Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

Come work with me at the Department of Soil Biology in Hohenheim, Postdoc position for three years. I am looking for someone who will support my current line of research and help establish novel methods of molecular soil ecology in the lab. Thanks for sharing.
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The position offers a lot of freedom to test new ideas about how archaea and bacteria communicate & sense the extracellular environment.

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Thank you @tjorven-hinzke.bsky.social for leading this study

We evaluated quantification methods for #metaproteomics and found that area under the curve quantification (AUC) outperforms spectral counting. Importantly, using match between runs for AUC quantification results in lots of false detections and should not be used www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We have developed an automated tool for transductomics called TrIdent to detect DNA carried in virus-like particles in microbiomes. Quite amazing to see how much DNA carriage is happening in gut microbiomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I thought it was quite mind boggling to see that around 10% of the protein in a standard yeast based bread is actually yeast protein! Here our #metaproteomics analysis of microbial protein in fermented foods
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Congratulations to first authors Laura Winkler and Ayesha Awan

Thank you to lead authors Anna Garrell, @botanichole.bsky.social and Joel Swift and all the awesome collaborators that worked hard with us to make this happen @maggie-r-wagner.bsky.social @kschlaeppi.bsky.social , Richard Hahnke, Gabriel Castrillo, Ben Niu,

We just released a curated, fully genome sequence isolate collection from Maize roots (ZeaMiC). It is publicly available as individual strains and cost effective bundles from the amazing @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social culture collection
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We hope to expand it in the future

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

This is becoming a bit of a problem for Nature titles...

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Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities Spatial structure naturally emerges in microbial communities, shaping growth, interactions, and evolution, and revealing how microscale processes scale up

Most microbes don't live in shaking flasks; spatial structure shapes how microbes interact and evolve at every scale, as we discuss in our recent review @jeroenmeijer.bsky.social @simonvanvliet.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @bramvandijk.bsky.social and others
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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a motivated Research Scientist to join the laboratory of Dr @lizsayavedra.bsky.social in our Food, Microbiome and Health programme.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 22 March 2026
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If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you

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Diagram illustrating early genome erosion during the transition from a free-living Sodalis bacterium to two host-associated endosymbionts inside the long-tailed mealybug. Circular genomes show intact genes in blue and pseudogenes in red, highlighting increased pseudogene accumulation in symbiotic forms. Caption asks: “What are the downstream molecular consequences of early genome erosion?”

Happy to share a preprint—the last chapter of my dissertation with @mcsymbiont.bsky.social and Co—on what happens when bacterial endosymbionts accumulate huge numbers of pseudogenes during early genome reduction.

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Check out our new preprint using 30 SynComs covering a phylogenetic diversity gradient, we uncover many interesting strain and community features involved in seed to seedling bacterial transmission 🧫🌱
@emersys-irhs.bsky.social in the SUCSEED project @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

Thrilled to host @manuelkleiner.bsky.social for a week at @bengurionuniv.bsky.social for a MetaProteomics workshop!
No better start than a seminar on "Advanced Metaproteomic Approaches To Investigate Functional Host-Microbiota Interactions." 🧬

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

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The microbial keystone concept is a very cool topic in microbiome ecology. This review summarises mechanisms, prediction methods and implications, with "keystoneness" being highly context/time dependent + new methods approaches suggested. Very nice read!
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Subsurface Life on Earth as a Key to Unlock Extraterrestrial Mysteries This paper discusses current research on subsurface microbiology. Exploring Earth's deep and extreme subsurface environments provides critical insights into life's limits and adaptability. Subsurface...

🌏 Happy 🔭 New 🧪 Year 🦠 2026 ✨

If you feel like an easy read about subsurface microbiomes and astrobiology:

Here is an opinion I wrote with @emvidal.bsky.social @geobiomaggie.bsky.social @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Melody Lindsay

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As I browse around, I keep an eye out for (what I think) are surprising facts.

This 2021 paper estimated that the USA, China and the UK spend USD 2.5 billion on peer review, based on the contribution made by researchers.
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If you work on Dark Oxygen --> come to #AbSciCon2026 this year. 17-22 May, Madison

Join our session on ""Dark Oxygen" Production: where does it happen, how does it work, and what does it mean for astrobiology?"

Submit your abstract until January 14

More info here: agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon...

The Bezzle gives some good insights into how it is done
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Dear US researchers: break the outrage addiction. I survived the besieging of science. So can you As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm.

This column in a word: boss-up, y’all. It is not a warm and fuzzy hug, or an outrage sing-along. It’s a clear reflection of the present, a wake up call, and a preview of the future. We aren’t going to complain Trump away. It’s survival time. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature Biotechnology Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.

Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - @merenbey.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social go.nature.com/44P7nSm

#metaproteomics

Interested in learning how #metaproteomics workflows work and what you can use them for. I am part of a team giving a three day workshop on metaproteomics at Ben Gurion University in late January 2026. Details and registration here lifewp.bgu.ac.il/wp/psme/

Bacteriophages are normally classified as either virulent or temperate. Reality is, of course, more complicated!
Here we show many bacterial isolates contain non-temperate phages that can persist through restreaking.
Thanks to all co-authors for such a great collaboration!

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

We are recruiting a Lab Manager/Research Specialist
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Evaluation of statistical approaches for differential metaproteomics Metaproteomics characterizes and compares molecular phenotypes of organisms in communities by comprehensively analyzing their protein expression profiles using statistical methods. However, not all st...

Super excited to have this paper out. We developed a complex set of ground truth samples to test more than 110 statistical approaches for differential #metaproteomics
We can now give clear guidance on what tests perform well. Thank you Tjorven Hinzke and
@benoitkunath.bsky.social for the leadership