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Jan Brüwer
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Marine microbiologist @MPI Bremen | SCUBA diver | sailor | co founder Thalassys
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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utehentschel.bsky.social
Zombie cells in the ocean, a perfect topic for Halloween here at RD3 of GEOMAR. Great talk by @janbruewer.bsky.social it was great to have you here.
janbruewer.bsky.social Jan Brüwer @janbruewer.bsky.social · 10d
Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me!

@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
Zombie cells? 🧟😨 Sounds spooky, and it is past #Halloween.

These #SAR11 are attacked by #viruses and in between life and death. Off #Helgoland, every 10th cell was a zombie. 🌊
Check it out:
mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce...

Let's look for more zombies with the simple sampling device by Thalassys.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
janbruewer.bsky.social
Had the great pleasure introducing Zombie cells 🧟♂️ and my start up thalassys.com during a visit at @geomarkiel.bsky.social today. Intense meetings, interesting feedback and always good to catch up! Thanks @utehentschel.bsky.social for inviting me!

@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
Revolutionising Water #Monitoring with an Innovative #Filtration Machine: Meet our #MaxPlanck #StartUp Thalassys!👏🔬🧑‍🔬

Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes & @janbruewer.bsky.social created the "coffee machine", collecting data far faster than traditional methods.
www.maximize-incubator.com/post/water-m...
Revolutionising Water Monitoring with an Innovative Filtration Machine: Meet Start-up Thalassys
This team is a prime example of how a simple research solution can ignite a powerful business idea with real-world impact.
www.maximize-incubator.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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mgrill.bsky.social
Die SZ schreibt: “Würde ganz Deutschland auf Mineralwasser verzichten (also nur noch Trinkwasser aus der häuslichen Leitung trinken) könnten anderthalbmal so viele Treibhausgasemissionen eingespart werden, wie der gesamte innerdeutsche Flugverkehr verursacht.”
www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Mineralwasser: Still, medium, sprudelnd – und ein Riesengeschäft
Mineralwasser ist das meistverkaufte Getränk in Deutschland. Bisher können Hersteller das Grundwasser dafür fast kostenlos aus dem Boden holen. Dagegen regt sich Widerstand
www.sueddeutsche.de
September 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
Innovativ & idiotensicher: Die "Kaffeemaschine", entwickelt von unserem #Startup SEPARA, hilft mit einer einfachen Filtrationsmethode bei der Überwachung von Gewässern.🌊
Die Gründer: Anneke Heins, Greta Reintjes und @janbruewer.bsky.social
www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts...
@maxplanck.de #MAXimize
Nordsee: Start-up Separa revolutioniert Meeresüberwachung
Mit einer innovativen Filtrationsmaschine revolutioniert das Bremer Start-up Separa die Überwachung des Meeres und anderer Gewässer. Die Gründer erleichtern die Arbeit von Meeresforschern und Umweltsc...
www.weser-kurier.de
August 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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viromegirl.bsky.social
Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊
Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
janbruewer.bsky.social
Vielen Dank @weserkurier.bsky.social für den tollen Bericht über Separa. 👏🏽

Separa: Take a sample. Easy.

@maximize-incubator.bsky.social

www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/wirts...
August 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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pam-engelberts.bsky.social
Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR:

GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities.
@sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

🧵1/7
GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities
Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditio
doi.org
July 8, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
Many thanks to the great team for representing our institute and joining the fun at #BremerFirmelauf 2025!
June 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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radecker.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring how algal symbionts enable anemones to cope with the environmental conditions of the Mediterranean and the Anthropocene. Thanks @pure-ocean.bsky.social! A fun project lead by @cpogoreutz.bsky.social and together with Christine Ferrier-Pagès. tinyurl.com/pureocean
Discover our 6 winning projects! - Pure Ocean Fund
We are delighted to unveil the winning projects from the 2025 Pure Ocean Call for Projects.
www.pure-ocean.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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einsteinberlin.bsky.social
🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
March 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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ruthe.de
Danke an alle, die gestern auf der Straße waren.
(In Hamburg waren wir 65.000).
In der Hölle. Ein verdutzt guckender Mann steht mit einem Schild im Fegefeuer, darauf steht: "Wir sind die Mehrheit", darunter der AfD-Pfeil. Vor im steht Satan und sagt freundlich: "Hier stimmt das wirklich!"
February 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
janbruewer.bsky.social
I always thought very little of my first publication … I mean: It was my BSc thesis, so expectations should be realistic.

