Lewen Liang
@lewen-liang.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher in www.deemteam.fr, Université Paris-Saclay 🇫🇷
🦠 Microbial ecology & evolution | Archaea | Biogeochemical cycles
🦠 Microbial ecology & evolution | Archaea | Biogeochemical cycles
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According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.
New work out：applying lipid 2H/1H ratios to track changes of microbial metabolisms in Antarctic lake sediments.
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Redirecting
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October 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New work out：applying lipid 2H/1H ratios to track changes of microbial metabolisms in Antarctic lake sediments.
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...
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The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
Latest work with former group: using long-term enrichment cultures, we discovered that Bathyarchaeia can synthesize BDGTs.
#NewResearch
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-energy environments.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A dominant subgroup of marine Bathyarchaeia assimilates organic and inorganic carbon into unconventional membrane lipids - Nature Microbiology
Baizosediminiarchaeum, a key player in the deep biosphere, builds butanetriol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (BDGT) membrane lipids and feeds on both CO2 and lignin, revealing a survival strategy in low-...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Latest work with former group: using long-term enrichment cultures, we discovered that Bathyarchaeia can synthesize BDGTs.
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The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide.
A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.
Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.
→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP
#ChooseEurope
A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.
Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.
→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP
#ChooseEurope
September 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide.
A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.
Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.
→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP
#ChooseEurope
A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades.
Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment.
→ europa.eu/!jcnGgP
#ChooseEurope
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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
Read more on isme-microbes.org/isme-launche...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
August 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
Read more on isme-microbes.org/isme-launche...
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
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Partez à la quête des origines de la vie avec Puri Lopez-Garcia, naturaliste du monde microbien !
Puri López-García est chercheuse en biologie et directrice de recherche @cnrs.fr au laboratoire Écologie, société et évolution (ESE - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/AgroParisTech).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cm7zn27
Puri López-García est chercheuse en biologie et directrice de recherche @cnrs.fr au laboratoire Écologie, société et évolution (ESE - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/AgroParisTech).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cm7zn27
July 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Partez à la quête des origines de la vie avec Puri Lopez-Garcia, naturaliste du monde microbien !
Puri López-García est chercheuse en biologie et directrice de recherche @cnrs.fr au laboratoire Écologie, société et évolution (ESE - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/AgroParisTech).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cm7zn27
Puri López-García est chercheuse en biologie et directrice de recherche @cnrs.fr au laboratoire Écologie, société et évolution (ESE - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/AgroParisTech).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cm7zn27
The cultivation of anaerobic microbes is essential in geomicrobiology and increasingly impactful in geosciences — yet remains underrepresented.🔬
New online! Using anaerobic cultivation chambers to decipher geomicrobiological processes
Using anaerobic cultivation chambers to decipher geomicrobiological processes
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 03 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00700-yLewen Liang explains how anaerobic cultivation chambers can be used to decipher geomicrobiological processes underlying key biogeochemical cycles.
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The cultivation of anaerobic microbes is essential in geomicrobiology and increasingly impactful in geosciences — yet remains underrepresented.🔬