Advances, challenges and frontiers for omics in subterranean ecosystems Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Life in subterranean ecosystems is extraordinary yet largely hidden. This Review explores how omics technologies shed light on biodiversity, evolutionary patterns and...

Our cool @natrevbiodiv.nature.com article led by Pau Balart-García and Mattia Saccò now out on how #omics technologies can help to better understand, protect, and harness subterranen biodiversity.
Fauna AND microbes included! 🦇🪱🦐🦠👍

Microbiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the globe, do not miss this next splendid opportunity for career building and networking! 🦠🧑‍🔬🧑‍🎓💯🇵🇹

Our PhD student #SulariAnthony most lively discussing 🔥 results from the @crc1357.bsky.social Soil Microplastics Observatory #SMO at the #VAAM2026 conference.
Thanks to @vaam-microbes.bsky.social and Berlin colleagues for a great conference! 👌🚀

Breeding effects on the root-associated microbiome of Zea mays L. are linked to plant-induced variation in soil water potentials Abstract. Modern crop varieties may exert reduced influence on their microbiome compared to their progenitors, as plant-microbe interactions were not targe

🤩 Now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Comms!

#NicolasTyborski and our wonderful #Rhizotraits team unravel how old landraces and modern varieties of maize distinctly modulate their #rhizosphere #microbiomes under drought via soil water potentials!
🌽🥵🦠
Thanks to #BayCEER #Rhizo4Bio #bmftr_bund

Most inspiring spring meeting of our #BMFTR @bonares.bsky.social funded #Rhizotraits project in Raitenhaslach Monastery of @tum.de ⛪️ Thanks to all colleagues of @bayceer.bsky.social, #LfL … for fruitful discussions 🌽👍🏼

🧬 New at Keylab Genomics & Bioinformatics: 🧬

The latest-generation MiSeq-i100 NGS device (Illumina) is now available at the Uni Bayreuth for environmental, biodiversity, and microplastics research.

#NGS #Genomics

www.genomics.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2026...

@dfg.de
@unibayreuth.bsky.social

🚀 VAAM Annual Conference 2026, Berlin, 23–25 March

Don’t miss out — register now & meet the microbiology community for talks, poster sessions, Research and PhD Awards, and special events for Young Scientists.

Connect, learn, and exchange ideas!

👉 Join us & register here: t1p.de/b2vf8

#VAAM2026

On the nature of the earliest known lifeforms Microfossils reported from Archaean BIFs most likely were liposome-like protocells, which had evolved intracellular mechanisms for energy conservation but not for regulating cell morphology and replic...

♨️ Final version now published! 🥳

Explore our provocative new proposal on how to interpret the morphologies of archaean microfossils! 🌋🦠

Thanks to former colleague #DheerajKanaparthi for pulling this all the way through and to @elife.bsky.social for the like! 👍

Students are enthusiastic about the Unsity of Bayreuth University of Bayreuth: Our liveable campus university offers innovative, interdisciplinary degree programmes and good career opportunities.

Students are enthusiastic about the Unsity of Bayreuth
#StudyCheck #unibayreuth #Ranking #UBT #Spitzenbewertung #UniversityRanking
www.uni-bayreuth.de/press-re...

😄 Welcome, Duncan!
Will we see you at VAAM in Berlin in March?

🥳 ...and again, splendid national and international rankings for ecology, environmental and earth sciences @unibayreuth.bsky.social.
Well done, all colleagues @bayceer.bsky.social 👍🌍

📢 We are down to the FINAL WEEK of the FEMS survey.

If you have not shared your views on emerging science, career development, and community support, now is the time! It is quick—only about 12 minutes.

The survey closes on Tuesday 11 November: buff.ly/ZghfWnM

Happy Birthday, Uni Bayreuth! Die Universität Bayreuth feierte mit 500 Gästen im Markgräflichen Opernhaus ihren 50. Geburtstag. 

What a wonderful celebration of our University turning 50 this year. Half a century and going stronger than ever! And ecosystem sciences were prominent in research and teaching right from the start. 👏🥳
@unibayreuth.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social

ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/festakt-50-j...

Bayreuth Researchers Call for Holistic Ecosystem Assessment Plants adapt the growth of their roots and shoots differently in response to environmental changes. This is the outcome of a study involving the Ecological-Botanical Garden (ÖBG) at the University of Bayreuth. The researchers challenge previous assessments of climate change impacts on plants, which often extrapolate from aboveground to belowground plant structures. Their findings have been published in the journal Plant & Soil.