Anyways, today, I read it again and … I enjoyed reading it! Is this normal?

Thanks to @reefgenomics.bsky.social & Shobhit, who helped me with writing back in 2017 🙏🏼
February 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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radecker.bsky.social
Application deadline now extended to January 12th, some extra time to enjoy the winter break! ☃️🛷🎅
radecker.bsky.social Nils Rädecker @radecker.bsky.social · Dec 6
🪸🦠🧫🔬 Join us in beautiful Oldenburg! We’re hiring a technician to help cultivate and study marine photosymbioses as part of our new ERC-funded focus group at @hifmb.bsky.social.

Full-time, 4-year position in a new lab and a dynamic research environment!

Apply now!
👉 jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/18...
Technician (m/d/f) in animal, microalgal, and cell cultivation
Layout AWI HIPP extern, englisch
jobs.awi.de
December 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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cotoorellana.bsky.social
Verrucomicrobiota are found everywhere, yet we know very little about this group. Here, @iwilkie.bsky.social described and named an unrecognized marine group (previously known as MB11C04). Here, we introduce Seribacter and Chordibacter bacteria.
iwilkie.bsky.social Isa Wilkie @iwilkie.bsky.social · Dec 5
Very happy to share that the first manuscript of my PhD with
@cotoorellana.bsky.social
in #MolEcol @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
is published! We characterise a family of Verrucomicrobiota in the context of spring blooms, revealing their specialisation in potential complex glycan degradation
December 5, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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acritschristoph.bsky.social
AntiDefenseFinder!

And it is available also as an option with DefenseFinder: defensefinder.mdmlab.fr

Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages, and mobile genetic elements
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages, and mobile genetic elements
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
August 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
ZOMBIE CELLS!!! 😱🧟🦠
@janbruewer.bsky.social and colleagues discover how #viruses keep #SAR11 in check and even turn them into zombies!
Out now @natureportfolio.bsky.social Nat Comms

mpi-bremen.de/en/Zombie-ce...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Zombie cells in the sea: Viruses keep the most common marine bacteria in check
mpi-bremen.de
May 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM
janbruewer.bsky.social
How many SAR11 cells are phage-infected in the environment? And what are zombies?

We studied phage infection in SAR11 using the 🔬. Up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage infected and many host cells were devoid of ribosomes!

What else did we find? A🧵

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...
March 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM
janbruewer.bsky.social
I handed in my PhD thesis today 🥳
What a great, yet weird feeling.

If you are interested: my defense is 3rd May (will be available online). Hit me up, if you are interested ;)
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
March 7, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
#Microbes like comics, too! #RNA is the language, #extracellularvesicles serve as speech bubbles.
Out now in PNAS by Joshua Mills, Susanne Erdmann et al.

Read more: mpi-bremen.de/en/Microbial...

Full paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#archaea #GTPase #EV #evolution
February 28, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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viromegirl.bsky.social
Phage folks who do culturing… how do you preserve your environmental samples for later plaque assays? I was taught just 0.2 micron filter & store in fridge but anecdotally hearing more about glycerol and freezing? Thoughts? Advice? Papers to read? Working with fresh samples isn’t an option #phagesky
February 14, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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cpogoreutz.bsky.social
New opinion piece in @TrendsMicrobiol @CellPressNews

A microbial matter close to my heart: the role of #Endozoicomonas in #corals. @marenziegler.bsky.social and I synthesized evidence from diverse studies, concluding corals and Endoz may not be the dream team we make them out to be 🧫🪸

👇🏻
January 12, 2024 at 8:29 AM