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Magda(lena) Wutkowska
@wutkowska.bsky.social
120 followers 320 following 17 posts
interested in all things microbial
currently focused on microbes/methanotrophs responding to climate change

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dsmzd3.bsky.social
📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️

You will be responsible for guiding the development of this important resource and for curating the SILVA taxonomy🌳and more!

👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...

Read and share ‼️

#sciencejobs 🦠🧪 #career #taxonomy
📣 Open position: We are looking for a new #ScientificLead for the #SILVA database 🧬🖥️
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
anne-daebeler.bsky.social
📢 Extra, extra: our collaborative study on trace gas oxidizers in a warmer soil is out as a preprint

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Big thanks to @thanh0109.bsky.social @bobpmleung.bsky.social @wutkowska.bsky.social @andreasrichter.bsky.social @mathildebio.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social

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Soil trace gas oxidizers divergently respond to short- and long-term warming
The upland soil microbiome is dominated by aerobic bacteria that oxidize atmospheric trace gases, including CO, H2, and CH4. As a result, soils are the largest biological sink for these climate-active...
www.biorxiv.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
anne-daebeler.bsky.social
🚨 Come and work with us 🦠🧪🖥️
Postdoc position with lots of freedom available in my group

- 1.5 years with options to extend
- work on ecogenomics and physiology of N/CH4-cyclers
- remote work possible 🤓

more info here: isme-microbes.org/postdoc-ecog...

#microbesky
Postdoc in ecogenomics and physiology of nitrifiers/methane-cyclers – ISME
isme-microbes.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
riikkarinnan.bsky.social
Possibly the coolest PhD job available at the moment!
❄️❄️❄️Microbial VOC Exchange in Arctic Glacier Ecosystems❄️ ❄️❄️

🌇Copenhagen, Denmark
The supervisor team includes @alexanesio.bsky.social, Anders Priemé & @riikkarinnan.bsky.social

employment.ku.dk/phd?show=165...
Deadline 15 November 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
kostchristian.bsky.social
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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femsmicro.org
Help shape the future of microbiology in Europe. FEMS is conducting a survey to better understand the needs of microbiologists.

Your input will help identify key challenges & ensure the community’s voice is heard across Europe.

Complete it today and share with your network: 🔗 buff.ly/5eCowPX
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
beatekraft.bsky.social
📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣

Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!

Please share widely!

Deadline: 17 November

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
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 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
drbradbrad.bsky.social
Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere
@erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA
📢 PLEASE RT

🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation

☀️ Marseille, France
‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov
Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
wutkowska.bsky.social
and guess what, Methylobacter again!
jcamthrash.bsky.social Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Oct 14
Microbial oxidation significantly reduces methane export from global groundwaters www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
wutkowska.bsky.social
Still some time to join!
sortee.bsky.social SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Oct 14
📢 Only one day left! There's still time to join us for the 5th SORTEE Conference 2025 on October 15-16!

Check out the Conference Program and register here: sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2025
Upcoming events
Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
sortee.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
isme-microbes.bsky.social
ISME Communications is expanding its scope to include Taxonomy and Nomenclature, recognizing their essential role in microbial ecology.
Read more: isme-microbes.org/taxonomy-and...
#microbes #taxonomy
October 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
wutkowska.bsky.social
So great to see new research on microbial adaptations to the extreme light regimes in the Arctic! 'Linking extreme light availability to cellular function in algae-dominated communities on the Greenland Ice Sheet' academic.oup.com/femsec/artic... @lianegbenning.bsky.social
Linking extreme light availability to cellular function in algae-dominated communities on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Transcriptomic and proteomic responses of glacier ice algae to extreme changes in light availability on the Greenland Ice Sheet, linked, for example, to ox
academic.oup.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
wutkowska.bsky.social
🦠 Among #Methylococcales, the genus #Methylobacter has the most genomes and MAGs deposited in the dbs. We found interesting stuff, e.g., some M. spp. encode all three MMOs: pMMO, pXMO, sMMO! Have a look at our ms: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

