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The intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii has the remarkable ability to infect several warm-blooded animals.
Based on long-term growth experiments, this new #FEMSmicroBlog explains how this parasite can adapt to this wide range of intermediate hosts.
#FascinatingMicrobes
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๐ฌ New funding opportunity in aquatic microbiology
The Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Initiative (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) is inviting proposals for high-risk, high-impact research on microbial symbiosis in marine and freshwater environments.
Find out more: buff.ly/vQowRoS
2026 Elections for the FEMS Board of Trustees
FEMS is seeking its next President and two Trustees to join the Board for the 2027โ2029 term. These pivotal leadership roles play a key part in shaping the future of microbiology across Europe and beyond.
Submit by 10 June, 23:59 CEST. buff.ly/btwi7u9
Expand your network. Spark collaborations & shape microbiologyโs future.
Join leading scientists, industry experts & funders at the FEMS Regional COLLAB 2026 during the รGMBT Annual Meeting in Vienna.
Register by 2 June and save with early bird rates buff.ly/Y4JUhzb
#ResearchCollaboration
FEMS is at ASM Microbe 2026 in Washington D.C. this week, and we are excited to meet everyone! @ASM.org
Drop by booth 1636 (to the left of the ASM Booth) and learn how we can connect you with the European microbiology community at FEMS MICRO 2027.
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Ignacio Belda (Profesor Titular, @ucm.es) destacarรก cรณmo las colaboraciones cientรญficas impulsan el avance del estudio del microbioma, a travรฉs de su experiencia en ecologรญa microbiana aplicada a la sostenibilidad industrial y agraria.
#Micropaths2026
No better way to wish a dear guest farewell than a Frankonian Bratworscht ๐ and a Radler ๐ป.
Our visiting PhD Rosemary Agbeko from Prof. Chioma Chikere's Lab ๐ณ๐ฌ is returning home after work on oil polluted soils. Thanks to @femsmicro.org and @isme-microbes.bsky.social for kind mobility grants!
Had a great time at VTEC in Aberdeen last month. Lucky to have such a fantastic conference so close to home ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
My first VTEC, and it was brilliant to meet so many new people and hear about the diverse work happening across the STEC field. Bonus: picking up a wee poster prize thanks to @femsmicro.org
๐ Happy World Oceans Day ๐
One Ocean, One Climate, One Future โ Together.
As we reflect on the challenges facing our oceans, we explore one of the most unexpected consequences of plastic pollution: the plastisphere.
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Last week, our researcher Bruna Henriques presented her recently published work, ๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ@๐ข๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ project, at
#scicomPT, Portugalโs annual conference dedicated to #sciencecommunication.
The results of the citizen science project were published in
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