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Akos T. Kovacs

@EvolvedBiofilm

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Professor of Microbiome Ecology at Leiden University🇳🇱 (part time at DTU 🇩🇰): Biofilms, Experimental Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Plant microbiome

Leiden, The Netherlands
Joined November 2013
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Happy to share our @ISMEJournal paper how competition for iron shapes interaction of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas marginalis A project led by @MarkLyng5 in colaboration with @cemist_dtu colleagues -funded by @GrundforskFond & @novonordiskfond 👇🧵
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It is #BiofilmWeek Did you know that the surface of Bacillus subtilis biofilms is extremely repellent to water?
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@GillesvanWezel My daughter: but if your are princess, you have more money, so you can be a scientist easier, right?
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They try to escape! Bacillus subtilis colonies in a 9cm 🧫 -from Stevanus Listian (MSc student in the lab) #TheSecretMedium #MarvelousColonies
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The art of plate drying - by @MathildeNordga1
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Interesting perspective piece by @JPox14 and Kevin Foster in Science magazine Bacterial species rarely work together
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The past, present, and future of antibiotics Review in @ScienceTM
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Microbial diversity in extreme environments -in @NatureRevMicro
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Nice Review paper in Microbiology by @natalie_bamford @sciorama and @bacteriacities Microbial Primer: An introduction to biofilms – what they are, why they form and their impact on built and natural environments
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Disaster Microbiology—a New Field of Study @mbiojournal MiniReview from @ACasadevall1
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9 years of work and 20 authors in one manuscript, glad to share our brand new preprint with a thread👇 Enhanced niche colonisation and competition during bacterial adaptation to a fungus [1/n]
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Twitter-full author list...
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Apparently only males see the future of microbiology? Important note: I respect highly each and every scientist on the photos (some I regard as part time mentor and friend in science), it just looks obviously biased selection.
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Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities @NatureMicrobiol perspective by @KostChristian , @kiran_r_patil , @JFriedman_micro , @sarilog , and @RalserLab
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Genomic structure predicts metabolite dynamics in microbial communities -in @CellCellPress
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Glad to be involved in this great work by @Anna_Dragos and @Mikael_lenz , a @GrundforskFond funded @cemist_dtu project published in @CurrentBiology Phages carry interbacterial weapons encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters with @neftalyl @pkempen
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The biofilm life cycle: expanding the conceptual model of biofilm formation @NatureRevMicro by @KarinSauer7 @PaulStoodley1 , Darla Goeres, Luanne Hall-Stoodley, @metteburmolle , Phil Stewart & @TBjarnsholt
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100 papers published since I entered science as diploma/PhD student at @Uni_Szeged , through a post doc in @univgroningen , starting my group at @UniJena / @JSMC_Info , and finally as professor at @DTUtweet / @DTUbioengineer / @cemist_dtu ; I am certainly grateful for all who contributed
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I defended my PhD thesis 20 years ago... what a journey since then: post doc in Szeged🇭🇺and Groningen🇳🇱, a junior group in Jena🇩🇪, professor in Copenhagen🇩🇰, now in Leiden🇳🇱 with >110 publications (70% first/last/corr author), 11 PhD graduates & 60 MSc/BSc theses from my group
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See the August issue of @TrendsMicrobiol online with a beautiful cover art @LizahvdAart has prepared for us, highlighting the review of @MarkLyng5 - Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions
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Beautiful Paenibacillus in the lab -plate by @CajaDinesen #MicrobiomeEcology at @LeidenBiology
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‼️MDPI, Frontiers & Hindawi are blacklisted by Zhejiang Gonggong University‼️👇👇👇 "The university issued a notice stating that articles published by Hindawi, MDPI and Frontiers will not be included in research performance statistics. "
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Gorgeous Bacilli... students were active during the weekend in the lab (Photo credit: Tomislav - Erasmus+ student from 🇭🇷) #Bacillus #microbiology
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Really cool @EvolLetters from @StuWest8 @GhoulMelanie and colleagues Signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis
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#ISME18 Symposium by @ISME_microbes found a new home for 2022 in Lausanne🇨🇭. Looking forward to attend again next year and enjoy the best of Microbial Ecology! Follow the conference here👇
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Workshop‼️ One Health and antimicrobial resistance: role of antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides and biocides   29 & 30 January 2024 in Berlin, Germany and online
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It is MolMicro Sunday! 🎉
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Disentangling arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria at the soil-root interface -in Mycorrhiza (review)
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A new beginning
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A superb collaboration with @knutdrescher group @RaimoHartmann , @HannahJeckel and @JelliEric 's BiofilmQ paper is now out in @NatureMicrobiol #OpenAccess #biofilm
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1st July... starting from today: Professor of Bacterial Physiology and Genetics #finallytenured
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Sorry, excuse me? "first data from a 500-year microbial experiment, which started in 2014 and will finish in 2514" @PLOSONE from Ralf Moeller: Experimental studies addressing the longevity of B. subtilis spores – The first data from a 500-year experiment
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A Bacillus velezensis strain improves growth and root system development in Arabidopsis thaliana through cytokinin signaling -in Rhizosphere
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Microbe of the month: Pseudomonas aeruginosa @TrendsMicrobiol by @KrellLaboratory and @miguel_matilla
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Breaking down microbial hierarchies @TrendsMicrobiol Spotlight by @SnorreSulheim and @saramitri on the @ISMEJournal paper of @MicrobeDaniels from @MicSysEcoLab
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After having number 90 accepted last week, time to update my #PublicationTree
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Effective image visualization for publications – a workflow using open access tools and concepts @F1000Research by @ChriSchmied & @helenajambor -with great cheat sheets (HT @MarkLyng5 )
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Cell-to-cell non-conjugative plasmid transfer between Bacillus subtilis and lactic acid bacteria @MicrobialBiote1 by @LpMorawska and @OscarKuipers1 #nanotubes
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This week was the 20th year anniversary I have started my PhD... a long way from Hungary, through the Netherlands and Germany to the Professorship in Denmark
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It is #BiofilmWeek Did you know that if you leave your soup at room temperature, Bacilli can produce nice floating biofilm, called pellicles?
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Intra-colony channels in E. coli function as a nutrient uptake system -in @ISMEJournal by @lmr_1994 et al from @gailmcconnell w/ @PaulHoskisson
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The evolution of strategy in bacterial warfare via the regulation of bacteriocins and antibiotics @eLife by @NeneRiehus et al with Kevin Foster
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Bit of disruption from #ASMBiofilms Our paper in @NatureMicrobiol is now online: Collapse of genetic division of labour and evolution of autonomy in pellicle biofilms by @Anna_Dragos collaboration with @BangeBalcony @lopesrra LielegLab @caroflcn
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Endosymbionts: Bacterial hijacking of fungi? @CurrentBiology Dispatch by Jan Dijksterhuis @_Westerdijk_ on @Funbiosis2017 's paper from @Hertweck_Lab at @LeibnizHKI @chembiosys_jena with @TheStanleyLab @HillmannLab @IFerling
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Colourful interaction from the lab: redFP labeled Bacillus subtilis hugs an eukaryotic colony
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See this superb online resource by Catherine Oikonomou & @theJensenLab : The Atlas of Bacterial & Archaeal Cell Structure - open-access digital textbook with cutting-edge 3D electron microscopy now includes animated videos illustrating methods‼️
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The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties @NatureRevMicro by Laurent Philippot @ClaireChenu2 Andreas Kappler @mrillig and @NoahFierer
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Having a talk on a real conference feels just amazing after 2 long years #BartjeAroundTheWorld
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When does a Lotka-Volterra model represent microbial interactions? Insights from in vitro nasal bacterial communities @mSystemsJ from @bmomeni
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Fresh PhD thesis booklet by @MathildeNordga1 on Bacillus subtilis interaction and experimental evolution with Arabidopsis, the sweet fruit of her 3 years work
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Mechanical forces drive a reorientation cascade leading to biofilm self-patterning -in @NatureComms
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Did you know that you can grow Bacillus subtilis buofilms in your own kitchen? Make a soup with potato, leek and soup broth and wait few days... #InternationalMicroorganismDay #BiofilmSoupChallenge
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No, no, noooo... 😱 definitely NOT a fungus!
