I ❤️❤️ expansion microscopy- great to see it used on microbes!🦠 🧫

TKevolvedbiofilm.bsky.socialDec 5, 2023 2:35pm

Expansion microscopy applied to mono- and dual-species biofilms -in NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really beautiful piece of work from Nadine Ziemert et al - Resurrecting ancestral antibiotics: unveiling the origins of modern lipid II targeting glycopeptides www.nature.com/articles/s41...#MicroSky#EvoSky

Resurrecting ancestral antibiotics: unveiling the origins of modern lipid II targeting glycopeptides...

Glycopeptide antibiotics (GPAs) are microbial natural products synthesized by multiple enzymes, including a nonribosomal peptide synthetase for assembly of the peptide core. Here, the authors use comp...

This is really cool - using the distribution of cells in a pipette tip for CFU quantification: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes - Nature Microbiology

Using agar media suspended in pipette tips and a standard camera, the geometric viability assay provides a user-friendly and scalable update to standard colony-forming-unit-count approaches.

How many bacterial pathogens infect humans? by Roberto In casual conversations I used to say that the number of bacteria causing human disease was small, a few dozen, perhaps around 100. Was I wrong! A paper by Bartlett et al. (2022) puts the number at... Read more > tinyurl.com/kmhuhh94#MicroSky

Thank you so much! I’m very honoured and really enjoyed the APC Microbiome symposium - so many awesome students and post docs doing great stuff! 🦠🧫

JFjfcryan.bsky.socialOct 27, 2023 3:19pm

Highlight of the APC Microbiome Annual Symposium is presentation of the Charles Donovan Microbiome Prize - What a worthy winner Ruth Ley is

Hi all! I’m excited to finally join the conversation here. I’m a biologist interested in symbioses, esp why & how they evolve. Our lab studies these interactions in insects and their beneficial microbes 🦠🧫🧪
Looking forward to connecting with many of you! #MicroSky

I am looking for a graduate student and a postdoc to join my group! We are a computational group working on understanding evolution in natural populations with a large emphasis on the microbiome. Please get in touch by dm or email! garud.eeb.ucla.edu

Those guys indeed! Yes happy to do some PR on behalf of these cuties

Authors recommend replication - a key aspect science. And I was happy to see Christensenellaceae mentioned b/c their heritability has been replicated, and of course they are really cool. 🦠🧫

There are limitations but this is a neat tool to play around with www.nature.com/articles/s41...bugsigdb.org (I wish we had something like this for mechanistic microbiome studies)

BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbi...

A database of microbial signatures is used for systematic comparison of differential abundance patterns.