Our new study combines experiments with bioinformatics to examine amino acid metabolism in Pseudomonas strains co-isolated from pond and soil communities
by Simon Maréchal, Beni Heiniger, @swagatika.bsky.social, Shaohua Gu, Christian Ahrens
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Low levels of metabolic auxotrophy among environmental Pseudomonas isolates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.705048v1
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Inspired by Van Gogh's famous painting, "starry night", this digital artwork shows microbes swimming in the "night sky" just like stars above rolling hills and a town.
FISH images of microbial cells in host organs/ tissues sometimes remind me of Van Gogh's starry night. Am I the only one? No? Yes? Maybe?
Anyways, I just wanted to recreate it ;)
#microbiomesky #microbiome #art
Love this Ramya. So cool. Great work. :))
Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
I proudly present a new review paper of my group that just came out in Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social
with Leonardo Ona and Shryli Shreekar
Disentangling microbial interaction networks
Open access link:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
So happy to see this out. Many congratulations:)
Kudos to Ghada @kostchristian.bsky.social team and @metagenomez.bsky.social et al. for this mammoth effort! An important step forward towards understanding natural microbial communities and determinants of their fascinating diversity.
Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.29.635426v1
Huge congratulations to @ghada_myousif , @metagenomez and all the coauthors. 🎉 The project that truly shaped my PhD journey is finally on bioRxiv. Extremely grateful to be part of this.
The biophysical basis of bacterial colony growth
@naturephysics.bsky.social from Peter Yunker
with Brian Hammer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excited to share our opinion piece with the KC Huang Lab.
Check it out here:
Harnessing gut microbial communities to unravel microbiome functions
doi.org/10.1016/j.mi...
@typaslab.bsky.social
