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A blog that aims to share appreciation for the width & depth of microbial activities.

Posts by Christoph, not necessarily the opinion of all team members of Small Things Considered (STC) https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/

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Sequencing <em>en Masse</em>schaechter.asmblog.org by Roberto – For someone who learned how to determine a short DNA sequence, say 50 bases, by first transcribing a DNA fragment into RNA and then sequencing the RNA using the laborious fingerprinting ...

sad to see your magazine go! and thanks for all your good work over the past years 🙏

We haven’t lost hope for new sources of funding to keep some version of the magazine alive. Please send ideas to [email protected].

#FungiFriends 🍄📷 Live imaging analysis of sexual and asexual reproduction, zygospore and sporangiospore formation, in Gilbertella persicaria www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/myco... x.com/i/status/181...

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#MicroSky #SymbioSky Anna Michalik, Diego C. Franco, Teresa Szklarzewicz, Adam Stroiński & Piotr Łukasik Facultatively intrabacterial localization of a planthopper endosymbiont as an adaptation to its vertical transmission journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

(prokaryotic) DNA replicationists & chromosome organizers rake note 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MicroSky

Identification, characterization and classification of prokaryotic nucleoid‐associated proteinsonlinelibrary.wiley.com Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) structure DNA by either bending, wrapping, bridging, or forming protein filaments on the DNA. We review newly identified NAPs and provide a list of simple biochemi....

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Very happy to present our latest preprint in collaboration with @simonvanvliet.bsky.social as part of the NCCR Microbiomes. Estelle engineered uptake and leakage rates in synthetic communities of E. coli amino acid auxotrophs and studied the effects on spatial arrangement and community composition.

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When shattered glass art evokes a scientific paper?schaechter.asmblog.org by Janie — Recently I stumbled across Simon Berger's shattered glass artwork, and was reminded of RNA-seq and transcriptomics, of all things. The Swiss artist's pieces each begin with a large pane of ...

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Thursday: another episode of #MattersMicrobial! Episode #48 is with the great Mark Mandel. He discusses the work he and his colleagues do with the beautiful squid-Vibrio sysmbiosis. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! @microbe.tv @univpugetsound @asmicrobiology youtu.be/6V61a92LoGs?...

Matters Microbial #48: Many are bright but few are chosenyoutu.be Today, Dr. Mark Mandel, Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the research h...

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Have you ever heard of Fanny Angelina Hesse?schaechter.asmblog.org by Corrado Nai – A graphic novel about this forgotten woman in science is on its way – but it's unlikely to make an impact without the strong support from the microbiology community. If you have neve...

"Amoebae as training grounds for microbial pathogens" journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky

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Uncovering the hidden complexity of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Uncovering the hidden complexity of multicellular magnetotactic bacteriajournals.plos.org Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB) have a surprisingly complex multicellular lifestyle. This Primer explores a new study in PLOS Biology which combines genomics, microscopy, and isotopic label...

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Dengue on the Riseschaechter.asmblog.org by Mechas – Dengue fever, a rapidly spreading disease caused by the dengue virus, is ranked among the top 10 threats to global health. Despite being restricted mainly to tropical and subtropical regi...

bacterial chromosome replicationists (Bacillus dept.) take note 👇 #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DNA replication initiation timing is important for maintaining genome integritywww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

from the abstract of the Nature paper: «Sample collection times as short as only 4 hours apart can lead to vastly different conclusions.» we concur with vaughn: Uh,... #MicroSky

Uh, why is this surprising? We've known for decades that monocultures of bacteria need to be measured within minutes of each other to be comparable, because microbial growth is fast and resources change quickly.

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The atmosphere: a transport medium or an active microbial ecosystem? From @greening.bsky.social et al. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

The atmosphere: a transport medium or an active microbial ecosystem?academic.oup.com Abstract. The atmosphere may be Earth’s largest microbial ecosystem. It is connected to all of Earth’s surface ecosystems and plays an important role in mi

christoph: Caulophiles take note 👇 @ThanbichlerLab on 𝕏: Now in its final version: rdcu.be/dL0bo We use the phosphate transporter PitA from E. coli as a tool to distinguish between the regulatory effects of extracellular and cytoplasmic phosphate in the model species C. crescentus. #MicroSky

The cytoplasmic phosphate level has a central regulatory role in the phosphate starvation response of Caulobacter crescentusrdcu.be Communications Biology - An analysis of the phosphate starvation response in Caulobacter crescentus shows that the extracellular and cytoplasmic phosphate concentrations are sensed by different...

tagging #MicroSky #SymbioSky again, because it's absolutely worth it. such a fascinating story!

