Jillian Petersen
@jillianmpetersen.bsky.social
🇦🇺 Microbial ecologist, Professor at University of Vienna, Editor-in-Chief, The ISME Journal; she/her
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💡Look! ⬇️
An additional webinar with focus on the support the FWF provides to female postdocs in its career development programs "Focus on: Career programs (for women only)" on November 27th 2025, as the webinar in December is already booked out.
An additional webinar with focus on the support the FWF provides to female postdocs in its career development programs "Focus on: Career programs (for women only)" on November 27th 2025, as the webinar in December is already booked out.
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
💡Look! ⬇️
An additional webinar with focus on the support the FWF provides to female postdocs in its career development programs "Focus on: Career programs (for women only)" on November 27th 2025, as the webinar in December is already booked out.
An additional webinar with focus on the support the FWF provides to female postdocs in its career development programs "Focus on: Career programs (for women only)" on November 27th 2025, as the webinar in December is already booked out.
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6 Scientists. 1 Panel. Big ideas.
From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱
Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology!
🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing
🔗 Join us: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱
Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology!
🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing
🔗 Join us: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
September 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
6 Scientists. 1 Panel. Big ideas.
From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱
Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology!
🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing
🔗 Join us: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱
Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology!
🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing
🔗 Join us: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
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🌟Join us for the 2nd ISME #UnityInDiversity Conference!🌟
📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing
🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan
🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨
📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing
🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan
🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨
September 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🌟Join us for the 2nd ISME #UnityInDiversity Conference!🌟
📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing
🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan
🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨
📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing
🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan
🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨
This thread is already epic at 100+ clam facts 😍
One like, one clam fact
One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.
July 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This thread is already epic at 100+ clam facts 😍
So happy for Alejandro and congrats on securing one of these competitive @oeaw.bsky.social fellowships for his PhD project! Can’t wait to share the results 😊
Big congratulations to Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano on receiving a #DOCfellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! His research at #CeMESS explores host–microbe interactions in lucinid clams.
Read more:🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
#ÖAW #PhD @univie.ac.at
Read more:🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
#ÖAW #PhD @univie.ac.at
DOC Fellowship for Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano
CeMESS PhD student Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano has been awarded a prestigious DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The fellowship will support his doctoral research on host–microbe...
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
So happy for Alejandro and congrats on securing one of these competitive @oeaw.bsky.social fellowships for his PhD project! Can’t wait to share the results 😊
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This is pretty cool - Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs
elifesciences.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is pretty cool - Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change
Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
Join us at the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research (@ter-cemess.bsky.social) as Full Professor of SOIL ECOSYSTEMS AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more: cemess.univie.ac.at/news/detail-...
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CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k
Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k
We are hiring: Full Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry of Metals
Human activities are driving rapid environmental change on a global scale, with pollutants playing a critical role in pushing planetary systems beyond safe limits. These changes have profound conseque...
cemess.univie.ac.at
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
CeMESS is hiring!
Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k
Join us at the Division of Environmental Geosciences (@edge-vienna.bsky.social) as Full Professor of ENVIRONMENTAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF METALS. Collaborate across a leading institution in microbiome science and environmental research.
🔗 Learn more and apply: tinyurl.com/47bev45k
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Today, June 27, marks World Microbiome Day! We're celebrating with the inaugural Austrian Microbiome Research Awards. Congrats to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at, and Daniela Wöber @AIT. @fwf-at.bsky.social Details👇
June 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Today, June 27, marks World Microbiome Day! We're celebrating with the inaugural Austrian Microbiome Research Awards. Congrats to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at, and Daniela Wöber @AIT. @fwf-at.bsky.social Details👇
The FOMO is seriously heatin’ up! I’ll be so sad to miss the AEM GRC this year 😭
Y'all, @deniseakob.bsky.social is planning a GREAT week of things for the AEM GRC in July.
So hard to remember that Microbe is next week, not the GRC. Can't wait for dorm life next month!
So hard to remember that Microbe is next week, not the GRC. Can't wait for dorm life next month!
June 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The FOMO is seriously heatin’ up! I’ll be so sad to miss the AEM GRC this year 😭
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Postdoc Insights from the Vienna BioCenter - Hear it directly from our fellows!
The VIP³ call is open – apply now for a fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in an interdisciplinary environment.
Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
The VIP³ call is open – apply now for a fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in an interdisciplinary environment.
Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
June 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Postdoc Insights from the Vienna BioCenter - Hear it directly from our fellows!
The VIP³ call is open – apply now for a fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in an interdisciplinary environment.
Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
The VIP³ call is open – apply now for a fully-funded, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in an interdisciplinary environment.
Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi...
#VBCPostDoc
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We have a job opening for a Senior Scientist 🔬🧫🦠
Apply now or share the post!
#microsky #microbiomesky
Apply now or share the post!
#microsky #microbiomesky
Job vacancy as senior scientist on #fluorescent #microscopy (incl confocal and high resolution) open at University of Vienna!
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Apply until June 15: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
Senior Scientist
Senior Scientist
jobs.univie.ac.at
June 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We have a job opening for a Senior Scientist 🔬🧫🦠
Apply now or share the post!
#microsky #microbiomesky
Apply now or share the post!
#microsky #microbiomesky
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We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
PostDoc in ecology and evolution of plasmids in polar waters at HIFMB (f/d/m)
Layout AWI HIPP extern, englisch
jobs.awi.de
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Ich wünsche, mehr Politiker*innen würden dies tun! Oder meinen Arbeitsweg durch Wien mit dem Fahrrad fahren. ‚A day in the life of…‘
Ich darf heute einen Tag lang einen Lehrer in einer Wiener Mittelschule begleiten. Bin sehr neugierig. 👀
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Ich wünsche, mehr Politiker*innen würden dies tun! Oder meinen Arbeitsweg durch Wien mit dem Fahrrad fahren. ‚A day in the life of…‘
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Session 2 at the HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity will be about advancing our understanding of coevolution for conservation.
📆 June 17 + 18
📌 Oldenburg, GER
🖱️ Registration is free: hifmb.de/symp25
📆 June 17 + 18
📌 Oldenburg, GER
🖱️ Registration is free: hifmb.de/symp25
May 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Session 2 at the HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity will be about advancing our understanding of coevolution for conservation.
📆 June 17 + 18
📌 Oldenburg, GER
🖱️ Registration is free: hifmb.de/symp25
📆 June 17 + 18
📌 Oldenburg, GER
🖱️ Registration is free: hifmb.de/symp25
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Diversity is our strength❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
On #IDAHOT, we reaffirm our commitment to end violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ people — and raise the progressive flag at our headquarters.
Respect for fundamental rights and equal treatment are key pillars of our Union.
On #IDAHOT, we reaffirm our commitment to end violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ people — and raise the progressive flag at our headquarters.
Respect for fundamental rights and equal treatment are key pillars of our Union.
May 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Diversity is our strength❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
On #IDAHOT, we reaffirm our commitment to end violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ people — and raise the progressive flag at our headquarters.
Respect for fundamental rights and equal treatment are key pillars of our Union.
On #IDAHOT, we reaffirm our commitment to end violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ people — and raise the progressive flag at our headquarters.
Respect for fundamental rights and equal treatment are key pillars of our Union.
Working on microbiome science in Austria? Recently graduated or published a great paper? Apply now! 👇👇👇
We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
May 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Working on microbiome science in Austria? Recently graduated or published a great paper? Apply now! 👇👇👇
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The planning for the HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity (June 17+18) is entering the busy phase. Today we would like to introduce our speakers from Session 1 “Framing global biodiversity for policy”.
More information and free registration at hifmb.de/symp25
More information and free registration at hifmb.de/symp25
May 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The planning for the HIFMB Symposium on Functional Marine Biodiversity (June 17+18) is entering the busy phase. Today we would like to introduce our speakers from Session 1 “Framing global biodiversity for policy”.
More information and free registration at hifmb.de/symp25
More information and free registration at hifmb.de/symp25
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🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses!
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses!
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
A new era in research on non-model organisms begins! Huge thanks to the whole team including @moorefound.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social for giving our community such a game-changing resource
Check out our new data note (still awaiting peer review) on one of the first published genome sequences 🧬 from a member of the Lucinidae family 🔗 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
Thanks @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social for including me in this research!
Thanks @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social for including me in this research!
May 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A new era in research on non-model organisms begins! Huge thanks to the whole team including @moorefound.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social for giving our community such a game-changing resource
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We are hosting the 28th European Nitrogen Cycle meeting at @univie.ac.at in Vienna from Sept 8-11.
Join us for a varied program featuring many aspects of the microbial N-cycle.
Deadline for abstract submission (and early bird registration):
June 15th!
More info:
univie.eventsair.com/enc2025/
Join us for a varied program featuring many aspects of the microbial N-cycle.
Deadline for abstract submission (and early bird registration):
June 15th!
More info:
univie.eventsair.com/enc2025/
Welcome - 28th European Nitrogen Cycle Meeting (CeMESS Nitro 2025) - UBB
univie.eventsair.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We are hosting the 28th European Nitrogen Cycle meeting at @univie.ac.at in Vienna from Sept 8-11.
Join us for a varied program featuring many aspects of the microbial N-cycle.
Deadline for abstract submission (and early bird registration):
June 15th!
More info:
univie.eventsair.com/enc2025/
Join us for a varied program featuring many aspects of the microbial N-cycle.
Deadline for abstract submission (and early bird registration):
June 15th!
More info:
univie.eventsair.com/enc2025/
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Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
April 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
Congratulations @hassansalem.bsky.social - so happy to see this!
Congratulations to @hassansalem.bsky.social on the #ERC Consolidator Grant! 🎉 The project explores how beetles use symbiotic relationships w/ microbes to digest plant material, & compare this to gene transfer for digestive enzyme acquisition. 🪲tinyurl.com/bdhrdnes
Evolutionary insights to come!
Evolutionary insights to come!
ERC Consolidator Grant for Hassan Salem
Max Planck Research Group Leader Hassan Salem has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how beetles use symbiotic relationships with microbes to digest plant material and how this stra...
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April 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Congratulations @hassansalem.bsky.social - so happy to see this!
Congratulations to these three for their exceptional service, and a huge thank you to the entire community of authors, editors, and reviewers that make the ISME Journal the top address for microbial ecology research and a great support for the society 💪🏻
ISME congratulates Tess Brewer, Hans Bernstein, and @rkmicrobes.bsky.social for winning the Outstanding Editorial Board Member Awards for their contributions to The ISME Journal.
🔗 isme-microbes.org/editorial-bo...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗 isme-microbes.org/editorial-bo...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congratulations to these three for their exceptional service, and a huge thank you to the entire community of authors, editors, and reviewers that make the ISME Journal the top address for microbial ecology research and a great support for the society 💪🏻