Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio 🍉
@alvarordr.bsky.social
Microbial ecology // Postdoc at the FU Berlin studying microbial responses to global change 🦠🌏 // Characterization of unknown prokaryotic genes 🧬🔍
Pinned
Functional and evolutionary significance of unknown genes from uncultivated taxa - Nature
Nature - Functional and evolutionary significance of unknown genes from uncultivated taxa
www.nature.com
Extremely excited to share that our effort to identify and characterize novel gene families exclusive of uncultivated taxa is now published in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social
🧵1/6
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Enjoyed the presentation 'Chrysalis. Artists in Labs' today as part of Berlin Science Week.
Up on the stage also the lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and artist Helena Nikonole, who gave a presentation on their planned interaction.
Organized by our friends at Art Laboratory Berlin.
Up on the stage also the lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and artist Helena Nikonole, who gave a presentation on their planned interaction.
Organized by our friends at Art Laboratory Berlin.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Enjoyed the presentation 'Chrysalis. Artists in Labs' today as part of Berlin Science Week.
Up on the stage also the lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and artist Helena Nikonole, who gave a presentation on their planned interaction.
Organized by our friends at Art Laboratory Berlin.
Up on the stage also the lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and artist Helena Nikonole, who gave a presentation on their planned interaction.
Organized by our friends at Art Laboratory Berlin.
Reposted by Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio 🍉
As a part of Berlin Science week, I look forward to the event "Chrysalis. Artists in Labs", also featuring our lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and our artist-in-residence Helena Nikonole
berlinscienceweek.com/programme/ch...
berlinscienceweek.com/programme/ch...
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
During 2025 and 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories...
berlinscienceweek.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As a part of Berlin Science week, I look forward to the event "Chrysalis. Artists in Labs", also featuring our lab's @alvarordr.bsky.social and our artist-in-residence Helena Nikonole
berlinscienceweek.com/programme/ch...
berlinscienceweek.com/programme/ch...
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A genomic catalog of Earth's bacterial and archaeal symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
May 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A genomic catalog of Earth's bacterial and archaeal symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
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Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
Very happy to participate in the Berlin Science week 2025 w/ @artlaboratoryb.bsky.social ! Come join us in this exciting event 👇
SAVE THE DATE!
Join us as part of Berlin Science Week 2025 for the presentation of CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS, an interdisciplinary conversation between artists and scientists
Where: Holzmarkt 25, 10243 Berlin
When: 8 November 2025 | 13:00 - 14:30
Register here: www.eventbrite.de/.../chrysali....
Join us as part of Berlin Science Week 2025 for the presentation of CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS, an interdisciplinary conversation between artists and scientists
Where: Holzmarkt 25, 10243 Berlin
When: 8 November 2025 | 13:00 - 14:30
Register here: www.eventbrite.de/.../chrysali....
October 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Very happy to participate in the Berlin Science week 2025 w/ @artlaboratoryb.bsky.social ! Come join us in this exciting event 👇
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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A periodic table of bacteria?: Mapping bacterial diversity in trait space www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
July 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A periodic table of bacteria?: Mapping bacterial diversity in trait space www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
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We are hiring a PhD student! Are you fascinated by microbes and evolution? Come join us in Barcelona!
#WeAreHiring
📣 The #IBE_Barcelona is seeking a #PhD Student for the Evolutionary #Microbiology Lab.🔬🧫
⏳ Apply before September 30th and #JoinOurTeam!
#UnravellingEvolution #ConservingBiodiversity
✍ https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers
📣 The #IBE_Barcelona is seeking a #PhD Student for the Evolutionary #Microbiology Lab.🔬🧫
⏳ Apply before September 30th and #JoinOurTeam!
#UnravellingEvolution #ConservingBiodiversity
✍ https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers
September 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We are hiring a PhD student! Are you fascinated by microbes and evolution? Come join us in Barcelona!
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Season 5 is going to start 🔜
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Season 5 is going to start 🔜
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
Check out the program and
feel free to join the keynotes by presenting your work–abstract submission is open www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
@kathlemon.bsky.social @saramitri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @deepaagashe.bsky.social
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Celebrating the small wins in academia….a reminder to myself (and maybe you….)
Please share with someone you think might also need this reminder :)
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Please share with someone you think might also need this reminder :)
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Celebrating the small wins in academia
A little reminder...
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Celebrating the small wins in academia….a reminder to myself (and maybe you….)
Please share with someone you think might also need this reminder :)
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Please share with someone you think might also need this reminder :)
open.substack.com/pub/matthias...
Will be presenting our results on the effect of multiple global change factors on soil prokaryotes in #ESEB2025 poster 127 today, come say hi if you wanna know more!
August 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Will be presenting our results on the effect of multiple global change factors on soil prokaryotes in #ESEB2025 poster 127 today, come say hi if you wanna know more!
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Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out!
#science #microbiome #health
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #microbiome #health
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Non-antibiotics disrupt colonization resistance against enteropathogens - Nature
Non-antibiotic drugs from a wide range of therapeutic classes can alter the ability of gut commensals to resist invasion by enteropathogens, a previously underappreciated side effect of such drugs.
