mvif 47
Happy Monday!
We can't wait to welcome #MVIF 47 speakers and YOU ๐คฉ
Highlights
๐ง๐ช Andrey Radev
๐ฎ๐ท Zahra Nezamivand Chegini
Keynote
๐ฌ๐ง Lindsay Hall (@halllab.bsky.social)
Talks
๐บ๐ธ Chris Robinson
๐จ๐ญ @lukasmalf.bsky.social
๐ฎ๐ท Mohammad Salimi
Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-47
If you are interested in contributing a video article on your methods, either message me or submit an abstract here: app.jove.com/methods-coll...
JoVE articles are indexed in PubMed, Web of Science, SciFinder, EMBASE, and Scopus.
Authors submit a traditional text manuscript, after which JoVE handles all the video production.
New indices or predictive approaches, as well as research investigating the role or evolution of metabolic interactions in microbial communities, are also welcome.
The purpose of this collection is to bring together methodological innovation, benchmarking strategies, and real-world applications that illuminate how complementary metabolic capabilities shape microbial interactions and ecosystem processes.
To anyone keen on hashtag #microbial metabolic interactions,
I have opened a Topical Collection with JoVE on โMethods and Applications for the Prediction and Verification of Metabolic Complementarity in Microbial Communitiesโ:
tiny.cc/ui5w001
If you worry about your data getting scooped, ฮผGrowthDB provides embargo dates, so your data would only be publicly available after the expiration of that date.Meanwhile, your entry will already appear in the db, acknowledging your contribution & showing that youโve done your part for the community.
Transforming ฮผGrowthDB into a truly representative resource of microbial culturing efforts would require a collective community effort.
Therefore, give it a shot and share your #FAIR data!
๐งชIf you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at ฮผGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition.
#microsky #mevosky
Model for the interaction between P. aeruginosa and K. pneumoniae. These bacteria can co-exist in nutrient-replete conditions. Under iron-limiting conditions, siderophore synthesis is induced in both bacteria. Iron limitation can also turn on the synthesis of biosurfactants, rhamnolipids, in P. aeruginosa, allowing it to push away K. pneumoniae.
#MicrobiologyMonday: Pseudomonas aeruginosa releases a surfactant that displaces Klebsiella pneumoniae from solid surfaces. By pushing K. pneumoniae away, the detergent allows P. aeruginosa to better compete for limited iron. Learn more in #mBio: asm.social/2sH
microbetag comes as a Python package you can use on your own genomes or as an on-the-fly service mapping your taxa to their closest GTDB genomes
our software, microbetag, for the annotation of microbial co-occurrence networks with phenotypic traits & metabolic complementarities was just published
A Cytoscape app is also available to make your life easier (and prettier)
#microbiome #metabolic-modeling #networks
First day of July brings us the Summer 2025 edition of our open-access textbook! Join Piglette in stargazing and exploring newest additions to our book principlescellphysiology.org/book-economi...
Hi #microbiome community.
If you are interested in microbial networks, feel free to have a look and register in our summer school!
Two days with talks and hands-on on how to annotate your networks and come up with testable hypotheses.
24 and 25 Sep 2025, Leuven , Belgium
@3domics.bsky.social
DNNGIOR gapfiller: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
dingo Python library for flux sampling: doi.org/10.1093/bioa...
If you're new in #metabolic #modelling or just interested, we had a workshop last week and here is a set of notebooks we wrote.
Among other things, we discussed our recently published gapfiller, DNNGIOR and the dingo flux sampling Python library we built with the GeomScale group!
#microbiome #flux
If you're interested in microbial co-occurrence networks and how to make sense out of them, feel free to join my seminar at @microbiomevif.bsky.social on microbetag; a recently developed software of ours!
#microbiome #networks
Here's our new tool for annotating microbial co-occurrence networks with phenotypic traits & potential metabolic complementarities.
Cytoscape App
apps.cytoscape.org/apps/mgg
Documentation
hariszaf.github.io/microbetag/
bioRxiv
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
#microbiome #microbiology #metagenomics
Graphical abstract of a publication. The original abstract is "Major oil spills can impose a significant environmental hazard on the marine ecosystem, and a promising mitigation measure is in-situ oil burning (ISB). However, our knowledge of the impact of the burned residues and soot deposition on the marine ecosystem is still limited. We investigated the effects of burned oil residue and soot deposition on the marine plankton communities of the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea with a mesocosm experiment. Three triplicated treatments were tested: (1) Iranian crude oil was added and burned (Burned treatment); (2) soot was collected and deposited with artificial rain (Soot); and (3) a non-contaminated Control. Results revealed that Low Nucleic Acid heterotrophic bacteria, Synechococcus spp., and pigmented pico-nano Eukaryotes (pnEuk) were negatively affected in the Burned and Soot treatments. Viruses, heterotrophic pnEuk and ciliates (in Soot) were crucial for controlling the High Nucleic Acid bacteria. Ciliates and most dinoflagellates showed a negative response to the burned residues but were less affected or were even favored when exposed to soot. Our results show that ISB affected the structure and dynamics of the plankton food web through burned residues and soot depositions. However, since the effects appeared at least three days after the ignition, ISB could be combined with subsequent burned residue collection to minimize its impact on the pelagic ecosystem."
Did we set fire to the rain? ๐ฅ
Well, not exactly, but we did set it to the water. Or technically, to our artificial oil spill! ๐ข๏ธ
Was there smoke on the water? ๐จ
Yes, there was!
Is this the first publication of, quite a few, more to come? Indeed!
Check it out here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
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Exciting news! ๐ My article is out in iScience presenting DNNGIOR, a deep learning tool advancing gap-filling in metabolic models. Huge thanks to co-authors @cmelkonian.bsky.social, @hariszaf.bsky.social, Daniel Garza, Andreas Haas and @bedutilh.bsky.social. Read at shorturl.at/REOm8
Love this idea for helping the community make the transition to Bluesky, so Iโve compiled a woefully incomplete list of microbial ecologists and -omics peeps I know are here.
Please make suggestions and share. Let me know if youโd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/TQpaTqF
Excited to share: The inaugural Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behavior is coming to Venice (Sep 29-Oct 4, 2025). This unique school honors Alma (1989-2022), whose brilliant work bridging physics and microbiology revealed how metabolic interactions structure microbial communities. 1/12
