🦠 Fusobacterium nucleatum, an oral #bacterium, may play a key role in both mouth and colorectal cancers by driving DNA damage, immune evasion, and metastasis. This review in #FEMSMicrobes breaks down how microbes hijack the #tumor microenvironment. 👇
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How do microbes survive the most extreme environments on Earth and what does that tell us about life beyond our planet? #FEMSMicrobes is welcoming papers on the microbiology of extreme environments and their links to astrobiology. 🦠 🌌 Submit before 31st December 2025: buff.ly/frV0k6l

Haemolysin, a pore-forming #toxin, does more than punch holes into host cells 💀. @McgarryNaoise et al. show that haemolysin is a virulence factor that helps ExPEC E. coli CFT073 🦠 resist killing by human serum. #FEMSMicrobes buff.ly/89LEriT

🦠 #FEMSMicrobes showcases impactful, open-access microbiology from early career scientists. Here are its most-read papers from the first half of 2025 ; from avian flu’s impact on chicken microbiota to Antarctic bacteria with antimicrobial potential: buff.ly/JcYN52W

🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on?
#FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

Want a front-row seat to the future of microbiology? #FEMSMicrobes is looking for a new Co-Editor-in-Chief! Join our editorial team to shape the journal’s direction, champion early career researchers, & expand your own scientific network.

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Secure your spot for the #FEMSMicrobes Webinar today 🚨. You’ll deep dive into emerging breakthroughs in the field, from antimicrobial discovery to protein profiling to gut fungi imaging. Big insights for health, industry, and environment. 🦠

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Malaria, crystals and alpacas - with proteins to the parasite’s surface The Malaria causing parasite interacts and enters human red blood cells. Malaria surface proteins help the parasite with this process.

On #WorldMalariaDay, we're sharing science at the frontlines of the fight against the disease. This #FEMSmicroBlog summarizes research uncovering how parasite proteins Pf12 & Pf41 interact, and how alpaca nanobodies might help.
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Join us for the next #FEMSMicrobes Webinar on Microbial Dark Matter on 7 May (16:00 CEST).

Explore uncharted territories, including novel sources of antimicrobial compounds, complex protein functions in pathogenic bacteria, and advanced imaging techniques.

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🧠👁️ Age matters in ocular toxoplasmosis!
This #review from Alejandra de-la-Torre et al. dives into how #aging and immune decline worsen outcomes in eye infections caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Read more on how age affects the disease course in OT: buff.ly/Vejpg7f #FEMSMicrobes

Congratulations to our winners of the 2024 #FEMSMicrobes Article Award!

Agar has competition 🧫. In this latest volume of #FEMSMicrobes, Vaid et al. report silica #hydrogels as carbon-free, tunable solid media alternartive to agar - suitable for diverse microbial studies with no nutrient interference and no supply issues. 🔬✨
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FEMS Microbes Thematic Issue: Versatile Lifestyles of Enterococci as Commensals and Pathogens This thematic issue comprehensively examines various aspects of enterococci biology, from genetics and metabolism to antimicrobial resistance and biotechnological applications.

Versatile Lifestyles of Enterococci as Commensals and Pathogens, from #FEMSMicrobes

Discover enterococci biology, from genetics and metabolism to antimicrobial resistance and biotechnological applications. #MicroSky

Editors: Breck Duerkop, Ana Freitas, and Julia Willett

🧒➡️👵 Contact with young children is the top risk factor for pneumococcal colonization in older adults. 💉 PCV #vaccines can help protect vulnerable groups. Work from Wyllie AL et al. #FEMSMicrobes
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Oxygen-free, low redox environments in the herbivorous gut is the natural habitat of anaerobic gut fungi (AGF). 🌱 @E. England et al. show some AGF can grow even at +50 mV.! 🚀 Read more at #FEMSMicrobes. academic.oup.com/femsmicrobes/article/doi...

Thematic Issue: Wastewater and Viruses This cutting-edge collection of articles explores the different facets of public health significant viruses, including but not limited to SARS-CoV-2, covering a

Wastewater and Viruses, from #FEMSMicrobes

This cutting-edge collection of articles explores the different facets of public health significant viruses:

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Thematic Issue: Modulating the Environment with Microbes Microbes being highly diverse and ubiquitous affects humans and the environment. Microorganisms are known to play a vital role in breaking down contaminants and

Modulating the Environment with Microbes, from #FEMSMicrobes

The extraordinary potential of microbes can be used to achieve the majority of the seventeen sustainable development goals from the #UnitedNations #SDGs

Community context influences the conjugation efficiency of Escherichia coli Abstract. In urinary tract infections, different bacteria can live in a polymicrobial community consisting of different species. It is unknown how communit

Community context influences the conjugation efficiency of Escherichia coli

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Fungal endophytes from saline-adapted shrubs induce salinity stress tolerance in tomato seedlings Abstract. To meet the food and feed demands of the growing population, global food production needs to double by 2050. Climate change-induced challenges to

Fungal endophytes from saline-adapted shrubs induce salinity stress tolerance in tomato seedlings

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