Our databases for PhD/postdocs/early-career faculty featured in @nature. “We had a choice to reserve the information or make it available to everyone,” the dude says. “I reminded myself that the university’s mission is knowledge for the world.” nature.com/articles/d4158…

Please RT: Funded PhD position on host-#microbiome associations in wild #birds in my group in Finland. DL 2nd April, start date autumn-winter 2020. More info sites.utu.fi/ruuskanengroup/ Come and work with great people and great birds!

What can we expect in the coming months? Last night I read this report from Imperial College. It makes very clear how extremely serious this COVID-19 pandemic is. I recommend reading it. It is very well written and not only understandable for experts. imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial…

There’s a lot of interest right now for learning bioinformatics skills while lab research is suspended and everybody is working from home. I wanted to share *free* resources for learning coding basics and field-specific materials. Thread (1/n)

PhyloPhlAn 3.0 is out! Large-scale phylogenetic profiling and taxonomic assignment of genomes and metagenomes w/ PhyloPhlAn 3.0 by Francesco Asnicar. Many new features, thousands of integrated species, pre-computed markers, and phylogenetic MAG profiling! github.com/biobakery/phyl…

Wondering why bats have so many zoonotic viruses? Our latest suggests a numbers game - no evidence of disproportionate zoonotic risk from any bird or mammal group, but reservoir groups with more species have more viruses and more zoonoses Nardus Mollentze pnas.org/content/early/…

Our QIIME 2 protocols paper is finally online at Follow @Curr_Protocols! Long time in the making. Endless thanks to the amazing team I got to work with on this, especially Serene Jiang, the other co-1st. A summary of what makes this tutorial useful: dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpbi.1… 1/10

Island biogeography of soil microbes on true islands naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/badges/596-ism… #behindthepaper #biogeography #microbes #ismej #ismejournal

Writing is hard. Writing concisely is especially hard yet it’s a crucial skill for scientists to develop. This past winter, I wrote a paper to help: “Simple rules for concise scientific writing” It’s now out and #OpenAccess: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… A thread... 1/18

New paper accepted in Environmental Pollution: #Glyphosate-based herbicides influence #antioxidants, reproductive #hormones and gut #microbiome but not reproduction:a long-term experiment in an avian model.W Marjo Helander, Miia Rainio, Carlos Gomez-Gallego @kari_saikkonen et al

Re-opening a call for PhD student (3-y funding, DL 31.7) and new call for a post doc (2-y, DL 1.9.) on host-microbe associations in wild populations! Note: regulations from funder, applicants should have some FIN competence/background/connection to FIN.See sites.utu.fi/ruuskanengroup/

Does Intraspecific Variation in rDNA Copy Number Affect Analysis of Microbial Communities? cell.com/trends/microbi…

Excited to see Anton Lavrinienko, sarah schenck, and Tomas de Wouters for the The Invisible Extinction (microbiome documentary) panel discussion! Thanks Swiss Science Film Academy for hosting. #microbiome #science #scicomm

Reconstructing the landscape of gut microbial species across 29,000 diverse individuals @NAR_Open Describes Reference-based Exact Mapping (RExMap) of microbial amplicon variants. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

@PascaleVonaesch and her team at Université de Lausanne are gathering and preserving samples of gut microbes to store in the Microbiota Vault. Why is this important for global health? AdrianEgli78 Anton Lavrinienko Wolfgang Korosec helped explain the research.

Razor produced a wonderful in-depth feature about the Microbiota Vault: youtube.com/watch?v=nZDB1o…

Join experts in the fields of microbiology, molecular biology, ecology, bioinformatics, anthropology, conservation, preservation, ethics, and public health at the upcoming GloMiNe for Chile 2024. Starting January 9th 2024 9am (UTC-3) RSVP here: microbiotavault.org/event/glomine/

If you are in the area next Monday and curious about molecular phage biology, join us for my inaugural lecture at ETH Zurich Zürich - it's public! 🧬🦠👇🏼

The Microbiota Vault at the UN Biodiversity Conference 2024 #COP16 in Cali. Many thanks to Joe Tohme and Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT! microbiotavault.org