Leonid Digel
@leodigel.bsky.social
Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow studying electric life using electron microscopy and electrochemistry. University of Cambridge. Former postdoc @CEMAarhus.
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Congratulations to Associate Professor @ianpgm.bsky.social for receiving a Villum Experiment Grant of DKK 2.5 million for his project: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments🎉
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Congratulations to Associate Professor @ianpgm.bsky.social for receiving a Villum Experiment Grant of DKK 2.5 million for his project: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments🎉
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
We’re excited to see how this grant will lead to new insights and discoveries!🌿🔬
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
October 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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🚨Exciting 🧪👩🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🚨Exciting 🧪👩🎓🦠 job alert 🚨
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoc position on dark microbial O2 production in marine oxygen minimum zones with Bo Thamdrup and @beatekraft.bsky.social at @sdu.dk
Love fieldwork, stable isotopes, the sea and a fantastic team? Then apply -> fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Happy to be a part of this!
We are thrilled to welcome the members of our new Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel! Discover more about the researchers who are helping shape the future of scientific communication: buff.ly/5abtNWQ #ECR 🧪
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy to be a part of this!
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Pleased to share this work on cable bacteria. We demonstrate that E.aureum GS, a freshwater cable bacterium, can use extracellular electron transfer to gain energy in anoxic conditions. Many thanks to @leodigel.bsky.social , @ianpgm.bsky.social and other coauthors at @cemau.bsky.social
New preprint by @kartiksaiyer.bsky.social, @leodigel.bsky.social and others from @cemau.bsky.social about how cable bacteria grow using electrodes instead of oxygen: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration
Cable bacteria are filamentous sulphide-oxidisers performing long-distance electron transfer in redox-stratified sediments by transporting electrons over centimetre-scale distances to reduce oxygen. H...
www.biorxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Pleased to share this work on cable bacteria. We demonstrate that E.aureum GS, a freshwater cable bacterium, can use extracellular electron transfer to gain energy in anoxic conditions. Many thanks to @leodigel.bsky.social , @ianpgm.bsky.social and other coauthors at @cemau.bsky.social
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I'm recruiting a postdoc to figure out how aerobic methanotrophic bacteria oxidise methane in anoxic freshwater sediment environments: international.au.dk/about/profil... Come to Aarhus University in Denmark and work on this 2-year project funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social!
Postdoctoral position on methanotrophic bacteria - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Microbiology, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm recruiting a postdoc to figure out how aerobic methanotrophic bacteria oxidise methane in anoxic freshwater sediment environments: international.au.dk/about/profil... Come to Aarhus University in Denmark and work on this 2-year project funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social!
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Thanks to @villumfonden.bsky.social for supporting my weird ideas again with a Villum Experiment project! Set to start next year: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments. Job ad for a 2-year postdoc position coming soon!
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
October 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Thanks to @villumfonden.bsky.social for supporting my weird ideas again with a Villum Experiment project! Set to start next year: AGAMBLE – Anaerobic Growth of Aerobic Methanotrophic Bacteria in Lake Environments. Job ad for a 2-year postdoc position coming soon!
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
villumfonden.dk/en/nyhed/tra...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Really, Robin? Another newsletter? 🫠
YES. and this one’s worth it:
🔥 News
🪶 SciComm tips
📅 Events
🧩 Puzzles
Once a month. Fun. Useful. Easy to read.
👉 Subscribe now to catch the very first edition: www.robintalksscience.com
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication
YES. and this one’s worth it:
🔥 News
🪶 SciComm tips
📅 Events
🧩 Puzzles
Once a month. Fun. Useful. Easy to read.
👉 Subscribe now to catch the very first edition: www.robintalksscience.com
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication
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The Senior Research Scientist will support the Group Leader with day-to-day running of the lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
September 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Senior Research Scientist will support the Group Leader with day-to-day running of the lab, including line management of staff, overseeing budgets, and leading the scientific direction.
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
💷 £45,450 to £56,750
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/D6zr7fy
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Hey ISMET member ✋
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Hey ISMET member ✋
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
Did you think we could use a new website too?
Well here it is: www.is-met.org.
It was a pleasure working with @ismetsociety.bsky.social to make their website more engaging and interesting for their members.
Do you also have a website that could use some polishing?
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Last week, Prof. @larspeternielsen.bsky.social was the opening speaker at the 20th Congress of the Argentinian Microbiological Society in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia🌎
Exciting to see cable bacteria joining electromicrobiology research in Argentina🔬👏We look forward to future collaborations with SAMIGE.
Exciting to see cable bacteria joining electromicrobiology research in Argentina🔬👏We look forward to future collaborations with SAMIGE.
September 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Last week, Prof. @larspeternielsen.bsky.social was the opening speaker at the 20th Congress of the Argentinian Microbiological Society in Puerto Madryn, Patagonia🌎
Exciting to see cable bacteria joining electromicrobiology research in Argentina🔬👏We look forward to future collaborations with SAMIGE.
Exciting to see cable bacteria joining electromicrobiology research in Argentina🔬👏We look forward to future collaborations with SAMIGE.
