Akos T Kovacs

Professor at DTU Bioengineering (from summer 2023, Professor at Leiden University🇳🇱): Biofilms, Experimental Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Plant microbiome, Chemical Ecology, Bacillus

2023-07-10

See the August issue of Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol online with a beautiful cover art that Lizah van der Aart has prepared for us, highlighting the review of Mark Lyng - Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions

cell.com/trends/microbiology/i

2023-07-04

Such a pleasant surprise on the first day at Sylvius building from colleagues on the same floor (@ionica et al), they remembered that non coffee driven scientists also exist

Akos T Kovacs boosted:
2023-05-06

Prophages are phages hidden in bacterial genomes, and they affect our health! We explored where they hang out in the human microbiome

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

2023-05-06

The usual weekend morning 🐮

2023-05-05

RT @jaascensao
New preprint on @biorxivpreprint! We investigated the potential for microbial communities to regenerate ecological diversity following species removal, and we found a couple surprises! 🧵👇

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

2023-05-05

RT @NicoleDubilier
Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: We show that tiny worms from the Mediterranean can make their own #phytosterols (1/n)
Check 🧵 for more info
@DolmaMichellod @Manuel_Kleiner @MarineMicrobio @maxplanckpress
science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

2023-05-05

Beutenberg campus chemical ecology week in @ScienceMagazine
-from @LeibnizHKI & @MPI_CE 👇🏼😲

2023-05-04

RT @PSUmBiome
"One of the biggest questions...is how do we change the composition of a microbiome in a person, and in this work you are looking at quite an actionable target because we now know the molecular components" -- @GETxLAB on his new @ScienceMagazine paper. psu.edu/news/research/story/es

2023-05-04

RT @LeibnizHKI
For the first time a team led by the department of Paleobiotechnology has successfully reconstructed molecules from DNA of bacteria from Stone Age dental calculus🥳@ScienceMagazine
leibniz-hki.de/en/press-releas
@PStallforth @WarinnerGroup
@WSS_Stiftung @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @Harvard_Press

A tooth wrapped in tin foil with dental calculus in several parts
2023-05-04

Complete integration of carbene-transfer chemistry into biosynthesis

@Nature from @Keasling_Lab @aindrilam @JohnFHartwig1
with @PabloCruzMoral1 @trentn

α-diazoester azaserine & Streptomyces albus ▶️ new-to-nature products

nature.com/articles/s41586-023

2023-05-04

Distribution of mutation rates challenges evolutionary predictability

-in Microbiology from @PeterALind

microbiologyresearch.org/conte

2023-05-03

Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis

bioRxiv by @sio_stef et al

“comparative genomics of the genus Arsenophonus to reveal the complex processes that occur on evolution of an endosymbiotic lifestyle”

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

2023-05-03

RT @hacquard_st
Last chance to apply! Several ERC-funded #PhD and #postdoc positions are available in my group @mpipz_cologne to study the microbiota-root-shoot axis in plant health and disease. Join the MICROBIOSIS team here: jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/f Deadline: May 9th. #PlantSciJobs. Please RT

2023-05-03

RT @vscooper
We @Pitt_CEBaM are #hiring postdocs and technicians for multiple projects:
-How "enabler" mutations drive evolution of #AMR
-Microbiome of tracheobronchitis
-Advancing @evolvingSTEM
-Method dev for single-cell genomics & bioinformatics
Join our #Pittsburgh evo-micro community!

2023-05-03

RT @Tung_BK_Le
Please RT, Daniela @daniela_barilla and I are looking for a postdoc to work on archaea chromosome segregation in Norwich,UK. We are looking for candidates with skills/interest in archaeal genetics/deep sequencing/cell biology. URL: shorturl.at/nrFQ7
Feeel free to email me.

2023-05-03

RT @P_B_Beauregard
Our latest article is out in Nature Communications! @VCLamoureux built up that project from a simple observation, and with the help of many chemists collaborators, this great story about the dual role of pulcherrimin was written.

nature.com/articles/s41467-023

2023-05-03

RT @BiofilmJournal
New @BiofilmJournal publication by María D. Macià and colleagues on Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

2023-05-03

Last session of the practical course with superb poster presentations by the student. What a nice summary of biocontrol/biofertilizer strain isolation!
Time for a celebratory treat of my last DTU course

2023-05-03

RT @MIMOL_UNIGE
We are excited to announce the opening of an assistant professor tenure track position in virology at our department, starting Feb 2024. Application deadline June 30th 2023. unige.ch/academ

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