I'm very happy to share that I have recently joined the Editorial Board of Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio) in the Ecology & Evolution section!
I'm excited to contribute to a journal that publishes high-quality research across the biological sciences.
www.nature.com/commsbio/jou...
I'm excited to contribute to a journal that publishes high-quality research across the biological sciences.
www.nature.com/commsbio/jou...
November 10, 2026 at 9:50 AM
I'm very happy to share that I have recently joined the Editorial Board of Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio) in the Ecology & Evolution section!
I'm excited to contribute to a journal that publishes high-quality research across the biological sciences.
www.nature.com/commsbio/jou...
I'm excited to contribute to a journal that publishes high-quality research across the biological sciences.
www.nature.com/commsbio/jou...
New in @CommsBio: We discovered a tyrosine motif that creates a switch for J-domain proteins. Phosphorylation of this motif disrupts the fold, causing degradation or loss of Hsp70 activation. Congrats Raju, @annaleder.bsky.social , @chercheurjuteux.com & all coauthors www.nature.com/articles/s42...
September 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
New in @CommsBio: We discovered a tyrosine motif that creates a switch for J-domain proteins. Phosphorylation of this motif disrupts the fold, causing degradation or loss of Hsp70 activation. Congrats Raju, @annaleder.bsky.social , @chercheurjuteux.com & all coauthors www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Commsbio made a nice little Video summary for our paper on the chemosensory toolkit of the nursery spider Pisaura mirabilis.
Thanks, Joao Valente!
🧪🕷👃
Thanks, Joao Valente!
🧪🕷👃
Discovery of chemosensory sensilla with different distributions on the body appendages and between the sexes of a cursorial spider, combined with evidence of olfactory mate attraction, provides insights into chemical communication in spiders.
@uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
@uhl-lab.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Commsbio made a nice little Video summary for our paper on the chemosensory toolkit of the nursery spider Pisaura mirabilis.
Thanks, Joao Valente!
🧪🕷👃
Thanks, Joao Valente!
🧪🕷👃
Brilliant ECR opportunity from @CommsChem @CommsBio
@CommsPhys
https://www.nature.com/early-career-travel-grants/
Aim is to help promising ECR's travel to an international scientific meeting that they would otherwise have not been able to attend due to a lack of funds.
#ECRchat
@CommsPhys
https://www.nature.com/early-career-travel-grants/
Aim is to help promising ECR's travel to an international scientific meeting that they would otherwise have not been able to attend due to a lack of funds.
#ECRchat
Travel Grants for Early Career Researchers
Travel Grants for Early Career Researchers
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Brilliant ECR opportunity from @CommsChem @CommsBio
@CommsPhys
https://www.nature.com/early-career-travel-grants/
Aim is to help promising ECR's travel to an international scientific meeting that they would otherwise have not been able to attend due to a lack of funds.
#ECRchat
@CommsPhys
https://www.nature.com/early-career-travel-grants/
Aim is to help promising ECR's travel to an international scientific meeting that they would otherwise have not been able to attend due to a lack of funds.
#ECRchat
Excited to share the published version of our very first preprint. @thaasophobia et al. identified a spontaneous, gut community-wide antibiotic tolerance phenotype in 1/3 of singly-housed mice treated with cefoperazone. @CommsBio https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01841-8 @isbsci...
November 13, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Excited to share the published version of our very first preprint. @thaasophobia et al. identified a spontaneous, gut community-wide antibiotic tolerance phenotype in 1/3 of singly-housed mice treated with cefoperazone. @CommsBio https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01841-8 @isbsci...
Had a blast at the @MITubiomeclub symposium yesterday! What a wonderful slate of speakers! It was fun to share our recent @CommsBio paper showing community-wide antibiotic tolerance in the mouse gut w/@thaasophobia et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01841-8 🐁💊
Non-responder phenotype reveals apparent microbiome-wide ...
Diener, Hoge et al. show that a third of mice exhibit tol...
doi.org
November 13, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Had a blast at the @MITubiomeclub symposium yesterday! What a wonderful slate of speakers! It was fun to share our recent @CommsBio paper showing community-wide antibiotic tolerance in the mouse gut w/@thaasophobia et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01841-8 🐁💊
We published @thaasophobia's paper on antibiotic non-responder microbiomes in @CommsBio - certain mice treated with antibiotics were resistant to ecological collapse. Widespread expression of efflux genes in the gut was associated with this...
