Why are so many effectively published names of prokaryotic taxa never validated? See this paper in #IJSEM by Oren, Garrity and Parte - ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… Microbiology Society

In a cosmic first, scientists detect ‘ghost particles’ from a distant galaxy wapo.st/2L3JD57?tid=ss…

LPSN's Classification of domains and phyla - Hierarchical classification of prokaryotes version 2.1 was released on 19 July 2018. It provides a list of prokaryotic domains, phyla, classes, subclasses, orders, suborders, families and genera. bacterio.net/-classifphyla.…

The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life nyti.ms/2Oyo9LE

Names in Validation List no. 182 from the July 2018 issue of #IJSEM (68/7) were added to LPSN, including Saprospira class. nov., Endozoicomonadaceae fam. nov., Geminicoccaceae fam. nov., and three new genera, Arboricoccus, Ereboglobus and Parendozoicomonas

This month, new microbes have been discovered in places from the deepest part of the ocean to the Himalayas. Read more about these new microbes and where they were found in this month's #NewtoScience: microb.io/2yVamcF

Names in #IJSEM 68/8 (August 2018) have been added to LPSN, including four new genera: Ahniella, Ferrigenium, Solimicrobium and Xinfangfangia. Microbiology Society

Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms theguardian.com/science/2018/d… - billions of tonnes more like!

‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer’ theguardian.com/science/2018/d… #microbiome

The Global Catalogue of Microorganisms (GCM) 10K type strain sequencing project: providing services to taxonomists for standard genome sequencing and annotation ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… #ijsem @microbiosoc

Pathogens hitchhiking on plastics ‘could carry cholera from India to US’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

New Prokaryotic Code published January 2019 - ijs.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… #ijsem #MicroBioSoc

Bacterial Nomenclature 101 and How to Describe a New Species help.ezbiocloud.net/bacterial-nome…

LPSN has been acquired by Leibniz Institute #DSMZ. It will be integrated into the DSMZ’s Prokaryotic Nomenclature Up-to-date (PNU) database as an all-new service. This will ensure the long-term viability of LPSN, which will continue to be freely available to users.

Here, Kostas, Rudi and me are reinforcing the fact that "Advantages outweigh concerns about using genome sequence as type material for prokaryotic taxonomy" sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Time runs & ICSP will soon decide the future of a unified/divided Taxonomy for cult & uncult Prok

LPSN has now relaunched as a service of the Leibniz Institute #DSMZ. The site has been completely redesigned with greatly improved browsing and searching, and will continue to be developed into the future. It will remain freely available! The new URL is lpsn.dsmz.de

An dieser Stelle möchten wir uns ganz herzlich bei den Beschäftigten der DSMZ bedanken! Ihr habt euch flexibel der aktuellen Situation angepasst und haltet aus dem Homeoffice sowie im Labor unser Institut am Leben. Bleibt weiterhin alle GESUND und alles GUTE aus der Pressestelle

How bacteria-eating bacteria could help win the war against germs nytimes.com/2020/08/25/sci… - very interesting article, although it would have been nice for the bacterial names to be italicized!

The number of species names validly published under the ICNP and registered in LPSN has just surpassed 20,000 lpsn.dsmz.de/text/numbers

Microbes are ‘unknown unknowns’ despite being vital to all life, says study theguardian.com/environment/20…