Bayreuth Researchers Call for Holistic Ecosystem Assessment
www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press...
#Plants #ÖBG #ClimateChange #UniBayreuth #Pflanzen

🌿 Great energy at the 17th BayCEER Workshop 2025! 🌿

A day of sharing research, ideas, and inspiration across ecology and environmental sciences.

www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/ws2025/

#BayCEER #Workshop #Ecology

@unibayreuth.bsky.social
@luederslab.bsky.social

Very thankful to receive the 2025 Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology.

And even more thrilled by all the great research presented here at the 7th Central European Forum for Microbiology in Siófok, HU.

mmt.org.hu/en/current-s...

#CEFORM2025 #MMT

Thanks so much for contributing being a wonderful mentor 💪👩‍🏫

And of course thanks to @femsmicro.org, @cariannebuur.bsky.social and of course our great local host Prof. Vaso Taleski for making this all happen! 👏

Huge thanks to co-director Joana Falcao Salles and mentors @roeyangel.bsky.social, @gabrieleberg.bsky.social, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Costa, Max Häggblom, @matehg.bsky.social, @kolb2018.bsky.social, @ashley17061.bsky.social, András Táncsics and ofc. Antonio Ventosa for contributing! 🤩

The @femsmicro.org SSPD 2025 is going strong! 💪

An amazing crowd of postdocs and mentors from all over the globe has gathered for highly inspiring and illuminating discussions of microbiology and career development on the shores of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid - City of Light. 🦠🌞🇲🇰

t1p.de/v7sxs

Microfossils: Mimicking early life-forms in the lab Studying the growth of bacteria without cell walls in an artificial environment can shed new light on the proliferation of primitive life-forms billions of years ago.

Nice surprise after summer break: elaborate insights in @elife.bsky.social on our upcoming microfossils article.
Thanks to Lubbers & Claessen of @unileiden.bsky.social for taking note!

Final accepted version of our reviewed preprint will be out shortly! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

And of course huge thanks to @deniseakob.bsky.social, @environmicrobio.bsky.social and @thuls.bsky.social for hosting a most wonderful conference!
#StandUpForScience!

Cheers go out to Brielle Hrymoc of Casey Hubert's Lab @ucalgary.bsky.social and Ania Szlembarska of Brett Poulin's Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social for two well-deserved poster prizes for ECRs at the 2025 AEM GRC Conference.

Thanks to #FEMSMicrobiolEcol @femsjournals.bsky.social for sponsoring!

📢 Join the 4th D-A-CH Geobiology Young Scientists Symposium in Vienna, 18 to 19/09. Open to PhD students, postdocs, and undergrads working between bio- and geo-sciences. No participation fees! Cool invited talk by
@microecolotta.bsky.social

More info: ecology.univie.ac.at/news/dach-ge...

🌱💧 Kicking off UBT's 50-year journey of “Searching for Traces”, with the one and only BayCEER watering can!

This iconic symbol of ecological research kicks off a series honoring 50 years of UBT’s people and milestones.

www.uni-bayreuth.de/50years/sear...
@unibayreuth.bsky.social

🥳 Huge congrats to @jpausch.bsky.social and #ClaraMartinez-Pérez of @bayceer.bsky.social for attracting 2 of 3 research prizes awarded by @unibayreuth.bsky.social during this year's #UNIKAT summer fest.

#Soil #Water #ClimateChange

This excellent thematic issue connected to the #2023ISEBxISSM conference in Banff is finally out! ♨️
Thanks to our co-guest editors @microecolotta.bsky.social and #MariaDittrich for their great work. 👏

Found no Easter Eggs but removed plenty of weeds!
Getting our ✨ SMO ✨ Soil Microplastics Observatory ready for its first exciting full year of sampling. How will the plastic affect our strawberries and soil?
Thanks to helpers in @crc1357.bsky.social, @bayceer.bsky.social, #ÖBG and Happy Easter! 🥚🐇

#FEMS_SSPD_2025
Speakers and mentors include @gabrieleberg.bsky.social, @matehg.bsky.social, @pbaldrian.bsky.social, @roeyangel.bsky.social, @kolb2018.bsky.social and many others!
👨‍🎓😍

#FEMS_SSPD_2025
Come and join Joana, myself and our suite of distinguished guest speakers in Ohrid for over a week of vibrant lectures and team work, an exciting scientific agenda, and targeted mentoring and career development.
👏 @femsmicro.bsky.social