Christian Diener

Together with the Theodor Escherich Symposium and @microbesplanet.bsky.social we will organize a workshop on strain-level metabolic modeling of microbial communities in Graz on Nov. 2nd. There is a few places left if you hurry 🏃‍♀️ www.dienerlab.com/posts/tes_co...

New paper from the lab, out in Nature Microbiology. We ran CRISPRi screens to ask what genes E. coli needs in order to live in a gut and what this can tell us about the gut environment itself. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-026-02471-8

Excited to share the first paper from the Urtecho Lab! We built a framework to move fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from a black-box therapy to precision medicine for gut disorders 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2026.2725403 #Microbiome. #OpenAccess

Very happy that our paper Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities just came out in Nature Microbiology. See here 👇 Paywalled version: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free read-only version: rdcu.be/fBHAb

📢 Flex Funds Call for 2027 is now open! Contribute to advancing #FAIRData, #OpenScience, infrastructure, workflows, or training in #microbiology! 💶 Funding: €10,000–€40,000/project 📅 Funding period: Apr–Dec 2027 📆 Application deadline: Oct 11 👉️ More details: nfdi4microbiota.de/newsroom/fle...

From @jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy @maxibor.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social et al., in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag | #Education #Genomics #Microbes | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Check out the MiDAS global genome catalog preprint! We applied Nanopore long-read metagenomics to 83 selected samples from the MiDAS 4 global survey of wastewater treatment plants to create a genome catalog covering all core genera in the activated sludge microbiome. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Absolutely bonkers how amazing this speaker lineup is. Can't make it myself, but this looks like a great conference here.

Proud to share our single-cell transcriptomics approach for the microbiome by instrument-free split-pool barcoding - metaSPLiT, developed by the incredible @monochamussutor.bsky.social together with @gibbological.bsky.social, @cdiener.com, et al. at @isbscience.org

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

Phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome revealed by subspecies-resolution single-cell transcriptomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741866v1

I'm happy to announce the release of GlobDB r232! This version contains 346,233 bacterial and archaeal genomes, based on 26 datasets. More info globdb.org 🦠🖥️🧬

Interesting article by Glass et al. on using metabolic modeling to find new antibiotics for the vaginal microbiome.

Milliardenkürzungen bei Unis? Das hätte massive Folgen für die Steiermark! Setzen wir bei den Demos ein Zeichen: 🟢 Wien: 27. Mai 2026, 13 Uhr, Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1​ 🟢 Graz: 28. Mai 2026, 14.30 Uhr, Wilhelm-Fischer-Allee am Stadtpark, Graz #unisretten

New online! Sequencing what we eat

New online! Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments

Very excited to share our new paper out in Nature. Congrats to Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu and all the coauthors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I like how all the p-values are like 10^-300. Take that power analysis.

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Paper out: Profiling of lytic phage infection in individual B. fragilis cells with bacterial scRNA-seq. Congratulations Anika Gupta, Norma Morella, @monochamussutor.bsky.social Dmitry Sutormin et al, in collaboration with Georg Seelig (UW) and Neel Dey (Fred Hutch). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mikrobiom: Hype oder klinische Evidenz? Am 20.05.2026 bietet die Fortbildung „Medizinische Mikrobiomforschung“ fundierte Einordnung, organsiert von @medunigraz.at, JKULinz & @fwf-at.bsky.social CoE MicroPlanet Aktuelle Forschung, Evidenzlage zu Diagnostik, FMT, Probiotika.

Out Now! Gut bacteria ammonia production restores acetylcholine neurotransmission and bowel motility #MicroSky

Our latest is out today in @plosbiology.org: "Metabolic modeling reveals determinants of prebiotic and probiotic treatment efficacy across multiple human intervention trials" @isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I joined efforts with D.A. Lucassen, @cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social and T. Wilson and got a really nice paper out on how to best integrate modern dietary assessment technologies to improve the accuracy of the current tools. Have a look here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Check out our review on emerging technologies for diet tracking in Nature Food. 👇 This paper was led by @catalinacuparencu.bsky.social, with @cdiener.com and others: www.nature.com/articles/s43... @isbscience.org @uwbioe.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social

How do we really assess dietary intake—and where is the field heading next? This is the topic of the keynote lecture at #GMFH2026 by Lawrence David. 👉 Register now & join us https://www.gutmicrobiotaforhealth.com/porto-2026-fourteenth-edition/registration/ 📍Porto | March 14–15

We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/

So happy to host Dr. Xiaoqian (Annie) Yu - soon starting her lab at University of Montreal! She used population genomics and large data analysis to group gut microbiome into ecological units based on sweep events (major revision at Nature)! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky #microbiomesky 🧪🦠

📢 We are hiring 📢 1st round of recruiting for our ERC project BacImmune-Decode! @erc.europa.eu We are looking for a postdoc for wet-lab work on regulation of phage defence systems in bacteria using high-throughput microbial genetics. Check it out: lnkd.in/es7AE968 #Hiring #Postdoc #Microbiology

Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠 #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe

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Are you interested in #metaproteomics? We have a senior scientist position in my lab focused on metaproteomics, and xenobiotic- #microbiome -host interactions. Check it out. jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group. Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates. Deadline: 11.01.26 More info: shorturl.at/f1TuF

Open postdoc position!🚨 Passionate about gut microbes 🦠 and the brain 🧠? We are an interdisciplinary group at the Faculty of Psychology & @cemess.bsky.social 🌍 @univie.ac.at and invite individuals who self-identify as female. Details: 4 years, full-time ➡️ careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

Top #Citations 2025: 9️⃣🧪 @cdiener.com @gibbological.bsky.social et al ( @isbscience.org @medunigraz.at ) present a new method to estimate dietary intake from human stool by detecting food-derived DNA in faecal metagenomes.

📢 New preprint on bioRxiv! We introduce V4-EXT, a revised 16S rRNA V4 primer set that dramatically improves detection of Patescibacteria and other undersampled lineages ✅ 938 samples ✅ More novel ASVs Primer choice matters 👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @ppjevac.bsky.social #HuifengHu

🧑‍💻 Need help with #nfcore #nextflow #bioinformatics pipelines, running or developing? We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk. Please join our host @vagkaratzas.bsky.social, nf-core maintainer, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊

📣 Join us for the 2025 @isbscience.org Virtual Microbiome Symposium, focused on "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Their Impact on Host Systems". co-director - @flash-point.bsky.social 🦠💥 It's free, & we have an amazing line-up of speakers! Dec. 12th. Please share! isbscience.org/2025-isb-vir...

Dr. Nick Quinn-Bohmann will present a Keynote Talk at this year's Future of the Microbiome Winter Summit (Nov. 18-20). He'll talk about his work on using community-scale metabolic modeling to design personalized, microbiome-informed interventions. futureofmicrobiome.com/winter-summi...

Less than a week remains to apply to this exciting PhD position and join my team at Osnabrück University 👇

🧬 🦠 🏙️ Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host? Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation. #LongRead #Metagenomics #MAGs #BinningMethods #UnsupervisedBinning @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see this finally published! Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples now out in @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Can you take a quarter cup of composite sewage, simply ask ‘what’s in there?’, and find out all of the pathogens circulating in that community? That is the question we asked in our latest pre-print. Turns out you can. 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...