What if universities used undergraduates to make biological reagents? No, I don’t mean melting the students. I mean training people in biomanufacturing to reduce research costs. Thread + diagram, hopefully thought-provoking
Es geht los! 🚀
Folge 1 unseres Podcasts „Die Welt der Mikroben“. Mit Florian Freistetter reisen wir zu den Anfängen: Von römischen Sümpfen bis zur Mundhygiene des 17. Jhd.
Link im ersten Kommentar 👇 @fwf-at.bsky.social
And here it is: the final protocols for your future favorite 16S rRNA gene primer pair for anplicon sequencing studies -> V4EXT.
P.S. Mighty are the small ones - metric💩tons of Patescibacteria everywhere. Except in 💩, that is.
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Growth costs of suboptimal protein allocation in nonlinear models of growing cells
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We now provide environmental metadata for the GlobDB genomes!
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More info here:
globdb.org/news
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The version of record of our revised preprint is finally out today. In it, we introduce a fast and reliable methdology for the full factorial design of microbial communities, i.e. constructing every monoculture, pair, trio, four-member,... n-member co-culture of N strains.
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Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us!
I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna
3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4
4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy
Apply by 1st June!
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#Protists #Symbiosis #PhD
Tyler Barnum
A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.
GTDB release 11 based on RefSeq 232 (R11-RS232) is live at gtdb.ecogenomic.org. This release covers 901,341 genomes (23% increase) and has 199,923 species clusters (39% increase). Release notes at: forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/announcing.... Release statistics at: gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r232.
The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
Hey y'all, exciting news!
New paper in preprint :).
Nucleocytoviricota discovery, virophages, polinton-like viruses with a touch of ecology and evolution!
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Let me know what you think (scary thing to say online, but well...)
Excited to share that our podcast 'Die Welt der Mikroben - The World of Microbes' launches tomorrow, March 27. Florian Freistetter (DE) & Rebecca Gallo + CoE Key Researchers (EN) explore the hidden world of microbes with MicroPlanet. New episodes every 2 weeks! #Microsky #Archaeasky #scicomm
Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet'
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Dominik Lücking
New Work out!
A multilayered network reveals the centrality of newly discovered #Nucleocytoviricota in wastewater treatment plant communities
w/ @dominikluecking.bsky.social & @amanzanom.bsky.social
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Abstract. Primer bias in 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing can distort microbial diversity estimates by underrepresenting key taxa. We introduce a modified