November 13, 2024 at 11:12 AM
We published @thaasophobia's paper on antibiotic non-responder microbiomes in @CommsBio - certain mice treated with antibiotics were resistant to ecological collapse. Widespread expression of efflux genes in the gut was associated with this...
Investigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length @CommsBio
Investigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length @CommsBio - DF Blog
- Walking pace appears to be a vital sign. Superb work from Dempsey and coworkersInvestigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length | Communications Biology Walking pace is a simple and functional form of movement and a strong predictor of health status, but the nature of its association Walking pace appears to be a vital sign. Superb work from Dempsey and coworkersInvestigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length | Communications Biology Walking pace is a simple and functional form of movement and a strong predictor of health status, but the nature of its association Walking pace appears to be a vital sign. Superb work from Dempsey and coworkersInvestigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length | Communications Biology Walking pace is a simple and functional form of movement and a strong predictor of health status, but the nature of its association - -
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August 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Investigation of a UK biobank cohort reveals causal associations of self-reported walking pace with telomere length @CommsBio
Our reviewer of the month December at @commsbio.bsky.social is Karin Gross, postdoctoral researcher at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg: www.nature.com/commsbio/ref...
Reviewer of the Month | Communications Biology
Reviewer of the Month
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December 1, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Our reviewer of the month December at @commsbio.bsky.social is Karin Gross, postdoctoral researcher at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg: www.nature.com/commsbio/ref...
Our journal works on a collaborative model with in-house editors and Board Members - if you are interested in becoming an Editorial Board Member for @commsbio.bsky.social, please complete this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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November 27, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Our journal works on a collaborative model with in-house editors and Board Members - if you are interested in becoming an Editorial Board Member for @commsbio.bsky.social, please complete this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
www.nature.com/commsbio/edi... 🧪
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August 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If the title doesn't capture your attention, then possibly the fact that it's one of the first articles published in @CommsBio:
"Beyond Royalactin and a master inducer explanation of phenotypic plasticity in honey bees@nresearchnews #biology #openaccess
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"Beyond Royalactin and a master inducer explanation of phenotypic plasticity in honey bees@nresearchnews #biology #openaccess
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Beyond Royalactin and a master inducer explanation of phenotypic plasticity in honey bees
Communications Biology - In honeybees, genotypically identical females develop into queens or sterile workers, depending on their diets. In this review, Ryszard Maleszka discusses the controversial...
ow.ly
January 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If the title doesn't capture your attention, then possibly the fact that it's one of the first articles published in @CommsBio:
"Beyond Royalactin and a master inducer explanation of phenotypic plasticity in honey bees@nresearchnews #biology #openaccess
ow.ly/pTOI30hVvtU
"Beyond Royalactin and a master inducer explanation of phenotypic plasticity in honey bees@nresearchnews #biology #openaccess
ow.ly/pTOI30hVvtU
Also in @derspiegel ... a story about our paper on the impacts of #SCTLD on the functional ecology of Caribbean reefs @CommsBio
Verlust von Artenvielfalt: Mysteriöse Krankheit zerstört Steinkorallen in der Karibik
go.nature.com/3QeBE3I spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n…
Verlust von Artenvielfalt: Mysteriöse Krankheit zerstört Steinkorallen in der Karibik
go.nature.com/3QeBE3I spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n…
November 24, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Also in @derspiegel ... a story about our paper on the impacts of #SCTLD on the functional ecology of Caribbean reefs @CommsBio
Verlust von Artenvielfalt: Mysteriöse Krankheit zerstört Steinkorallen in der Karibik
go.nature.com/3QeBE3I spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n…
Verlust von Artenvielfalt: Mysteriöse Krankheit zerstört Steinkorallen in der Karibik
go.nature.com/3QeBE3I spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n…
Our paper in @CommsBio @NaturePortfolio shows that the #SCTLD is likely to become the most lethal disturbance ever recorded in the Caribbean, and it will likely result in the onset of a new functional regime defined by the dominance of low relief corals
rdcu.be/cPjSi
rdcu.be/cPjSi
November 24, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Our paper in @CommsBio @NaturePortfolio shows that the #SCTLD is likely to become the most lethal disturbance ever recorded in the Caribbean, and it will likely result in the onset of a new functional regime defined by the dominance of low relief corals
rdcu.be/cPjSi
rdcu.be/cPjSi
🚨Out now 🚨😎
Our latest paper published in @CommsBio led by the
@jameskhane.bsky.social lab @theccdm.bsky.social shown the ⚖️balancing act of RIP vs negative selection in generating genetic diversity in a major🌾wheat fungal pathogen!
