Many thanks to all who contributed to #RdRpSummit2025 & #ViBioM2025, making these meetings such great platforms for sharing #virus research insights and new #bioinformatics tools! An amazing week of networking & (a bit of) sightseeing in beautiful Lisbon ❤️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social @evbc.bsky.social

The Neuronal Gene Arc Encodes a Repurposed Retrotransposon Gag Protein that Mediates Intercellular RNA Transfer The neuronal protein Arc is evolutionarily related to retrotransposon Gag proteins and forms virus-like capsid structures that can transfer mRNA between cells in the nervous system.

One of the many reasons why this Second #RdRpSummit2025 in Lisabon will be remembered…🦠🧠🤓

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Closing remarks by our lead organizer Ingrida Olendraite :'(
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Alexander Lucaci kicks off the second RdRp Summit consensus statement!

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Thomas Krannich is introducing the community project on benchmarking various aspects of RNA viral discovery.
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Tatiana Demina discussing the initiative on RNA virus journal club!
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Finding new viruses is cool, but Gytis Dudas highlighted everything one can do with viruses we already know!
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Our next keynote speaker, Rachel Kim, introduces us to BVFD. Now we know what the "F" stands for :)
Truly FANTASTIC work!
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Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture.

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Introducing PREDICTORix to predict spillover risk to cause potential pandemics.
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Are you ready for day 2 of the #RdRpSummit2025??

Introducing RdRpCATCH- mining RNA viruses using RdRp HMMs!
Dimitris Karapliafis is here to talk about the community project we took up during the 2023 RdRp Summit!
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Laura Luebbert on detecting RNA viruses in single cell data.
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Mia Le introduced ViMOP, an easy-to-use bioinformatic pipeline for quick viral surveillance using Nanopore sequencing methods.

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Josué Rodríguez-Ramos on biofractionation methods (both nucleic acid processing & library prep) on soil viromes!

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Using MinION for plant virus detection. Our invited speaker - Anja Pecman.
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Vladimir Gajdov sharing with us their findings on rat viromes.
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RNA Viromes of subways and other urban biomes by Alexander Lucaci!
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Lander De Coninck is sharing with us the tool he made to easily submit your viral genomes!
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Lunch breaks are for good food and even better (RdRp) conversations! ❣️💃🏻
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@lukehillary.bsky.social is joining us remotely to enlighten us on best practices in annotating viral genomes - MIUViG2

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Manual curation of your virus group is like #Tinder, you get to know them and become intimate.. :D
Rachid simply being iconic at the #RdRpsummit2025 :D

Rachid Tahzima presenting the RdRp modulome!
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Karima Ben Mansour is our viral history detective! Going back in time to tell us when and where watermelon and grapevine viruses emerged!
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Kaiyang Zheng is joining us remotely to present their work on VITAP - a tool to classify both DNA and RNA viruses!
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Introducing the #ICTV taxonomy challenge , Cedric Lood!
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Excited for #RdRpSummit2025 and #ViBioM2025! Just starting off now in Lisbon.

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Here we go! The #RdRpSummit2025 is live!
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