Pam Engelberts
@pam-engelberts.bsky.social
Post doc @cmrqut.bsky.social with a love for imaging, baking, and nature
Part of BrisJAMS @brisjams.bsky.social and ISME ECSC @isme-microbes.bsky.social
Part of BrisJAMS @brisjams.bsky.social and ISME ECSC @isme-microbes.bsky.social
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
🚀 Thinking about life beyond academia?
Join BrisJAMS and Australian Society of Microbiology Qld Branch, this November for an inspiring evening of stories, insights, and real-world advice from scientists who’ve successfully built careers outside the academic path!🌟
6 November 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Join BrisJAMS and Australian Society of Microbiology Qld Branch, this November for an inspiring evening of stories, insights, and real-world advice from scientists who’ve successfully built careers outside the academic path!🌟
6 November 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
🚀 Thinking about life beyond academia?
Join BrisJAMS and Australian Society of Microbiology Qld Branch, this November for an inspiring evening of stories, insights, and real-world advice from scientists who’ve successfully built careers outside the academic path!🌟
6 November 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Join BrisJAMS and Australian Society of Microbiology Qld Branch, this November for an inspiring evening of stories, insights, and real-world advice from scientists who’ve successfully built careers outside the academic path!🌟
6 November 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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We are starting a new series where we introduce our BrisJAMS committee memebers in a fun-microbiology-kinda way 😊 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧪
Starting with none other than our wonderful Director
- Meghann Thai 😎 😁
Starting with none other than our wonderful Director
- Meghann Thai 😎 😁
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We are starting a new series where we introduce our BrisJAMS committee memebers in a fun-microbiology-kinda way 😊 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧪
Starting with none other than our wonderful Director
- Meghann Thai 😎 😁
Starting with none other than our wonderful Director
- Meghann Thai 😎 😁
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience?
The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!
Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬
The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!
Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬
September 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Looking for a postdoc that combines wet and dry lab experience?
The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!
Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬
The EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships might be the thing for you!
Choose one of our pre-defined topics or propose your own.
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
🧬🖥️🔬
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📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
August 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📣 New paper alert! Just out in Cell Reports! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40644298/
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
Thrilled to share that we have discovered a brand-new anti-phage defense system! Bacteria have evolved various defense strategies (CRISPR etc) to counter phage attacks. We found a new one - fascinating and dramatic
⚔️🦠❄️🔬
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt
July 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
Are you interested in microbes that are rare but active? We combined BONCAT with SIP and metaproteomics to improve the recovery of labeled proteins from such microbes. In this case, it illuminated a new anaerobic syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium.
tinyurl.com/a8j29dsr
#microbiomesky #microsky
tinyurl.com/a8j29dsr
#microbiomesky #microsky
Activity-targeted metaproteomics enhances the ecophysiological characterization of cryptic syntrophic metabolisms
Syntrophic microbial consortia can contribute significantly to the activity and function of anoxic ecosystems, yet are often too rare to study their in situ physiologies using traditional molecular me...
tinyurl.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Are you interested in microbes that are rare but active? We combined BONCAT with SIP and metaproteomics to improve the recovery of labeled proteins from such microbes. In this case, it illuminated a new anaerobic syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium.
tinyurl.com/a8j29dsr
#microbiomesky #microsky
tinyurl.com/a8j29dsr
#microbiomesky #microsky
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Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵
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.
@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
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.
@sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
🧵1/7
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Hello BrisJAMS Community :)
BrisJAMS returns this July with an Antimicrobial Resistance Special featuring three fantastic speakers.
📅 Wednesday, 23 July 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End
🍽 Free food provided!
This free event is open to all in the microbiology community.
BrisJAMS returns this July with an Antimicrobial Resistance Special featuring three fantastic speakers.
📅 Wednesday, 23 July 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End
🍽 Free food provided!
This free event is open to all in the microbiology community.
July 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Hello BrisJAMS Community :)
BrisJAMS returns this July with an Antimicrobial Resistance Special featuring three fantastic speakers.
📅 Wednesday, 23 July 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End
🍽 Free food provided!
This free event is open to all in the microbiology community.
BrisJAMS returns this July with an Antimicrobial Resistance Special featuring three fantastic speakers.
📅 Wednesday, 23 July 2025
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 The Burrow, West End
🍽 Free food provided!
This free event is open to all in the microbiology community.
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
We are happy to announce that @isme-microbes.bsky.social offers 12 travel awards for early-career scientists who will join the #mbkceesme2025 conference.
forms.gle/ExVETmU6XZYz...
forms.gle/ExVETmU6XZYz...
ISME travel award application
The International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) would like to support early career scientists to attend the MBK/CEESME joint conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22-24/09/2025. By investing in th...
forms.gle
May 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We are happy to announce that @isme-microbes.bsky.social offers 12 travel awards for early-career scientists who will join the #mbkceesme2025 conference.
forms.gle/ExVETmU6XZYz...
forms.gle/ExVETmU6XZYz...
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
First code release of "SingleM for dsDNA phage"! Lyrebird scans metagenomic reads for marker genes to give a “phage community profile”. It detects many novel phages, many more than standard contig-centric methods. @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social wwood.github.io/singlem/Lyrebird
Lyrebird (phage profiling)
Documentation for SingleM
wwood.github.io
May 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
First code release of "SingleM for dsDNA phage"! Lyrebird scans metagenomic reads for marker genes to give a “phage community profile”. It detects many novel phages, many more than standard contig-centric methods. @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @emerge-bii.bsky.social wwood.github.io/singlem/Lyrebird
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.
