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Chroococcus turigidus, a novel cyanobacterial source for l-sparaginase production www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Programmable antisense oligomers for phage functional genomics - Nature Establishing antisense oligomers as versatile, non-genetic tools to silence phage mRNAs opens applications in basic research and biotechnology, as shown by identifying essential factors for propagatio...

No Genetics? Try ASOs – A non-genetic approach to silence genes at the phage-host interface. We use it to study jumbo phage biology and anti-phage defence.
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The Biology, Microclimate, and Geology of a Distinctive Ecosystem Within the Sandstone of Hyper‐Arid Timna Valley, Israel This study describes an endolithic microbial community primarily composed of the cyanobacterial taxon Chroococcidiopsis, along with comprehensive data regarding the local geological and microclimatic....

The Biology, Microclimate, and Geology of a Distinctive Ecosystem Within the Sandstone of Hyper-Arid Timna Valley, Israel enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@kosmopoulos.bsky.social @annizlab.bsky.social Hi! we are planning another benchmark run for using mappers/aligners for CRISPR spacer-protospacer analyses, I'll add a reminder to try x-mapper too :)

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

ISVC2026 International Soil Virus Conference 2026! We are excited to announce and provide RSVP details for the next International Soil Virus Conference that will be held in Saint-Loup Lamaire, France on Jun…

📢 We are thrilled to announce the International Soil Virus Conference 2026 in conjunction with the Saint Loup Research Institute.
🗓️ June 16 – 18, 2026
📍 Château de Saint Loup sur Thouet, France
👇 RSVP by October 31st, 2025
#virus #phage #ISVC2026

Mapping the transcriptional landscape of algal resistance to viral infection reveals a core expression program ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Simons FoundationSimons Foundation, https://ror.org/01cmst727, 150809

📣A new preprint by Talia Shaler! 📣
How do populations develop resistance to viral infections?
We mapped the transcriptomic landscape of algal resistance to lytic viral infection and identified a unique set of resistance-related genes expressed in those cells >>
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A single-cell perspective on host–virus dynamics in the ocean Viral infections of marine microbes greatly impact ecological and biogeochemical processes. Typically, these host–virus interactions are studied at th…

📣Excited to share our latest review on using single-cell methods to study host-virus interactions in the ocean - led by Amir Fromm (@amirfromm.bsky.social) and Talia Shaler (x.com/ShalerTalia), in collaboration with Frank Aylward (@foaylward.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy) >>

New pre-print out \o/ All about CRISPR, metagenomes, and what you learn when you collect (a lot of) spacers from natural communities, with @apcamargo.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social but also Uri Gophna, Nikhil George (not on Bsky I think) & others at JGI doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

Join NFDI4Microbiota as a participant for 2026–2031! Gain early access to tools, bilateral exchange via an early-career ambassador, and targeted support for ELNs, DMPs, SOPs & FAIR data. Apply by June 10, 2025: www.nfdi4microbiota....

MIUViG Update Survey Since the development of the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUViG) standard (Roux et al. 2019), there has been an explosion in the number of genomic data generated on unculture...

tinyurl.com/MIUViG2
Here's the MIUViG2 survey form!
If you're interested in sharing your experience to update MIUViG for RNA and ssDNA viruses.

Introducing PREDICTORix to predict spillover risk to cause potential pandemics.
#RdRpSummit2025

Thanks! I'd say the conclusion is more like - use bowtie1 + one other tool just to be sure, and verify the alignments reported just in case.

Mmmmmm 🤔

Introducing our invited speaker for the session on 'Viral Dark Matter' we have Rachel Seongeun Kim from the Seoul National University!!!!

The registrations for on-site & remote participation are still open! More info: RdRp.io
#RdRpSummit2025

Comprehensive Analysis of CRISPR Array Repeat Mutations Reveals Subtype-Specific Patterns and Links to Spacer Dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04....

We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.

Working on RNA virus ecology? check this travel grant 🖖

RNA phages are phosphate limited, and possibly as implicated as their DNA counterparts in soil microbiome dynamics following soil wetup (first rain after the dry season).

Out today in SBB!
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Starting off the new semester with a talk from @mrblab.bsky.social !

Registration and abstract submission still open!

The second RdRp Summit will take place at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT NOVA) in Lisbon Portugal on 11th & 12th May 2025!
Abstract and registration details coming this week!
#RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025

Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host Bacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w...

Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

List of Women in Phage Women in phage Name,Institution,Country,Twitter Adriana Carolina,USA,@AdriCaroHM Aisling Brady,Imperial College,UK,@AislingBrady95 Aleksandra Petrovic-Fabijan,Westmead,Australia,@PetrovicFabijan Ami ...

Please update this list of #WomenInPhage (docs.google.com/spreadsheets...)

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Conference announcement: VEGA 2024 is officially *on* \o/ Will be Nov. 12 - 13, 2024, in Berkeley, in collaboration with NIST. More info to come soon re: speakers, etc, but in the meantime you can already check the provisional agenda and register at jgi.doe.gov/events/vega/

Consensus statement from the first RdRp Summit: advancing RNA virus discovery at scale across communities Improved RNA virus understanding is critical to studying animal and plant health, and environmental processes. However, the continuous and rapid RNA virus evolution makes their identification and char...

We just published a consensus statement (with 47 institutes) on advancing #RdRp-based RNA virus discovery! We sum up the challenges identified at the 1st #RdRpSummit and propose solutions to ensure greater interoperability. Here’s a summary-
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Update! I've relocated to the bay area to work at the JGI with @simrouxvirus.bsky.social focusing on bioinfo tools, RNA viruses and (I hope) making this research niche more interoperable 😉
Not easy leaving home at such a time, but I know it'll always be there 💙