Congratulations @kathikitzinger.bsky.social and @daanspeth.bsky.social from our @cemess.bsky.social @univie.ac.at for being part of this great story led by Marcel Kuypers and colleagues from @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social medienportal.univie.ac.at/en/media/rec...

Long-standing marine mystery solved: How algae get nitrogen to growmedienportal.univie.ac.at Newly discovered symbiosis between Rhizobia and diatoms could also open new avenues for agriculture

actinophiles take note 👇 #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The role of two major nucleoid associated proteins in Streptomyces, HupA and HupS, in stress survival and gene expression regulationwww.biorxiv.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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I am excited about our new mission statement and detailed lab culture. Thanks to my amazing lab for all the work generating these kleinerlab.cals.ncsu.edu kleinerlab.cals.ncsu.edu/lab-culture/ Lots of inspiration from the webpages of the labs of @malladapted.bsky.social and @marcstrous.bsky.social

The Kleiner Lab – Metabolism, physiology, and evolutionary ecology of microbial symbioseskleinerlab.cals.ncsu.edu

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Great to be part of new paper from Monica & Adriano labs at ITQB-Nova on SpoIVB2 protease in #Cdiff #sporulation, its impact on SpoIIP activity (Charlotte Roughton, Salgado lab) and in vivo cleavage (Hailee, @thejoesorg.bsky.social lab). Congratulations everyone! doi.org/10.1111/mmi....

Cleavage of an engulfment peptidoglycan hydrolase by a sporulation signature protease in Clostridioides difficiledoi.org Molecular Microbiology is a broad-scope microbiology journal for basic and translational research that contributes to understanding molecular principles in microbes.

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Need a #phage or #virus #bioinformatics tool? Have a #phage or #virus #bioinformatics tool to share? Check out this Google doc with >150 tools in 40 different categories #phagesky #microsky 💻🧬 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Viral Bioinformatics Toolsdocs.google.com Sheet1 Name,Category,Individual, multiple, or virome,Phage, Virus, or Both,Methods,Citation,Google Scholar Link to Cluster Representing the Paper,URL,Last update (YYYMMDD),Notes,Install from conda,In...

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Asking a question | Journal of Bacteriologyjournals.asm.org The initial idea of this essay dates back to several years ago, perhaps more than I care to admit. In his role as co-director, George O'Toole asked me to give a lecture in the Woods Hole Microbial Div...

(bacterial) chromosome organizers, take note 👇 thx vicky lioy @VCLioy for the shoutout on 𝕏 👏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MicroSky

Principles of bacterial genome organization, a conformational point of viewonlinelibrary.wiley.com Molecular Microbiology is a broad-scope microbiology journal for basic and translational research that contributes to understanding molecular principles in microbes.

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I launched a platform for researchers to find collaborations easily. A kind of blablacar or airbnb but instead of putting your route or apartment, you put the technique, experiment or analysis that you handle and with which you would be open to make collaborations. joinportiko.com re-post please!

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Endozoicomonas as “E.coli of the ocean” I wish nicole would explain this in @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social 🙂

This was such a fun talk - her framing Endozoicomonas as “E.coli of the ocean” cracked me up #ASMicrobe 🧫🧪🦑

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Summer Vacationschaechter.asmblog.org The STC team is taking its customary summer vacation, this year for four weeks. Do you think we deserve it? We do. We look forward to seeing you again on July 15!

#SymbioSky #MicroSky Takema Fukatsu (@fkttkm on 𝕏): Wolbachia Conference 2025@OIST, Okinawa, Japan, Early-bird registration is currently open! web.tuat.ac.jp/~insect/wolb...

(bacterial) cell divisionists take note 👇 x.com/RSocPublishi... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Symbiosis nerds! Some of you might have seen a smattering of recent posts about papers in PLoS Biology, but it's worth looking at the entire special issue, called Symbiosis Across the Tree of Life (edited by Richards and Moran). There are so many interesting reviews, comments, etc. type things here!

Symbiosis across the tree of lifecollections.plos.org The aim of this collection is to showcase symbiotic relationships across the tree of life, exploring their evolutionary basis and underlying mechanisms.

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Retrospective, January to June 2024schaechter.asmblog.org by the STC team — Did you miss some of our posts from the past six months? Do you want to re-read your favorites? Just scroll to quickly scan through the list of our posts from the last half year, arr...