Most microbes don't live in shaking flasks; spatial structure shapes how microbes interact and evolve at every scale, as we discuss in our recent review @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @simonvanvliet.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social and others
academic.oup.com/femsre/artic... 🧵👇
Professor Joana Falcao Salles, a professor of Microbial Community Ecology at the University of Groningen, has been named as the newest winner of the Basil Jarvis Food Security and Innovation Award. @rug.nl www.the-microbiologist.com/news/horizon...
12.11.2025 11:00 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Around 10% of your Nanopore reads (SQK-RBK114) are incorrectly trimmed. Here is why, and how our new tool Barbell solves it:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Want to get started? github.com/rickbeeloo/b...
I’m very happy this is finally out! Here, we showcase the combination of BONCAT and SIP metaproteomics to uncover rare and active microbes driving anaerobic acetate turnover. We are excited to see what other microbial metabolisms and ecosystems this approach can help to illuminate! 🦠
21.10.2025 17:08 — 👍 29 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2Big thanks to our collaborators at IOW (Theodor Sperlea, Matthias Labrenz), all co-authors, and people who helped in the project 🙌
15.09.2025 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From the Baltic coast to the lab in Jena, we combined Nanopore sequencing 🧬 with a custom demultiplexing approach 🖥️ (@rickbitloo.bsky.social) to uncover the rules of microbial mixing in estuaries.
15.09.2025 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
💧🌊 What happens when freshwater bacteria meet their salty counterparts?
Our new preprint explores the ecological factors driving community coalescence 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675091v1 @bedutilh.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social
The work from my first postdoc is finally out www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🎉 It was great to work together with Tianci Zhao www.rug.nl/staff/tianci..., @joana-salles.bsky.social, and our collaborators on the potatoMETAbiome project 🥰 Many thanks also to those who helped us during the field trial ✨
04.09.2025 13:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome.
See thread for more information and reach out!
New Review Out!
We explore how droplet microfluidics is opening new doors in microbial ecology - enabling single-cell functional insights into growth, metabolism & interactions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fems...
#MicrobialEcology #DropletMicrofluidics #Microbiology
New online! A model ‘organism’ split to uncover microbial symbiosis
21.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
🧬Viromics🧬 = using (meta-)genomics to study uncultivated viruses has yielded unprecedented insights into the diversity and global distribution of viruses
@jgi.doe.gov's @simrouxvirus.bsky.social and Clement Coclet review the state of the field, available tools, and remaining challenges
Join the Aquatic Ecology Special Interest Group (SIG) for an inclusive forum hosted by ZSL. This event will focus on sharing the latest research in marine and freshwater ecology, as well as providing networking opportunities.
You can now register and submit your abstracts.
Microbiomes exist across aquatic environments, from frozen glaciers to flowing rivers & open oceans. This #WorldMicrobiomeDay, our new blog spotlights the importance of different aquatic microbiomes and why it’s time to recognize their invisible work. buff.ly/eFmmYXT
27.06.2025 10:01 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Angela Muraya (centre) examines her plants with Natia Geliashvili (left) and Bas E. Dutilh (right).
Researchers led by @bedutilh.bsky.social at the Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social investigate #phages, showing how viruses not only cause harm but also create the basis for diversity & balance. Read more in the #UniJena research magazine.
➡️ www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/en/3157/smal...
Registration for Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 is now open! Join us in Liverpool on 26–27 November 2025. Secure your tickets: microb.io/MicroEvo25 #MicroEvo2025
16.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Our forum article is now online!
We offer a microbiome perspective on Grime’s triangle and explore plant ecological trade-offs.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
more info can be found from here fems-microbiology.org/about_fems/n...
25.03.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the Globe!
🦠😎👍
Application for the FEMS SSPD 2025 “Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health” is now open 👇
2 – 10 Sept 2025 on Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia
Co-Directors: Joana Falcao Salles and @luederslab.bsky.social
Xiu Jia @xiujia.bsky.social from Bas Dutil group at FSU Jena on When river meet the sea: bacterial community dynamics after coalescence
#NIME2025
🚨 Moved from last week to next Friday 28/02 at 15:30 EU time, Rinke van Tatenhove-Pel (TU Delft) talking about
Population dynamics in spatially structured environments
at the Population Dynamics Seminars!
To get the zoom link sites.google.com/view/popdyn/
