Christine Moissl-Eichinger
@chmoei.bsky.social
passionate archaea-microbiologist, microbiome researcher, #womaninscience, prof for microbiology, balancing family and science (she/her).
Proud PI: Austrian microbiome research award for my PhD student Charlotte Neumann! Thanks @microbesplanet.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Proud PI: Austrian microbiome research award for my PhD student Charlotte Neumann! Thanks @microbesplanet.bsky.social
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Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cryo-EM resolves the structure of the archaeal dsDNA virus HFTV1 from head to tail
This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.
www.science.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Out in Science Advances: Our #cryoEM structure of HFTV1, a virus infecting the halophile #archaea. *First full atomic structure (containing all structural proteins) of any tailed virus!* Congrats and thanks to all co-authors and our fantastic collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Christine Moissl-Eichinger
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint!
We built the largest respiratory pan-microbiome atlas yet >4,000 metagenomes from nose to lung.
👉 In health: a connected microbial continuum
👉 In disease: this structure collapses
#microbiome #microsky
Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We built the largest respiratory pan-microbiome atlas yet >4,000 metagenomes from nose to lung.
👉 In health: a connected microbial continuum
👉 In disease: this structure collapses
#microbiome #microsky
Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pan-microbiome analysis along the human respiratory axis reveals an ecological continuum in health and collapse in disease
The human respiratory tract (RT) harbors complex microbial communities whose functions are critical to health and disease. Yet, current insights remain fragmented across anatomical sites, populations,...
www.biorxiv.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🚨 New preprint!
We built the largest respiratory pan-microbiome atlas yet >4,000 metagenomes from nose to lung.
👉 In health: a connected microbial continuum
👉 In disease: this structure collapses
#microbiome #microsky
Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We built the largest respiratory pan-microbiome atlas yet >4,000 metagenomes from nose to lung.
👉 In health: a connected microbial continuum
👉 In disease: this structure collapses
#microbiome #microsky
Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Christine Moissl-Eichinger
🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook:
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
August 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook:
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks.
Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.
Reposted by Christine Moissl-Eichinger
Neues aus der Mikrobiom-Forschung!
Archaeen – kaum bekannte Mitbewohner in unserem Darm – senden winzige Bläschen, um mit ihrer Umwelt zu kommunizieren.
Ein Team der Med Uni Graz hat das jetzt erstmals detailliert beschrieben. Veröffentlicht in Nature Communications ➡️ https://bit.ly/47gnl9R.
Archaeen – kaum bekannte Mitbewohner in unserem Darm – senden winzige Bläschen, um mit ihrer Umwelt zu kommunizieren.
Ein Team der Med Uni Graz hat das jetzt erstmals detailliert beschrieben. Veröffentlicht in Nature Communications ➡️ https://bit.ly/47gnl9R.
August 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Neues aus der Mikrobiom-Forschung!
Archaeen – kaum bekannte Mitbewohner in unserem Darm – senden winzige Bläschen, um mit ihrer Umwelt zu kommunizieren.
Ein Team der Med Uni Graz hat das jetzt erstmals detailliert beschrieben. Veröffentlicht in Nature Communications ➡️ https://bit.ly/47gnl9R.
Archaeen – kaum bekannte Mitbewohner in unserem Darm – senden winzige Bläschen, um mit ihrer Umwelt zu kommunizieren.
Ein Team der Med Uni Graz hat das jetzt erstmals detailliert beschrieben. Veröffentlicht in Nature Communications ➡️ https://bit.ly/47gnl9R.
🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome.
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia
📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025
🌍 Int’l applicants welcome!
Application link below.
#microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky
Congratulations to all winners - and "happy World Microbiome Day"!!
Today, June 27, marks World Microbiome Day! We're celebrating with the inaugural Austrian Microbiome Research Awards. Congrats to Cornelia Rottensteiner @cornelia-cr.bsky.social @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at, Charlotte Neumann @medunigraz.at, and Daniela Wöber @AIT. @fwf-at.bsky.social Details👇
June 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Congratulations to all winners - and "happy World Microbiome Day"!!
Some big news: I’ve been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to further explore the roles of #archaea in gut #microbiomes and beyond.
@erc.europa.eu
#ERCAdG #ARCHMETH #Microbiome #Archaea #sciencepassion
@erc.europa.eu
#ERCAdG #ARCHMETH #Microbiome #Archaea #sciencepassion
June 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Some big news: I’ve been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to further explore the roles of #archaea in gut #microbiomes and beyond.
@erc.europa.eu
#ERCAdG #ARCHMETH #Microbiome #Archaea #sciencepassion
@erc.europa.eu
#ERCAdG #ARCHMETH #Microbiome #Archaea #sciencepassion
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Klimaschutz trifft Darmgesundheit: Unsere Mikrobiomexpertin Christine Moissl-Eichinger erhält den prestigeträchtigen Advanced Grant (2,5 Mio. €) des für ihre Forschung zu Methanobrevibacter – einem winzigen Mikroorganismus mit großem Potenzial ➡ https://bit.ly/3FDDJpO.
