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ISME is coming to České Budějovice! 🦠

The Meeting of Junior Czech Microbial Ecologists is on 11 Dec 2026. MSc/PhD students & junior postdocs in Czechia: give a talk or flash talk. It's free, but register by 1 Dec.

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#MicrobialEcology #ISME
ISME Meeting of Junior Czech Microbial Ecologists 2026
ISME Meeting of Junior Czech Microbial Ecologists, 11 December 2026, České Budějovice.
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November 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
microbiomacsic.bsky.social
#SIBECOL #MarTransfer #Microbioma #Microbiome #ResistenciaAntimicrobiana #MicrobialResistance #UnaSolaSalud #OneHealth #CSIC #EcologíaMicrobiana #MicrobialEcology #ConexiónMicrobioma #IDAEA-CSIC @mncn-csic.bsky.social
November 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Leibniz Gemeinschaft (@leibniz-gemeinschaft.de) is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbial Ecology and Bioinformatics

#postdoc #biology #microbialecology
November 2, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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📸🦠Got a microbe-tastic shot? A stunning micrograph, a great fieldwork shot, or a glimpse of microbes in action? 🌍
Your photo or video could be featured on an ISME journal cover or in our promotional materials.
⏰ Deadline: 4 November
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#MicrobialEcology
October 29, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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📖 Ready to explore the limits of life? Discover Where Life Defies the Odds and uncover the extraordinary survival strategies of Earth's most resilient microorganisms #extremophiles #microbiology #microbiallife #astrobiology #microbialecology #biotechnology

Book link: a.co/d/0akeWmFX
October 30, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Why culture at all? Metabarcoding has mapped who lives on corals, but sequences alone say little about what symbionts actually do. Isolates let us test physiology, interactions, and function in vitro. So we went back to the plates 🧫 #MicrobialEcology #Microbiology
October 27, 2026 at 2:11 PM
isme-microbes.bsky.social
📸 LAST WEEK to submit your photos & videos to ISME!
Your images could feature on the 2027 covers of the ISME publications or on our Society's website and promotional materials. 🦠🌍
📅 Deadline: 4 November 2026

Submit here 👉 isme-microbes.org/public/profi...
#MicrobialEcology
October 27, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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🦠 Meet Sukhjit Kaur, an M.S. Biology student at SFSU!

Sukhjit studies microbial and viral communities in Suisun Marsh, including the potential presence of antibiotic-resistance genes.

🐊 #GradPreviewWeek is this week! Details at the link in our bio.

#SFSUBiology #MicrobialEcology
October 22, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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#OurNewPaper in Applied Soil Ecology: Durney et al. Land-use legacy shapes soil- and root-associated microbial communities, modifies nutrient cycling, and influences vine physiology
#SoilMicrobiology #MicrobialEcology #PlantMicrobiome #ForestSoils #Grapevine #Mycorrhizae #Fungi #Bacteria
October 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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⏰ LAST CHANCE to apply!
Are you an MSc/PhD student or postdoc in microbial ecology? 🌱 The ISME Scholar Mobility Fund offers support for research visits, training & international collaboration.
📅 Deadline: 21 October 2026
👉 Apply now: isme-microbes.org/profile/news...
#MicrobialEcology
October 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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🦠 Meet ISME Host Microbe, ISME’s new fully open access journal!
In the launch editorial, discover why an ecological perspective on host–microbe interactions matters, from microbiomes and health to ecosystem function.
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October 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Registrations are now open for the next edition of the online course #Metabarcoding in Microbial Ecology with Anna Sandionigi & Luigi Borruso

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#Metabarcoding #MicrobialEcology #Qiime2 #Rstats
October 14, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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ISME congratulates Satoshi Okabe of Hokkaido University, Japan, the winner of the 2026 ISME/IWA BioCluster Grand Prize, recognising internationally outstanding research of unusual merit.
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#microbes #microbialecology
October 14, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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🦠 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – Current Microbiome Science

📩 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲: https://bit.ly/4eoR8jo

#CurrentMicrobiomeScience #CallForPapers #MicrobiomeScience #MicrobiomeResearch #MicrobialEcology #ScientificPublishing #BenthamScience
October 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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🔬How does Salmonella enterica enter a tomato plant? 🍅 Michel Schrader’s striking electron microscopy image captures S. enterica at a tomato leaf stoma features as the cover image of ISME Host Microbe.
Discover more about this research isme-microbes.org/public/profi...
#microbes #microbialecology
October 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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🔬 Meet the diatom behind the 2026 cover of The ISME Journal! 🦠
Congratulations to Morgan Pavelsky and Margarita Lankford, whose striking image of the centric diatom Corethron was selected for this year’s cover.
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#microbes #microbialecology
October 6, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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I'm proud to share the latest @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social preprint introducing the Ocean Microbiomics Database (OMDB).

