Theus
@theusvan35.bsky.social
Fungal & bacterial genomics, plant pathogens and microbiomes
orcid - 0000-0002-6090-8796
orcid - 0000-0002-6090-8796
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🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH
Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization,
promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying
Pseudomonas, sele...
www.cell.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
The Role of Phyllosphere Microbes and Viruses in Biocontrol of Pathogenic Fungi - Bi - 2025 - Microbial Biotechnology - Wiley Online Library enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Role of Phyllosphere Microbes and Viruses in Biocontrol of Pathogenic Fungi
Foliar microbiota employ multiple ecological strategies to inhibit fungal pathogens in the phyllosphere, including resource competition, production of antifungal metabolites, contact-dependent killin....
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Role of Phyllosphere Microbes and Viruses in Biocontrol of Pathogenic Fungi - Bi - 2025 - Microbial Biotechnology - Wiley Online Library enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨 Last chance to register for the One Health Pangenome 25 congress, December 2-5 in Valencia 🇪🇸 Abstract submission deadline October 31st. I'll be talking about high-throughput #single-cell genomics by @atrandi.bsky.social for linking bacteria with #phages
#bioinformatics #congress #microsky 🧬🖥️🦠🧪
#bioinformatics #congress #microsky 🧬🖥️🦠🧪
👉Congress
👉One Health Pangenome 25
The microbial pangenome in one health
December 2-5, 2025, Valencia, Spain
www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025
👉New Deadlines
Abstract Submission: Oct 31st, 2025
Early Bird Registration: Nov 14th, 2025
Students’ Fee Discount
🧬🖥️🔬🌱🧪
#bioinformatics #pangenome #science
👉One Health Pangenome 25
The microbial pangenome in one health
December 2-5, 2025, Valencia, Spain
www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025
👉New Deadlines
Abstract Submission: Oct 31st, 2025
Early Bird Registration: Nov 14th, 2025
Students’ Fee Discount
🧬🖥️🔬🌱🧪
#bioinformatics #pangenome #science
PANGENOME2025
The biology of prokaryotic cells is directly dependent on the differential gene pools that characterize each cell or strain. This has been a fundamental aspect of epidemiology for delimiting outbreaks...
www.alocongress.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨 Last chance to register for the One Health Pangenome 25 congress, December 2-5 in Valencia 🇪🇸 Abstract submission deadline October 31st. I'll be talking about high-throughput #single-cell genomics by @atrandi.bsky.social for linking bacteria with #phages
#bioinformatics #congress #microsky 🧬🖥️🦠🧪
#bioinformatics #congress #microsky 🧬🖥️🦠🧪
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Is a healthy microbiome one that is rich in phages? 🦠 Excited to share our paper out in Lancet Microbe with @bkoskella.bsky.social & @dholtappels.bsky.social where we test whether virome diversity can be used a broad signature of microbiome health 📈
New research article
Evaluation of bacteriophages as a signature of #microbiome health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #Phage #OpenAccess #OA
Evaluation of bacteriophages as a signature of #microbiome health: a systematic review and meta-analysis
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #Phage #OpenAccess #OA
October 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Is a healthy microbiome one that is rich in phages? 🦠 Excited to share our paper out in Lancet Microbe with @bkoskella.bsky.social & @dholtappels.bsky.social where we test whether virome diversity can be used a broad signature of microbiome health 📈
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Our research places the T6SS as a critical factor driving the evolution of complex polymicrobial communities within the plant rhizosphere, providing valuable insights for agricultural applications involving beneficial microbes and plant health management strategies. (11/11)
Validate User
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Our research places the T6SS as a critical factor driving the evolution of complex polymicrobial communities within the plant rhizosphere, providing valuable insights for agricultural applications involving beneficial microbes and plant health management strategies. (11/11)
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Imagine we could travel back in time ⏪⌛️to explore the world of bacterial pathogens before humans discovered and industrialised antibiotics
We just did that to study the history of #AMR spread @science.org
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
If you like time travel & biology, this 🧵is for you👇
We just did that to study the history of #AMR spread @science.org
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
If you like time travel & biology, this 🧵is for you👇
Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance
Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialisation of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predati...
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Imagine we could travel back in time ⏪⌛️to explore the world of bacterial pathogens before humans discovered and industrialised antibiotics
We just did that to study the history of #AMR spread @science.org
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
If you like time travel & biology, this 🧵is for you👇
We just did that to study the history of #AMR spread @science.org
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
If you like time travel & biology, this 🧵is for you👇
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TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using cross-species co-expression to predict metabolic interactions in microbiomes
In microbial ecosystems, metabolic interactions are key determinants of species’ relative abundance and activity. Given the immense number of possible interactions in microbial communities, their expe...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
New preprint out by #RobertKoetsier, the first of his PhD project, on assessing the use of cross-species coexpression analysis to identify primary and secondary metabolic interactions in microbiomes: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly
Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) facilitate chemical communication between plants.
