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Martin Sperfeld
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PostDoc @SunagawaLab | Bacterial physiology | Phototroph-heterotroph interactions | Coral models
https://micro.biol.ethz.ch/people/person-detail.MzM1Mjk4.TGlzdC8xMDU0LDI3NjU3NTY0MA==.html
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D-BIOL joined Switzerland’s national Future Day at ETH Zurich again! Five projects, dozens of curious kids, and loads of inspiration. It was inspiring to see their enthusiasm and creativity — who knows, maybe some of them will be our future researchers! #FutureDay #STEM #NextGeneration #Research
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases
Although metagenomic sequencing has revealed a rich microbial biodiversity in the mammalian gut, methods to genetically alter specific species in the microbiome are highly limited. Here, we introduce ...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Last week, the Dodonova lab published a fascinating paper on chromatin structures in Asgard archaea, microbes thought to be the closest relatives of complex life.

Asgard histones can wrap DNA into a “closed” form shared across archaea, and an “open” form similar to eukaryotic cells #sciart #blender
Open / closed chromatin in Asgard archaea with glowing interacting residues Open / closed chromatin in Asgard archaea
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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thanbichlerlab.bsky.social
📢 Postdoc position: Biochemistry & Bacterial cell biology

in our group at Marburg University, Germany, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant "C-SWITCH"

🔗More information at shorturl.at/OlvlL
📅Deadline: Nov 30, 2025

Please repost. #Postdoc
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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archaeal.bsky.social
Did someone say Asgard?

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
The emergence of eukaryotes from a merger between an archaeon and a bacterial cell ∼two billion years ago involved a profound change in cellular organisation. While the order in which different featur...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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🚀 New in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
EMCG — droplet-based single-particle genomics method 🧬⚠️Sequencing marine microbes one by one — in nL of seawater!

Ultra-high resolution — no culture, no bulk averaging. A new way to see the invisible 🫥 🌊 rdcu.be/eOsUF #protistsonsky @bigelowlab.bsky.social
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Interessierst du dich für Korallenriffe und dafür, wie es ihnen im Klimawandel ergeht? Eine Postdoktorandin in unserem Labor, Fabienne Wiederkehr, wurde kürzlich eingeladen, ihre Einblicke diesbezüglich im Radio zu teilen. Höre es dir hier an:

www.srf.ch/play/radio/r...

#corals #coralreef
Korallen trotzen Hitzestress
In einigen Regionen der Welt sind Korallen hitzeresistenter als anderswo. Was ist das Geheimnis dieser Riffe? Zudem: Wir begleiten einen Mars-Rover im Sinkflug. Und: Die Internationale Raumstation ISS...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs 🌊
Ocean-M: an integrated global-scale multi-omics database for marine microbial diversity, function and ecological interactions
Abstract. Multi-omics analyses have significantly advanced the understanding of complex marine microbial communities and their interactions. Despite notabl
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November 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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The JEDI marker - a new approach for measuring #biodiversity that captures all domains of life and is applicable across biological and ecological scales. It's time to change the way we perceive biodiversity - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The JEDI marker as a universal measure of planetary biodiversity
Despite its critical importance in the formation and maintenance of ecosystems and homeostasis on Earth, biodiversity remains a complex and non-unified concept. Consequently, standards for measuring b...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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We're excited to share with everyone a preprint of our manuscript that resolves the cellular origins of the symbiosome in cnidarian-algal symbiosis through proteomics of the symbiosome, RNAi, and CRISPR/Cas9 experiments. ⬇️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Read on below!

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October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Apply to work with us! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucm/EMPL...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social
Junior Group Leader - Phage Biology & Biotechnology
As a leading research institution for microbial biotechnology the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1, https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ibg/ibg-1 ) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich foc...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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WE ARE HIRING!
Please spread widely!

