Who Infects Whom? Exploiting Bacterial Minicells for Targeted Virome Enrichment and Phage-Host Interaction Analysis through an Integrated Metagenomic Approach www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
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Got an email to say your manuscript had failed manuscripts checks as the corresponding author email was missing and is required ...
I am the corresponding author ๐ค..
Sorry we don't have any
After a busy period , @ryancook94.bsky.social and I have have updated links to latest INPHARED dataset. With 37.5K genomes now. If some "iffy" genomes have got thought the automated and then out manual filters. Let us know the accession numbers so we can exclude
millardlab.org/bacteriophage-โฆ
Submitted my first set of annual review stuff for my PhD (yes I started end of September but the annual review is due 1st June) and looking back on the past 8 months... Wow I have grown into even more of a badass girlie ๐๐งช #phd #microsky
New preprint up on the changes in the bovine virome though different life stages led by @milja001.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is probably my last piece of work from my @medresfdn.bsky.social funded PhD at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social (thanks for all the support over the years!). Contributions from @milja001.bsky.social @evelienadri.bsky.social (and many others not yet on Bluesky) 13/13
The dairy cow gut virome is a dynamic ecosystem that could be an under-studied player in sustainable agriculture ๐
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Microbiome #Virome #ClimateScience #Agriculture #Dairy #Cows #Methanogens 12/13
1,338 vOTUs were predicted complete. @milja001.bsky.social and I agreed to manually inspect the annotations of every single one. I started at the top, he started at the bottom (I think he only did 50 though despite agreeing to do half ๐โโ๏ธ). All of them looked viral in origin, and most were novel 4/13
We profiled the faecal virome of dairy cows across key life stages with ultra-deep Nanopore and Illumina sequencing ๐ฎ
We recovered over 30,000 vOTUs (approximate to species), and included shallow bulk metagenomes for each sample to place the viruses within the context of their microbial hosts 3/13
Why does this matter? Dairy cows = 265 million worldwide, huge importance in food production and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet we know very little about their gut viral communities across key life stages ๐ 2/13
๐งฌ๐ NEW PREPRINT: Really happy to finally share the last big piece of work from my PhD!
Spoiler: Cows are great and so are their viromes ๐งต1/13
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We agreed to meet in the middle.....you were just more efficient at getting to the middle ....๐
Interested in phages ?
Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank .
Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester
jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...
Take away coffees are served differently in Vietnam..bit fancier than standard Costa slop
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I'll ask Thomas . He isn't this platform . And yes it would be
We @ryancook94.bsky.social , updated number of phage genomes we can find in NCBI .... Took longer than it should to do this months ...
millardlab.org/home/bacteriopโฆ
Many congratulations to Mickey @mickey-tad.bsky.social for successfully defending his viva today!! My warmest thanks to Andy @milja001.bsky.social and Lona Alkhalaf for being his examiners and to @nezislab.bsky.social for serving as Exam Advisor! @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @albertilab.bsky.social
Job claxon!
Senior postdoc research associate position at the Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research at the University of Leicester, working with @milja001.bsky.social and Martha Clokie.
Brilliant opportunity!
jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11...
taxMyPhage made Jans pick...in this month's Capsid and tail ..
phage.directory
ptax.ku.dk
github.com/amillard/tax_mโฆ
Now updated with the latest ICTV taxonomy
we ( @ryancook94.bsky.social ) updated genomes in INPHARED
millardlab.org/phage-genomes-โฆ
There are more genomes than last month! Shocker. Haven't had a chance to analyse yet
Great to have you involved @remidenise.bsky.social .might even meet in person at some point :-)
Black and white ink cartoon of a myovirus-like phage with eyes and eyebrows looking confused with โ?!?โ above its head. The page is hovering above a hexagonal childโs sorting toy with different shaped holes. On the front of the toy is a simple phylogenetic tree with shapes corresponding to the holes at the end of the branches
Phage taxonomy doesnโt have to be taxing, my latest cartoon for the Phage journal. To illustrate ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ต๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ lnkd.in/dAXK4sSt @milja001.bsky.social
PHAGE Journal with some phenotype data, to make it a Phage Introduction www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
