Here they do a dilution to extinction experiment where they purposefully screen for wells that do *not* grow on solid media. What do they find? A huge enrichment in undercultivated microbes: Acidobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, Armatimondaetes!

Really simple, but seems really effective!

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1194466/full

@melissaekline Sounds somewhat similar to this course/textbook? https://bookdown.org/roback/bookdown-BeyondMLR/

My paper is now out in PLOS Biology! Check it out if you are interested in nutrient niches in the gut, multi-omics, anaerobic metabolism, and/or modeling of gut microbes: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002125 #microbiology

Bacterial #metabolism is important for human health, but most research relies on a few model organisms.
A new study in #PLOSBiology used a systems biology approach to explore the unusual metabolism of the disease-linked gut bacterium Eggerthella lenta. #microbiology
https://plos.io/45nrdCH

RT @KevinDKohl
'Biology' is often used to defend anti-LGBTQIA+ ideologies. But, what is the biology, and do we teach this information?

Here are (far from perfect) slides from my Comparative Physiology class. Students are always grateful to hear these topics covered in a bio class. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧬✨

To continue our recent preprint whirlwind 🌪️, we just posted a revision of @jpjl57's manuscript on in vivo bacterial population growth phase estimation from metagenomic time series.

Here's what's new 🧵

@isbsci

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.23.489288v2

RT @VictoriaPascal_
After a lot of work, it's finally out: https://rdcu.be/c5xgq 🥳. Profiling the gut microbiome with gutSMASH shows mechanistic differences at the taxa level among other findings. Great team effort: @marnixmedema , @jingyuan_fu, @mfgrp , @LianminChen, @HannahAugustijn 👏

MSE speaker series starts next week, features talks on diet and gut microbes, early life and breastfeeding, soil health, equitable research, how microbes are part of us, and more!

These talks are presented virtually, and registration is free. They are open to all so please feel free to join us and learn about microbes.

https://sueishaqlab.org/2023/01/11/mse-speaker-series-starts-next-week-features-talks-on-diet-and-gut-microbes-early-life-and-breastfeeding-soil-health-equitable-research-how-microbes-are-part-of-us-and-more/

RT @theironark@twitter.com

Have you ever worked with samples containing DNA from prokaryotes and eukaryotes (e.g. host and microbe)?

If so, I recently wrote a software program that can separate out bacterial/archaeal sequences from eukaryotic ones: https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-022-08382-2

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/theironark/status/1608336734890360832

@amydwillis Hi Amy, for a stats journal, seems reasonable to call it X in general but link it to Y terminology multiple times in the intro, keywords, wherever you can fit it in?? Microbiome scientists can learn new words 😅