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Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Flying into sensory and mesogleal neurons from a ctenophore (comb jelly).
YouTube video by Pawel Burkhardt
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Our lab is 2.5 years into #ERC funding✨
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
Grateful for the support that enabled us to uncover the syncytial nerve net in a ctenophore - a discovery reshaping our understanding of nervous system evolution. Stay tuned for more exciting discoveries to come @erc.europa.eu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DAE...
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We have a project coordinator role open for a new EIC consortium project SOLARSPOON. It is suitable for anyone with a Masters or PhD www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project...
Do you know anyone who might be suitable? Please let me know :)
Do you know anyone who might be suitable? Please let me know :)
Project Coordinator and Developer (full time or part time)
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and highly organised person for a newly created role to act as coordinator and developer for the new European Innovation Council-funded
www.cam.ac.uk
September 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We have a project coordinator role open for a new EIC consortium project SOLARSPOON. It is suitable for anyone with a Masters or PhD www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/project...
Do you know anyone who might be suitable? Please let me know :)
Do you know anyone who might be suitable? Please let me know :)
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Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
www.flimagin3d.com
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
www.flimagin3d.com
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance - IOPscience
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance, Murthy, Swathi, Mosshammer, Maria, Trampe, Erik, Kühl, Michael
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
www.flimagin3d.com
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
www.flimagin3d.com
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Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
my.corehr.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sub-cellular chemical mapping in bacteria using correlated cryogenic electron and mass spectrometry imaging
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Congrats Hannah Ochner and authors on this important paper! Strong collaboration with @kiranrpatil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
@mrclmb.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
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This is cool, @au.dk is also in @circleu.bsky.social, come and hang out in Aarhus and talk about doing a postdoc here!
Are you an early career researcher? ✨ @circleu.bsky.social
offers mobility fellowships (5 - 30 days) to explore postdoc opportunities at partner universities. 🗓️ Extended deadline: Sept 15. More here: 👉 www.circle-u.eu/calls/circle...
offers mobility fellowships (5 - 30 days) to explore postdoc opportunities at partner universities. 🗓️ Extended deadline: Sept 15. More here: 👉 www.circle-u.eu/calls/circle...
Circle U. Postdoc Mobility Programme
- Circle U.
Seed funding for your next cooperative research project!
www.circle-u.eu
August 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is cool, @au.dk is also in @circleu.bsky.social, come and hang out in Aarhus and talk about doing a postdoc here!
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Now out in final version:
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance - IOPscience
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance, Murthy, Swathi, Mosshammer, Maria, Trampe, Erik, Kühl, Michael
doi.org
August 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Now out in final version:
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
Functional imaging of 3D bioprinted microalgal constructs and simulation of their photosynthetic performance
doi.org/10.1088/1758...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social
@villumfonden.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
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Repost appreciated:
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
Open #PhDposition in structural virology in my group! Join us in Umeå, Sweden to uncover how arboviruses remodel infected cells. In situ #cryoET and #cryoEM combined with #virology, #cellbiology, and #biophysics.
Deadline 7 September. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/
August 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Dissemination Artwork: Cross Section at Junction. Bringing together art and research is incredibly rewarding.
We are privileged to have this beautiful piece on display. Created by Matilda Tjelldén, the work is inspired by our research - and in turn, we are deeply inspired by Matilda's art.
We are privileged to have this beautiful piece on display. Created by Matilda Tjelldén, the work is inspired by our research - and in turn, we are deeply inspired by Matilda's art.
August 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Dissemination Artwork: Cross Section at Junction. Bringing together art and research is incredibly rewarding.
We are privileged to have this beautiful piece on display. Created by Matilda Tjelldén, the work is inspired by our research - and in turn, we are deeply inspired by Matilda's art.
We are privileged to have this beautiful piece on display. Created by Matilda Tjelldén, the work is inspired by our research - and in turn, we are deeply inspired by Matilda's art.
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Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
August 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
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New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social & colleagues created a 3D model of the ctenophore apical organ, revealing cell-type diversity and exciting new insights into the evolution of central nervous systems 🧠🧪 Congratulations to the team! 👏
Ctenophores possess a unique aboral organ that acts as a multisensory center, controlling complex behaviors. We’ve now created a ctenophore model integrated with our 3D volume EM data. Puts it into perspective.
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
Check out our recent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#ctenophores #volumeEM
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New preprint from the @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social lab 🤩 @annaferraioli.bsky.social & colleagues created a 3D model of the ctenophore apical organ, revealing cell-type diversity and exciting new insights into the evolution of central nervous systems 🧠🧪 Congratulations to the team! 👏
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Exciting news from the Royal Society Publishing: our journals will be fully open access in 2026 as we move to adopt the 'Subscribe to Open' model:
We're excited to announce our plan to make the Royal Society journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. This change supports global access to research without shifting costs to authors and relies on continued library participation. Find out more: buff.ly/18m5g6z
Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open | Royal Society
The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model.
royalsociety.org
August 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Exciting news from the Royal Society Publishing: our journals will be fully open access in 2026 as we move to adopt the 'Subscribe to Open' model: