Mitja Remus-Emsermann
@mitjare.bsky.social
Prof. Microbiology @ Freie Universität Berlin (He/ Him)
Microbial ecology, plant leaf (phyllosphere) microbiology, fond of expressing fluorescent proteins in uncommon bacteria. Recently, we have adopted butterflies and their offspring in our lab.
Microbial ecology, plant leaf (phyllosphere) microbiology, fond of expressing fluorescent proteins in uncommon bacteria. Recently, we have adopted butterflies and their offspring in our lab.
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🦠🐛 Thrilled to share that our project MicropBoost has received new funding from the BMFTR!
We’ll advance microbial formulations to improve Bt efficacy, evaluating their field performance and commercialisation potential at @mitjare.bsky.social’s lab
#Bt #Biocontrol #Agriculture #Insects #Pests
We’ll advance microbial formulations to improve Bt efficacy, evaluating their field performance and commercialisation potential at @mitjare.bsky.social’s lab
#Bt #Biocontrol #Agriculture #Insects #Pests
October 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🦠🐛 Thrilled to share that our project MicropBoost has received new funding from the BMFTR!
We’ll advance microbial formulations to improve Bt efficacy, evaluating their field performance and commercialisation potential at @mitjare.bsky.social’s lab
#Bt #Biocontrol #Agriculture #Insects #Pests
We’ll advance microbial formulations to improve Bt efficacy, evaluating their field performance and commercialisation potential at @mitjare.bsky.social’s lab
#Bt #Biocontrol #Agriculture #Insects #Pests
I am happy to see that this beautiful review about detecting rare organisms in metagenomics is now available: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... congrats Marios Valmas and Sotirios Vasileiadis for leading and doing the heavy lifting!
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
June 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I am happy to see that this beautiful review about detecting rare organisms in metagenomics is now available: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... congrats Marios Valmas and Sotirios Vasileiadis for leading and doing the heavy lifting!
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You can now ✅ verify your #OpenCloning sequences using sequencing data 🧬 (Sanger or Nanopore). Just load your files 📂 and see where they align! 🎯
#OpenCloning is free & Open Source, and supports most cloning methods! 🔬🛠️
👉 Try it here: opencloning.org
🎞️ Demo video: youtu.be/n0hedzvpW88?...
#OpenCloning is free & Open Source, and supports most cloning methods! 🔬🛠️
👉 Try it here: opencloning.org
🎞️ Demo video: youtu.be/n0hedzvpW88?...
April 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
You can now ✅ verify your #OpenCloning sequences using sequencing data 🧬 (Sanger or Nanopore). Just load your files 📂 and see where they align! 🎯
#OpenCloning is free & Open Source, and supports most cloning methods! 🔬🛠️
👉 Try it here: opencloning.org
🎞️ Demo video: youtu.be/n0hedzvpW88?...
#OpenCloning is free & Open Source, and supports most cloning methods! 🔬🛠️
👉 Try it here: opencloning.org
🎞️ Demo video: youtu.be/n0hedzvpW88?...
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🦠 New preprint! 🌿 Our bioreporter shows heterogeneous alkB expression in Pseudomonas living on Arabidopsis leaves.
Plant cuticular alkanes may be more than just a barrier, they could also be fuel for bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Plant cuticular alkanes may be more than just a barrier, they could also be fuel for bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The alkane 1-monooxigenase gene alkB of Pseudomonas sp. FF2 is upregulated during colonisation of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves
Bacteria on leaf surfaces encounter highly variable access to nutrients and water. This oligotrophic environment is partly due to the presence of cuticular waxes that render the leaf surface hydrophob...
www.biorxiv.org
March 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🦠 New preprint! 🌿 Our bioreporter shows heterogeneous alkB expression in Pseudomonas living on Arabidopsis leaves.
Plant cuticular alkanes may be more than just a barrier, they could also be fuel for bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Plant cuticular alkanes may be more than just a barrier, they could also be fuel for bacteria! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join our lab in Amsterdam. We are looking for a Netherlands-based Technician/Analist (MBO-4 level) to apply advanced microscopy, imaging, and molecular techniques to study fungal-plant interactions. 2-yr position
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
See link for details. Applications due Feb 23rd.
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/te...
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Huge performance update in today’s dorado v0.9.1 release on Ampere 8.6/8.7 & Ada Lovelace 8.9 nvidia GPUs with up to 2x increase in throughput with hac calling and 3x sup! 🚀
Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix.
github.com/nanoporetech...
Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix.
github.com/nanoporetech...