Zhang et al. demonstrate the transfer of jasmonic acid via CMN from Botrytis cinerea-infected
donor plants to healt...
www.cell.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Common mycorrhizal networks facilitate plant disease resistance by altering rhizosphere microbiome assembly: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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#Perspective
In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Applying ecological principles to microbiome engineering - Nature Microbiology
This Perspective discusses the application of ecological principles of macro-ecosystems to microbiome engineering. The authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of th...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#Perspective
In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In this perspective, the authors propose research priorities necessary to facilitate the application of these ecological principles to improve microbiome functionality.
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference
And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
September 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference
And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Identification of antagonistic interactions between Pseudomonas species and Zymoseptoria tritici in the wheat phyllosphere
excellent read! #microsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
excellent read! #microsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-resolution Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Communities using Pangenome-Informed Taxon-Specific Long-Read Amplicons
High-throughput sequencing technologies have greatly advanced our understanding of microbiomes, but resolving microbial communities at species and strain levels remains challenging. Here, we developed...
www.biorxiv.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Identification of antagonistic interactions between Pseudomonas species and Zymoseptoria tritici in the wheat phyllosphere
excellent read! #microsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
excellent read! #microsky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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#News&Views
A mycovirus drives the fitness of the lung-infecting fungus Aspergillus fumigatus under stress, helping it to survive within immune cells, and thus shaping its pathogenesis.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mycovirus drives the fitness of the lung-infecting fungus Aspergillus fumigatus under stress, helping it to survive within immune cells, and thus shaping its pathogenesis.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mycoviruses steer fungal fitness - Nature Microbiology
A mycovirus drives the fitness of the lung-infecting fungus Aspergillus fumigatus under stress, helping it to survive within immune cells, and thus shaping its pathogenesis.
www.nature.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#News&Views
A mycovirus drives the fitness of the lung-infecting fungus Aspergillus fumigatus under stress, helping it to survive within immune cells, and thus shaping its pathogenesis.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A mycovirus drives the fitness of the lung-infecting fungus Aspergillus fumigatus under stress, helping it to survive within immune cells, and thus shaping its pathogenesis.
#MicroSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evolution and evolvability of rifampicin resistance across the bacterial tree of life www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
Evolution and evolvability of rifampicin resistance across the bacterial tree of life | PNAS
Predicting the ability of bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance is challenging,
especially for the vast majority of species for which no experi...
www.pnas.org
July 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Evolution and evolvability of rifampicin resistance across the bacterial tree of life www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
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Another plant SynCom review in BMC Plant Biology, this one concentrating on phyllosphere
Phyllosphere synthetic microbial communities: a new frontier in plant protection
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Phyllosphere synthetic microbial communities: a new frontier in plant protection
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Another plant SynCom review in BMC Plant Biology, this one concentrating on phyllosphere
Phyllosphere synthetic microbial communities: a new frontier in plant protection
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Phyllosphere synthetic microbial communities: a new frontier in plant protection
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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'Zhenzhong Zeng at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China says he is “very scared” by this potential regime shift in the oceans. “I think almost all of the Earth system model projections are wrong,” he says.'
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
Record marine heatwaves may signal a permanent shift in the oceans
Fierce marine heatwaves were recorded globally in 2023 and 2024, and some researchers now believe they mark the start of a fundamental change with devastating consequences for life on Earth
www.newscientist.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
'Zhenzhong Zeng at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China says he is “very scared” by this potential regime shift in the oceans. “I think almost all of the Earth system model projections are wrong,” he says.'
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
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metaGEENOME: an integrated framework for differential abundance analysis of microbiome data in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs
metaGEENOME: an integrated framework for differential abundance analysis of microbiome data in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies - BMC Bioinformatics
Background Detecting biomarkers is a key objective in microbiome research, often done through 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing or shotgun metagenomic analysis. A critical step in this process is different...
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
metaGEENOME: an integrated framework for differential abundance analysis of microbiome data in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs
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Great article from the BBC about the human mycobiome, which I wrote about in my book “Passport to Kingdom Fungi”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
#humanhealth #fungi #microbiome
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
#humanhealth #fungi #microbiome
July 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Great article from the BBC about the human mycobiome, which I wrote about in my book “Passport to Kingdom Fungi”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
#humanhealth #fungi #microbiome
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
#humanhealth #fungi #microbiome
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Paper 🚨!!
Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!
Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!
A developmental switch controls cell-to-cell transport in roots via pectin-linked plasmodesmata changes #research #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Paper 🚨!!
Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!
Plasmodesmata transport first in both, then only in one direction in roots! Congratulations to Lea and @mariebarberon.bsky.social !!