Find out more! 👇👇👇
Our latest paper published in @CommsBio led by the
@jameskhane.bsky.social lab @theccdm.bsky.social shown the ⚖️balancing act of RIP vs negative selection in generating genetic diversity in a major🌾wheat fungal pathogen!
Find out more! 👇👇👇
🌾Pathogens are constantly evolving to outsmart crops! Our team analyzed 173 isolates of the fungus behind Stagonospora nodorum blotch🧬
They found it uses DNA mutations like RIP to diversify—while harmful mutations are filtered out🦠
📰 https://buff.ly/4jXm63B
@jameskhane.bsky.social
They found it uses DNA mutations like RIP to diversify—while harmful mutations are filtered out🦠
📰 https://buff.ly/4jXm63B
@jameskhane.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
🚨Out now 🚨😎
Our latest paper published in @CommsBio led by the
@jameskhane.bsky.social lab @theccdm.bsky.social shown the ⚖️balancing act of RIP vs negative selection in generating genetic diversity in a major🌾wheat fungal pathogen!
Find out more! 👇👇👇
Our latest paper published in @CommsBio led by the
@jameskhane.bsky.social lab @theccdm.bsky.social shown the ⚖️balancing act of RIP vs negative selection in generating genetic diversity in a major🌾wheat fungal pathogen!
Find out more! 👇👇👇
Excited to share that our latest findings on #polyester #degradation by #Streptomyces #BHETase enzyme variants is published in Nature Comunications Biology (@CommsBio). Excellent and tenacious study by @JoVerschoor, with thank you's to all coauthors.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Polyester degradation by soil bacteria: identification of conserved BHETase enzymes in Streptomyces - Communications Biology
A comprehensive study on the identification and characterization of PETase-like enzymes in Streptomyces indicates the presence of strain specific variants of a conserved BHET-degrading esterase.
www.nature.com
June 13, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Excited to share that our latest findings on #polyester #degradation by #Streptomyces #BHETase enzyme variants is published in Nature Comunications Biology (@CommsBio). Excellent and tenacious study by @JoVerschoor, with thank you's to all coauthors.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
🎉 It was great to interview Bea Bock on her @CommsBio paper: “Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor”, for the SAMRN @YouTube channel & @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social Newsletter:
#Fungi @mrillig.bsky.social #CFN
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
#Fungi @mrillig.bsky.social #CFN
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🎉 It was great to interview Bea Bock on her @CommsBio paper: “Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor”, for the SAMRN @YouTube channel & @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social Newsletter:
#Fungi @mrillig.bsky.social #CFN
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
#Fungi @mrillig.bsky.social #CFN
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
It was great to interview Bea Bock on her @CommsBio paper: “Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor”, for the @mycorrhiza_ims @YouTube channel & @mycorrhiza_ims Newsletter
@mrillig.bsky.social
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
@mrillig.bsky.social
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
September 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It was great to interview Bea Bock on her @CommsBio paper: “Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor”, for the @mycorrhiza_ims @YouTube channel & @mycorrhiza_ims Newsletter
@mrillig.bsky.social
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
@mrillig.bsky.social
youtu.be/2fljqU3uXtw?...
Did you ever think about getting started with two-photon excitation (TPE) microscopy?
It is a great time and fun 🙃🔬
Therefore, we put some of the basics, trends, and pitfalls in fluorescence and TPE microscopy together.
Now out in CommsBio #OpenAccess
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
It is a great time and fun 🙃🔬
Therefore, we put some of the basics, trends, and pitfalls in fluorescence and TPE microscopy together.
Now out in CommsBio #OpenAccess
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
March 26, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Did you ever think about getting started with two-photon excitation (TPE) microscopy?
It is a great time and fun 🙃🔬
Therefore, we put some of the basics, trends, and pitfalls in fluorescence and TPE microscopy together.
Now out in CommsBio #OpenAccess
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
It is a great time and fun 🙃🔬
Therefore, we put some of the basics, trends, and pitfalls in fluorescence and TPE microscopy together.
Now out in CommsBio #OpenAccess
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
My journal article with @danjbecker.bsky.social , @colincarlson.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org is featured on the @commsbio.nature.com homepage this week!! www.nature.com/commsbio/ check it out to see a cool bat picture by Brock Fenton!! 🦇💗🦇💗
Communications Biology
Communications Biology is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My journal article with @danjbecker.bsky.social , @colincarlson.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org is featured on the @commsbio.nature.com homepage this week!! www.nature.com/commsbio/ check it out to see a cool bat picture by Brock Fenton!! 🦇💗🦇💗
Ecological science needs experiments. Yes, even in our age of global maps, huge shared datasets and sophisticated models. Proud to announce a call for experiment-based papers in NatureComms, CommsBio, CommsEarth and SciReports. Any questions, feel free to ask me www.nature.com/collections/...
