History is a great teacher.
In this piece our own @heidiledford.bsky.social looks at what we can learn from what happened in Japan when vaccine support was withdrawn and how the government is now working to reverse the effects 🧪
#MedSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How do new soils develop after glaciers vanish? ❄️🧬🦠🏔️
The first microbial colonisers use flexible chemoautotrophic strategies to overcome nutrient scarcity, including scavenging H2, CO and CH4 from the air! ⛅
Led by Francesco Ricci, Sean Bay @greening.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Beautiful morning for a Polar and Alpine Microbiology conference in Copenhagen with an amazing program 😎
If you want to know more, info here: www.icebio.eu/pages/pam2026/
#NewResearch
Diverse genomes of lytic phages are found in bacterial assemblies, challenging assumptions about the nature of the lytic lifestyle.
#MicroSky 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is figure 1, which shows a summary of the systematic review dataset.
Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature in January. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪
A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)
This is figure 3, which shows eccentricity-dependent filtering that removes invisible details to improve coding performance.
A study in Nature Communications determines the maximum display resolution that the human eye can discriminate. The limit was determined for achromatic and chromatic vision, for both the fovea and periphery. go.nature.com/3L4zl5x 🧪
Day 22, GOAT. The most iconic (if not the greatest phage of all time) in terms of looks are myovirus like phages. They look like a lunar lander and are instantly recognisable as a virus. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky
How do microbes survive the most extreme environments on Earth and what does that tell us about life beyond our planet? #FEMSMicrobes is welcoming papers on the microbiology of extreme environments and their links to astrobiology. 🦠 🌌 Submit before 31st December 2025: buff.ly/frV0k6l
In Milano for an intense microbiology week 🦠🧫🧬 for the #FEMS2025 conference organized by @femsmicro.org - I'll have the honour to chair a #phage session this afternoon 😍 (check out the cool talks we have) and to present my new project from Royal Danish Academy on Thursday 🪦🏛️🖼️
This is figure 1, which shows the characteristics of Pyrenean lake in Spain.
Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain shows that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4i90I9h 🏺 🧪
Feel like this paper slipped under the radar on ‘the other platform’ so giving it another airing here. Phage can significantly remodel the bacteriome in faecal samples - yet another confounder 🙄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A figure showing the structure of phage phiCD508 in extended and contracted forms, determined by cryo-EM by @jasonwils.bsky.social. Figure 1 (modified) from https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.04.551987v1
We have 2 fully funded PhD studentships available through the new Yorkshire Biosciences DTP (starting Oct 25) - please share! Both projects are focussed on #phage that infect #Cdifficile
#microsky #phage #evolution #cryoEM #AFM
www.whiterose-mechanisticbiology-dtp.ac.uk/yorkshire-bi...
