Horizon Awards
The Horizon Awards recognise individuals and teams at the forefront of microbiological research.
🎖️ The AMI Horizon Awards are open for nominations!
Recognising excellence across applied microbiology these are among the most prestigious honours our field has to offer.
Nominate your colleagues 👉 appliedmicrobiology.org/advocacy-pol...
02.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Triton Sustainability Challenge
A presenter at the Triton Sustainability Challenge
A presenter in front of an audience at the Triton Sustainability Challenge
💡 Hey @ucsandiego.bsky.social innovators, entrepreneurs and sustainability-minded folks—the Triton Sustainability Challenge returns to campus and is now accepting applications! Submit your innovative technology that impacts the environment here: https://bit.ly/3ZeKDYA
02.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It was great discussing with @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
and having Stefanie as a co-host!
I hope you will enjoy it as well!
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26.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Episode 1 - Jack Gilbert: "We are living in a microbial world"
Spotify video
In the Episode 1, @cpavloud.bsky.social & Stefanie Malan-Müller welcomed @gilbertjacka.bsky.social!
NEXT episode will be out in February 🤫 & I can't wait to tell you who was my guest.
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28.01.2026 09:24 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Environmental Fungi Modulate the Vaginal Mycobiome and Cervical Disease Progression in Hispanic Women
The vaginal mycobiome, though a minor component of the cervicovaginal ecosystem, plays a crucial role in reproductive health and disease. However, its composition and interactions with bacterial communities remain poorly understood, particularly among Hispanic women, who experience disproportionately high rates of Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cervical cancer. We characterized the vaginal mycobiota across reproductive stages and examined its associations with cervical disease, HPV status, and bacterial community state types (CSTs) in 86 Hispanic participants from Puerto Rico using ITS1 amplicon sequencing. Amplicon sequence variants were inferred with QIIME2/DADA2 and taxonomically classified using the UNITE database, with diversity and discriminant taxa analyses applied to explore clinical and microbial associations. We detected 173 fungal Species Hypotheses, dominated by Candida albicans , Agaricomycetes sp., Scopuloides dimorpha , and Hortaea werneckii . While fungal composition did not differ significantly by reproductive stage, non-pregnant individuals exhibited greater inter-individual variability. Alpha diversity was reduced in high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions compared with low-grade or normal cytology, and Candida parapsilosis prevalence was elevated in low-grade lesions. CST III, characterized by Lactobacillus iners dominance, showed greater dispersion variance than other CSTs. Collectively, these findings reveal a diverse vaginal mycobiome with stage- and disease-specific features, and a notable contribution of environmental fungi that may influence cervical pathogenesis. This work provides foundational insight into cervicovaginal fungal ecology in a high-risk Hispanic population and highlights the importance of integrating bacteriome–mycobiome analyses in women’s health research.
New preprint 🧫🍄
Vaginal mycobiome in Hispanic women is diverse, environmentally influenced, and linked to cervical disease severity. High-grade HPV lesions are associated with reduced fungal diversity.
Preprint on bioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
28.01.2026 18:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Led by Dottie Dothard we just posted a new preprint showing that socially transferred pain in mice doesn’t just alter neural circuits — it also remodels the gut microbiome of the “bystander” animal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
16.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
National Sea Urchin Resource Center (NSURC) at UC San Diego – Accelerating sea urchin genetics for biomedical discovery
🧪 New resource alert!
The National Sea Urchin Resource Center (NSURC) is now live at UC San Diego 🦔🌊
✔️ Reliable animal supply
✔️ Transgenic lines & tools
✔️ Colony startup support
Powering reproducible biomedical & environmental research with one of our closest invertebrate relatives.
nsurc.ucsd.edu
23.12.2025 00:17 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Clinical translation of microbiome research - Nature Medicine
This Review summarizes recent and compelling examples of microbiome-based interventions that are ripe for clinical adoption while also discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the field.