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PhyloPlus: a Universal Tool for Phylogenetic Interrogation of Metagenomic Communities -in @mbiojournal
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Friday Afternoon 🍾 🥂 (at home) to celebrate becoming member of the Editorial board in a microbial ecology journal + getting also a manuscript accepted there Cheers to @MartinMavs @Anna_Dragos & Simon
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Last day at DTU… 👋🏼
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Happy to share our new review by @MarkLyng5 : Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions #OpenAccess - funded by @cemist_dtu / @GrundforskFond and #NNF_Interact / @novonordiskfond #biocontrol #SecondaryMetabolites
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What is microbial dormancy? @TrendsMicrobiol from @jlw_ecoevo
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See our @mbiojournal commentary with Francesca Sartor on rhytmic colony patterns and the conceptual requirements for proving the presence of a prokaryotic circadian clock behind pattern formation /on the paper by @lj_kahl et al from @laahrs #circadian
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See our cover on the current issue of @iScience_CP , an artistic depiction by the talented @LizahvdAart on how Bacillus subtilis cells swim towards a new, uncolonized plant root during our experimental evolution setup - original paper by @MathildeNordga1
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Harmonizing Prokaryotic Nomenclature: Fixing the Fuss over Phylum Name Flipping -opinion in @mbiojournal
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Starting 2024 with a PhD position advertised in our new group at @LeidenBiology @LeidenScience on the topic "Spatial and temporal plant microbiome" Apply before 11 February 2024
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Realities and hopes in the application of microbial tools in agriculture -in Microbial Biotech (review)
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Nutrient status changes bacterial interactions in a synthetic community -in @AppEnvMicro
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Reactivity of complex communities can be more important than stability @NatureComms by Yuguang Yang, @katcoyte , Kevin R. Foster & Aming Li
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How else would you celebrate the first reconstructed Bacillus thuringiensis mutant in the group than a clean-streak blood plate? Great results on the phenotypes by undergrad students are on the way... #ReplayingEvolution
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High impact packing material 😳
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The honeybee microbiota and its impact on health and disease @NatureRevMicro by @ErickMotta19 and Nancy Moran
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Family Xmas Greetings from my hometown, Hódmezővásárhely 🇭🇺
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Superb @ISMEJournal by @kccosetta et al from @LupoLabs how Staphylococcus adapt to distinct microbial partners Bacterial–fungal interactions promote parallel evolution of global transcriptional regulators in a widespread Staphylococcus species
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Glad to see the current issue of @NatureRevMicro with a cover inspired by our B. subtilis biofilm review with @MicroSofia @natalie_bamford and @bacteriacities Bonus: This issue also contains a highlight of our @CurrentBiology paper by @Anna_Dragos et al on prophage coded BGCs
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The most sustainable way to travel to a conference? Ready for two days of biofilm research
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Yesterday, we had a farewell to @Anna_Dragos and celebrated her successful post doc years around B. subtilis biofilms and (pro)phages (15+1 publications). All the best in your new adventure in science ... and an era finished in the group
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BiomeHorizon: Visualizing Microbiome Time Series Data in R Methods and Protocols in @mSystemsJ by Isaac Fink, @richabdill , @blekhman and @ferocious_sloth
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Current issue of @CurrentBiology includes the back-to-back papers by @beeobanion / @Slebiomes and @JJSanchezGil / @dejongepmi on plant attracted bacterial taxa and (myo-)inositol... See my Dispatch (50 days free download) @LeidenBiology #MicrobiomeEcology
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Construction and Modeling of a Coculture Microplate for Real-Time Measurement of Microbial Interactions @mSystemsJ from @dsegre
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bacLIFE: a user-friendly computational workflow for genome analysis and prediction of lifestyle-associated genes in bacteria -in @NatureComms from @VCarryOn1 with @RaaijmakersJM @marnixmedema Cayo Ramos @ClaessenLAB @SpainkHerman @LeidenBiology
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Complexity of fungal polyketide biosynthesis and function @MolMicroEditors by @adicapuna et al from Reinhard Fischer
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Weekend experiment by my daughters... they love to experiment!
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Build your own soil: exploring microfluidics to create microbial habitat structures Superb @ISMEJournal perspective by Aleklett, Kiers, Ohlsson, Shimizu, Caldas & Hammer ( @lunduniversity @VUamsterdam @_amolf collaboration)
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Can you guess the topic of the (now officially) accepted @ISMEJournal paper by @Anna_Dragos ?
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Escherichia coli SymE is a DNA-binding protein that can condense the nucleoid @MolMicroEditors from @michael_laub8
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A three-colour stress biosensor reveals multimodal response in single cells and spatiotemporal dynamics of biofilms NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes from @RabeKersten @KITKarlsruhe
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Composition and functions of bacterial membrane vesicles @NatureRevMicro by Masanori Toyofuku, Stefan Schild, @MariaK_Liaskos , and @leberl2
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Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic system evolution in bacteria -in @ScienceAdvances from @iwasakiw
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Waking up for the weekend, like... 🎉 Authors celebrate around the 🌍, namely in 🇩🇰 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪🇭🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦
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See our new @ISMEJournal paper by @XinliSun et al online on Bacillus velezensis - Pseudomonas stutzeri interaction in biofilms and plant health -collaboration with @ZhihuiXu2 at Nanjing ( @cemist_dtu / @GrundforskFond funded the work in Denmark)
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