#ERCAdG
#ERCAdG
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Klimaschutz trifft Darmgesundheit: Unsere Mikrobiomexpertin Christine Moissl-Eichinger erhält den prestigeträchtigen Advanced Grant (2,5 Mio. €) des für ihre Forschung zu Methanobrevibacter – einem winzigen Mikroorganismus mit großem Potenzial ➡ https://bit.ly/3FDDJpO.
#ERCAdG
#ERCAdG
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New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in NatureComms! @theviktoriaeffect.bsky.social from the lab of @chmoei.bsky.social @medunigraz.at profiled the proteome & metabolome of extracellular vesicles from key gut archaea, revealed immune-stimulating capacities and unique molecular cargo.
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
New @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE Microplanet Publication in NatureComms! @theviktoriaeffect.bsky.social from the lab of @chmoei.bsky.social @medunigraz.at profiled the proteome & metabolome of extracellular vesicles from key gut archaea, revealed immune-stimulating capacities and unique molecular cargo.
🚨 New preprint alert!
We report what might be the first mechanistic link between gut Archaea and human disease.
Methanobrevibacter smithii is enriched in CRC patients—and boosts growth of cancer-associated bacteria like F. nucleatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@archaeasky @microbiomesky
We report what might be the first mechanistic link between gut Archaea and human disease.
Methanobrevibacter smithii is enriched in CRC patients—and boosts growth of cancer-associated bacteria like F. nucleatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@archaeasky @microbiomesky
Methanobrevibacter smithii associates with colorectal cancer through trophic control of the cancer bacteriome
The human gut is colonized by trillions of microbes that influence the health of their human host. Whereas many bacterial species have now been linked to a variety of different diseases, the involveme...
www.biorxiv.org
June 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
🚨 New preprint alert!
We report what might be the first mechanistic link between gut Archaea and human disease.
Methanobrevibacter smithii is enriched in CRC patients—and boosts growth of cancer-associated bacteria like F. nucleatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@archaeasky @microbiomesky
We report what might be the first mechanistic link between gut Archaea and human disease.
Methanobrevibacter smithii is enriched in CRC patients—and boosts growth of cancer-associated bacteria like F. nucleatum.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@archaeasky @microbiomesky
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What a missed opportunity... 🤔 We should have declared an official "Archaeal Week" at Nature Communications! 😆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠
June 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What a missed opportunity... 🤔 We should have declared an official "Archaeal Week" at Nature Communications! 😆
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#Archaea #ArchaeaSky 🦠
📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology!
Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
June 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📢 Big day for archaeal microbiology!
Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
Today, we jointly shed light on the mysterious world of archaeal extracellular vesicles from human gut archaea - published in @natcomms.nature.com in parallel with our precious colleagues around @mkrupovic.bsky.social 🇦🇹🤝🇫🇷.
Reposted by Christine Moissl-Eichinger
![Comic. PERSON: It’s weird how, despite being one of the main branches of the tree of life, no archaea species are known to cause disease in humans. PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR: Personally, I think it’s because those gross methane breathers are too weird and incompetent to figure out how to hurt us even if they wanted to. [from small point under microscope on desk]: *Hey!* [caption] Bad news: After overhearing a conversation in our lab, Archaea has finally started harming humans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iaa5kvb44fxs3uss3vb42csh/bafkreibnwm76pxlxdfxqzqsspagr2ru5eiq3it7scd2m475cynddza4mpy@jpeg)
May 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The Archaeacast! Yes, a podcast about #archaea!
by Priyanka Chatterjee, @cjhines.bsky.social, Alex Phillips, Theopi Rados & guests!
6th episode: Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains?
Guest: @chmoei.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
@archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social
by Priyanka Chatterjee, @cjhines.bsky.social, Alex Phillips, Theopi Rados & guests!
6th episode: Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains?
Guest: @chmoei.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
@archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Archaeacast! Yes, a podcast about #archaea!
by Priyanka Chatterjee, @cjhines.bsky.social, Alex Phillips, Theopi Rados & guests!
6th episode: Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains?
Guest: @chmoei.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
@archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social
by Priyanka Chatterjee, @cjhines.bsky.social, Alex Phillips, Theopi Rados & guests!
6th episode: Archaea and Us: Heroes or Villains?