📄 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

#MicrobialEcology #OceanScience #ClimateChange #Metagenomics #AI #Bioinformatics
October 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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🔬 From unusual microbial appetites to global climate challenges, meet Max Haggblom, ISME’s new Vice President!
Discover his journey in microbial ecology, what inspires his research, and his vision for ISME. 🦠
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#MicrobialEcology #ISME #Microbiology
October 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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🌍 Looking to take your microbial ecology research abroad? MSc/PhD students and postdocs are invited to apply for the ISME Scholar Mobility Fund to support international research, training and collaboration. 🦠
isme-microbes.org/public/profi...
📅 Apply by 21 October 2026
#MicrobialEcology
October 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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New paper out in ISME journal! 🪲🌲
With our Czech colleagues, we show how host, bacteria and fungi cooperate to drive nutrient acquisition and metabolism in the European spruce bark beetle holobiont.
#Symbiosis #MicrobialEcology
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September 28, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Across the Loess Plateau, core bacteria helped build microbial network complexity, while rare taxa played a key role in maintaining stability. Climate and soil also shaped these groups in different ways.
#SoilMicrobiome #MicrobialEcology
Read more 👉:
www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...
September 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
fleawrites.bsky.social
🎉 Excited to share that this has been accepted for publication in Marine Biotechnology! A non-living, microbe-based coating that promotes coral and tubeworm settlement (preprint below - final version to follow soon) #ReefTiles #Biofilm #MicrobialEcology #ReefRestoration
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A non-living, microbe-based surface coating promotes tubeworm and coral settlement https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.06.743049v1
September 4, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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For the first time, we watched bacteria and microbial eukaryotes shift together during bleaching: suspected nitrifiers dropped early, while suspected denitrifiers and nitrate reducers rose, along with blooms of chlorophytes, diatoms, and labyrinthulids. #Microbiome #Protists #MicrobialEcology
September 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
silverja.bsky.social
Back in Calgary after an incredible week in New Zealand for #ISME20 in Auckland! 🌊🥝

Grateful for the chance to present my research on fungal viruses and connect with so many new people.

Now looking forward to #ISME21 in Vancouver! 🍁

#MicrobialEcology #Virome #Fungi #Candida
August 25, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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New Visualization: The Tumor Microbiome Landscape

I am sharing a heatmap-style visualization titled "The Tumor Microbiome Landscape: Genus-Level Bacterial Enrichment Across Human Cancers"

#TumorMicrobiome #CancerMicrobiome #Metagenomics #Oncology #Fusobacterium #MicrobialEcology #DataVisualization
New Visualization: The Tumor Microbiome Landscape I am sharing a heatmap-style visualization titled "The Tumor Microbiome Landscape: Genus-Level Bacterial Enrichment Across Human Cancers," with the subtitle "Log2 fold-change in relative abundance of intratumoral bacterial genera versus matched adjacent normal tissue across seven tumor types." Important caveat: the data depicted here are simulated. The figure is intended to illustrate a literature-grounded trend synthesized from published intratumoral microbiome studies rather than to represent any single empirical dataset. It should be interpreted as a conceptual composite for discussion and teaching purposes. The matrix arranges bacterial genera along one axis and seven tumor types (colorectal, breast, lung, pancreatic, gastric, oral, and hepatocellular) along the other, with cells colored by log2 fold-change relative to matched adjacent normal tissue. The visualization reproduces several recurrently reported patterns: marked enrichment of Fusobacterium in colorectal and oral carcinomas, consistent with FadA- and Fap2-mediated epithelial adhesion and immunomodulation; enrichment of Enterobacteriaceae-associated genera in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, relevant to gemcitabine metabolism via bacterial cytidine deaminase; and comparatively low-biomass, heterogeneous signatures in breast tissue. Divergent color scaling distinguishes enrichment from depletion, and hierarchical clustering groups tumor types with concordant taxonomic profiles. My intent is to foreground tissue-specific niche selection and the mechanistic plausibility of these associations, while emphasizing that contamination controls, low-biomass artifacts, and batch effects remain critical confounders in this field. I welcome discussion on appropriate normalization strategies, the utility of log2 fold-change versus compositional approaches such as CLR transformation, and how best to represent uncertainty in low-biomass compartments.
August 25, 2026 at 5:46 PM