Underground happy hour? Excited to share our discovery of a new symbiosis between subsurface bacteria and archaea bridged by syntrophic transfer of the smallest alcohol—methanol! @Nature Work led by a former student Huang Yan, congratulations! https://t.co/icc1raepU6

Here’s our study earlier from this year describing its unique symbiotic lifestyle! https://t.co/tGEr7WxLJj

Excited to share our new isolate from the phylum Fidelibacterota (formerly Marine Group A / SAR406 / Candidatus Marinimicrobia) via IJSEM, an effort led by T Katayama https://t.co/hKTgGVGnFO

Our latest preprint is out! This paper led by @SukhwanYoon uncovers a new process controlling the global hydrogen and nitrogen cycles, i.e. the direct coupling of hydrogen oxidation and ammonification. A beautiful combination of isolation, bioreactor, and systems biology studies.

A petition to support the “Best of Both Worlds proposal” led by Markus Göker. Please sign if you support! If you have constructive criticism, make them heard! https://t.co/7vW1FZueVv

SeqCode to provide a framework for organizing and naming uncultured taxa, which addresses an important issue in microbiology that has become very messy over recent years. home page: https://t.co/OsbCEJc2yS Hedlund et al. Nature Microbiology 2022: https://t.co/jtr0qiIgXo

“Best of both worlds proposal” to extend the ICNP to accommodate names for uncultured taxa while also protecting culture collections and, by extension, the field. Abrahal et al. IJSEM 2024 https://t.co/NkE9xufyV6

Most are probably aware of the disagreement between ICSP/ICNP and SeqCode, but if this hasn’t made it your way yet, please take a moment to read up on both and discuss. Both big efforts trying to support our field, discussing their pros/cons is critical. Links coming up!

A post accompanying paper on validation of kingdom Promethearchaeati now on @MicrobioSoc’s blog! Importance & appreciation of culture collections, an IMHO under-appreciated foundation for #microbiology, highlighted. Kingdom name’s background discussed. https://t.co/CbW62QCssl

Hoping this helps stimulates even deeper research on eukaryogenesis and constructive discussion between ICSP and SeqCode on a solution for prokaryotic taxonomy and nomenclature and protecting culture collections, both foundations of microbiology research!

1st isolate of #Asgard #archaea Promethearchaeum syntrophicum and a new archaeal kingdom Promethearchaeati now on IJSEM! Major efforts @hiro_imachi #jcm to make the strain publicly available! Blog coming up on the story and taxonomy. #ICSP #microbiology https://t.co/NOgoosyeot

Our study introduced on PNAS Showcase on Kudos, “Photosynthesis’ three billion year history”!! https://t.co/qKMFOAfaV5

生命が光エネルギーを掴んだのは30億年以上も前、バクテリアはその古代生命の末裔、酸素を作る能力は生命史中盤！？ 先日発表した論文の解説記事を書いてみました、よかったらインタビュー記事と合わせて。 「光合成の30億年以上に渡る歴史の解明！」 https://t.co/baPmNUWuMp

🤯＃光合成生物 の起源を突き止めた☀️ 植物が行うことで広く知られている光合成🌲☀️ この光合成を最初に始めた生物の起源は、実はよくわかっていなかったのですが、＃JAMSTEC の延主任研究員らの研究で、その起源は ＃シアノバクテリア を含む ＃テラバクテリア

なぜ生物は酸素を作り始めたのか。最初に光合成をした生物は？地球生命の共通祖先の姿を追う！ : https://t.co/O3pB3bRGNi #ブルーバックス

光合成を行う生物はいつ誕生したのか？地球生命史年表が書き変わる大発見に迫る！ : https://t.co/PHHONxATvY #ブルーバックス

We traced #photosynthesis deep into the history of #Bacteria & #Earth! Vertical #evolution in Terrabacteria, a non-O2-generating origin, later rise of O2 generation and even later Cyanobacteria, & more. On PNAS w @thermo_microbes @tsuka_pennstate @PNASNews https://t.co/u3Zr4if2Vc

A bacterium that can’t make its own cell wall without a partner!? Our new isolate from the uncultured phylum Marinimicrobia/SAR406/Marine Group A/Marinisomatota #bacteria #microbiology #ecology https://t.co/tGEr7WxLJj

Excited to share our surprising discovery of a highly novel photosynthetic bacterium from #Boreal #Shield #lakes in Canada! Now published in @Nature , over six years after our first enrichment culture A long thread 🧵 ⬇️ 1/ https://t.co/FJKlL7j2Hc

Dead cell-eating anaerobic bacteria! Some cool TEM images. Huge effort from Yuga Hirakata. https://t.co/vBIASXr5LH #bacteria #microbiology #ecology #microbes #syntrophy #symbiosis