Prof. Ruth Ley FRS

The human gut microbiome primes fever after vaccination | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FACULTY POSITION: We are seeking an Assistant Professor to join our growing and vibrant Department of Microbiology at Cornell! FOCUS: Using bacteria to address 21st century challenges. (part of a cohort hire in SynBio). *please repost* academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33098 #MicroSky

🧪🧫🦠 @kelseyhuus.bsky.social

We're excited to welcome Professor Sean Gibbons to campus! He is joining NYU Tandon as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and will also be part of the new Institute for Engineering Health, led by Jeff Hubbell. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/0mZmEqv

🦠🧫🧪thanks for the shout out!

New @science.org A breakthrough in understanding why do we get fever and an inflammation response to vaccines. The gut microbiome chronic production of flagellin Paves the way to potentially prevent these acute phase side-effects in the future www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Before the immunological Big Bang | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Congrats to the @microbiome.bsky.social lab! I loved reading the preprint when it came out -- looking forward to reading the final product. Excited to see that MEDI (doi.org/10.1038/s422...) was useful for deriving more dietary insight in this study 🎉 @cdiener.com

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This 2014 piece by @edyong209.bsky.social is still very relevant 12 years later when trying to make sense of these comparisons of microbiomes. It's complicated! www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/o...

It’s more like an assistant professorship actually, without the possibility of tenure. But it’s 6 to 9 years of funding without teaching so great for those who want a pure research opportunity. Add grants on top! 🧫🧪🦠

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Going beyond Hi-C metagenomics! In our new pre-print, we adapt the Micro-C protocol to microbiomes. Achieving higher resolution, we recovered 3D genomes and bacterial-plasmid links. Check it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @microbiome.bsky.social

So inspired by #ECCB2026! Great talks, amazing people, and a real effort to bridge science with the public. It was a privilege to present my project on flagellome profiling, which takes our FlaPro pipeline :)

ICYMI: New online! Bacterial lipid structural diversity mediates commensalism and pathogenesis

A great review by the great @staceyheaver.bsky.social - all about bacterial lipids and their interactions with the host 🧪🧫🦠

If you are looking for a post doc you are in luck: Hassan Salem is the antidote to AI slop: rigorous thinking, exquisite experiments, has read the literature all the way back

Interested in working with the JGI and never led a proposal with us? Now is your chance! We are accepting submissions to our New Investigator call for first-time PIs. Deadline to submit is Sept. 9. jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov

This is so true!

🔬🧬 PhD defense: Expanding Human Gut Microbiome Diversity Beyond Western Populations: Methanogens and Helminths - Mirabeau Mbong Ngwese Congratulations, Mirabeau! @microbiome.bsky.social

Lipids build the membranes of all cells, but identifying their precise functions is extremely challenging. Here’s our attempt to change that: How to find and understand lipid-protein interactions, by Katelyn Cook & company. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A minimal lipid kinase/phosphatase system, two effector proteins from Legionella pneumophila, self-organizes together with its lipid substrates (PI/PI3P) into dynamic patterns on membranes. Check out our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉 Introducing ArchaeaHQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

Very proud of @anya-bogdanova.bsky.social ‘s work here with @atyakht.bsky.social - there are thousands of different bacterial flagellins out there and her tool helps make sense of them and predict how they interact with the innate immune receptor TLR5🦠🧫🧪

Sort your flagellins into silent and stimulatory with this cool tool!! 🧫🦠

Congratulations to our Emeritus Director Thomas Boehm on receiving his third ERC Advanced Grant @erc.europa.eu for his ImmunoPlast project to explore the extraordinary immune systems of deep-sea anglerfishes. Read the full article: www.bio.mpg.de/527824/thoma...

Out Now! A phage takes the wheel #MicroSky

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

The future of the @maxplanck.de is in good hands

We are proud to share that Ruth Ley @microbiome.bsky.social , Director of the Department of Microbiome Science, has been elected Fellow of The Royal Society @royalsociety.org . Congratulations!!!

Sean Eddy??!!! Speechless.

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

@kelseyhuus.bsky.social is also the recipient of a Max Planck partner group, which will give her some additional funds for 5 years! Go Kelsey go!! @maxplanck.de

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

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It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

"Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are." It turns out, microbes follow the same rule! Very proud to share our lab's new paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com showing that bacteria don't just respond to their environment, they respond to each other. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in a *staff computational scientist* position? We are looking for an experienced computational biologist (ideally with microbiology experience) to support published packages while also driving new research. Pay range $73k-$111k w excellent benefits. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Hey Reviewer 2: I hope you are OK. If you are OK and you liked our microbiome-fever paper revisions at all, any chance you can send a quick note to the editor? 🦠🧫

Ya know a while back a senior microbiologist I was talking with was saying how we absolutely have got to stop saying gut flora because people are gonna think it’s plants and I was like “ha yeah” while thinking “nah come on people know starfish aren’t fish” and ope! he was right.

Here we show that buildup of uremic toxins during CKD generates nitrate in the colon. Nitrate supports expansion of Enterobacteriaceae, turning them into a major source of uremic toxins. Inhibiting nitrate production (iNOS inhibition) mitigates disease progression. www.science.org/eprint/YGNMK...

This is a great post doc opportunity- fantastic system, first-rate science, awesome PI