@gilbertjacka.bsky.social was kind enough to invite me, and many others in the field, to contribute to a perspective article on "Clinical translation in microbiome research" in @natmed.nature.com
The conclusion? We're making breakneck progress, compared to other fields!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
19.12.2025 00:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
His science exquisitely uncovered profound facets across biology’s subdisciplines. Most importantly, he has gifted a new generation of scientists a profound sense of possibility and mandate: to look beyond the individual organism and understand the world as it truly is.
15.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
THOMAS BOSCH's work and mentorship are powerful invitations to young minds to embrace the biggest questions at the very roots of life and to make a positive impact on humanity. Thank you Prof. Bosch, recipient of the annual and inaugural MICROBIOME MEDAL from @psumbiome.bsky.social
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15.12.2025 20:46 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
we are multitudes, these bugs are all over you, inside of you, crawling about, digesting bits of you, breeding, #bugs are cool
03.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Can A Microbe Conservation Movement Take Off?
Microbes make up about 99% of all species, but they’re not part of any global conservation plans. One group is trying to change that.
Deeply care about #conservation?
Then listen to @gilbertjacka.bsky.social from @scrippsocean.bsky.social discuss the importance of microbial conservation as the foundation for all other conservation (including us macrobes).
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mic...
02.12.2025 16:35 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Sure there is. We are just not the ones collecting it.
20.11.2025 23:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UC San Diego and UC System Rank Among World’s Top Institutions for Most Influential Researchers
UC San Diego has once again been recognized among the top institutions in the world on the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by Clarivate. UC San Diego tied for 18th in the world this year w...
🔬 @ucsandiego.bsky.social scholars are crushing it on the global stage! 💥 50 trailblazing scientists were named to @clarivate.com's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list.
Shoutout to our Scripps stars:
🦠 @gilbertjacka.bsky.social, Microbiology
🌎 Shang-Ping Xie, Geosciences
18.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
ha! But remember, we collect the poop, not the urine - poop is a treasure trove!
20.11.2025 07:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
"Elinne is only 40% of her genome away from being fungus." -Jack Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
29.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Paraphrasing Tom Curtis “ if the last whale dies in the ocean, it will be a tragedy, but if the last ammonia oxidizing bacterium dies in our waste water treatment plants, it will be the end of humanity”
17.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
17.10.2025 05:53 — 👍 93 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 2
Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.
Microbes sustain all ecosystems yet they’re nearly absent from conservation frameworks.
The @IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group aims to change that.
Honored to co-chair this global effort.
Great @nytimes piece by Carl Zimmer:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/s...
17.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 34 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 1
Happy to announce that guitarist and legend - The Edge - is working with us to support soil regeneration through Oath Inc. www.rte.ie/news/busines...
12.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by BBC News Brasil
Em menos de 5 segundos no chão, tá limpo! Certo? 🤔🍓🚫
Did a fun thing with the BBC - and it got syndicated to Brazil with the world service youtube.com/shorts/zPn0P...
12.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Postdoctoral researcher in bonobo gut and vaginal microbiomes 🐵🦠 | microbiome stability & transmission | University of Antwerp & Zoo Antwerp
Biologist, PhD, loves microscopy, microbiome research & microbiome support.
Manages an autoimmune disease. Focus since 2013: wild fermented food and microbiome. https://www.wildefermente.de/
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The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology, aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth's eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.
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Freelance science journalist, DPhil in developmental biology. I write about biology & biomedicine for @NewScientist @Nature @NatureMedicine @bmj_latest & more.
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Research scientist interested in mosquitoes, infectious disease, nanopore seq and metagenomics. Views are my own.
Plant Pathologist (MSc.) | Expertise in Plant Pathology, Forest Pathology, Microbial Biodiversity and Plant/Soil Beneficial Microbes | Research Assistant at Vali Asr Uni. of Rafsanjan
Former Evolutionary Biology Professor - Now Science Friday's Stewardship Manager because sharing science with the broadest audience possible is a critically important public good.
Research program focused on the microbiological mechanisms underlying feed efficiency, enteric emissions, and nutrition in beef cattle. Posts are my own.
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Bioinformatics, protein modeling, cryoEM, drug screening, function prediction. Daisuke Kihara, professor of Biol/CS, Purdue U. https://kiharalab.org/ YouTube: http://alturl.com/gxvah
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