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Microbiome Research Lab, ETH Zürich
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🚨We are hiring a Bioinformatician who will be embedded in our lab and work with members of the NCCR Microbiomes at ETH Zurich, as well as the Institute of Microbiology.🚨
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Bioinformatician in Microbiome Research
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January 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
microbiomeresearch.bsky.social
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of Peer Bork, an exceptionally impactful scientist and leader, and a lifelong mentor full of energy, passion, and warmth. He will be sorely missed.
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In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
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January 17, 2026 at 12:17 AM
microbiomeresearch.bsky.social
Another fantastic #zukunftstag where we welcomed a group of enthusiastic kids into our lab for the day to learn about cultivation and helps us pick colonies for identification!

Thanks to our great team members @martinsperfeld.bsky.social & Fabienne, Luca and Lisa

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martinsperfeld.bsky.social Martin Sperfeld @martinsperfeld.bsky.social · Nov 15
Stay curious guys and come to the good side, we need you here! Fun at Swiss National Future Day @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social @eth-microbiology.bsky.social @eth-microbiology.bsky.social. Most legit question of the day: “Wait… you have a pipetting robot, so why do we have to pipette by hand?”
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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martinsperfeld.bsky.social
Stay curious guys and come to the good side, we need you here! Fun at Swiss National Future Day @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social @eth-microbiology.bsky.social @eth-microbiology.bsky.social. Most legit question of the day: “Wait… you have a pipetting robot, so why do we have to pipette by hand?”
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in the nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes

Very happy that members of our lab could contribute to this!

#virus #ecoevo

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Dr. Fabienne Wiederkehr (Postdoc in der Gruppe von Prof. Shinichi Sunagawa, Institut für Mikrobiologie, D-BIOL) gibt im "Wissenschaftsmagazin" von SRF als Expertin auf diesem Gebiet Auskunft zu hitzeresistenten Korallen im Korallendreieck in Indonesien. www.srf.ch/audio/wissen...
Korallen trotzen Hitzestress
In einigen Regionen der Welt sind Korallen hitzeresistenter als anderswo. Was ist das Geheimnis dieser Riffe? Zudem: Wir begleiten einen Mars-Rover im Sinkflug. Und: Die Internationale Raumstation ISS...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Interessierst du dich für Korallenriffe und dafür, wie es ihnen im Klimawandel ergeht? Eine Postdoktorandin in unserem Labor, Fabienne Wiederkehr, wurde kürzlich eingeladen, ihre Einblicke diesbezüglich im Radio zu teilen. Höre es dir hier an:

www.srf.ch/play/radio/r...

#corals #coralreef
Korallen trotzen Hitzestress
In einigen Regionen der Welt sind Korallen hitzeresistenter als anderswo. Was ist das Geheimnis dieser Riffe? Zudem: Wir begleiten einen Mars-Rover im Sinkflug. Und: Die Internationale Raumstation ISS...
www.srf.ch
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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🚨New preprint from the lab🚨 We present a transcriptomic, marker gene-based growth classifier that predicts the growth states of bacterial strains from different phyla cultivated in diverse conditions.

#MicroSky #MicroEcoEvo #MicroEco #Microbiology

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Transcriptomic profiles of single-copy marker genes enable predicting bacterial growth states in microbial communities
Studying microbial community dynamics is fundamental to better understand ecosystem stability, resilience and environmental change. Community composition changes with the growth of individual members,...
www.biorxiv.org
September 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🚨Check out our latest preprint on a new approach to assess and monitor #biodiversity globally, applicable across vast ecological scales from holobionts to cross-ecosystems🚨

#MicroSky #MicroEcoEvo #conservation

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The JEDI marker as a universal measure of planetary biodiversity
Despite its critical importance in the formation and maintenance of ecosystems and homeostasis on Earth, biodiversity remains a complex and non-unified concept. Consequently, standards for measuring g...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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🎙️📷 We spoke with #BlueRemediomics partner
Martin Alessandrini from @fondationtaraocean.bsky.social
who focuses on ocean advocacy and international cooperation.
Watch the video with Martin below!

👉 Read the interview here: blueremediomics.eu/the-blue-bio...
September 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🚨New preprint from the lab 🚨
We demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of assessing tree-of-life scale biodiversity across ecological scales using a single pair of PCR primers! The JEDI marker can serve to greatly enhance current biodiv. assessments

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The JEDI marker as a universal measure of planetary biodiversity
Despite its critical importance in the formation and maintenance of ecosystems and homeostasis on Earth, biodiversity remains a complex and non-unified concept. Consequently, standards for measuring g...
www.biorxiv.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Great to see the latest contribution from some of our team is out -

Extensive data mining uncovers novel diversity among members of the rare biosphere within the Thermoplasmatota

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Extensive data mining uncovers novel diversity among members of the rare biosphere within the Thermoplasmatota - Microbiome
Background Rare species, especially of the marine sedimentary biosphere, have long been overlooked owing to the complexity of sediment microbial communities, their sporadic temporal and patchy spatial...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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It has been a long process but we are very excited to finally have our own #aquarium up and running and happy to see the newest members of the lab are settling in nicely 🐠🪸
July 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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🚨Latest work from our lab is out!🚨

Led by our recently graduated PhD candidate Fabienne Wiederkehr - this study investigates the impact of host-level #biodiversity and habitat complexity on #coral reef-associated #microbiome dynamics - academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Host-level biodiversity shapes the dynamics and networks within the coral reef microbiome
Abstract. Coral reefs face severe threats from human activity, resulting in drastic biodiversity loss. Despite the urgency of safeguarding these ecosystems
academic.oup.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Excited to announce that our study on the impact of host-level #biodiversity and habitat complexity on shaping #coral reef-associated #microbiome dynamics has been accepted in ISME Communications - @isme-microbes.bsky.social @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Host-level biodiversity shapes the dynamics and networks within the coral reef microbiome
Abstract. Coral reefs face severe threats from human activity, resulting in drastic biodiversity loss. Despite the urgency of safeguarding these ecosystems
academic.oup.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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embltrec.bsky.social
The Arctic is threatened by global heating and pollution: @taraoceans-science.bsky.social polar station will both lock into ice and float on water to support researchers in understanding these threats. TREC's Thomas Haize attended the vessel's inauguration in Lorient and shared these great pics!
Inside the Tara Polar Station cabin looking out over ocean in France A view of the Tara Polar Station sitting in Lorient harbour A picture of the Tara Polar Station from the outside as it sits in Lorient harbour A picture of TREC's Thomas Haize in front of the Tara Polar Station in Lorient harbour
April 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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It took us a little while to get here but we are excited to now be a part of the @bsky.app community! We are a research lab at ETH Zurich that studies the diversity, dynamics and ecology of microbiomes across different ecosystems, with a particular focus on the oceans
April 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM