Plasmids are huge drivers of evolution in every ecosystem, allowing microbes to acquire new genes. But how much do they shape our own human microbiome? 🧬

A fantastic new review from the @lgbacteria.bsky.social
summarizes the latest key findings.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

3-day 'Science meets Art' retreat ended. Thanks to
Daniel Chamovitz, Pres. of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, for support & inspiring talk. His insights led to unique microbe-to-art collab.

Stay tuned for exhibition date & time!🧑‍🎨

#ArtScience #BGU #Microbiology #Exhibition

We opened the final day of our #retreat with an inspiring talk by Dr. Yakov Merhishti. 📔
We concluded our mission of "seeing the invisible" by exploring microbial #fermentation from a new perspective: with a wine tasting! We toasted the tiny #microbes that make it possible 🦠🍷

Continuing work on our exhibition #microbes 🎨
Honored by a talk from Prof. Itzik Hen, director of The Institute for Advanced Studies Jerusalem and a researcher, followed by a food tour at Mahane Yehuda Market, and a recital by Ido Grinshpan and Shelly Jonathan.🎻
Stay tuned for #exhibition details! 🦠

Day 1 of our 'Science meets Art' retreat was fantastic! We had an inspiring talk from prof. Noam Mizrahi and a great visit to the The Israel Museum. Afterward, we continued our project, creating new art pieces inspired by the invisible world of microbes. 🦠

#Microbiology #ArtScience #Collaboration

Science meets art! 🔬🎨 Our lab is at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) for a 3-day retreat with amazing artists Tamara Efrat & Shaul Cohen, diving into the unseen beauty of microbial life.

Get ready for our upcoming exhibition at Be'er Sheva. Stay tuned!

#Microbiology #ArtScience

The session of Microbial adaptations to changing environments chaired and organized by @sanmillan.bsky.social
@javierdelafuente.bsky.social @mtoll8.bsky.social just started by extremely inspaireing talk by @saramitri.bsky.social so much fun at the @eseb2025.bsky.social

Yesterday, we had the honor of attending the closing concert of a Chamber music course that took place at our university !🎹
One of our PhD students, Jonathan Shelly , also participated in this course with his amazing violin—take a look!🎻

Final presentations in our Microbial Ecology: Theories & Contemporary Questions course 🎓🦠
Tomer chose to manifest ecological dynamics using visual props.
I love it when people, especially students, color outside the lines.

#ISM2025 Was very fruitful! It was fun to connect with friends and exchange amazing scientific ideas.
Also, we had the chance to present our work!
Our postdoc, Omer Lavy, shared his research on "biblical poop."
Our PhD student, Sarah Winkler, presented her poster on "Decoding Microbial Communities"

What a strike! 🎳 Our lab's bowling event was a blast! So much fun hitting the lanes and making memories with the team.

#LabLife #Bowling #TeamFun #ScienceSquad

Our Post-doc Omar Tovar rocked it at #INRAE2025! 🎉
He presented his fascinating work on "Exploring the functional patterns of the core rumen microbiome." Huge thanks to @inrae-france.bsky.social ‬for hosting!

Our new preprint, "Spatial constraints drive amylosome-mediated resistant starch degradation by Ruminococcus bromii in the human colon" is now on bioRxiv! Key findings in the thread below belowhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.31.646359v1.full.pdf.

Here's a picture taken in our lab of our staff scientist Sarah Morais working in our anaerobic lab. A truly "one picture worth a thousand words" moment! ✨

Glad to share our latest review at @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social with Petra Schwille & Natalie Elia on ESCRT, a multi-use membrane complex found in all life. Well-known in eukaryotes, less so in prokaryotes.

Check it out! www.cell.com/trends/micro...