Centre for Microbiome Research

Congrats to CMR's Camila Ayala Pintos on submitting her PhD thesis! It has been a pleasure to watch your hard work and dedication over the past few years, and we are so proud of everything you've accomplished. And, as always, thank you to Pam Engelberts for an incredible cake🎉

Check out our team's paper on SingleM, a metagenomic taxonomy profiler that doesn't ignore unknown species! doi.org/10.1038/s41587…

Check out our team's latest paper, published in @ISMEJournal, introducing GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique enabling strain-level visualisation of microbial communities @Pam_Engelberts @S_J_Mc @James_Volmer @wwood doi.org/10.1093/ismejo…

On Monday we welcomed AProf @GaelenBurke and AProf @kvnvgl from the @universityofga to the Centre, delivering two fantastic seminars! We heard about their exciting research on insect-microbe interactions, and how this can be applied to benefit public health.

Our newest tool, CoverM, a unified software package which calculates several coverage statistics for contigs and genomes in an ergonomic and flexible manner has been published in Bioinformatics. You can find the full article at the link below! rb.gy/17w2df

We used Great Oxidation Event as a planet-sized "fossil" to add ancient dates to the Bacterial tree of life. The Conversation and @ScienceMagazine articles show oxygen was used by non-cyanos before that cataclysm, surprisingly. theconversation.com/1-trillion-spe… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A fantastic talk from CMR's @ThePopeLab at today’s @QUT School of Biomedical Sciences Seminar series. Phil shared how his team has used meta-omic technologies to interrogate the complex microbial communities that are integral to gut function, health and nutrition of animals.

New Postdoctoral Research Fellow opportunity at CMR! We are looking for a Gut Microbiome Specialist and Microbial Ecologist to join our team as we unravel the complex mechanisms of methanogenesis in the cow rumen. Learn more and apply here: lnkd.in/gs83q68J

Don't miss the 2025 Science Festival Brisbane! CMR's Prof Gene Tyson will take part in a panel discussion at the session "Love Your Guts: Health and the Microbiome"—an exploration of how microbes in our gut shape our health. Find the full program here: worldsciencefestival.com.au

Congrats to CMR PhD student Brett Babec for taking home the best student speaker prize at this year's MGE Aus meeting 🥳 And another congrats to Lara Carrington on securing the @ASM_QLD Mobile Genetic Elements Award. Excellent work both 👏👏

CMR is now engaging with our community on Bluesky! We look forward to using the platform to have meaningful conversations and build stronger connections with researchers and community members around the world. Join us at @cmrqut.bsky.social to hear about the latest CMR research.

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! 👩‍🔬🦠 We’re proud of the incredible female researchers at CMR who are breaking barriers and driving innovation in microbiome science. Together, let's continue to empower the next generation of women and girls in STEM.

Congrats to CMR PhD student @Georgina_HJoyce for an excellent final seminar today! 🦠👩‍🔬 we're so proud of all you've accomplished in the past four years.

We're proud to share CoverM, a powerful open-source tool for calculating read coverage for metagenomic analyses. You can find the full article in the link below!

Will always be our first @rust4bio project, a special place.

Check out our team's latest preprint, which introduces GenomeFISH—an innovative, genome-based FISH technique that enables strain-level visualisation of microbial communities🔬 Read the full study here: shorturl.at/QmdWw

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… @wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT 🧵1/6

Happy to be involved in a community spirited effort on river microbiomes from by @jmikayla7 @kcwrighton out in Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…. Gratifying to see SingleM / Sandpiper sandpiper.qut.edu.au used to establish the biogeography of novel species in public metagenomes

We are proud to share that CMR's Prof Gene Tyson, A/Prof @luispedrocoelho and A/Prof @wwood have been named 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers! A well-deserved recognition of your dedication to advancing scientific knowledge 👏👏 See the full list: shorturl.at/d6WxE

Congrats to the TRI-based team from the @CMR_QUT, winning a @ResAustralia Frontiers Award, sponsored by @ourANU. Under @QUT Prof Gene Tyson, the team is answering vital questions about the role of microbial communities in human and environmental health. bit.ly/3YNMIu2