Sulfur Microbes 🦠

Deeply honoured to be part of a wonderful team recognised by this award: Biosulfur Recyclers - 2024 Chemistry Biology Interface Horizon Prize: Rita and John Cornforth Award winner rsc.org/prizes-funding… via @RoySocChem

Our review concerning the role of #Bilophila wadsworthia and other #sulfide-producing bacteria in human disease is finally here! If you want to know more about the relation between #diet, #microbiota and #diseases just follow the link! @ElsevierNews authors.elsevier.com/a/1jACLEs76GCL3

A nitrogenase-like enzyme is involved in the novel anaerobic assimilation pathway of a sulfonate, isethionate, in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Co-occurrence of Direct and Indirect Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanisms during Electroactive Respiration in a Dissimilatory Sulfate Reducing Bacterium biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pseudodesulfovibrio pelocollis sp. nov. a #Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Isolated from a Terrestrial Mud Volcano | Current Microbiology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Scallop-bacteria symbiosis from the deep sea reveals strong genomic coupling in the absence of cellular integration | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

#Sulfate-reducing bacteria unearthed: ecological functions of the diverse prokaryotic group in terrestrial environments | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Reconstitution of a biofilm adhesin system from a #sulfate-reducing bacterium in Pseudomonas fluorescens | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Marine particle microbiomes during a spring diatom bloom contain active #sulfate-reducing bacteria | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

S0-driven partial denitrification coupled with anammox (S0PDA) enables highly efficient autotrophic nitrogen removal from wastewater - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Unveiling microbial guilds and symbiotic relationships in Antarctic sponge microbiomes | Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…

Effect of target gene sequence evenness and dominance on real-time PCR quantification of artificial #sulfate-reducing microbial communities | PLOS ONE journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

A novel sulfidogenic process via #sulfur reduction to remove arsenate in acid mine drainage: Insights into the performance and microbial mechanisms - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Combining metabolic flux analysis with proteomics to shed light on the metabolic flexibility: the case of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

Interested to learn about techniques and theory in #anaerobic #microbiology? Apply for our @EMBO funded practical course 8-12 July 2024 in Nijmegen! Deadline 15-April

Nominate for the FEMS-Jensen Award, supporting #EarlyCareerScientists! Outstanding European microbiology students in the final stages of their PhD, or those who received their PhD less than 3 years from the deadline may apply. Deadline 1 March 2024! fems-microbiology.org/about_fems/net…

Autotrophic biofilms sustained by deeply sourced groundwater host diverse bacteria implicated in sulfur and hydrogen metabolism microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New @InorgChem paper from Andy (@agdavis98) on reversible hydrosulfide (HS-) binding using C-H---S interactions! Key findings: Unexpected 2:1 host:guest binding for HS- but not Cl- & major differences in binding affinities. Great work Andy! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

At @TrendsMicrobiol today, postdoc Francesco Ricci (@fra_ricci) and I propose chemosynthesis is the foundational process driving the productivity and biodiversity across much our oceans: from the dawn of life to modern times. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iWHa,L%7EyC…

Happy to share our latest work on #sulfur metabolism by @anaccbarbosa and Sofia Venceslau on the role of a key #membrane complex. @itqbnova @LS4FUTURE #microbiology PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…