Meriel J. Bittner
@merielj3.bsky.social
🌊 Microbial Ecologist | Postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark | BioGeoSCAPES fellow | microbial interactions & oceanography👩🔬🧫 she/her
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🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
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#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists
Interested? Get in touch via direct message
careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...
#MicroSky 🧪
#PostDoc @univie.ac.at
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Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for choosing to highlight our recent article on archaeal-bacterial conflict in this week's episode of "This Week in Microbiology"! asm.org/podcasts/twi...
Missing the Company of Elio
Paying tribute to Elio Schaechter, former TWiM host, blogger, and microbiologist extraordinaire, and review of the finding that Archaea produce peptidoglycan hydrolases that kill bacteria - a form of ...
asm.org
August 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thanks @markowenmartin.bsky.social for choosing to highlight our recent article on archaeal-bacterial conflict in this week's episode of "This Week in Microbiology"! asm.org/podcasts/twi...
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How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
How do microbes become permanent partners? 🌊🔬🦠 Check out our new study published in Current Biology showing how cyanobacterial genomes evolve step-by-step into endosymbionts of diatoms. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social @mehrshmali.bsky.social
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Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
Supervisors and Projects
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk
September 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...
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New Phaeobacter species are now out! 🦠🔬 We found two new species - I am especially fascinated by the really, really long cells P. cretensis makes, something we have never seen in Phaeobacter before! Please comment your thoughts about why that is 🤔 1/2
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
September 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New Phaeobacter species are now out! 🦠🔬 We found two new species - I am especially fascinated by the really, really long cells P. cretensis makes, something we have never seen in Phaeobacter before! Please comment your thoughts about why that is 🤔 1/2
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Thrilled to share our #Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!
💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!
💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
August 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Thrilled to share our #Comment in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!
💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A collaborative effort by a fantastic group of researchers across disciplines!
💬We explored how interdisciplinary microbiology can thrive when early-career researchers are included and supported.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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#Comment
A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research - Nature Microbiology
Early-career researchers play an integral role in building and maintaining interdisciplinary microbiological research.
www.nature.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#Comment
A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A call for early-career teams in interdisciplinary microbiology research
#MicroSky
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
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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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Genome-resolved long-read sequencing expands known microbial diversity across terrestrial habitats www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Genome-resolved long-read sequencing expands known microbial diversity across terrestrial habitats - Nature Microbiology
Nanopore sequencing of Danish soils and sediments yields genomes from over 15,000 microbial species, expanding the phylogenetic diversity of prokaryotes by 8%.
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July 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Genome-resolved long-read sequencing expands known microbial diversity across terrestrial habitats www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
Antagonism as a foraging strategy in microbial communities
In natural habitats, nutrient availability limits bacterial growth. We discovered that bacteria can overcome this limitation by acquiring nutrients by lysing neighboring cells through contact-dependen...
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June 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#MicroSKy #Microbiology
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Solid phase extraction to measure B-vitamins in aquatic systems www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs
Solid phase extraction to measure B-vitamins in aquatic systems - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Meriel Bittner explains how solid phase extraction can be used to concentrate B-vitamins for quantification in aquatic systems.
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November 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Solid phase extraction to measure B-vitamins in aquatic systems www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs