in wild fish #gut #microbiota of a large #subtropical #river
#SymbioSky #hostmicrobe #microbialecology #symbiosis #evolution
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We are happy to host Vasilis Kokkoris from The Free University of Amsterdam sharing with us his work on #arbuscular #mychorriza #fungi #SymbioSky #symbiosis
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Extremely proud of our two new graduates Alexandros Kanellopoulos and Domna Nikolaidou. Congratulations!!!
@mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social @phdvoice.bsky.social @insidehighered.com #SymbioSky #highereducation #studyabroad

#Fulbright Advocacy Alert
#StandforFulbright

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SEM of a lichen crossection

Here is something to distract you from the gloom: What can metagenomics tell us about the taxonomic composition of lichen symbioses? A peer-reviewed version of our analysis of >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world is now out in @PLOSBiology 1/12 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky

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International #MSc courses at the #University of #Thessaly

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The value of long-term ecological research for evolutionary insights - Nature Ecology & Evolution This Perspective discusses using long-term ecological research networks to advance our understanding of fundamental evolutionary processes and evolutionary responses to global change.

Long-term ecological #research projects apart from being highly demanding, it deserves extra respect from the scientific community; funding agencies should consider the benefits of such projects

#ecology #science #nature #evolution @ipbes.bsky.social @esci.bsky.social

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The academic journal publishing model is deeply unethical: today, a few major, for-profit conglomerates control more than 50% of all articles in the natural ... PCI Webinar serie - Fernando Racimo - Ethical publishing: how do we get there? - March 2023

Do you want more information on #openscience?
@peercommunityin.bsky.social organizes very interesting webinars, including this one with Fernando Racimo about Ethical Publishing:
youtu.be/TzLgGSNq0Wk

📣 The replay of the PCI webinar of Johan Rooryck "Towards Responsible Publishing" is now available on the PCI YouTube channel youtu.be/oVWUq_Cu4_Y?...

The 11th MikroBioKosmos Conference + the 2nd Central & East Europe Symposium on #Microbial #Ecology will take place between 22 and 24 September 2025 in #Thessaloniki, #Greece!
@ismeoffice.bsky.social #mbkceesme2025 @dome-vienna.bsky.social @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @hologenomics.bsky.social

Effects of turbulence on diatoms of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia spp. and associated bacteria The effect of a turbulence gradient—from ‘still’ to ‘storm’ conditions—was investigated, for the first time, on two species of potentially toxic diatom (Ps

#diatom functions are (de)energized by physics: Effects of #turbulence on diatoms of the genus #Pseudo-nitzschia spp. and associated #bacteria
doi.org/10.1093/fems...
#phytoplankton #toxin @pebl-rice.bsky.social @fonamental.bsky.social @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social
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