November 6, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Ecological science needs experiments. Yes, even in our age of global maps, huge shared datasets and sophisticated models. Proud to announce a call for experiment-based papers in NatureComms, CommsBio, CommsEarth and SciReports. Any questions, feel free to ask me www.nature.com/collections/...
Chris Neufeldt @viralcell & the whole SARS gang @BartenschlagLab (+ contributions by us) early on observed how efficiently #SARSCoV2 blocks #interferon induction but allows for pro-inflammatory #cytokines. After a looong journey, finally out @CommsBio...
February 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Chris Neufeldt @viralcell & the whole SARS gang @BartenschlagLab (+ contributions by us) early on observed how efficiently #SARSCoV2 blocks #interferon induction but allows for pro-inflammatory #cytokines. After a looong journey, finally out @CommsBio...
Happy to share that our article "Pseudomonas putida as saviour for troubled Synechococcus elongatus in a synthetic co-culture – interaction studies based on a multi-OMICs approach" is now published in @CommsBio.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Pseudomonas putida as saviour for troubled Synechococcus elongatus in a synthetic co-culture – interaction studies based on a multi-OMICs approach - Communications Biology
This study investigates interspecies interaction in a synthetic co-culture consisting of the sucrose-secreting cyanobacterium S. elongatus cscB and its sucrose-consuming partner P. putida cscRABY by e...
doi.org
April 16, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Happy to share that our article "Pseudomonas putida as saviour for troubled Synechococcus elongatus in a synthetic co-culture – interaction studies based on a multi-OMICs approach" is now published in @CommsBio.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#NicotinamideMonoNucleotide #MetabolicAging #MaleFertility
Serum Metabolome
Gut Microbiome
Testes Transcriptome+Acetylome
Oral NMN, NAD+ precursor, in 🐭+HFD improves Lipid Metab, Testes Glycolysis, Seminiferous tubule integrity & Sperm quality
#CommsBio 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Serum Metabolome
Gut Microbiome
Testes Transcriptome+Acetylome
Oral NMN, NAD+ precursor, in 🐭+HFD improves Lipid Metab, Testes Glycolysis, Seminiferous tubule integrity & Sperm quality
#CommsBio 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
June 17, 2026 at 10:26 AM
#NicotinamideMonoNucleotide #MetabolicAging #MaleFertility
Serum Metabolome
Gut Microbiome
Testes Transcriptome+Acetylome
Oral NMN, NAD+ precursor, in 🐭+HFD improves Lipid Metab, Testes Glycolysis, Seminiferous tubule integrity & Sperm quality
#CommsBio 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Serum Metabolome
Gut Microbiome
Testes Transcriptome+Acetylome
Oral NMN, NAD+ precursor, in 🐭+HFD improves Lipid Metab, Testes Glycolysis, Seminiferous tubule integrity & Sperm quality
#CommsBio 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A role of germ cell-specific RNA helicase, DDX4, in chemoresistance (cisplatin) of Small Cell Lung Cancer
High DDX4➡️⏬SCLC patient survival
Transcriptome & Secretome of DDX4-overexpressing H69AR cells
⏫Resistance to Cisplatin, Hydroxide urea
⏫EMT
#CommsBio 2023
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
High DDX4➡️⏬SCLC patient survival
Transcriptome & Secretome of DDX4-overexpressing H69AR cells
⏫Resistance to Cisplatin, Hydroxide urea
⏫EMT
#CommsBio 2023
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
May 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
A role of germ cell-specific RNA helicase, DDX4, in chemoresistance (cisplatin) of Small Cell Lung Cancer
High DDX4➡️⏬SCLC patient survival
Transcriptome & Secretome of DDX4-overexpressing H69AR cells
⏫Resistance to Cisplatin, Hydroxide urea
⏫EMT
#CommsBio 2023
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
High DDX4➡️⏬SCLC patient survival
Transcriptome & Secretome of DDX4-overexpressing H69AR cells
⏫Resistance to Cisplatin, Hydroxide urea
⏫EMT
#CommsBio 2023
www.nature.com/articles/s42...