January 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Huge performance update in today’s dorado v0.9.1 release on Ampere 8.6/8.7 & Ada Lovelace 8.9 nvidia GPUs with up to 2x increase in throughput with hac calling and 3x sup! 🚀
Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix.
github.com/nanoporetech...
Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix.
github.com/nanoporetech...
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It’s finally out! The last paper from my PhD!
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Differential Responses of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas Species to Multispecies Interactions in the Phyllosphere
Leaf-associated bacterial populations of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas in two- and three-member synthetic communities on Arabidopsis thaliana display distinct spatial structures and population dy....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It’s finally out! The last paper from my PhD!
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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In case you're wondering: FU and TU Berlin are not on the list of German universities who have just quit X on January 10, since they already left quite a while ago.
Was verbindet diese beeindruckende Vielzahl deutscher Hochschulen und Universitäten? Sie haben heute gemeinsam bekannt gegeben, dass sie sich von Elon Musks Plattform X (ehemals Twitter) zurückziehen. Möge der Rest dem guten Beispiel folgen. Es ist an der Zeit.
January 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
In case you're wondering: FU and TU Berlin are not on the list of German universities who have just quit X on January 10, since they already left quite a while ago.
It has been a long way to get this published and I am very proud of it: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @rschlec.bsky.social last PhD thesis chapter about how additional species shape binary strain interactions in the phyllosphere at the population and µm resolution.
Differential Responses of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas Species to Multispecies Interactions in the Phyllosphere
Leaf-associated bacterial populations of Methylobacterium and Sphingomonas in two- and three-member synthetic communities on Arabidopsis thaliana display distinct spatial structures and population dy...
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It has been a long way to get this published and I am very proud of it: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... @rschlec.bsky.social last PhD thesis chapter about how additional species shape binary strain interactions in the phyllosphere at the population and µm resolution.
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👉https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-driven-assembly-of-disease-suppressive-microbiomes
Plant-driven assembly of disease-suppressive microbiomes
research-portal.uu.nl
January 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
👉https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/plant-driven-assembly-of-disease-suppressive-microbiomes
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Happy to offer 2 PhD positions on sponge-microbe interactions (deadline Feb 16th, 2024) that are funded within the CRC 1182 Origin and Function of Metaorganisms. The link is now live:
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.metaorganism-research.com/about/
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.metaorganism-research.com/about/
January 22, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Happy to offer 2 PhD positions on sponge-microbe interactions (deadline Feb 16th, 2024) that are funded within the CRC 1182 Origin and Function of Metaorganisms. The link is now live:
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.metaorganism-research.com/about/
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...
www.metaorganism-research.com/about/
Cool, cool, why did I pay 10,000 euro for a flyorimeter again?
A Preprint for our ~$40 USD, open source, 3D printed DNA Fluorometer, the #DIYNAFLUOR, has just been posted to bioRxiv outlining its performance and applications for #eDNA analysis!🦕🧪🧬
A big thanks to all the co-authors!
Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Git
tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx
#science
A big thanks to all the co-authors!
Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Git
tinyurl.com/yfh33dsx
#science
DIYNAFLUOR: An Affordable DIY Plug-and-Play Nucleic Acid Fluorometer for eDNA Quantification in Resource Limited Settings
Nucleic Acid (NA) fluorometry is widely employed for quantifying environmental DNA (eDNA) samples and their downstream DNA sequencing libraries, owing to its sensitivity, accuracy, and speed. However,...
www.biorxiv.org
December 20, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Cool, cool, why did I pay 10,000 euro for a flyorimeter again?
Berlin senat is about to decide upon cutting the next year's budget for universities and scientific institutes in Berlin. Currently they are aiming at a cut of about 8%. Our student numbers are rising and the graduates are dearly needed in education and science. #safebraincity
December 19, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Berlin senat is about to decide upon cutting the next year's budget for universities and scientific institutes in Berlin. Currently they are aiming at a cut of about 8%. Our student numbers are rising and the graduates are dearly needed in education and science. #safebraincity
December 19, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Berlin senat is about to decide upon cutting the next year's budget for universities and scientific institutes in Berlin. Currently they are aiming at a cut of about 8%. Our student numbers are rising and the graduates are dearly needed in education and science. #safebraincity
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🎄 New Dorado release (v0.9.0) – and it's big!
🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling
github.com/nanoporetech...
🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling
github.com/nanoporetech...
Release v0.9.0 · nanoporetech/dorado
[0.9.0] (16 Dec 2024)
This major release of Dorado introduces several new features and enhancements. The polish command, currently experimental, is optimised for refining draft assemblies of human ...
github.com
December 17, 2024 at 11:59 AM
🎄 New Dorado release (v0.9.0) – and it's big!
🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling
github.com/nanoporetech...
🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling
github.com/nanoporetech...
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Vibrio are just E. coli in Comic Sans
December 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Vibrio are just E. coli in Comic Sans
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The list of concurrent sessions for 2025 IS-MPMI is now available—so many exciting topics to explore!
I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬
www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬
www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Sessions...Explore Exciting Topics in Plant-Microbe Interaction Research at the 2025 IS-MPMI CongressThe 2025 IS-MPMI Congress offers an extensive lineup of concurrent sessions showc...
www.ismpmi.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:48 PM
The list of concurrent sessions for 2025 IS-MPMI is now available—so many exciting topics to explore!
I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬
www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
I’ll be co-organizing the session “Spatial & Temporal Resolution of the Interaction Interface” with Unnati Sonawala (Cambridge). See you there! 🧬🌱🦠🔬
www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
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List of Keynote & Plenary speakers of 2025 IS-MPIMI Cologne. Looks quite interesting. I will be there! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
Keynote & Plenary Speakers
Keynote and Plenary Speakers...We are excited to announce our keynote and plenary speakers for the 2025 IS-MPMI Congress. Keynote SpeakersMaria Harrison, Cornell UniversityRotem Sorek, Weizmann I...
www.ismpmi.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 PM
List of Keynote & Plenary speakers of 2025 IS-MPIMI Cologne. Looks quite interesting. I will be there! www.ismpmi.org/Events/2025C...
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I want to believe we have some control here, but if we we definitely don’t have it if we don’t use it.
Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 6, 2024 at 6:55 PM
I want to believe we have some control here, but if we we definitely don’t have it if we don’t use it.
Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Amazing actual human artist @franzanth.bsky.social has curated a blocklist and created an account to host it (and also follow packs of real artists and science communicators) at @contentscrapers.bsky.social.
December 6, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Amazing actual human artist @franzanth.bsky.social has curated a blocklist and created an account to host it (and also follow packs of real artists and science communicators) at @contentscrapers.bsky.social.
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They are extremely successful on Threads and Twitter because their content gets engagement, regardless of how spammy and fake it is.
And, or course, they immediately arrived on Bluesky.
BUT BLUESKY IS FIGHTING BACK.
And, or course, they immediately arrived on Bluesky.
BUT BLUESKY IS FIGHTING BACK.
December 6, 2024 at 6:53 PM
They are extremely successful on Threads and Twitter because their content gets engagement, regardless of how spammy and fake it is.
And, or course, they immediately arrived on Bluesky.
BUT BLUESKY IS FIGHTING BACK.
And, or course, they immediately arrived on Bluesky.
BUT BLUESKY IS FIGHTING BACK.
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Content Scrapers are accounts that steal images and videos and then repost them without giving credit. Often they are AI or illustrations labeled as real photographs. Often they say they are one thing but are actually another.
December 6, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Content Scrapers are accounts that steal images and videos and then repost them without giving credit. Often they are AI or illustrations labeled as real photographs. Often they say they are one thing but are actually another.
Is this real? I am surprised this doesn't blow up. Any educated scientific opinions about the 5 arguments made that COVID comes from a lab vs. environmental origin? I don't have the time to read the whole report...
oversight.house.gov/release/fina...
oversight.house.gov/release/fina...
FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
oversight.house.gov
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 AM
Is this real? I am surprised this doesn't blow up. Any educated scientific opinions about the 5 arguments made that COVID comes from a lab vs. environmental origin? I don't have the time to read the whole report...
oversight.house.gov/release/fina...
oversight.house.gov/release/fina...
That sounds like an insightful meeting organised by good people
🚨 Exciting News! The 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com will be organized next year, as part of MicroSOS Project! #PMS2025
📅 [3-7 November 2025] 📍 [Antequera, Spain, maps.app.goo.gl/mYYDqS7zeJZG...
📅 [3-7 November 2025] 📍 [Antequera, Spain, maps.app.goo.gl/mYYDqS7zeJZG...
December 3, 2024 at 1:39 PM
That sounds like an insightful meeting organised by good people
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Not sure why, but this is suddenly amplified now. Suffice it to say, Denise and I have spent a lot of time fundraising already and the three of us have worked hard on putting together a great lineup of speakers and discussion leaders. www.grc.org/applied-and-... The program will be updated next week
2025 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
November 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Not sure why, but this is suddenly amplified now. Suffice it to say, Denise and I have spent a lot of time fundraising already and the three of us have worked hard on putting together a great lineup of speakers and discussion leaders. www.grc.org/applied-and-... The program will be updated next week