Pepe Flores

Oceanic photosynthesis is directly affected by cyanophage NblA proteins www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites Abstract. Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most researc

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites

-in #ISMEJournal by Joanna Lepper, @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Two full-time positions | Bioinformatician (m/f/d) + Applications Specialist (m/f/d) - Molecular Biology The Genome Facility at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön is seeking to fill two positions (full time) to support and expand our core facility services.

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science.

Pls repost 🙏

www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

Dear community, Bakta needs your help!

To further improve the functional annotation of "hypothetical" CDS, me and @gbouras13.bsky.social, we are looking for the worst Bakta-annotated bacterial genomes ;-)

(1/2)

A new heliorhodopsin (V2HeR) from a giant virus by the Prof. Kandori lab🧬 Congratulations!🎉
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biop...
@bejalab.bsky.social

my nr 1 shortcut that would have saved several people from typing reverse 30x during Q+A after their talk today.
During a PPT presentation, type nr + enter to go to that slide. (10+enter to go to slide 10).
Bonus: type w for a white screen or ctrl+L for the laser.

Dear @dfg.de & @erc.europa.eu Why don't you do the same? What's stopping us from adopting this model to all tax-payer funded research in Europe? journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Hey all! Now that i've left my position at UQ, I thought I would leverage my network here to see if anyone has leads on environmental genomics, biotech, marine policy positions in the US/Canada/Australia/Europe. I'd love to speak with anyone in those fields re openings, worthwhile recruiters, etc.

A nitrogen-fixing bacterium forms symbioses on land and at sea - Nature Microbiology Discovery of a marine diatom-associated Bradyrhizobium that nodulates a terrestrial legume expands our understanding of the environmental and host range of nitrogen-fixing symbioses.

#News&Views

A marine diatom-associated Bradyrhizobium can nodulate a terrestrial legume, expanding understanding of nitrogen-fixing symbioses

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

#microsky

Integrated diversity and network analyses reveal drivers of microbiome dynamics | mSystems Understanding microbiome dynamics requires capturing not only changes in microbial composition but also interactions between community members. Traditional approaches frequently overlook microbe-micro...

Integrated diversity and network analyses reveal drivers of microbiome dynamics

#mSystems by @guan06rui.bsky.social and Ruben Garrido-Oter

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Chimeric infective particles expand species boundaries in phage-inducible chromosomal island mobilization Capsid-forming PICIs (cf-PICIs) produce their own capsids and exploit phage tails from unrelated species to transfer their DNA across bacterial hosts. This tail piracy enables broad dissemination and ...

Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Phage "satellites" that produce capsids but have no genes to produce tails have puzzled scientists for a long time. These are abundant as prophages in bacteria, but it was unclear how they can infect without tails

Now, Penadés & co show that they hijack tails from other phages. Incredible!

Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture Abstract. The plant microbiome can promote plant health and productivity through a multitude of mechanisms. Our understanding of plant–microbiome interacti

Our review article on the "Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture" is published
@theplantcell.bsky.social [1/n]
doi.org/10.1093/plce...

Roots: metabolic architects of beneficial microbiome assembly Abstract. The increasing demand for sustainable agricultural practices has driven a renewed interest in plant–microbiome interactions as a basis for the ne

🔬🌱Our review “Roots: metabolic architects of beneficial microbiome assembly” led by PhD candidate Melissa Uribe Acosta @plantphys.bsky.social discusses plant mechanisms of root microbiome selection. Co-authors: @cornepieterse.bsky.social Jiayu Zhou Alberto Pascale.
academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems'.

#phage #phagesky

A bunch of interesting reviews

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CURIOUS ABOUT PHAGE BIOLOGY!?
CPIC lab at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
is recruiting in the call
+++ CURIOSITY IS INFECTIOUS +++
helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
Did you spot the phage? Please share!

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Arabidopsis root defense barriers support beneficial interactions with rhizobacterium Pseudomonas simiae WCS417 Plant roots interact with pathogenic and beneficial microbes in the soil. While root defense barriers block pathogens, their roles in facilitating beneficial plant–microbe associations are understud...

Super happy to have our work published in one of my favourite journals @newphyt.bsky.social Amazing effort by Jiayu Zhou and colleagues from @utrechtpmi.bsky.social and UvA. You can find it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cornepieterse.bsky.social

Interactions between native soil microbiome and a synthetic microbial community reveals bacteria with persistent traits

#transwellsystem #Pseudomonas

#mSystems

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Chemoreceptor family in plant-associated bacteria responds preferentially to the plant signal molecule glycerol 3-phosphate - Genome Biology Background Chemotaxis to plant compounds is frequently the initial step for the colonization of plants by bacteria. Plant pathogens and plant-associated bacteria contain approximately twice as many ch...

Chemoreceptor family in plant-associated bacteria responds preferentially to the plant signal molecule glycerol 3-phosphate

BMC Genome Biology from @krelllaboratory.bsky.social, @miguelmatilla.bsky.social, Igor B. Zhulin

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This always blows my mind. Dude mapped qtl for a quantitative trait to a chromosome in 1923!

Related but cool combo of cytogenetics and phenotype. Know when the first QTL was mapped?

Sax, K. 1923. The association of size differences with seed coat pattern and pigmentation in Phaseolus vulgaris. Genetics 8:552-560.

When using ARG databases, it is much better to have a low number of false positives, then to identify every gene under the Sun as a potential ARG.

My preferred options are ResFinder and CARD (with the latter having some entries that are probably better considered housekeeping genes)

Head of Service Unit Proteomics

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees - Nature Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.

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

@markowenmartin.bsky.social asks the question: what do you think of when you hear the word plasmid?

Watch TWiM episode 337: Lifestyles of the plasmids

Years after years, I still enjoy my field trips to the mountain forests of Yunnan. Yesterday, we were selecting sites in the fir–rhododendron woodlands of Jiaozi Snow Mountain, surrounded by the lush flora thriving after the monsoon rains.

Are you a theoretical biologist that is intererested in the ecology and evolution of metabolic interactions among microorganisms?

Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists?

Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics?

Then this position might be for you👇:

shorturl.at/iiiOv