Lukas Malfertheiner

Haha, fun anecdote - when I had my initial PhD interview the paper was "coming out in the next months" ;)
Great to see that it´s now actually published!

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...

MicrobeAtlas is now published in Cell. 🌐🌎🦠

Explore the paper and resource to see what large-scale microbiome data reveal about global ecological patterns:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

For a concrete application, see our recent work on “Community conservatism”:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really cool study and an impressive dataset!

Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...

Community conservatism is widespread across microbial phyla and environments - Nature Ecology & Evolution This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...

In case you missed our recent study out in @natecoevo.nature.com - now with open access PDFs:

Related microbes globally share similar ecological communities, extending classical ecological patterns to the microbial realm 🦠🌎

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research Briefing: rdcu.be/e0K14

Thanks a lot for the kind words Sebastian!

Closely related microbes tend to live in similar communities across Earth’s environments.
We call this pattern community conservatism - extending established ecological patterns to the microbial world.
🧬🌍 #MicrobialEcology #Evolution

Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Habitat filtering more than microbiota origin controls microbiome transplant outcomes in soil Abstract. Human activities cause a global loss of soil microbiome diversity and functionality. One way to reverse this trend is through microbiota transpla

Habitat filtering more than microbiota origin controls microbiome transplant outcomes in soil

#ISMEJournal by Senka Causevic et al from Jan Roelof van der Meer at @dmf-unil.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

🌍 Discover the microbial world!
Our new preprint introduces MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org), a tool and web-interface to map and visualize global microbial diversity. Explore millions of microbiomes - open, interactive, and designed for discovery.

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Did you know that some phages can switch genetic codes during infection via the use of suppressor tRNAs? 🧬
One year ago we identified a ribozyme group which appears to be crucial for this process!
Read the original article: rdcu.be/dANOT
Or the press release: shorturl.at/7UPFX

@kienbeck.bsky.social

I am still too new here to have 20 posts, but the rest applies and I would love to get added! 🦠

Would also love to be included 🦠

New preprint 🦠
We introduce a new global microbial trend that parallels established ecological concepts in animals/plants. Closely related taxa occur in similar communities- traceable for billions of years in all phyla and environments.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...

#bioinformatics #microbiology #ecology

Hey there, I would also like to be included!

Would also love to be added! 🦠