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OUT NOW! - Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes 🍄🧲🦟☠️

By Dan Tang, Jun Cao, Raymond Leger, Jianhua Huang, Weiguo Fang & colleagues.

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Engineered Metarhizium fungi produce longifolene to attract and kill mosquitoes - Nature Microbiology
Insects colonized with Metarhizium fungi emit longifolene to lure new hosts for infection to disperse spores. A fungal strain was engineered to emit longifolene to attract and eliminate mosquitoes.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Why can our farts ignite? Time to find out (and quite a bit more) in our new paper in Nature Microbiology led by the amazing Dr Cait Welsh. Integrating atomic-to-ecosystem level insights. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A widespread hydrogenase supports fermentative growth of gut bacteria in healthy people - Nature Microbiology
A previously uncharacterized microbial enzyme is responsible for the production of molecular hydrogen in the gut, which drives the growth of other bacteria and has implications for human health.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Nature research paper: Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female

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Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female - Nature
Single-cell transcriptomic analyses of Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles gambiae reveal key developmental stages, processes and factors in parasite–mosquito interactions and identify potential targets for blocking malaria transmission.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Our most recent editorial explains why the @natmicrobiol.nature.com team attend conferences.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Its also time for us to start planning our 2026 travels, so if you are organising or attending any microbiology conferences next year, please let us know! 👇

#microsky
Why editors go to conferences - Nature Microbiology
You may have spotted us at different conferences and wondered what we’re doing amid active researchers. Here, we demystify the editorial aims of conference attendance.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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🚨Our paper is out! 🥳
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
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it all started years ago with a failed experiment
🧵👇 1/9
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for genetic code expansion - Nature
Bacterial ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters can be utilized and engineered to transport non-canonical amino acids into Escherichia coli for highly efficient synthesis of proteins with novel func...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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A matryoshka doll of archaea and their viruses 🪆
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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📢 A new collection 'Climate Change and Infectious Diseases' is open for submissions!

A joint project with @natcomms.nature.com @nathealth.nature.com & @commsmed.nature.com, with @julietai.bsky.social as the lead editor for Nature Microbiology

#MicroSky 🦠
More info: www.nature.com/collections/...
Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
Through this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, Nature Health, and Scientific ...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Deadline today (Wed) for short talks.
keystonesymposia.bsky.social Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · Sep 22
🚨 Last chance! Submit your abstracts or apply for scholarships by Sept 23 (11:59pm MDT) for the joint Keystone Symposia: Microbiome Metabolism & Metabolites / Human Microbiome.

#KSMicroMetab26 #KSMicrobiome26
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
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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
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#labdaptations for inclusive laboratory research
Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 15 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41570-025-00756-wDisabled scientists encounter many barriers in laboratory spaces, especially a lack of accessible lab equipment. #labdaptations is an ever-growing database of inclusive equipment created to improve the accessibility of laboratory work.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I will be at #EESMicrobiome hosted by @events.embl.org from tomorrow.

Looking forward to meeting brilliant people and learning about their exciting research.

If you catch me around, do talk to me about publishing in Nature Microbiology.

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky
September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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New Books & Arts 👇

Marine muses: Rene Martin @lampichthys.bsky.social reviews "Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep" by @helenscales.bsky.social

"This book is a must-read for art enthusiasts and ocean lovers"

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Free to read: rdcu.be/eGpor
Cover image of the book "Ocean art" by Helen Scales featuring artwork depicting various marine organisms
September 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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#Review

The multi-kingdom cancer microbiome
@ilievlab.bsky.social

#MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky #CancerSky

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The multi-kingdom cancer microbiome - Nature Microbiology
This Review discusses what comprises the ‘cancer microbiome’, summarizing the studies on tumour-associated microbes, examining the evidence and assessing their impact on the disease.
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September 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Post-vacation Monday for me so its definitely a 7...
September 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.
Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia
A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The #cancer #microbiome: the facts, the myth, and our take on it- with @abdohlman.bsky.social , Xiangyu Pan and Laurence Zitvogel. Out now @natmicrobiol.nature.com just in time for the start of the academic year @wcm-imp.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The multi-kingdom cancer microbiome - Nature Microbiology
This Review discusses what comprises the ‘cancer microbiome’, summarizing the studies on tumour-associated microbes, examining the evidence and assessing their impact on the disease.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Prochlorococcus — Earth’s smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism and an important oxygen producer — may see population reductions of up to 51% in tropical oceans by 2100 under moderate and high warming scenarios, according to a modelling study in @natmicrobiol.nature.com:

#Ecology
Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass and productivity - Nature Microbiology
Decade-long field measurements and modelling show that projected ocean temperatures could restrict cell division rates of an important marine cyanobacterium.
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September 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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I’m not as good about this as I should be, but tremendous thank yous to the researchers that suggest alternate reviewers if they themselves can’t review a manuscript
August 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The August issue is now fully online, with a beautiful cover that might be a nostalgia trigger for some of us (young people can find an explanation in the Editorial):

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August 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📢 Authors, stay sharp!
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August 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#Resource

An online, manually curated, and continually updating database of fungal antimicrobial resistance mutations that provides a starting point for further research in fungal AMR

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#MicroSky 🦠🍄💉

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FungAMR: a comprehensive database for investigating fungal mutations associated with antimicrobial resistance
Nature Microbiology - An online, manually curated and continually updating database of fungal antimicrobial resistance mutations provides a starting point for further research in fungal AMR.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#NewResearch

Prion-like proteins in Escherichia coli trigger an abortive infection mechanism in response to phage infection—a process similar to amyloid-mediated immune signalling in fungi and animals.

#MicroSky 🦠

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Characterization of an amyloid-based antiphage defence system in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology
Prion-like proteins in Escherichia coli trigger an abortive infection mechanism in response to phage infection—a process similar to amyloid-mediated immune signalling in fungi and animals.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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An important and timely Review in @natmicrobiol.nature.com:

Challenges and opportunities in mRNA vaccine development against bacteria

by Ine Lentacker, @impenslab.bsky.social & co

#microsky 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Challenges and opportunities in mRNA vaccine development against bacteria - Nature Microbiology
This Review reflects on the major challenges in bacterial mRNA vaccine design, provides strategies for tailoring mRNA construct design to promote humoral or cellular immunity, and provides an overview...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This is the science I want funded (alongside curing cancer etc)

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation

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A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation - Nature Microbiology
An in-depth microbiological and metagenomic analysis of Colombian farm and fermentation facilities resulted in the design of a defined microbial community that can reproduce the flavour of fine chocol...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM