If I wouldn’t love #Microbiology already, I would now after listening to Mark O. Martin and his podcast #MattersMicrobial ❤️

Early Career microbial ecologists are invited to apply for financial support to further develop their academic knowledge and skills at hosting Institutions. 🔗 isme-microbes.org/isme-supportin… #microbialecologist #microbiology #ecology #microbialecology

Combining research and teaching

Our @Prospectomics Summer School at Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social is a-go at the The Probst Lab! During this week, our participants will be learning more about the benefits of Oxford Nanopore long reads in assembling environmental metagenomes - even with very low DNA inputs!

Description of Asgardarchaeum abyssi gen. nov. spec. nov., a novel spe... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Attending my first international conference this week #MBoA #EMBO. Very excited! Come find me at poster 12, this week for all your tiny wiggling Archaea needs.

Final and open access version now available online here. doi.org/10.1016/j.syap… More efforts to resolve (Asgard) archaeal phylogeny (& taxonomy) will follow! #archaea #taxonomy #asgard

👋 We're hiring! We're looking for a PhD student to work on the phylogeny and evolution of Archaea. Please get in touch and/or apply directly here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctora…

Our latest: Using de novo protein structure prediction and sensitive sequence searches we found many new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea, suggesting the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes was more complex than previously assumed. Stephan Köstlbacher biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to learn that our recent paper entitled "RNA-guided RNA silencing by an Asgard archaeal Argonaute" (nature.com/articles/s4146…) was highlighted by the Nature Comm editors to be among the best papers in Microbiology (and infectious diseases)! nature.com/collections/je…

What a great opportunity to work with Christian Kost (permanently!!!!!!) Apply!

Methanogenesis outside the Euryarchaeota experimentally demonstrated by three cultivation-driven studies (two from my lab)! A long🧵.🐻with me tinyurl.com/4v4fkda6 tinyurl.com/yr4p7js6 tinyurl.com/mtsrj6b9

🚨 Reminder! 🚨 Don't miss #MiCom204, our PhD conference! Registration closes July 31, 2024. Share your research, connect with fellow PhDs, and gain feedback. 👉 Register here: micom.uni-jena.de/44/registration #MiCom204 #PhDConference #Research #AcademicCommunity #DeadlineReminder

After 5 years of work by a group across the world our paper describing the parasitic lifestyle of Ca. Nha. antarcticus is finally out today in Nature Communications! Many thanks to all of the co-authors especially my amazing co-first author Yan Liao! nature.com/articles/s4146…

If you are a microbiologist, go treat yourself for once and listen to Mark’s podcast (apple podcast, spotify, and whatever Androids are using) or watch it on youtube. I just listened to the last episode while walking my dog today :)

Still counts… right?

Want to do a PhD focusing on how complex eukaryotic genomes acquire new genes? Eager to explore how eukaryotic microbes evolve? Come work with us at Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR Wageningen U&R! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd… Share and repost, and contact me if you want to know more!

ERC-PhD Opportunity Alert! Please Share! Join the Dept. of Environmental Microbiology Uni Stuttgart for a PhD position exploring surfactants' impact on microbial glyphosate degradation. Funded by European Research Council (ERC). Apply here: bit.ly/46NVyLO

Uni Oldenburg is starting a genomics facility, and we are looking for a bioinformatician. uol.de/stellen?stelle… The position is initially for 3 years, but there are chances of permanency after the 3 years. Please share!

To learn about the latest views, disputes and future research directions on the origin of the eukaryotic cell, read our review in nature here: nature.com/articles/s4158… Non-paywalled version here: rdcu.be/dTFrR