In memorium Ruth Nielsen (1944-2024). Danish algae research suddenly lost a big voice and good colleague, author of 'Danmarks Havalger', and the recent updated version of the Danish work in English: 'Seaweeds of Denmark' (gad.dk/seaweeds-of-de…)

Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist.

Intense & exciting to have my essay published in The New York Times exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance

Mapping fungi w/family SPUN New York Times Opinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf
(photo 2011, Kenya)

It's time to write a minireview! Sharing a new idea? Synthesize data and suggest new research directions? You wrote a fantastic intro to your thesis? All great topics for a minireview. Check out my editorial:
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ASM JBacteriology Eds

NEW pub in Science Magazine: Yeast species are metabolically diverse, from narrow (specialists) to broad (generalists)

#Genomes 🧬 and phenotypes🧫 of 1154 #yeast reveals gene content shapes metabolism & suggests no trade-off in growth rate between specialists & generalists

Now available: Bacillus subtilis gummies with 3 billion CFU!

amazon.de/NATURE-Bacillu…

#moty #subtilis

Want a Friday afternoon delve down a rabbit hole? Check out @hellomicrobe Lauren Cowley and my new paper Genome-wide annotation of transcript boundaries using bacterial Rend-seq datasets microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… B. subtilis, E. coli and S. aureus genomes available

I am pleased to share a series of novel hypotheses concerning chemically mediated plant-plant interactions science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Bridging ecological assembly process and community stability upon bacterial invasions

-in The ISME Journal from Joana Falcao Salles

academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

The plant immune system: From discovery to deployment: Cell

a must read piece by ⁦Jonathan D G Jones⁩ ⁦Brian Staskawicz⁩ & Jeff Dangl cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: The seminar will take place on May 9, 2024, at 15:00.

Free registration at buytickets.at/slovenianmicro…

Mycetocola to the rescue

Nature Reviews Microbiology Research Highlight by Agustina Taglia on the work work from Maria Mittag (at Universität Jena) with Christian Hertweck Hertweck Lab, Hans-Dieter Arndt and others

nature.com/articles/s4157…

Phage biology: The ins and outs of prophages in bacterial populations

Current Biology Dispatch by Darian Doakes and Britt Koskella on the publication from Carolin Wendling 

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#SynCom
“The strains exhibited positive and negative interactions when evaluated in pairs, but their higher-order assembly results in a complex colony architecture, which is considered a proxy of biofilm formation”👇🏼 bioRxiv from jorge rocha

Please read about a fitness trade-off between acid tolerance and motility in E. coli. Check your Keio-Mutants. doi.org/10.1128/spectr…. Great work by Kilian Schumacher and thanks to @Sfb1371 and DFG public | @[email protected] for funding.

Excited to share a new study by former lab members Teng Wang & Andrea Weiss, now published in PNASNews (@DukeUBME, Duke Center for Quantitative Biodesign). A thread on the core concepts of their paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

As a reminder - Hack your Health is available tomorrow on Netflix. Myself and other colleagues are features discussing how understanding the microbiome can help us to better understand your health netflix.com/title/81436688