Happy to see our research highlighted by @sib.swiss for Biological Diversity Day, alongside other great research!
www.sib.swiss/news/from-co...
We asked whether related microbes “keep similar company” - and found community conservatism across phyla and environments:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lukas Malfertheiner
Very impressive to see all the diversity hidden and generally missed by common approaches!
Really cool study and an impressive dataset!
MicrobeAtlas is now published in Cell. 🌐🌎🦠
Explore the paper and resource to see what large-scale microbiome data reveal about global ecological patterns:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
For a concrete application, see our recent work on “Community conservatism”:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Closely related microbes tend to live in similar communities across Earth’s environments.
We call this pattern community conservatism - extending established ecological patterns to the microbial world.
🧬🌍 #MicrobialEcology #Evolution
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Happy to present tomorrow (Tuesday, 3pm CET) at MVIF 47. Online and free to attend!
In my presentation, I will introduce "community conservatism": The global trend of closely related microorganisms being found in similar communities.
🌍🦠
Original article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In case you missed our recent study out in @natecoevo.nature.com - now with open access PDFs:
Related microbes globally share similar ecological communities, extending classical ecological patterns to the microbial realm 🦠🌎
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Research Briefing: rdcu.be/e0K14
Lukas Malfertheiner
Lukas Malfertheiner
Autoinducer-2 functions as both a quorum sensing and metabolic signal in Escherichia coli https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.09.730415v1
MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for
truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages
across diverse environments, co...
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
Now published! This was fun to write, thanks to @asanchezlab.bsky.social for the invitation.
Feedback welcome as macroecology will be a core component of the forthcoming SOMA (Scales Of Microbial Architectonics) Laboratoire @ Genoscope
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Happy to share my solo-authored Perspective "An Interpretation, Survey, and Outlook of Microbial Macroecology"! Making time these last few months to take stock of the patterns us microbial ecologists examine + models we invoke has been invaluable. Feedback welcome!
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
I am pleased to share that our paper is now published in Cell!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
I am deeply grateful to all co-authors for making this possible.
This work was made possible through the guidance of Dr. Peer Bork. I share this in grateful memory and with deep respect for his mentorship.
Will Shoemaker
A planetary-scale analysis of over 85,000 metagenomes establishes a framework for
exploring the structure and drivers of global microbial habitats, revealing that generalist
species bridge ecological ...
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
This study reveals that closely related microorganisms tend to inhabit similar communities across all major environments and phyla. The authors term this phenomenon ‘community conservatism’, extending...
Our work on 'hidden diversity' in unbinned contigs is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com :
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See the linked threads for more details!
Sebastian Schmidt
Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.
