In a perfect microbial world we would all work with genomes/MAGs/isolates…but we are not there yet, and the old workhorse 16S rDNA gene still has a role to play. If you missed @oveoyas poster at #ISME19 check out the preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Exciting day at #ISME19 seeing many years of hard work with #TheMEMOgroup and a ton of great collaborators being presented in shiny presentations. Huge congrats to @SabinaLLaRosa and @velma_te_a 🙌🏼 @UniNMBU @CMR_QUT

We hope you can join this awesome list of speakers at the 36th Congress of Gastrointestinal Function, from April 8-10th. Abstract submissions are open until March 8th congressgastrofunction.org/abstract.asp

Excited to announce the 2024 Congress on Gastrointestinal Function (April 8-10).
👉lnkd.in/ddp56NuP.

Invited speakers:
Gene Tyson (@CMR_QUT)
Ami Byatt
Mads Albertsen (@MadsAlbertsen85)
Lindsay J Hall (@hall_lab)
Rekha Seshadri
Manuel Kleiner
Alex Kostic
Ed Bayer

Always fun catching up with the @holoruminant consortium. General Assembly with team @UniNMBU @TRHvidsten @oveoyas and Wanxin

Annual workshop and retreat for the MEMO group. ☃️❄️🥶

A very special day for the group as we celebrate “DR” @andersen__thea who performed an outstanding defense of her PhD. A huge thank you to the opponents Prof’s @sharonhuws, Jana Seifert and @AngelaSchwarm

Proteomic detection of protozoal metabolism such as hydrogenases, carbohydrate active enzymes, microbial predation and volatile fatty acid production was increased in high methane-emitting animals, while certain bacteria were detected at higher levels in low emitting animals. 4/6

Some fun facts re. rumen microbes: 1) We estimate >50,000+ genomes have been built for bacteria and archaea over the years 2) rumen fluid under a microscope often reveals these big things (protozoa) swimming around, for these we have <50 genomes thanks to efforts of others! 2/6

Genome-centric metaproteomics on anaerobic digesters will be on display with @JuliMWalter and @magnusarntzen. Today in PS17 - Microbial ecology of the built environment. Results from the @prodigioproject #ISME18

Our MEMO team has plenty to share on host-microbiome interactions at #ISME18! @andersen__thea presents her preprint on rumen eukaryotes, @alessferrillo and @LiveHHagen on using seaweed to mitigate CH4 and @ianinaALT and @kobelkobelkobel on integrating host-microbiome omic data.

Massive week at @FASEBMicroGlyco with my brain and belly getting a proper recharge. Thanks @nkoropatkin and @Lis_Lowe for everything 🙏

Getting a much needed update on the importance of phages by @JeremyJBarr at the @FASEBMicroGlyco meeting. Fantastic talk 🙌🏼

Standing room only to see @SabinaLLaRosa present new data from our collaboration with @mattostrowski2 and @EricCMartens1 showing microbe-microbe interactions to degrade commonly ingested food additives. #remicsnorway #microbiotanorway

End to an intense but very rewarding week for our @NorbisNorway workshop on “Bioinformatics for functional meta-omics” HUGE thank you to all the teachers and students who make it possible @ianinaALT @quark_buzo_vera @TRHvidsten @magnusarntzen @fdelogu92 @BenoitKunath @LiveHHagen

Our groups last talk was @quark_buzo_vera presenting our “holo-omic” efforts in the 🐠 realm as part of @ImprovAFish_BB and others.

Day 2 at the @MetaP_Init symposium saw @ianinaALT showcase her host+microbiome expression data and explore networks that will hopefully lead us to real biological interactions that influence gut function (in 🐮’s)

Exciting times as @andersen__thea kicks off our participation at the @MetaP_Init meeting….highlighting the metabolic activity of protozoa in the rumen microbiome

A sign that normality is returning is the ability to take a group photo. Very lucky to call these lovely people my colleagues 🙏 @LiveHHagen @magnusarntzen @SabinaLLaRosa @andersen__thea @ianinaALT @CarlMK4 @quark_buzo_vera @JuliMWalter @val100420 @alessferrillo @KatrineEikanger

Fun meeting the brand new MEMO members that will join us this summer...Welcome @alessferrillo @CarlMK4 @JuliMWalter Sergiu Andrei Carbunaru 🙌

@OdedRechavi surfing has always been my escape, and always will be 😋

PhD social distance defense parties in the CoronaEra. Congrats @fdelogu92!

