Great opportunity!

Great final session of the #BMD2025 in #Leiden Universiteit Leiden today! 😎 With our own @mmzdouc.bsky.social presenting #FERMO, including a flashback to his talk 3 years ago in Utrecht at the #BMD2022, and a fantastic keynote by Jonathan Martin on the #metabolomics of #exposomics!

Great to see it out! Congrats @mmzdouc.bsky.social !

Absolutely! I will start in January, so I’ll reach out to you once I move!

Thanks so much! Looking forward to meeting you in person!

Looking forward to meeting you!

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🎉 I'm thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor starting January 2026!

I’ll be recruiting PhD students, lab technicians, and postdocs—so if you're interested in host-microbe interactions, I’d love to hear from you!

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A single python package for calculation of quality metrics like DockQ, LDDT, RMSD, & others

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Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.

ICYMI: New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01164-zIn this Review, Kaltenpoth et al. examine the evolution and function of beneficial symbioses between bacteria and their insect hosts, focusing on their effects on the host fitness and the microbial factors that play a role in the evolution of these symbiotic associations.

New online! Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects

AlphaFold - A practical guide AlphaFold - A practical guide

1/10 A 🧵of resources to learn about AlphaFold (2 and 3).

IMO, the best way to get started with AF2 is "AlphaFold. A practical guide" from the EMBL-EBI. It explains how AF2 works in plain English, without code, and covers key metrics like pLDDT/PAE/etc.

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

If you have single cell data with metadata, this approach could be very helpful for you… check it out!

Very useful!

We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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3). The adhesin binding domains are conserved throughout the Lactobacillales, and the island also encodes a secretion system widely conserved among commensal and pathogenic bacteria.

2) L. plantarum establishes stably within its niche through host-specific adhesins encoded by genes carried on a colonization island.

1) In this work, we use live imaging of individual symbiotic bacterial cells colonizing the gut of living Drosophila melanogaster to show that Lactiplantibacillus plantarum specifically recognizes the fruit fly foregut as a distinct physical niche.

A conserved bacterial genetic basis for commensal-host specificity Animals selectively acquire specific symbiotic gut bacteria from their environments that aid host fitness. To colonize, a symbiont must locate its niche and sustain growth within the gut. Adhesins are...

Finally, our paper, "A Conserved Bacterial Genetic Basis for Commensal-Host Specificity," has been officially published in Science.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...