Characterisation of isolated nitrite oxidiser Ca. Nitrobacter laanbroekii, originally enriched >35 years ago by Wietse de Boer during his PhD & named in honour of Riks Laanbroek. It also makes acidophilic Nitrosotalea behave a bit more like regular AOA! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚀 Identifying new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea has been a fun, exciting, at times overwhelming (so many protein structures) but fulfilling ride so far with Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 at Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR

So happy to share the last pieces from my master work finally published Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Applications are now open for the PhD Summer School on: “Microbial insights into non-CO2 greenhouse gas production and terrestrial biogeochemical cycles under climate change” organized by ACTIONr and the University of Vienna! More information: shorturl.at/soDbh ACTIONr

Job alert! 📢 I am offering a 2-year position for a bioinformatician. 💻 They will have to organise a database and pipeline to analyse antibiotic resistance genes. 🦠 The job is at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and is funded by the Spanish National Plan. Contact me if you are interested!

Save the date #nitrification #Bremen

Check out our new preprint! Thanks to magical skills of Katarina Kajan we were able to go deep into metabolic niches developed along depth in an anchialine cave! Together with Sandi Petra P Rasmus Kirkegaard biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Super usefull resource for microbial genome mining @daanspeth nade available here!

very happy to see our work on water-soluble polymer biodegradation published in Environmental Science & Technology Journals big congratulations Aaron Kintzi on first phd publication! many thanks to collaborators, reviewers, and editor for all the support!

A new substrate for #nitrification by #comammox microbes: #Guanidine So glad to see this out in nature today – great collaborative effort from our @FWF Cluster of Excellence, Universität Wien, team Aalborg Universitet, and UFZ nature.com/articles/s4158…

Danke FWF für das tolle Video!

I'm excited to share that I'll lead a new Center of Excellence for Metaproteomics, a joint venture between the University of Vienna and Bruker. This initiative will leverage cutting-edge mass spectrometry and AI to unravel the mysteries of the microbiome. medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/recen…

Widespread occurrence of dissolved oxygen anomalies, aerobic microbes, and oxygen-producing metabolic pathways in apparently anoxic environments |academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

Unser FWF Cluster of Excellence Cluster of Excellence 'MicroPlanet' im Arte-Dokumentarfilm über die "Macht der Mikroben". Herzlichen Dank an die Filmemacherin Marie-Monique Robin Marie-Monique Robin und ihr Team für die Einladung. Hat sehr viel Freude gemacht. arte.tv/de/videos/1156…

Amazing new bacterial predatory mechanism. Congratulations to the Pilhofer lab and thanks for making us part of this study. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Important finding by @KerrinSteensen that non-tailed and filamentous prophages dominate over tailed prophages in Vibrio when using unbiased predictions. Lots of interesting biology uncovered as well. academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

📢 A new #PhD position in #millipede #gut #microbiome and processes using #omics and #stable_isotopes will be opening in my lab next year. isme-microbes.org/jobs/phd-posit…

Fun, and some "lampenfieber" was had our first green screen video shoot. @Lou_tsia the recorded material, were we explain the global C and N cycles, will become part of the Universität Wien MOOC on Environmental Emergencies. Very exciting to be part of it!

Ein European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, der mit 9,9 Millionen Euro dotiert ist, geht an ein internationales Team – 2,5 Millionen Euro davon erhält die Mikrobiologin Katharina Kitzinger von der Uni Wien.🎉 Mehr dazu: ⤵ medienportal.univie.ac.at/media/aktuelle…

Our study on drug-gut microbiome interactions is out! 🦠💊 Nature Microbiology We show that the #Parkinson's drug entacapone induces iron deficiency in microbes, leading to selective inhibition of microbial activity. Check the full story here: rdcu.be/d0ZAQ