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6 Scientists. 1 Panel. Big ideas.

From Gut microbiomes 🧬 to Halophiles 🧂 to Plant Holobionts 🌱
Join our #UnityInDiversity panel to explore how diversity fuels discovery in microbial ecology!

🗓 Oct 21 | 8AM PT · 5PM CET · 11PM Beijing
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September 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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In the last edition of the series about our Early Career Scientist Committee, Leslie Daille talks about her commitment to the scientific community at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-le...
September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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New ECSC Member Xiaohua Han tells more about herself and her research on geomagnetic fields and microorganisms at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-xi...
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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isme-microbes.bsky.social
Two weeks left for students and postdocs to apply to receive support for international research, training, or lab visits.
Submit your application by 1 October 2025!
Learn more and apply:
isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Meet ISME Early Career Scientist Committee Member Samuel Eziuzor who recently joined the ECSC, as he explains about his work on the structure and function of prokaryotes, at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-sa...
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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isme-microbes.bsky.social
🌟Join us for the 2nd ISME #UnityInDiversity Conference!🌟
📅Oct 21 |🕗8 AM PST · 5 PM CET · 11 PM Beijing
🎤 Speakers: @sewerynoz.bsky.social · Ho · @nanditagarud.bsky.social · Medina-Chavez · Moroenyane · Wan
🔗Register: isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...
Celebrate diversity in microbial ecology!✨
September 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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New ISME Early Career Scientist Committee Member Akbar Adjie Pratama @adjiep.bsky.social has a joint position in Germany and the U.S.
Learn more about his career and interests at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-ak...
September 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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✈️ Calling all grad students & postdocs in microbial ecology!
Want to work, train, or collaborate abroad? ISME’s Scholar Mobility Fund can help you get there.
📅 Apply by 1 October
🌍 Open to applicants worldwide (esp. outside NA & Europe!)
Details: isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar...
#MicrobialEcology
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Learn more about new ISME Early Career Scientist Member Pam Engelberts's research, career, and the work she's been doing for BrisJAMS.

isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-pa...
September 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Ann Gregory, Co-Chair of the ISME Early Career Scientist Committee, introduces herself and her work on viruses to the ISME community.

Find out more at isme-microbes.org/meet-ecsc-an...
September 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The ISME Early Career Scientist Committee and ISME Publications welcomed 102 early career scientists to the inaugural ISME Early Career Scientist Reviewer Pool.
Read more on isme-microbes.org/isme-launche...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
August 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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📣 New paper alert!
One of the most exciting projects we've done in recent years is now out on BioRxiv: "An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats".

Glimpse into early complex life! ❄️🦠 🔬🧬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread...
An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats
It has been proposed that eukaryotic cells evolved via symbiosis between sulfate-reducing bacteria and hydrogen-producing archaea. Here we describe a highly enriched culture of a novel Asgard archaeon...
www.biorxiv.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Read The ISME Journal Best Paper "Inter-Plasmid Gene Transfer Fuels AMR in Pathogens" by Xialong Wang et al.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/inter-plasmid-gene-transfer-fuels-amr-in-pathogens/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
May 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota - Nature
Ancestral reconstruction together with molecular dating of the last Asgard archaea and eukaryote common ancestor suggest that eukaryotes arose from the fusion of a H2-consuming archaeal host and a H2-...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I always say, never trust a scientist who can’t cook!
April 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Did a “bottle opener” open the door to eukaryotes?
Meet the Hodarchaeales-related cells- yet another bizarre morphology from Asgard archaea! These curious structures sit at the prokaryote–eukaryote boundary and might offer fresh clues to the origins of complex life.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
April 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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isme-microbes.bsky.social
ISME Climate Change Committee members contributed to the Scientific Advisory Group convened by @asm.org and IUMS and produced a report, an article and factsheet on Microbial Solutions for Climate Change. Read more on bit.ly/3Y72JLT
#MicrobialSolutions #ClimateAction #ResilientFuture
March 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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nikobiota.bsky.social
Time flies - EMBLs Mobile Lab is already one week at the University of Malta!

#MobileLab #AML
March 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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There are two weeks left for students and postdocs to send in their application to receive support for a visit to a host institution outside of their country of study.
Submit by 31 March 2025!
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
March 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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isme-microbes.bsky.social
ISME is looking for the next destination for its symposium! Interested scientists can now submit an Expression of Interest for their city to be the host for ISME22 in 2030.
The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 1 April.
isme-microbes.org/call-for-bid...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme22
February 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Published online! Everything you wanted to know about different cable bacteria and their electrical conductivity. @cemau.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Comparison of cable bacteria genera reveals details of their conduction machinery | EMBO reports
imageimageThis study uncovers key morphological and ultrastructural similarities between cable bacteria genera. The periplasmic conductive fibers display variable electrical conductivity, but conserve...
doi.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Are you interested in studying archaea with their diverse symbionts? We look forward hearing from you: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...
NIOZ - Postdoc position: “to elucidate the role of archaeal symbionts in cellular evolution and ecology”
The EvoSym Team within the Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry (MMB) located at the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), is looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a bac
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February 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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I have a book coming out in May 2025 where I describe the excitement and adventure of discovering the strangest life on Earth.

Preorder with Princeton University Press or wherever you like to get your books. tinyurl.com/bdcrwhwx

If you enjoy it, please let me know, I'd love to hear from you!
Intraterrestrials
A biologist’s firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth’s surface—and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth
press.princeton.edu
January 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM