Anjana Prasad

Figuring out how microbes get along (or don’t).
Doctoral student in @KostChristian's lab @UniOsnabrueck

[Anjana Prasad @anjanaprasad06]

Our article "Eggs of the mosquito Aedes aegypti survive desiccation by rewiring their polyamine and lipid metabolism" is now published.
https://t.co/Op5dNwkvbf
This is hopefully the first of many!
Thanks to Sunil Laxman, @baskarb11, @DBT_inStem, @TIGS_India
@PLOSBiology

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

Very happy that our paper

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities

just came out in Nature Microbiology.

See here 👇

Paywalled version:
https://t.co/CVXiswXuN0

Free read-only version:
https://t.co/KutRaxYxHn

[Anjana Prasad @anjanaprasad06]

Excited to share our new published opinion paper! Grateful to have been part of this. Check it out below!

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

Happy to announce that a new opinion paper of our group just came out @ Current Opinion in Microbiology :

A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities

with Swagatika Dash @sharvari_harshe @anjanaprasad06 @_Shubharthi_

https://t.co/FaBMpNR0Ki

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

New paper of the group with Andreas Messer as the leading author - a very talented master student that is now on the market for a PhD:

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms

@TrendsMicrobiol @ileonardo

Here👇
https://t.co/fLszgslcpG

@iLeonardoOna

[Shashi Thutupalli @stpalli]

Protocells from three inorganic salts, some formaldehyde and water?

They grow? They synthesise organic molecules of core biomolecular classes: amino acids, sugars, lipid-like motifs?

And, there are similar structures in today's oceans?

Yes! Read on.

https://t.co/XjICVGpQ5h

[Link Lab @LinkLabs]

Technically this required metabolomics on ~3,000 samples from an arrayed CRISPRi library.
The bottleneck wasn’t MS or sampling.
It was sequencing the strains after arraying.
Paper: https://t.co/ympOhFCYXq

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

New paper by Saskia Wilmsen and me just came out BioEssays:

A new classification framework to understand evolutionary transitions in individuality

Please find the OA paper here:

https://t.co/erkzfr6iNM

[Anjana Prasad @anjanaprasad06]

A highlight from the first edition of the Alma Dal Co School on Collective Behaviour.
Diverse, thought-provoking talks and plenty of fresh perspectives—plus the incomparable backdrop of Venice!

[Glen D'Souza @nonresidentdesi]

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026! The Microbial Ecosystems Lab https://t.co/3kMbBq22oB at ASU studies microbial interactions, spatial ecology, and imaging-driven microbiome science. If you love microbes, microfluidics, or single-cell analysis, let’s talk!

[ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology @ISME_microbes]

Microbes can store “memories” by collectively altering their environment. These externalized “memories” impact how microbial communities assemble.
🔗 https://t.co/sSHomO6vtZ
#MicrobeMemory #MicrobialEcology

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.

Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia

Please RT or forward to interested candidates.

Deadline: 11.01.26

More info:

https://t.co/ve6SKoi2K7

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

A PhD position within the @spp2389 is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
https://t.co/faB0tobyMp

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

[Anjana Prasad @anjanaprasad06]

Grateful for a productive and fun lab retreat. Thanks to @KostChristian for making it possible!

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

The position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The post provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
https://t.co/P9M1AOL0zv

[Samay Pande @iamsamayp]

New paper alert!
We show that adaptation to the bacterial predator Myxococcus xanthus shapes how prey bacteria like E. coli evolve antibiotic resistance.
Now online @npjAMR !!
https://t.co/oOttbFhJ9Q

[Vineeth V @vineethvengayil]

Our method to quantitatively assess glycolytic flux in Crabtree positive yeast using stable isotope tracing is now out in Star protocols. Happy to be a part of this!
https://t.co/lTdtCLv2wY

[Glen D'Souza @nonresidentdesi]

We have openings for motivated and curious individuals to join our team https://t.co/9VvSMEajPZ

[Vineeth V @vineethvengayil]

Excited to share my co-first author paper from Sunil Laxman's lab, now out in PNAS @PNASNews on mitochondrial activity independent regulation of mito-morphology via ROS.
Great working with Gaurav, Aayushee & @a_swagata
#Mitochondria #Metabolism #Redox https://t.co/WCwbpn81w3

[Anjana Prasad @anjanaprasad06]

@vineethvengayil @NYASciences Congratulations Vineeth 🎉

[Christian Kost @KostChristian]

Dear Twitter-verse, I have a question:

We are about to buy a new 96-well microplate-reader that we want to use for measuring OD and fluorescence in long-term-cultivation experiments inside the platereader (to e.g. measure growth rate). Which instruments/ brand can you recommend?