with @anne-daebeler.bsky.social, Vojta, Justus&Julius
September 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
wutkowska.bsky.social
Methylobacter, again!
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
arnausebe.bsky.social
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
jcamthrash.bsky.social
Diverse bacteriohemerythrin genes of Methylomonas denitrificans FJG1 provide insight into the survival and activity of methanotrophs in low oxygen ecosystems journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
September 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
isme-microbes.bsky.social
Ten microbiology organizations have come together to develop a global strategy to integrate microbial science into climate solutions. ISME is proud to stand alongside these partners in shaping this roadmap.
Read more: isme-microbes.org/microbes-wit...
#MicrobialEcology #ClimateAction
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
femsmicro.org
Microbiology Leaders Launch Global Climate Change Strategy

Published across 6 leading scientific journals, including #FEMSMicrobiolEcol, the strategy charts a path to integrate microbial science into global climate solutions.

Read the Press Release and Editorial here: buff.ly/LwDt0Mw
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
roeyangel.bsky.social
📢 🦠 🏜️ Meet the first cultured methanogens from oxic soils! Using cultivation and comparative genomics, we descirbe Methanobacterium limanense sp. nov., Methanocella ebodanensis sp. nov., and a strain of Methanosarcina mazei as dwellers of desert biocrusts.
With @anne-daebeler.bsky.social and other
SEM images of the three newly cultured methanogens from desert biocrusts. Methanobacterium sp. (A) with a long rod shape, Methanosarcina sp. (B) with aggregated, coccoid cell clusters, and likely Methanocella sp.
September 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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anne-daebeler.bsky.social
It was wonderful to take some time to think and develop new ideas ideas together on our annual retreat. And: great vegetarian food, amazing weather, and cats!
@roeyangel.bsky.social, @wutkowska.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
anne-daebeler.bsky.social
📢 🦠 A new methanotroph from Czech peat! Through an effort led by PhD student in my group Justus Nweze we isolated and describe a new CH4-muncher. Potential for a flexible (annaerobic) metabolisms and cool pH adaptations.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microbesky #microbiomesky
Genomic and physiological characterization of 'Candidatus Methylocystis sumavensis', a novel acid-tolerant methanotroph from peatland
Methanotrophic bacteria in peatlands mitigate emissions of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas. Yet, the identity, physiology, and adaptive traits of methanotrophs inhabiting acidic peatlands are s...
www.biorxiv.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
femsjournals.bsky.social
🧪Researching microbial C1 metabolism? #FEMSMicrobiolEcol invites submissions for our thematic issue exploring the latest advances in C1 compound transformations and its role in global biogeochemical cycles. One month left to submit: buff.ly/aVfZJoR

#CallForPapers #MicrobiologyResearch #Ecology
August 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
pacyc184.bsky.social
Ecophysiology and global dispersal of the freshwater SAR11-IIIb genus Fontibacterium | Nature Microbiology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02091-8
Ecophysiology and global dispersal of the freshwater SAR11-IIIb genus Fontibacterium - Nature Microbiology
Isolates and metagenome-assembled genomes from a global survey show quasi-endemic and cosmopolitan lineages of SAR11-IIIb, with patterns driven by temperature and latitude.
www.nature.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
kathikitzinger.bsky.social
🚨3-yr Postdoc Position on #SingleCell Activities in #Marine #N-Cycling🦠🧪👩‍🎓🔬

Join me @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
Part of our ERC Synergy #RECLESS looking at microbes in marine oxygen minimum zones

Apply by Oct 15, start March 2026!

-> ucloud.univie.ac.at/index.php/s/...
RECLESS_Postdoc_single_cell_UniVie.pdf
u:cloud - Ihre Daten, auf Wolken gebettet.
ucloud.univie.ac.at
August 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Magda(lena) Wutkowska
albertocanarini.bsky.social
Postdoc Opportunity – Methanotrophs and Drought Resilience
Are you interested or working on microbial ecology and methane ?
We’re looking for a motivated postdoc or final-year PhD interested in submitting a Marie Skłodowska-Curie or HFSP proposal with us (in Italy and/or Norway).
July 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM