Omri Finkel עמרי عُمري
@finkel-lab.bsky.social
Microbial ecology and plant-microbe interactions at @HebrewU
http://finkel-lab.com
http://finkel-lab.com
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Thrilled to host @manuelkleiner.bsky.social for a week at @bengurionuniv.bsky.social for a MetaProteomics workshop!
No better start than a seminar on "Advanced Metaproteomic Approaches To Investigate Functional Host-Microbiota Interactions." 🧬
No better start than a seminar on "Advanced Metaproteomic Approaches To Investigate Functional Host-Microbiota Interactions." 🧬
January 25, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Thrilled to host @manuelkleiner.bsky.social for a week at @bengurionuniv.bsky.social for a MetaProteomics workshop!
No better start than a seminar on "Advanced Metaproteomic Approaches To Investigate Functional Host-Microbiota Interactions." 🧬
No better start than a seminar on "Advanced Metaproteomic Approaches To Investigate Functional Host-Microbiota Interactions." 🧬
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The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
January 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
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In this week’s @science.org cover article, we discover tree bark is a hidden habitat for abundant, diverse, and specialized microbial life that actively regulate our climate 🦠. Bark isn't just an inert armor of tree but an active interface for climate and biodiversity
www.science.org/eprint/7H9PX...
www.science.org/eprint/7H9PX...
Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests
Recent studies suggest that microbes inhabit tree bark, yet little is known about their identities, functions, and environmental roles. Here we reveal, through gene-centric and genome-resolved metagen...
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:37 PM
In this week’s @science.org cover article, we discover tree bark is a hidden habitat for abundant, diverse, and specialized microbial life that actively regulate our climate 🦠. Bark isn't just an inert armor of tree but an active interface for climate and biodiversity
www.science.org/eprint/7H9PX...
www.science.org/eprint/7H9PX...
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A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.
Postdoctoral Researcher in discovering the benefits of plant growth-promoting bacteriophages
Postdoctoral Researcher in discovering the benefits of plant growth-promoting bacteriophages
jobs.helsinki.fi
December 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.
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Happy to share our new work about the Bacillus-Trichoderma interactions. A new and interesting story😁
Our new publication in #ISMEJournal (@isme-microbes.bsky.social) describes how Bacillus and Trichoderma works together to fight against the plant pathogen Fusarium, a superb collaboration with Zhihui Xu at Nanjing Agricultural University, including the experiments by @jiyuxie.bsky.social at #IBL
1/7
1/7
December 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Happy to share our new work about the Bacillus-Trichoderma interactions. A new and interesting story😁
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Our work now on @jxbotany.bsky.social. Make sure you add some Cas13a fluorescent virus detection to your Christmas lights ✨️
Researchers developed a #CRISPR-based method that's user-friendly, extraction-free, 15 min protocol for on-site #virus #detection using a portable fluorescence viewer and a mobile #phone camera directly from RNA of several crop species, including #tomato, #cucumber, and #rapeseed. 👉 bit.ly/4p6Jo8t
December 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our work now on @jxbotany.bsky.social. Make sure you add some Cas13a fluorescent virus detection to your Christmas lights ✨️
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Don't miss Natanella Illouz-Eliaz' (Salk Institute) Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award presentation “The World Around Us: Two Parallel Paths in Life"!
youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...
@natanellae.bsky.social
youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...
@natanellae.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Don't miss Natanella Illouz-Eliaz' (Salk Institute) Community Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge Award presentation “The World Around Us: Two Parallel Paths in Life"!
youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...
@natanellae.bsky.social
youtu.be/Lqatc-yUpmY?...
@natanellae.bsky.social
Bittersweet day in the lab as we said farewell to the amazing Noa Assaf, who just successfully defended her MSc thesis on drought-induced shifts in root exudation in desert plants.
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Bittersweet day in the lab as we said farewell to the amazing Noa Assaf, who just successfully defended her MSc thesis on drought-induced shifts in root exudation in desert plants.
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Unexpected microbial rhodopsin dynamics in sync with phytoplankton blooms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Unexpected microbial rhodopsin dynamics in sync with phytoplankton blooms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gene-specific selective sweeps are pervasive across human gut microbiomes - Nature
Development and application of the integrated linkage disequilibrium score (iLDS) reveals both selective pressures impacting the human gut microbiome and the mechanisms by which gut bacteria adapt to ...
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hanukkah at the department 🕯️. A fun celebration organized by our awesome students. Happy holidays.
December 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Hanukkah at the department 🕯️. A fun celebration organized by our awesome students. Happy holidays.
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Super excited to have this paper out. We developed a complex set of ground truth samples to test more than 110 statistical approaches for differential #metaproteomics
We can now give clear guidance on what tests perform well. Thank you Tjorven Hinzke and
@benoitkunath.bsky.social for the leadership
We can now give clear guidance on what tests perform well. Thank you Tjorven Hinzke and
@benoitkunath.bsky.social for the leadership
Evaluation of statistical approaches for differential metaproteomics
Metaproteomics characterizes and compares molecular phenotypes of organisms in communities by comprehensively analyzing their protein expression profiles using statistical methods. However, not all st...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Super excited to have this paper out. We developed a complex set of ground truth samples to test more than 110 statistical approaches for differential #metaproteomics
We can now give clear guidance on what tests perform well. Thank you Tjorven Hinzke and
@benoitkunath.bsky.social for the leadership
We can now give clear guidance on what tests perform well. Thank you Tjorven Hinzke and
@benoitkunath.bsky.social for the leadership
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academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... Endophytic adaptation in Flavobacterium sp. 98 @xinyapan.bsky.social @vcarryon.bsky.social @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social ✌🏽 lysoPE story could be cool
Hypoxia Induces Phenotypic and Metabolic Shifts in Endophytic Flavobacterium sp. 98
Abstract. Oxygen plays a crucial role in shaping microbial physiology, functions, and behavior. Endophytic bacteria, residing within plant tissues, inhabit
academic.oup.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... Endophytic adaptation in Flavobacterium sp. 98 @xinyapan.bsky.social @vcarryon.bsky.social @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social ✌🏽 lysoPE story could be cool
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Finally out! BBERT - an LLM that can detect bacterial reads using as little as 100 base pairs! Go try it! @amirerez.bsky.social @finkel-lab.bsky.social
Fast and accurate taxonomic domain assignment of short metagenomic reads using BBERT
Biological diversity revealed by metagenomic sequencing far exceeds that of known or cultured organisms, yet much of this diversity remains inaccessible because most sequences from complex habitats, s...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Finally out! BBERT - an LLM that can detect bacterial reads using as little as 100 base pairs! Go try it! @amirerez.bsky.social @finkel-lab.bsky.social
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This is such a cool paper as it experimentally addresses the role of the auxiliary metabolic gene nblA in cyanophages showing a large benefit of NblA to the cyanophage and a negative effect on the host photosynthetic apparatus and host photosynthesis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis - Nature
Viral NblA accelerates the cyanophage infection cycle, directs degradation of the host phycobilisome and other proteins, and reduces host photosynthetic light-harvesting efficiency.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This is such a cool paper as it experimentally addresses the role of the auxiliary metabolic gene nblA in cyanophages showing a large benefit of NblA to the cyanophage and a negative effect on the host photosynthetic apparatus and host photosynthesis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/
Vitamin auxotrophies shape microbial community assembly on model marine particles
Abstract. Microbial community assembly is governed by the flow of carbon sources and other primary metabolites between species. However, central metabolism
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🌊🦠🧪 Delighted to share this work now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... The currency of microbial life is chemistry, but there’s so much still unknown about how metabolic interactions shape communities. 1/
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Excited to share our new @natecoevo.nature.com
paper. We identified microbes found across nearly all ruminants that act as the functional backbone of both the rumen ecosystem and the host, with major implications for food security and climate change mitigation. (1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
paper. We identified microbes found across nearly all ruminants that act as the functional backbone of both the rumen ecosystem and the host, with major implications for food security and climate change mitigation. (1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excited to share our new @natecoevo.nature.com
paper. We identified microbes found across nearly all ruminants that act as the functional backbone of both the rumen ecosystem and the host, with major implications for food security and climate change mitigation. (1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
paper. We identified microbes found across nearly all ruminants that act as the functional backbone of both the rumen ecosystem and the host, with major implications for food security and climate change mitigation. (1/8)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@naturalist1986.bsky.social has done it again, this time with 3rd prize at the ISPS meeting in the beautiful Sde Boker. Poster title: A rhizobial trickster: Legume symbiont simultaneously fixes atmospheric nitrogen and denitrifies. Time to turn these posters into manuscripts.
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
@naturalist1986.bsky.social has done it again, this time with 3rd prize at the ISPS meeting in the beautiful Sde Boker. Poster title: A rhizobial trickster: Legume symbiont simultaneously fixes atmospheric nitrogen and denitrifies. Time to turn these posters into manuscripts.
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This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
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🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH
Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization,
promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying
Pseudomonas, sele...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Wish I could’ve been there for that :)
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wish I could’ve been there for that :)
I remember Aharon destroying this paper in an epic departmental seminar just a couple weeks after it was published.
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I remember Aharon destroying this paper in an epic departmental seminar just a couple weeks after it was published.
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This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This week in the HUJI PES seminar:
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
@hebrewuniversity.bsky.social
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I'm thrilled to share our newest publication in @natmicrobiol.nature.com, led by Drs. @botanichole.bsky.social, Valéria Custódio, and David Gopaulchan: Precipitation legacy effects on #SoilMicrobiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants. 🌾 🧪 (thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precipitation legacy effects on soil microbiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants - Nature Microbiology
Metagenomes from prairie soils in Kansas, USA, show how historical exposure to water stress impacts soil microorganisms and subsequently drought responses in plants.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm thrilled to share our newest publication in @natmicrobiol.nature.com, led by Drs. @botanichole.bsky.social, Valéria Custódio, and David Gopaulchan: Precipitation legacy effects on #SoilMicrobiota facilitate adaptive drought responses in plants. 🌾 🧪 (thread)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation
azrielifoundation.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...