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Seeing this published is even better than eating sweets! I am so happy and proud of whole @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, especially Lisa and @jdlcz.bsky.social who walked the funny/exciting/rocky road with me until the very end. Check it out!
#science #microbiome #health
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #microbiome #health
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Awesome work by Ziqi Deng: TreeProfiler: a tool for large-scale metadata profiling along gene and species trees.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive dynamic visualization of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive dynamic visualization of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes
June 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Awesome work by Ziqi Deng: TreeProfiler: a tool for large-scale metadata profiling along gene and species trees.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive dynamic visualization of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive dynamic visualization of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes
Reposted by Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio 🍉
The rare microbial biosphere harbors many chemosensitive microorganisms undetectable by regular shotgun metagenomics. We can now explore them using our custom target-capture sequencing approach. Impressive work by
Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The rare microbial biosphere harbors many chemosensitive microorganisms undetectable by regular shotgun metagenomics. We can now explore them using our custom target-capture sequencing approach. Impressive work by
Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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📣 We are proud of the publication of the second paper of @bbaker24.bsky.social PhD thesis. In collaboration with friends in Halifax we have studied the difficult question of the phylogeny of the DPANN archaea, composed of several phyla of highly reduced, fast-evolving epiparasites 🧵
rdcu.be/erkkU
rdcu.be/erkkU
Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors
Nature Microbiology - Phylogenetic reconstructions with conserved protein markers from the 11 known DPANN phyla reveal their monophyletic placement within the Euryarchaeota.
rdcu.be
June 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📣 We are proud of the publication of the second paper of @bbaker24.bsky.social PhD thesis. In collaboration with friends in Halifax we have studied the difficult question of the phylogeny of the DPANN archaea, composed of several phyla of highly reduced, fast-evolving epiparasites 🧵
rdcu.be/erkkU
rdcu.be/erkkU
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We have updated our work "TreeProfiler: a tool for large-scale metadata profiling along gene and species trees"
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive viz of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive viz of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes.
June 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We have updated our work "TreeProfiler: a tool for large-scale metadata profiling along gene and species trees"
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive viz of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Interactive viz of large trees + custom traits, MSA, domain architectures, functional terms & more + summary of features at internal nodes.
Reposted by Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio 🍉
Paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com by @alvarordr.bsky.social
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics - Nature Communications
Soils are usually exposed to multiple global change factors (like warming or contamination by pollutants), but the response of soil communities to combined global change factors is poorly understood. ...
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Paper just out in @natcomms.nature.com by @alvarordr.bsky.social
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper on the effect of multiple global change factors on soil prokariotes and viruses, just published in @natcomms.nature.com !
@mrillig.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mrillig.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbial responses to multiple global change factors as assessed by metagenomics - Nature Communications
Soils are usually exposed to multiple global change factors (like warming or contamination by pollutants), but the response of soil communities to combined global change factors is poorly understood. ...
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Our paper on the effect of multiple global change factors on soil prokariotes and viruses, just published in @natcomms.nature.com !
@mrillig.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mrillig.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria
Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate:
1) abundant microorganisms
tinyurl.com/miintmodcom
Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate:
1) abundant microorganisms
tinyurl.com/miintmodcom
April 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria
Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate:
1) abundant microorganisms
tinyurl.com/miintmodcom
Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate:
1) abundant microorganisms
tinyurl.com/miintmodcom
Reposted by Alvaro Rodriguez del Rio 🍉
✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience
March 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience
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#NatureCommunity Behind the paper by Damian Hernandez
Big box, small box: bacteria either have all around big niches or all around small niches
communities.springernature.com/posts/big-bo...
Big box, small box: bacteria either have all around big niches or all around small niches
communities.springernature.com/posts/big-bo...
January 16, 2024 at 10:20 AM
#NatureCommunity Behind the paper by Damian Hernandez
Big box, small box: bacteria either have all around big niches or all around small niches
communities.springernature.com/posts/big-bo...
Big box, small box: bacteria either have all around big niches or all around small niches
communities.springernature.com/posts/big-bo...
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A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion - Nature
A metalloenzyme capable of oxidatively cleaving cellulose, found in a microbial community specialized in lignocellulose degradation, could enable sustainable biofuel production.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A metagenomic ‘dark matter’ enzyme catalyses oxidative cellulose conversion www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
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In Science Advances: "We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we’ve actually captured. Turns out that despite all the genomes we’ve sequenced, we’ve only scratched the surface." -Dongying Wu
🖥️🧬🦠
biosciences.lbl.gov/2025/01/17/t...
🖥️🧬🦠
biosciences.lbl.gov/2025/01/17/t...
Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space - Biosciences Area
Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, JGI researchers assess the known fraction of microbial diversity.
biosciences.lbl.gov
January 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
In Science Advances: "We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we’ve actually captured. Turns out that despite all the genomes we’ve sequenced, we’ve only scratched the surface." -Dongying Wu
🖥️🧬🦠
biosciences.lbl.gov/2025/01/17/t...
🖥️🧬🦠
biosciences.lbl.gov/2025/01/17/t...