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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

🦠🐛 Thrilled to share that our project MicropBoost has received new funding from the BMFTR!
We’ll advance microbial formulations to improve Bt efficacy, evaluating their field performance and commercialisation potential at @mitjare.bsky.social’s lab
#Bt #Biocontrol #Agriculture #Insects #Pests

Thanks for the service post @mmzdouc.bsky.social :) and here is Mitja Zdouc presenting on natural product discovery. It was a pleasure to meet another Mitja

I am happy to see that this beautiful review about detecting rare organisms in metagenomics is now available: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... congrats Marios Valmas and Sotirios Vasileiadis for leading and doing the heavy lifting!

Interesting! Maybe it's the lack of the section microbial ecology too? Additionally, I am wondering about the web pages definition of "Best scientist" which is how they describe the section. In microbiology, Didier Raoult made it to the top.

You can now ✅ verify your #OpenCloning sequences using sequencing data 🧬 (Sanger or Nanopore). Just load your files 📂 and see where they align! 🎯

#OpenCloning is free & Open Source, and supports most cloning methods! 🔬🛠️

👉 Try it here: opencloning.org
🎞️ Demo video: youtu.be/n0hedzvpW88?...

The alkane 1-monooxigenase gene alkB of Pseudomonas sp. FF2 is upregulated during colonisation of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves Bacteria on leaf surfaces encounter highly variable access to nutrients and water. This oligotrophic environment is partly due to the presence of cuticular waxes that render the leaf surface hydrophob...

🦠 New preprint! 🌿 Our bioreporter shows heterogeneous alkB expression in Pseudomonas living on Arabidopsis leaves.
Plant cuticular alkanes may be more than just a barrier, they could also be fuel for bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position

See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...

Huge performance update in today’s dorado v0.9.1 release on Ampere 8.6/8.7 & Ada Lovelace 8.9 nvidia GPUs with up to 2x increase in throughput with hac calling and 3x sup! 🚀

Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix.

github.com/nanoporetech...

Interesting! How do endogenous surfactants differ from exogenous ones? Do they remain and the outer membrane or similar?

Hitching a Ride in the Phyllosphere: Surfactant Production of Pseudomonas spp. Causes Co-swarming of Pantoea eucalypti 299R - Microbial Ecology Here, we demonstrate the beneficial effect of surfactant-producing pseudomonads on Pantoea eucalypti 299R. We conducted a series of experiments in environments of increasing complexity. P. eucalypti 2...

Cool! We recently found that Pantoea can use swarming Pseudomonads to get to places. Maybe there is a more fundamental pattern here than just for PSA? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Differential Responses of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas Species to Multispecies Interactions in the Phyllosphere Leaf-associated bacterial populations of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas in two- and three-member synthetic communities on Arabidopsis thaliana display distinct spatial structures and population dy....

It’s finally out! The last paper from my PhD!

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In case you're wondering: FU and TU Berlin are not on the list of German universities who have just quit X on January 10, since they already left quite a while ago.

Differential Responses of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas Species to Multispecies Interactions in the Phyllosphere Leaf-associated bacterial populations of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas in two- and three-member synthetic communities on Arabidopsis thaliana display distinct spatial structures and population dy...

It has been a long way to get this published and I am very proud of it: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @rschlec.bsky.social last PhD thesis chapter about how additional species shape binary strain interactions in the phyllosphere at the population and µm resolution.

Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes

👉research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-dr...

Happy to offer 2 PhD positions on sponge-microbe interactions (deadline Feb 16th, 2024) that are funded within the CRC 1182 Origin and Function of Metaorganisms. The link is now live:
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.metaorganism-research.com/about/

Any guesses about how the decision ended? Spoiler alert - education, research, and culture will be more restrictive in the next years to come. But, *irony on*, the good news is, that parking will remain cheap in Berlin. *irony off* So much for forward facing politics.

#safebraincity

Cool, cool, why did I pay 10,000 euro for a flyorimeter again?

Ihr habt Verantwortung für unsere Jugend, ihr Menschen im Senat. Werdet ihr gerecht! Eine Kürzung unserer Mittel sorgt auch für die Kürzung der Chancen der Jugend und unseres Landes.

#safebraincity

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Berlin senat is about to decide upon cutting the next year's budget for universities and scientific institutes in Berlin. Currently they are aiming at a cut of about 8%. Our student numbers are rising and the graduates are dearly needed in education and science. #safebraincity

Damn I need to update from guppy so badly! Curse you lack of time!

Release v0.9.0 · nanoporetech/dorado [0.9.0] (16 Dec 2024) This major release of Dorado introduces several new features and enhancements. The polish command, currently experimental, is optimised for refining draft assemblies of human ...

🎄 New Dorado release (v0.9.0) – and it's big!

🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling

github.com/nanoporetech...

Vibrio are just E. coli in Comic Sans

Concurrent Sessions ​​​Concurrent Sessions​...​Explore Exciting Topics in Plant-Microbe Interaction Research at the 2025 IS-MPMI Congress​​The 2025 IS-MPMI Congress offers an extensive lineup of concurrent sessions showc...

The list of concurrent sessions for 2025 IS-MPMI is now available—so many exciting topics to explore!

I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬

www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

Keynote & Plenary Speakers ​Keynote and Plenary Speakers​...​We are excited to announce our keynote and plenary speakers for the 2025 IS-MPMI Congress.  Keynote Speakers​Maria Harrison, Cornell UniversityRotem Sorek, Weizmann I...

List of Keynote & Plenary speakers of 2025 IS-MPIMI Cologne. Looks quite interesting. I will be there! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...

I want to believe we have some control here, but if we we definitely don’t have it if we don’t use it.

Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Amazing actual human artist @franzanth.bsky.social has curated a blocklist and created an account to host it (and also follow packs of real artists and science communicators) at @contentscrapers.bsky.social.

They are extremely successful on Threads and Twitter because their content gets engagement, regardless of how spammy and fake it is.

And, or course, they immediately arrived on Bluesky.

BUT BLUESKY IS FIGHTING BACK.

Content Scrapers are accounts that steal images and videos and then repost them without giving credit. Often they are AI or illustrations labeled as real photographs. Often they say they are one thing but are actually another.