Amidst these strange times, it was still a very special day to see “Dr” @fdelogu92 defend his thesis, and celebrate a truly remarkable 3yrs. Thanks to @MitoRem and @MadsAlbertsen85 for your time and contribution! Thanks to @TRHvidsten @magnusarntzen @UniNMBU and @forskningsradet

And that’s a wrap! Thanks to all the students for a fantastic (and intense) week of meta-omics, all the way from the lab to the PC. A HUGE thanks 🙏 to all the lecturers from our lab (@UniNMBU) and invited guests from @wilmeslab who take the time and effort to make this happen!

Francesco Delogu kicks off a big week with our @UniNMBU PhD course “Bioinformatics for functional meta-omics” Students will build MAGs, and analyze MAG-centric RNA and protein datasets. Sponsored by the Norwegian research school NORBIS norbis.w.uib.no

Halloween treats just got that little bit scarier #futurefoods @UniNMBU @Vitenparken

@LabMizrahi @sweetmicrobe @GruningerLab @TheHessLab @omalleylab @nkoropatkin You would have been in your element @LabMizrahi 👇

Working hard or hardly working...@sweetmicrobe smashing it out of the ballpark at nerdcamp 2019 a.k.a #grcCAZymes

As per @GordonConf policy I am not permitted to share any of the state of the art science that has gone down at #grcCAZymes BUT I can report that beer selection has been next level 🤯The “bar” is set high for 2021 (end dad joke)🙃

Msc exam day for Thea Os Andersen. Congrats on a very nice project and fantastic defense. Onto the next chapter 🚀

Kick off lecture by @PabloINik for the 2019 annual meeting for the Norwegian Society for Microbiology #NFM. What have your bugs built for you lately?

To my fellow Nordic colleagues. Remember NFM abstract submissions this Friday!
This small, intimate meeting is a fantastic platform to meet and discuss science with your fellow microbiologists, and is a great opportunity for young PhD/postdocs to present and discuss their data!

Excited to announce two fantastic keynote speakers @hall_lab and @PabloINik for this years annual meeting in The Norwegian Society for Microbiology (NFM), which will be in Trondheim June 11-12. Abstracts due May 10. A great chance for young scientists to present their research!

Being educated on the fish microbiome and host-microbe interactions by @itzhak_mizrahi at #CGIF @LabMizrahi

Fantastic talk by @AnaSofiaVazLuis highlighting the importance of fucosidases and sulfatases for gastric mucin degradation by our gut Bacteroidetes #CGIF @EricCMartens1

Honoured to receive an Ascending Investigator Fellowship from @novonordiskfond, which brings #SuPAcow to life! 5yrs of funding to delve into the feed-microbiome-host axis in ruminants, together with Rainer Roehe (@SRUC), @TRHvidsten, @srsandve, Tom Gilbert and @ines_thiele.

Standing room only to see @MadsAlbertsen85 present a fantastic overview of how @nanopore and @longreadclub is changing the way we do meta-omics! Many thanks for taking the time to come up to @UniNMBU

If you are interested in the lab coat 🥼 mug shots / band photos that made the Mannan PUL paper. @BWestereng recently penned this piece naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/channels/346-b… Article here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Despite the fiber munching reputation of our gut Firmicutes, we know far less about how they do their job compared to the gram negatives. Excited to share new work in @NatureComms led by @SabinaLLaRosa and @BWestereng w @EricCMartens1, Maher Hachem et al. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great presentation by @BenoitKunath selling the power of multi-omics to visualize community function at a population/pathway level! Part of a collaboration with the @wilmeslab

Live Hagen is up next talking about our @UniNMBU work on anaerobic rumen fungi with @TheHessLab

Solid rumen representation at the Int. Metaproteomics symposium with @GoorSasson and @LabMizrahi

Congrats to @mhe345 and @wilmeslab. Fantastic PhD that was very well defended 🎉

The mugshots behind the paper. @LinZasaurus has penned a great blog article about the Moose paper with @TheWrightonLab et al: naturemicrobiologycommunity.nature.com/users/173986-l…

Time for an upgrade and a real job! Assoc. Professor at @UniNMBU #tenured

Great PhD defence by @BenoitKunath!!! Congratulations on a truly enjoyable and productive 4yrs. Big thanks to @Stebe69 and Søren Sørensen for a fantastic discussion!!!

Next up is Mirjam Czjzek talking about Carrageenan degradation by marine Bacteroidetes #MIMAS2

Gigatons of polysaccharides everywhere you look!
Jan-Hendrik Hehemann at #MIMAS2

Fantastic key note from Eric Martens! Eat your fiber people! Time to track down some fermented fiber in liquid form! #mimas2

We also have a #ISME17 poster by Francesco Delogu and @TRHvidsten at 428A “Integration of omics techniques and biological information flow in a simplistic microbial community”

Last poster session at #ISME17 @BenoitKunath is at 453A presenting data from our preprint “From proteins to polysaccharides: lifestyle and genetic evolution of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus.” biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.…