Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance Plant-microbiome interactions are crucial in maintaining plant health and productivity under stress; however, little is known about these interactions…

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Microbiome in drought resistance! 🦠🌱

Drought-induced plant microbiome and metabolic enrichments improve drought resistance

#MicroSky

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded the @ec.europa.eu MSCA Postdoc Fellowship! Excited to work at the @algaeFamLAB with @alexdubini & the rest of the Fam to break new ground in algal #symbiosis research for sustainable solutions 🌱🔬🧬 Huge thanks to everyone who supported me on this journey!! 💚✨

"The Twenty-Year Story of CRISPR Unfolded across Twelve Cities in Nine Countries"

Source: The Heroes of CRISPR by Eric S. Lander
 🔗www.broadinstitute.org/files/news/pdfs/PIIS0092...

So glad to see this work led by the fantastic
@freddybunbury.bsky.social published in @pnas.org!

#Cyanobacteria, and #Chloroflexota from hot springs ♨️ teaming up to chase the light!☀️

Hey folks, microbial evolution (and I interpret this super broadly- bacteria, archaea, viruses, theory, Alife, field, lab, biophys, etc) now has a feed thanks to @atinygreencell.bsky.social. I hope this will be my ye olde Science Twitter v2. Come join us! 🧪

#MEvoSky

Link: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities Many microorganisms are refractory to laboratory cultivation. One possible explanation, known as the great plate count anomaly, is metabolic dependencies among community members. However, systematic s...

New paper from my group and the group of
@kiranrpatil.bsky.social:

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities

By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Cómo se comunican las bacterias - Mujeres con ciencia Bonnie Lynn Bassler. Biología molecular. Bioquímica. Bacterias. Percepción de quórum. Regulación de la expresión génica. Lenguaje químico

#HaceOchoAños Cómo se comunican las bacterias
Una conferencia de la Dra. Bonnie Lynn Bassler 

Modes and mechanisms for the inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in pathogenic protists Pathogenic protists are responsible for many diseases that significantly impact human and animal health across the globe. Almost all protists possess mitochondria or mitochondrion-related organelles, ...

Modes and mechanisms for the inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in pathogenic protists #PLOSPathogens @plos.org
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Gracias @cordobaciencia.bsky.social por compartir nuestro trabajo y ayudarnos a acercar nuestra investigación a tod@s 🔬🌍🙏🏻

Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein home... Screening 100 million random genes, which lack homology to natural sequences, for their ability to rescue growth arrest of Escherichia coli cells caused by the toxin MazF, the authors find ~2,000 hi...

Fascinating paper on making new genes from random sequences!

Idan Frumkin & Michael Laub. Selection of a de novo gene that can promote survival of Escherichia coli by modulating protein homeostasis pathways.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Microsky #Genetics #Evolution #Microbiology

Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...

Openly available illustrations as tools to describe eukaryotic microbial diversity

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Since this is the new 💙 place, I’ll post it here too:

The vibrant cyan from cyanobacteria will just never cease to amaze me 💙

Am I alone?? (Certainly I am not!)

Coral endosymbiont growth is enhanced by metabolic interactions with bacteria - Nature Communication... A new study reveals that bacterial partners supply essential metabolites to the vital microalgal symbionts of corals, including metabolites that boost symbiont growth. This breakthrough increases our ...

Coral endosymbiont growth is enhanced by metabolic interactions with bacteria
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For all the people migrating here that work on #Symbiosis, I have now created a (hopefully) working feed for us. For now, simply tag posts with #SymbioSky and they will be collected there. No sign-up needed!

Cool, thank you!!

Had a fantastic time at the #ISE23 @cellinsidecell in Chicago last week. Got to hear so many exciting talks, a fantastic panel discussion and live jazz! AND finally met in person so many amazing scientists…
Really nicely organized meeting 💙