Amazing news and many thanks to European Research Council (ERC) for supporting my ViBRANT-SEA AdvERC research proposal. Read all about it nioz.nl/en/news/presti…

A great fellowship opportunity for postdocs in the life sciences or other fields (e.g., physics) who are interested in making the jump into biology. Please contact me if you are interested in exploring potential projects together!

Just arrived at American Physical Society march meeting in Minneapolis, looking forward to a few days of catching up and learning new things. Say hi if you're around! #APSMarchMeeting

Deciphering the gene-organism-environment triad is key to understanding microbiomes. But to go beyond who's there, we need to identify relevant coarse-grained physiological traits from (meta)genomes. Fill in forms.gle/CaXN8fNNdJkCT5… to show interest in a KITP program about this!

Virus enthusiasts in and around the lowlands: on March 22 we will have the annual Netherlands Association of Virus Ecology meeting in Groningen. Looking forward to seeing you there! See knvm.org/virology/netwo… for more details or PM me.

For centuries, the study of microbial communities has had little defining theory. Now, a group of physicists turned biologists are using genomics to concoct axioms for microbial assembly. Dan Samorodnitsky reports: quantamagazine.org/the-quest-for-…

Database size positively correlates with the loss of species-level taxonomic resolution for the 16S rRNA and other prokaryotic marker genes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our lab in Amsterdam. We will dig deep in #arbuscular #mycorrhizal fungal nuclear dynamics and network interactions using advanced🔬 and novel tech development! Apply before Nov 1 here: tinyurl.com/3a32p5hr
#ERC -funded

Cool day with people working on quantitative microbial ecology in the NL! Thanks Djordje Bajić and Rebeca Gonzalez Cabaleiro for organizing the symposium and Gerben Stouten and robbert kleerebezem for showing us the UNLOCK-microbiomes facilities!

The Matti Gralka and Mulla groups (@VUamsterdam) are seeking a #PhD student to study #phage ecology in microbial communities.

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Thank you all Seppe Kuehn Lab Zeqian Li Vaibhhav Sinha for writing this great summary of our paper and putting our work in a broader context!

Only a few weeks left to apply!

Very cool to see a proposed framework linking oligo/copiotrophy with r/K selection and growth rates:

Ecology theory disentangles microbial dichotomies ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

A brand new publication 🥳from Otto X. Cordero group with Matti Gralka and Shaul Pollak on metabolic processes in heterotrophic microbial communities 🦠🧪🔬

Enjoy it 👇
nature.com/articles/s4156…

Can the simplest living things coexist 🏘️ in the face of competition?

We found that bacterial viruses (phages) could easily form diverse communities, even though they shared the same resource 🍝 (an isogenic host population) (1/7)
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Today is my first day as assistant prof in soil microbial regulation of biogeochemical cycles at the University of Amsterdam! I am over the moon!!! Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department

Happy to see our latest work tinyurl.com/4jeuxess published in Molecular Biology and Evolution! Big congrats to first author Sotaro Takano, as well as coauthors Jean Vila, Ryo Miyazaki, and @asanchezl_lab! A thread 👇