Prof. in Ecological Microbiology at BayCEER, University of Bayreuth. Doing research on microbes in water and soil to save our planet.https://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mv6bc5tv7k2zCongratulations to our PhD Nicolas Tyborski on his most successful thesis defense! Very proud of your research in #Rhizotraits and how well you defended this week. 👨‍🎓👏 All the best for your future within CRC #FoodDiverse @zefbonn.bsky.social. We will miss you @bayceer.bsky.social 🥲👋10 Sep 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6bc5tv7k2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3muhdefz2lk2o💧👍See how our PhD Felix Pfaff, together with Adrian Seeholzer and the great #NitratLurch team make cool use of methane to remediate nitrate-polluted groundwater! Thx to @bmftr_bund for funding in #Wasser:N 🤝 Free access at #WaterResearch https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1nZdO9pi-lgO2 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135426012674?via%3Dihub01 Sep 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhdefz2lk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mq4nnjfs422rVery distinguished guest speaker at our @bayceer.bsky.social seminar tomorrow! 💪 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Jul 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4nnjfs422rhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mozzcceppc2m😎 Just selected Editor's choice in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiol Ecol! Aileen Jung and our wonderful @crc1357.bsky.social team reveal how different #microplastics trigger surprisingly distinct microbial responses in the #rhizosphere! 🌽🍓🦠 Thanks @dfg.de & @bayceer.bsky.social for support! https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiag04024 Jun 2026 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozzcceppc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mmwbsylv2c2dNo better way to wish a dear guest farewell than a Frankonian Bratworscht 😋 and a Radler 🍻. Our visiting PhD Rosemary Agbeko from Prof. Chioma Chikere's Lab 🇳🇬 is returning home after work on oil polluted soils. Thanks to @femsmicro.org and @isme-microbes.bsky.social for kind mobility grants!28 May 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwbsylv2c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mjk6z4ef4s2rOur cool @natrevbiodiv.nature.com article led by Pau Balart-García and Mattia Saccò now out on how #omics technologies can help to better understand, protect, and harness subterranen biodiversity. Fauna AND microbes included! 🦇🪱🦐🦠👍 https://rdcu.be/fdgL515 Apr 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjk6z4ef4s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mhzqh54nhs2cMicrobiology Postdocs from all over Europe and the globe, do not miss this next splendid opportunity for career building and networking! 🦠🧑‍🔬🧑‍🎓💯🇵🇹 [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Mar 2026 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzqh54nhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mhvbxkt6ls2jOur PhD student #SulariAnthony most lively discussing 🔥 results from the @crc1357.bsky.social Soil Microplastics Observatory #SMO at the #VAAM2026 conference. Thanks to @vaam-microbes.bsky.social and Berlin colleagues for a great conference! 👌🚀25 Mar 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvbxkt6ls2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mhgadritik2p🤩 Now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Comms! #NicolasTyborski and our wonderful #Rhizotraits team unravel how old landraces and modern varieties of maize distinctly modulate their #rhizosphere #microbiomes under drought via soil water potentials! 🌽🥵🦠 Thanks to #BayCEER #Rhizo4Bio #bmftr_bund https://academic.oup.com/ismecommun/article/6/1/ycag033/848863619 Mar 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgadritik2phttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3mf4pxj6ibs2v♨️ Final version now published! 🥳 Explore our provocative new proposal on how to interpret the morphologies of archaean microfossils! 🌋🦠 Thanks to former colleague #DheerajKanaparthi for pulling this all the way through and to @elife.bsky.social for the like! 👍 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.98637.318 Feb 2026 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf4pxj6ibs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3m64tuoumtc2w🥳 ...and again, splendid national and international rankings for ecology, environmental and earth sciences @unibayreuth.bsky.social. Well done, all colleagues @bayceer.bsky.social 👍🌍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Nov 2025 08:18 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m64tuoumtc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3m3rib34gac2aWhat a wonderful celebration of our University turning 50 this year. Half a century and going stronger than ever! And ecosystem sciences were prominent in research and teaching right from the start. 👏🥳 @unibayreuth.bsky.social @bayceer.bsky.social https://ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/festakt-50-jahre22 Oct 2025 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3rib34gac2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3m2mxp32yk22qVery thankful to receive the 2025 Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology. And even more thrilled by all the great research presented here at the 7th Central European Forum for Microbiology in Siófok, HU. https://mmt.org.hu/en/current-symposium-website #CEFORM2025 #MMT07 Oct 2025 20:28 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mxp32yk22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3lyd6r5mmhc22The @femsmicro.org SSPD 2025 is going strong! 💪 An amazing crowd of postdocs and mentors from all over the globe has gathered for highly inspiring and illuminating discussions of microbiology and career development on the shores of the beautiful Lake of Ohrid - City of Light. 🦠🌞🇲🇰 t1p.de/v7sxs08 Sep 2025 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyd6r5mmhc22https://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3lxron77ikc2hNice surprise after summer break: elaborate insights in @elife.bsky.social on our upcoming microfossils article. Thanks to Lubbers & Claessen of @unileiden.bsky.social for taking note! Final accepted version of our reviewed preprint will be out shortly! https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/98637 https://elifesciences.org/articles/10847001 Sep 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxron77ikc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3lvnk2fvavs2aCheers go out to Brielle Hrymoc of Casey Hubert's Lab @ucalgary.bsky.social and Ania Szlembarska of Brett Poulin's Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social for two well-deserved poster prizes for ECRs at the 2025 AEM GRC Conference. Thanks to #FEMSMicrobiolEcol @femsjournals.bsky.social for sponsoring!05 Aug 2025 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnk2fvavs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3lvkvuvgpo22p📢 Join the 4th D-A-CH Geobiology Young Scientists Symposium in Vienna, 18 to 19/09. Open to PhD students, postdocs, and undergrads working between bio- and geo-sciences. No participation fees! Cool invited talk by @microecolotta.bsky.social More info: https://ecology.univie.ac.at/news/dach-geobiology-symposium-2025/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2025 09:44 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvkvuvgpo22phttps://bsky.app/profile/luederslab.bsky.social/post/3luk7getdpk25🥳 Huge congrats to @jpausch.bsky.social and #ClaraMartinez-Pérez of @bayceer.bsky.social for attracting 2 of 3 research prizes awarded by @unibayreuth.bsky.social during this year's #UNIKAT summer fest. #Soil #Water #ClimateChange [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 09:37 +0000at://did:plc:hao5t4zg55rd3l4fgaoolfsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3luk7getdpk25