Herzlich Willkommen!
Jean-Baptiste Raina ist neuer Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie in Bremen. Der Ökologe erforscht mit innovativen Methoden, wie Mikroorganismen auf kleinstem Raum zusammenarbeiten.
Und wir freuen uns sehr auf die Zusammenarbeit! 😊 🧬🔬
(© Hakima Lakhal)

Celebrate #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience🎉
This is to all the inspiring women driving knowledge & equality in science!
Meet @bruzos.bsky.social, Laura & Nahja & learn about their journey & thoughts on #womeninscience
@maxplanck.de #WomenInSTEM #MinervaFastTrack #MinervaFellows #MaxPlanck

Tiefseebergbau: Wie schützen wir den Meeresboden? Der Meeresboden birgt enorme Reserven an Mangan, Kobalt, Nickel und anderen Mineralien. Bislang gibt es keinen internationalen Konsens, ob und wie deren Abbau erfolgen soll. Fest steht jedoch: Die ökologischen Folgen des Tiefseebergbaus sind gravierend, die Kosten hoch. Wie kann der Meeresboden als „Erbe der Menschheit“ geschützt und das internationale Seerecht überarbeitet werden?

#Tiefseebergbau: Wie schützen wir den Meeresboden? Bislang gibt es keinen internationalen Konsens, ob und wie die #Manganknollen der #Tiefsee abgebaut werden sollen. Fest steht jedoch: Die ökologischen Folgen sind gravierend, die Kosten hoch. www.mpg.de/25745503/tie...

Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!

Malene holding up her prize in front of her poster

I had a #proud_supervisor moment at this year's @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social IMPRS graduate school retreat.
Our masters student Malene Duus won the prize for best poster with her great work on the genetics of symbiont cell shapes during a lab rotation of just 5 weeks! 🎉

🚨 We’re #hiring! 🚨 Want to work on marine transmissible cancers at @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social in Bremen? Join us!

📈 2-year bioinformatics Postdoc: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/a...
🎓 3-year PhD student: career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/f...

More info: albruzos.github.io/join-us/

OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Dr. Alicia L. Bruzos (center), recipient of a Minerva Fast Track Fellowship, with MPG Vice President Dr. Asifa Akhtar (left) and Tobias Erb from the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology (right) at the award ceremony. (© David Ausserhofer / Max Planck Society)

Hooray, we are growing! 🎉👩‍🔬

We are happy & grateful to welcome #MinervaFastTrack Fellow Alicia L. Bruzos to study how #cancer spreads & forms #metastases in #marine #bivalves.🦪

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@bruzos.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
#MaxPlanck #PostDoc #WomeninSTEM #marinescience #Bremen

New visiting programs at OIST for experimentalists and domestic visitors! Application deadline: Sep 15, 2025.
www.oist.jp/visiting-pro...

How thoughtful experimental design can empower biologists in the omics era - Nature Communications Here, the authors discuss principles of experimental design that are relevant for all biology research, along with special considerations for projects using -omics approaches, highlighting common expe...

I am really excited to see this article on basic experimental design principles published. Definitely will be mandatory reading for incoming graduate students in my lab. Maggie Wagner who led this article did an amazing job with the illustrations of basic principles www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Methane-munching symbionts fuel sea spiders in the deep sea | PNAS Methane-munching symbionts fuel sea spiders in the deep sea

Greatly enjoyed learning all about sea spiders and their methane-oxidizing symbionts while writing this commentary for a paper by Bianca Dal Bó, Vic Orphan, Shana Goffredi et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
| PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's another week. Another episode of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. John McCutcheon of Arizona State University discusses fascinating symbioses between insects & bacteria that shed light on endosymbiosis: how eukaryotic cells originated. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord!

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🌍🧽 The Aquatic Symbiosis Project, @utehentschel.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social are cranking out high-quality genome assemblies at record speed—setting the stage to answer remarkable questions about marine symbioses. 🌊🧬
👉 Blog: bit.ly/3INcrOA
📸 2 Elephant ear sponge: B. Mueller

Excited to share our first paper on the symbiosis between chlamydiae and social amoebae showing in detail the adaptations of endosymbionts to the social life style of their host! 🎉

The scope of #fungi #biodiversity is only beginning to be fathomed.

Every day almost ten new species are described. 🍄🤯

David Hibbett László Nagy and Henrik Nilsson introduce the fungal tree of life. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Over 50 researchers from over 25 countries have made this possible. Almost 10 years of work. I have 23,062 emails on this project.
It is wonderful to see this published and I hope you enjoy it.
There’s a lot on genome evolution in ants and much much more.

We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.

Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:

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