Akos T Kovacs

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Professor at DTU Bioengineering (from summer 2023, Professor at Leiden University🇳🇱): Biofilms, Experimental Evolution, Sociomicrobiology, Plant microbiome, Chemical Ecology, Bacillus

See the August issue of Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol online with a beautiful cover art that Lizah van der Aart has prepared for us, highlighting the review of Mark Lyng - Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions

https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/issue?pii=S0966-842X(22)X0009-7

Such a pleasant surprise on the first day at Sylvius building from colleagues on the same floor (@ionica et al), they remembered that non coffee driven scientists also exist
The usual weekend morning 🐮
Beutenberg campus chemical ecology week in @ScienceMagazine
-from @LeibnizHKI & @MPI_CE 👇🏼😲
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For the first time a team led by the department of Paleobiotechnology has successfully reconstructed molecules from DNA of bacteria from Stone Age dental calculus🥳@ScienceMagazine
https://www.leibniz-hki.de/en/press-release/scientists-revive-stone-age-molecules.html
@PStallforth @WarinnerGroup
@WSS_Stiftung @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @Harvard_Press
Scientists “revive” Stone Age molecules

Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of P…

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Last chance to apply! Several ERC-funded #PhD and #postdoc positions are available in my group @mpipz_cologne to study the microbiota-root-shoot axis in plant health and disease. Join the MICROBIOSIS team here: http://jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/fab… Deadline: May 9th. #PlantSciJobs. Please RT
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We @Pitt_CEBaM are #hiring postdocs and technicians for multiple projects:
-How "enabler" mutations drive evolution of #AMR
-Microbiome of tracheobronchitis
-Advancing @evolvingSTEM
-Method dev for single-cell genomics & bioinformatics
Join our #Pittsburgh evo-micro community!

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New @BiofilmJournal publication by María D. Macià and colleagues on Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590207523000266

Last session of the practical course with superb poster presentations by the student. What a nice summary of biocontrol/biofertilizer strain isolation!
Time for a celebratory treat of my last DTU course

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Congratulations @ghada_myousif for successfully defending your PhD! 🥳🎉👍🎊 It was a brilliant talk and you excellently answered all questions. I am so happy that you finally achieved this major goal.

Thank you for allowing me to be part of this exciting journey 🙏. #proudPI