Guest: @chmoei.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
@archaeapowerhour.bsky.social @archaeabio.bsky.social
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🌍 #WorldIBDDay2025 Awareness for #IBD and support for patients worldwide: #IKMB and Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” will light up two buildings on #UniKiel campus in purple tonight. #IBDawareness #ChronicInflammation #ResearchMatters 💜 youtu.be/BgHa13cR0Ks
Kiel is joining the global World IBD Day 2025 – Lightinstallation – IKMB, Kiel, Germany
YouTube video by IKMB – Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology
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May 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🌍 #WorldIBDDay2025 Awareness for #IBD and support for patients worldwide: #IKMB and Cluster of Excellence “Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation” will light up two buildings on #UniKiel campus in purple tonight. #IBDawareness #ChronicInflammation #ResearchMatters 💜 youtu.be/BgHa13cR0Ks
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May’s ‘Microbe of the Month’ is a novel archaeon called Methanobrevibacter intestini which was isolated from a human faecal sample taken from an individual in the United States. Find out more about M. intestini and other exciting discoveries by clicking the link in our bio 🧫🔬
May 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
May’s ‘Microbe of the Month’ is a novel archaeon called Methanobrevibacter intestini which was isolated from a human faecal sample taken from an individual in the United States. Find out more about M. intestini and other exciting discoveries by clicking the link in our bio 🧫🔬
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Check out our press release from the Medical University of Graz. @chmoei.bsky.social and their team has discovered a novel species of archaea in the human gut, furthering our understanding of archaea in the human gut microbiome
microb.io
April 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Check out our press release from the Medical University of Graz. @chmoei.bsky.social and their team has discovered a novel species of archaea in the human gut, furthering our understanding of archaea in the human gut microbiome
🚨 New publication:
We describe a novel, cultivated #Archaea species from the human microbiome: #Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. !
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
#Microbiome #GutMicrobiota #NewSpecies #archaeasky #microbiomesky
We describe a novel, cultivated #Archaea species from the human microbiome: #Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. !
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
#Microbiome #GutMicrobiota #NewSpecies #archaeasky #microbiomesky
Expanding the cultivable human archaeome: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. and strain Methanobrevibacter smithii ‘GRAZ-2’ from human faeces
Two mesophilic, hydrogenotrophic methanogens, WWM1085 and M. smithii GRAZ-2, were isolated from human faecal samples. WWM1085 was isolated from an individual in the United States and represents a nove...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
April 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚨 New publication:
We describe a novel, cultivated #Archaea species from the human microbiome: #Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. !
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
#Microbiome #GutMicrobiota #NewSpecies #archaeasky #microbiomesky
We describe a novel, cultivated #Archaea species from the human microbiome: #Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. !
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
#Microbiome #GutMicrobiota #NewSpecies #archaeasky #microbiomesky
Reposted by Christine Moissl-Eichinger
Mikrobiolog*innen unseres Forschungsfelds Mikrobiom & Infektion, dem Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social und der University of Illinois haben eine bisher unbekannte methanbildende Archaeenspezies aus dem menschlichen Darm identifiziert ➡ https://bit.ly/4ion4Ul @chmoei.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Mikrobiolog*innen unseres Forschungsfelds Mikrobiom & Infektion, dem Leibniz Institute DSMZ @leibniz-dsmz.bsky.social und der University of Illinois haben eine bisher unbekannte methanbildende Archaeenspezies aus dem menschlichen Darm identifiziert ➡ https://bit.ly/4ion4Ul @chmoei.bsky.social
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New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
April 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!
Realized I never posted about our recent article: we revisited prior claims linking #Methanobrevibacter to #MS using metagenomes from 115 patients & 115 controls. No overall #archaeome differences, defeating earlier hypotheses. But treatment was associated with elevated M. smithii & M. sp900766745.
April 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Realized I never posted about our recent article: we revisited prior claims linking #Methanobrevibacter to #MS using metagenomes from 115 patients & 115 controls. No overall #archaeome differences, defeating earlier hypotheses. But treatment was associated with elevated M. smithii & M. sp900766745.
New paper! We analyzed gut #microbiomes of 250+ individuals (ages 19–109).
#Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging.
Link: rdcu.be/egk03
@archaeasky
#Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging.
Link: rdcu.be/egk03
@archaeasky
Age-related dynamics of predominant methanogenic archaea in the human gut microbiome
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April 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
New paper! We analyzed gut #microbiomes of 250+ individuals (ages 19–109).
#Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging.
Link: rdcu.be/egk03
@archaeasky
#Centenarians often show a high-methanogen “human cow” phenotype 🐄, with #Methanobrevibacter smithii dominance and youth-like archaeal profiles. #Archaea may stabilize networks in aging.
Link: rdcu.be/egk03
@archaeasky
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Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky
From the @commsbio.bsky.social journal | Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building | #Bioinformatics #FAIR #OpenScience
#OpenAccess #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#OpenAccess #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Advancing archaeal research through FAIR resource and data sharing, and inclusive community building - Communications Biology
Archaeal research and its growing importance have benefited from a community that is engaged in various collaborative efforts, which are highlighted here with examples for the sharing of resources and...
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Nice article about data sharing and community building in Archaeal research 🥰 @archaeabio.bsky.social @archaeapowerhour.bsky.social #ArchaeaSky