🚨🚨 Faculty search! Spread the word! 🚨🚨 The Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Department at Vanderbilt is hiring! Special consideration will be given to faculty working with Risk Group 3 pathogens (so you can join us in our brand new state-of-the-art BSL3!) apply.interfolio.com/188545

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

Could anyone even have imagined reading such a horrifying headline just a few years ago?

Science Magazine@science.org · 4w ago

NSF has decided to ban collaborations between every U.S. scientist it funds and nearly all Chinese research institutions and their employees. The new policy abandons NSF’s earlier attempt to balance the potential risks and benefits of such collaborations. https://scim.ag/4bw5Of5

High-quality phage assembly from metagenomes with PALACE www.nature.com/articles/s41...

High-quality phage assembly from metagenomes with PALACE - Nature Biotechnology

PALACE combines homology features and deep learning to improve phage assembly from metagenomics.

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RdRpCATCH: a unified resource for RNA virus discovery using viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase profile Hidden Markov models | NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics | Oxford Academic

RdRpCATCH: a unified resource for RNA virus discovery using viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase profile Hidden Markov models

Abstract. Recent advances in large-scale sequence mining have expanded our knowledge of RNA virus diversity. Most genome mining approaches for detecting RN

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While I navigate the policy hiring timeline, I am opening up bandwidth for freelance bioinformatics consulting and meta-omics data analysis (especially if you’ve got microbial eukaryotes in there!) If your microbiome data is fighting you, or your pipeline needs a structural edit, my DMs are open.

DNA Structure

Alt: DNA images on a computer. The film industry’s idea of bioinformatics.

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Looking for a #postdoc outside the US, focusing on gut microbiome, AMR dynamics & phage-bacteria interactions. Bridging wet lab and computational approaches🦠👩‍💻. Hartmann Lab, Northwestern University, defending late 2026. Boosts appreciated 🙏🧫🧪 #microbiome #metagenomics #MicroSky

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Please share - full funded (UK students only) PhD studentship in the Duncan lab ‘intergrated ‘omics for accelerated antibtioic dicovery from abyssal actinomycetes’. Co-supervisors @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social, Marcel Jaspars, @zmaw.bsky.social- deadline 20th May www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

f you've wrestled with sacB escape in Pseudomonas, or found tricks to enrich for true double crossovers, I'd genuinely love to hear from you. DMs open 🙏 #MicroSky #Pseudomonas #bacterialgenetics #microbiology

Calling all bacterial geneticists 🧫 Anyone done allelic exchange with sacB counter-selection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa? I'm hitting a wall and would love to connect with people who've been through this. #MicroSky #Pseudomonas #bacterialgenetics #microbiology

We've known the gut-brain axis is a key underpinning of Parkinson's disease. Today, for the 1st time, a gut microbiome signature denoting risk found in healthy individuals with genetic predisposition nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbiome signature of Parkinson’s disease in healthy and genetically at-risk individuals - Nature Medicine

Microbiome analysis suggests that gut microbial changes in Parkinson’s disease evolve progressively from healthy individuals to genetically at-risk individuals to clinically affected patients, with th...

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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🥁 NEW Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/10

Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome - Nature

A metagenomic survey of babies attending the first year of nursery detected extensive baby-to-baby microbial strain transmission, pointing to social interactions in infancy as crucial drivers of infan...

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A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

We create vector graphics of model organisms and emerging biological research organisms to enhance our publications. We’re sharing these editable graphics under a CC0 license for other scientists to...

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Excited to share work I led during my PhD - now out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🎉 Using multiomics, we show that microbiome and host expression profiles dynamically shift during pneumonia treatment and track with clinical outcomes 🧪🫁 #MicroSky www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

As a phd student coming from “ a country of concern” seems like all the ways to continue my research as a postdoc In the US might get blocked. Absolutely heartbroken. I can’t even think straight. Not to sure what to do or where to find the strength to stay productive. #phd #postdoc #microbiomesky

Long read Metagenomics, #phage and #prophage in the gut by Ami Bhatt's group. Beautiful data showing changes in phages over two years #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome - Nature

Complex prophage integration dynamics, including low-level induction, cross-family host range and transposase-mediated mobilization, challenge existing paradigms and deepen our understanding of phage–...

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Baym continues to make freakin' art. Must see thread/paper

Michael Baym@baym.lol · 9mo ago

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment

Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

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It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin. A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.

R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).

NEW publication from our lab: One of the first methodologies (FUGAsseM) for gene function prediction from microbial community multi-omics data! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵⬇️ 1/8

Predicting functions of uncharacterized gene products from microbial communities - Nature Biotechnology

FUGAsseM predicts protein function in microbiomes using coexpression patterns from metatranscriptomes and diverse community-wide data.

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Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature

Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

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UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Wow, more than 2.4M of assembled bacteria in the new release of ABT! We plan to index these using our efficient colored De Bruijn graph index, Fulgor. We recently conducted experiments with nearly 1M genomes…getting there :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AllTheBacteria - all bacterial genomes assembled, available and searchable

The bacterial sequence data publicly available via the global DNA archives is a vast potential source of information on the evolution of bacteria. However, most of this sequence data is unassembled, o...

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First time seeing someone else experiencing this. It’s usually happens when I’m extremely tired. But for me instead of feeling it in my core, I mostly feel it in my head and neck. My head starts vibrating, and it usually takes an hour to go away.

Elinne Becket, PhD@bielleogy.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Unsurprisingly, blood cortisol levels are... not low (tested first thing in the morning in the middle of the shakes, decently outside normal range). Na, Mg, K, all normal. Advice welcome 🙏 I'm tired of these shakes.

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #microbialsky