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Ad for Postdoctoral Scientist Position in Burmeister Lab on Bacteria-Phage Coevolution. Full document available here: https://arburmeister.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/9/9/19990727/burmeister_lab_postdoc_position_2026.pdf

Postdoc position on phage-bacteria coevolution available in the @aburmeister.bsky.social lab at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee #phage #evosky #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🔬 #microbiology

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Dengue Virus Evolution: From Emergence to a Global Health Crisis

🩺📊 'Dengue Virus Evolution: From Emergence to a Global Health Crisis'—edited by Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos and Marta Giovanetti—brings together leading experts to examine its evolution, pathogenesis, and strategies for prevention. bit.ly/4jEosUY #virology #VirEvol

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Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

... of degradation that suggests it's adopting a transposable element-like lifestyle. Read it at doi.org/10.1099/jgv....
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Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

a unique ~1,500 amino acid fused DNA Helicase SF1–pPolB, the largest replication protein known so far in Preplasmiviricota. It shows signs of recent endogenization and a pattern ... [cont] #VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

🎄 Just published 🎉! Our ongoing genome sequencing of the basal dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncovered a new lineage of endogenized Polinton-like viruses, OmPLV. Notably, OmPLV encodes ... [cont]
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FYI: HIV PrEP in BC has prevented ~20 new cases/year since 2018. Thank you @jbjoy.bsky.social + co-authors, participants, @bccfe.bsky.social, @genomecanada.ca, @genomebc.bsky.social, @ubcmedicine.bsky.social, @science.ubc.ca, #CIHR, and @plosmedicine.org. #VirEvol #ViroSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth

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Last week we wrapped up the first edition of the Virus evolution and ecology course under the umbrella of the brand new Master in Microbiome Science offered @univie.ac.at. We learned about viruses, their evolution, and their ecological impact across different ecosystems. 1/2

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Constraint in West Nile Virus Envelope Protein across Mosquito, Human, and Avian Host Cell Environments Abstract. Arthropod-borne viruses are a major cause of global viral infections, displaying evolutionary dynamics that differ significantly from vertebrate-

New in ‘Virus Evolution’ from #QVEU! PhD student Jack Dorman used deep mutational scanning to measure evolutionary constraints on the Envelope protein of West Nile Virus in human, mosquito, and bird cell lines, doing a lot of work to put it into a structural context #VirEvol

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Thanks to @vscooper.micropopbio.org, @shellyscrib.bsky.social, Cooper Lab members, my committee, and everyone who helped get this to the finish line!

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Alex Robertson @alexrob.bsky.social has some very exciting new results describing when and how intracellular interactions among polioviruses can slow resistance evolution (with Ben Kerr)!: #VirEvol #evoSky
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Elena Romero led a new preprint detailing joint work with Lillian Cohn's lab at Fred Hutch describing really crazy parallelism in in vivo HIV escape from broadly neutralizing antibodies! #VirEvol #evoSky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to see this paper finally out in @pnas.org!

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Gift link: www.pnas.org/eprint/YYDZ9...

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Insights into diversity, host range, and evolution of iflaviruses in Lepidoptera through transcriptome mining Abstract. Insects are associated with a wide variety of diverse RNA viruses, including iflaviruses, a group of positive stranded RNA viruses that mainly in

Finally published 🥳 We mine public transcriptome data to enhance the known diversity of iflaviruses in Lepidoptera. Virus diversity is everywhere - from the family level to the within-species level - academic.oup.com/ve/article/1... with @astridbryon.bsky.social and others #VirEvol

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Multiple origins, one function: evolutionary pathways of HSP70 proteins in viruses Heat shock proteins 70 (HSP70) are highly conserved molecular chaperones found across all domains of life, where they play essential roles in cellular stress responses. While HSP70 homologs have been ...

Heat Shock Protein 70 (AKA HSP70) in Mimiviridae and Phycodnaviridae likely originated from horizontal transfer from their protist hosts. By @sfelena.bsky.social & @amaachi.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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I've once again failed to tag appropriately for the various sciency bluesky feeds. 🧪🧬🖥️ #ViroSky #VirEvol

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We welcome participation from anyone in the field and across disciplines working on emerging viruses.

We especially encourage trainees in EEID to get involved, so please share with your networks and labs! 🎓

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Quantifying phage infectivity from characteristics of bacterial population dynamics A frequent goal of phage biology is to quantify how well a phage kills a population of host bacteria. Unfortunately, traditional methods to quantify phage success can be time-consuming, limiting the t...

Excited to see this new, and extensively-rewritten, version of our preprint up now! With @paulturnerlab.bsky.social we show how bacterial population dynamics (e.g. growth curves) can be used to accurately quantify bacteriophage infectivity

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doi.org/10.1101/2023...

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Virus Genes VIRUS GENES publishes studies on analysis of virus genes, gene products and functions, regulation of virus gene function, cell biology of virus ...

🧬Check out our latest issue! 'Virus Genes' is dedicated to the publication of studies on the structure and function of viruses and their genes, providing a forum for the analysis of data and discussion of its implications, and the development of hypotheses. https://bit.ly/4gTzKC0 #VirEvol