#Postdoc in #Evolutionary #Genomics
-> www.mpg.de/25524526/

#Postdoc in #Molecular #Biology & #Cell #Signalling
-> www.mpg.de/25524509/

@mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

#ScienceJobs #EvoBio #MolBio #Ecology #Chronobiology #Marine #EntoSky #Biodiversity
October 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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OIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx!
www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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We’re back! ✨ The next #MeeHubs26 is coming with 7 hubs across the globe and incredible lineups at each. Can’t wait to share more soon! meehubs.org
Home
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October 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🪸🧪 We’re hiring! Join our ERC-funded group at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany to explore the cellular origins of photosymbiosis:⁣
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𝟏 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 + 𝟐 𝐏𝐡𝐃𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.⁣
Deadlines: Oct 29 & Nov 5. Links below. ⁣

Questions: nils.raedecker@hifmb.de⁣
#Photosymbiosis #HIFMB #ERC #AcademicJobs
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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We're hiring a #postdoc with knowledge of the #microbiome, #microbiology, #bioinformatics, #computationalbiology to understand the role of the vaginal microbiome in women's health. #Baltimore #womenshealth
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Happy Teacher’s Day! 🎉To celebrate, #FEMSMicrobiolLett has put together a new Thematic Issue highlighting how discoveries in the microbiology lab can be taught to inspire learning, build science literacy, and shape tomorrow’s solutions.

✨Read collection: buff.ly/3hPInyI
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Interested in an exciting 2.5 year PostDoc position with a focus on the characterization of novel #nitrifiers? This is a collaborative project between our nitrification group @cemess.bsky.social and C. Singleton and P. Nielsen at @aau.dk

🧪 #MicroSky

www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoc in Identification and characterization of novel nitrifiers
At the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, a 2.5 year position as Postdoc in “Identification and characterization of ...
www.stillinger.aau.dk
October 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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godi.bsky.social
🌊🔬 Looking for a postdoc to join our team!
Cocco-Channel project ➡️ studying coccolithophore phycospheres and their role in ocean carbon cycling.
✔️ Plus if you bring experience in microbial ecology, molecular/microscopy tools & fieldwork
👉 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375178
#protistsonsky
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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taylorpriest.bsky.social
Interested in aligning your long sequences or small genomes against huge reference databases containing millions of prokaryotic genomes ? A new tool has been released that can do this efficiently - LexicMap - www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology
LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Teamwork is dream work - a division of labor in our oceans helps to degrade a very complex sugar polymer by Andreas Sichert from the Sauer lab at ETH www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A division of labor controls the degradation of fucoidans in the ocean
Fucoidans—complex polysaccharides produced by brown algae and diatoms—contribute to long-term carbon sequestration due to their resistance to microbial degradation[1][1],[2][2]. While individual micro...
www.biorxiv.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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fischerlab.bsky.social
The 2025 #CAPSOLUTION expedition is finished!
To sample microbes from 31 mountain lakes across the Alps, we drove 5400 km, hiked 130 km and climbed 10,000 m with our gear, braved snow- and thunderstorms, and filtered 4000 L of water. Well done everyone!!
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu
Locations of the 31 mountain lakes across five regions of the European Alps that we sampled this summer. Thanks everyone for your time commitment and hard work - a truly collective effort! With @maxemilschon.bsky.social, @lqueiss.bsky.social, @drjmpetersen.bsky.social, @sumayrasultanji.bsky.social‬, @hoeferlab.bsky.social, and the rest of the team. Now the lab work begins! Here are some of our microbial enrichment cultures from the mountain lakes. The precious collection of filter concentrates for DNA sequencing, light/electron microscopy analysis, and virus isolation.
August 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Our article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data is out! Led by @alexjprobst.bsky.social, @lhug.bsky.social, Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and myself -, co-authored by Anke Heyder, and developed in consultation with 167 scientists. tinyurl.com/n6yeanmk
A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data - Nature Microbiology
In this Consensus Statement, a consortium of microbiome scientists discuss current sequencing data sharing policies and propose the use of a Data Reuse Information (DRI) tag to promote equitable and collaborative data sharing.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM