Diversity-triggered 2-naphthoic acid exudation recruits keystone microbial taxa to promote soybean #drought tolerance

Microbial diversity boosts #soybean drought tolerance by inducing exudates that recruit beneficial nitrogen‑cycling bacteria.

#microbiome #microbiota #soil #microbiology

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/diversity-triggered-2-naphthoic-acid.html

Got registration scholarship to Boston Bacterial Meeting 2026, woot!

Will be reporting a pretty exciting (for me at least) observation from Haloarchaea sequencing project I've been running since 2024. Hopefully I can find some collaborators - I've been running into walls.

Also glad that bacterial meeting's accepting archaea related abstracts too!

#BBM2026 #archaea #microbiology

Help needed: im trying to grow some Wolffia duckweed, and the enclosure i have made for them has been hit by something. It appears in the water as white fuzz, and appears to grow between the duckweed, tying them together. I droppered some of it onto a slide, and put it under the microscope. It came out as this fiber. Is it a cyanobacteria? Is it harming my plants? If it is a group of cyanobacteria, they will go away once the duckweed thoroughly shades the surface.

#biology #microbiology

High-fat #diet causes rapid loss of intestinal group 3 innate lymphoid cells through #microbiota-driven inflammation & mitochondrial stress.

Dietary fats and microbes trigger ILC3 metabolic failure & death, disrupting intestinal homeostasis.

#immunology #microbiology

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/high-fat-diet-causes-rapid-loss-of.html

Acute and chronic infections drive distinct trajectories in human memory CD4+ T cell formation.

CD4⁺ T cell fates in #HCV differ by outcome, revealing distinct chronic, cleared, and cured memory paths.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074761326001196 #hepatitis #immunology #microbiology #virology

Happy to have made a small contribution for @GB13Faithless's paper. Hope this is just one of many examples in independent researcher collaboration with academic scientists!

#archaea folks, this pipeline rules for global baseline annotation of archaea

https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.31.715528

#microbiology #bioinformatics #annotation

#Soil microbial diversity associates with lower prevalence of human bacterial pathogens across global soils.

Global soil metagenomes show human pathogens thrive in wet croplands & rise as biodiversity falls under global change.

#microbiota #microbiology

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/soil-microbial-diversity-associates.html