May 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
Please check out our recent preprint from @ace-uq.bsky.social researcher’s @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social, @xrefugee13.bsky.social, and former ACEr @pam-engelberts.bsky.social on their work generating the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD).
Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef
Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pela...
www.biorxiv.org
May 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Please check out our recent preprint from @ace-uq.bsky.social researcher’s @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social, @xrefugee13.bsky.social, and former ACEr @pam-engelberts.bsky.social on their work generating the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD).
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef
Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pela...
www.biorxiv.org
May 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria
In diverse environments, microbes drive a myriad of processes, from geochemical and nutrient cycling to interspecies interactions, including in association with plants and animals. Their physiological...
www.biorxiv.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
BONCAT-Live for isolation and cultivation of active environmental bacteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
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📅 Join us at The Burrow | Wednesday, April 30th at 6 PM
An evening of insightful talks 🎤, great company 🧑🔬, and delicious food 🍽️
Come connect, learn, and enjoy the night with our fantastic line-up of speakers. We’d love to see you there!
#brisbanescience #microbiology #jams #academia
An evening of insightful talks 🎤, great company 🧑🔬, and delicious food 🍽️
Come connect, learn, and enjoy the night with our fantastic line-up of speakers. We’d love to see you there!
#brisbanescience #microbiology #jams #academia
April 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
📅 Join us at The Burrow | Wednesday, April 30th at 6 PM
An evening of insightful talks 🎤, great company 🧑🔬, and delicious food 🍽️
Come connect, learn, and enjoy the night with our fantastic line-up of speakers. We’d love to see you there!
#brisbanescience #microbiology #jams #academia
An evening of insightful talks 🎤, great company 🧑🔬, and delicious food 🍽️
Come connect, learn, and enjoy the night with our fantastic line-up of speakers. We’d love to see you there!
#brisbanescience #microbiology #jams #academia
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
GTDB - Genome Taxonomy Database
The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
April 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
gtdb.ecogenomic.org
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Postdoc available in Grenoble (France), funded by the ERC SymbiOCEAN, to work on the metabolic connectivity in planktonic photosymbiosis. 👉Passionate by symbiosis & marine protists? skills in bioinfo and molecular biology? Join us! Info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#protistsonsky #SymbioSky
#protistsonsky #SymbioSky
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Postdoc available in Grenoble (France), funded by the ERC SymbiOCEAN, to work on the metabolic connectivity in planktonic photosymbiosis. 👉Passionate by symbiosis & marine protists? skills in bioinfo and molecular biology? Join us! Info: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
#protistsonsky #SymbioSky
#protistsonsky #SymbioSky
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Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to ML.Antibiotics@gmail.com. See
lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky
lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky
March 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to ML.Antibiotics@gmail.com. See
lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky
lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky
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Want to know who’s replicating and who’s just hanging out in your enrichment cultures? Our new study led by @soansi.bsky.social shows how @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing can reveal replication states, shedding light on microbial growth. 🦠🧬
See our latest publication: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
See our latest publication: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Inferring replication states of bacteria and viruses in enrichment cultures via long-read sequencing
Abstract. Most microorganisms cannot be cultured in isolation, necessitating sophisticated methods for studying their (eco)physiology. While numerous appro
doi.org
March 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Want to know who’s replicating and who’s just hanging out in your enrichment cultures? Our new study led by @soansi.bsky.social shows how @nanoporetech.com long-read sequencing can reveal replication states, shedding light on microbial growth. 🦠🧬
See our latest publication: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
See our latest publication: doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01163-0In this Review, Iliev, Ananthakrishnan and Guo explore the gut microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease, highlighting bacterial and fungal components, immune…
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New online! Microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease: mechanisms of disease and therapeutic opportunities
Reposted by Pam Engelberts
ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
February 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025.
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/
#MicrobialEcology #microbes
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Don't hesitate, time is almost up🧑🔬🧑🎓: Join us now at our #MaxPlanck #Research School #IMPRS #MarMic @maxplanck.de and take an interdisciplinary approach t #marine #microbiology 🦠🌊
👉 Apply by Feb 28
@marumunibremen.bsky.social
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience #PhD #MSc @nicoledubilier.bsky.social
👉 Apply by Feb 28
@marumunibremen.bsky.social
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience #PhD #MSc @nicoledubilier.bsky.social
📢 Apply NOW for our Int #MaxPlanck #research school of #marine #microbiology #marmic @maxplanck.de
and take aninterdisciplinary approach at marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, evolution and more
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience
marmic.mpg.de/marmic2/
and take aninterdisciplinary approach at marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, evolution and more
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience
marmic.mpg.de/marmic2/
February 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Don't hesitate, time is almost up🧑🔬🧑🎓: Join us now at our #MaxPlanck #Research School #IMPRS #MarMic @maxplanck.de and take an interdisciplinary approach t #marine #microbiology 🦠🌊
👉 Apply by Feb 28
@marumunibremen.bsky.social
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience #PhD #MSc @nicoledubilier.bsky.social
👉 Apply by Feb 28
@marumunibremen.bsky.social
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience #PhD #MSc @nicoledubilier.bsky.social