Nice photo from #NIME2025 with the acknowledgement slide of Marijan Vidic from our group 🤗
Sergio goes through studying microbiome composition with healthy aging, particular genes correlating with health aging and whether we can simply supply nutrients to shift microbiome functioning
Also highlighting their Cell paper
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
#NIME2025
Sergio Andreu Sanchez @seandreu.bsky.social (DSM-Firmenich): Understanding the role of the human gut microbiota in aging and health
#HumanMicrobiome
#NIME2025
Bram is showing us simulations on toxin/resistance diversity => HGT is more than just gaining genes, which needs to be incorporated into computational models
aiming to recapitulate experiments
#NIME2025
Bram van Dijk @bramvandijk.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social): How mobile genes reshape the microbial arms race
#NIME2025
Thomas de Bruijn (WUR): Spot the differences: virulent vs temperate lifestyle leads to varying microdiversity in phage genomes
#bacteriophages #LyticvsLysisLifestyle
#NIME2025
Julia Engelmann (NIOZ): Predicting marine microbial interactions with causal network modeling
See their Env Microbiome paper on Antarctic microbial interactions
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#NIME2025
Bartje at Utrecht University for the autumn Netherlands Integrative Microbial Ecology Initiative #NIME2025 meeting
#BartjeAroundTheWorld
Marijan Višić (from our group 🤗) on experimental evolution of Pseudomonas nunensis In5 reveals a ClpX mutation associated with increased fungal inhibition
#LeidenBiology #MicrobiomeEcology
#NIME2025
Interesting to see Penicillium and Aspergillus isolates from 3-4km deep marine samples
#NIME2025
Raquel Ledo (Westerdijk @westerdijkinst.bsky.social): Exploring fungal diversity in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean
#MarineFungi
#NIME2025
Aileen is now working on characterizing diversity of beetle derived Fusarium isolates and their genome architectures - learning about evolution of host-symbiont co-evolution and gene losses, BGC diversity
#NIME2025
Fusarium genome is reduced (below 50Mb) compared with non host associate Fusarium
In spite of reduced genomes, still BGCs are present - some of the compounds might contribute to anti-predation protection of host
#NIME2025
> cool example of how a plant pathogen protects beetles as a symbiont
> symbiont fungus translocation during metamorphosis
> what is the benefit for the fungus? spreading by the beetles!
#NIME2025
Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social (VU) on Origin and evolution of a defensive symbiosis in tortoise beetle
Chelymorpha alternans beetle => today, focusing on pupation
see their @currentbiology.bsky.social paper (with @hassansalem.bsky.social)
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#NIME2025
Bas Teusink (VU) introducing Holomicrobiome initiative started in this year September in the Netherlands
plant & waste - feed & food - diagnostics & therapy
#NIME2025
Larissa Della Vedova (UU/WUR) on Optimization of a Mass Spectrometry and Computational Metabolomics Workflow to Unveil Microbial Dynamics in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections
#metabolomics for #microbialecology
NWO-XL project by @lizscurious.bsky.social and colleagues
#NIME2025
Juan highlights the beautiful diversity of Streptomyces isolates from potato microbiome and their impact of potato plant growth
#NIME2025
Juan Sánchez-Gil (UU, @utrechtpmi.bsky.social) on predictive microbiome models to strain-level mechanisms: Streptomyces as drivers of potato health
from #potatology to microbiome
See their @natmicrobiol.nature.com
@rlberendsen.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#NIME2025
On extreme hot summer and soil warming - which factors needed for survival (including spore related genes increased), also nitrogen cycle change
meta-genome/-transcriptome = NH4-ox archaea
See their #ISMEJournal papers
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
&
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
#NIME2025
Continuing on 16-member SynCom used for drought resistance in barley plants - DECRyPT #SPP2125 program
[published in Rigerte et al 2025 Frontiers paper]
#NIME2025
Anna Heintz Buschart @a-h-b.bsky.social (UvA) on Meta-omics: Fishing expedition or Voyage of the Beagle?
#MetaOMICs - omics integration with systems knowledge
today: drought and soil microbes e.g. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
and their work published by Gebauer et al (Frontiers)
#NIME2025
@annecmg.bsky.social opens this autumn Microbial Ecology symposium in Utrecht - connected/supported by @biosb.bsky.social
#NIME2025
🎶 C4DM is heading to #NIME2025!
Catch our researchers in Canberra, 24–27 June, presenting at the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference, hosted by ANU.
📝 Paper list below 👇 #MusicTech #NIME #C4DM
Diagram of loom development in 18thC
Joe Burgess at #nime2025 with a brief history of the loom (and a fascinating aside about pre-histories of textiles)
A slide titled ‘educational gaps in Gugak training’
Michaella Moon at #nime2025: notation and textbooks along can’t teach Gugak…
Presenter slide of a violinist and computer musician
Victor Shepardson on the living looper at #nime2025
A presenter next to a big screen displaying their slides
Lewis Wolstanholme on the creative potential of drum feedback at #nime2025
if you’re in Canberra this week (either for #nime2025 or otherwise) then my installation PANIC! is installed in the ANU School of Art & Design foyer gallery