I wish I did not have to bring up this old tweet from ‘that other place’ every now and again but here we are (again) and here it is…

Bacteriophage continue to have so much to teach us. It's in our interest to understand how they work and impact human & environmental health. New joint work led by @mariandm.bsky.social & @rantahan.bsky.social inferring single-cell latent period & burst size heterogeneity from population dynamics.

Inferring single-cell heterogeneity of bacteriophage lysis-associated life-history traits from population-scale dynamics

Theory-guided experiments reveal single-cell heterogeneity of lysis-associated bacteriophage traits from population scale data.

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PhD opening in my lab @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social: using AI to predict how phage enzymes break down bacterial capsules — joint work with ML group GMUM and Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa's phage lab (Wrocław), spanning genomics, AI & evolution. mostowylab.com/job-phd-ai-d... Deadline: 15 August 2026

Fantastic #VOM2026 in Prague! 3 posters on phage ecology & evolution in plants: 🌾 Phage–bacteria co-evolution in rice paddies – #SarahDelafosse 🦠 Phageome as plant disease biomarker – @mariandm.bsky.social 🌳 Apricot phageome (from @chloe-feltin.bsky.social 's work) Great science, great vibes!

Host Range Breadth Correlates with Genic Diversity in Honeybee Phages @genomebiolevol.bsky.social from @chicascientifica.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Host Range Breadth Correlates with Genic Diversity in Honeybee Phages

Abstract. Bacteriophages can evolve rapidly. Mutation and recombination via horizontal gene transfer allow them to counter adaptive responses by microbial

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Phage biocontrol reduces the disease burden and modulates plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence @cp-cellreports.bsky.social by Erdrich, @mtkeilhammer.bsky.social et al from @borjana-a.bsky.social @frunzkelab.bsky.social @guidogrossmann.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Phage biocontrol reduces the disease burden and modulates plant immunity through suppression of bacterial virulence

Erdrich et al. investigated the molecular interplay underlying bacteriophage-based biocontrol, using natural bacterial viruses for plant protection. They uncovered that phage-treated plants maintain b...

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📢 Join us at the ISVM General Meeting during #VoM2026 in Prague! 📅 6 July 2026 🕠 17:30–18:30 📍 Prague, Czech Republic We'll discuss: 🔹 ISVM development 🔹 Activities for members 🔹 Future directions and member engagement Programme: www.vom2026.org/program #ISVM #Virology #Microbiology #Phages

Out Now! Phages tame plant pathogens #MicroSky

Phages tame plant pathogens

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02395-3Predicting infection heterogeneity requires looking beyond the host. Phage–bacteria coevolution in tomato fields maintains diverse bacterial strategies and explains uneven disease occurrence across plant populations.

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📆 Save The Date! The Plant-Bacteria Interaction Meeting (18th RPB) in Aussois, Savoie will take place from January 11 to 15th, 2027 👉 More info on the keynote speakers & sessions: plants-bacteria-2027.symposium.inrae.fr Deadline: September 25th @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social

How useful are phages in explaining cholera disease severity? Accordingly to our latest little paper, possibly quite useful — up there with patient age and hospital location, and possibly more important than antibiotic exposures!

The Journal of Infectious Diseases@jidjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ranked placement of phage predation as a determinant of dehydration severity among cholera patients in Bangladesh ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Q2eDGi

Very happy that this piece of research finally sees the daylight! Super nice collaboration between Nanjing, York and Helsinki. Fun fact: we started this work over 10 years ago when I was working as a fellow at Imperial College. Sometimes good things come to those who wait.

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2mo ago

Out Now! Bacteria–phage coevolution drives variation in bacterial wilt disease incidence via resistance–virulence trade-offs #MicroSky

Mushuvirus is the most widespread phage genus in the human gut. 🌍 Together with other family members, these viruses occur in 89% of humans worldwide, including the Iceman Ötzi! How is it possible that they were hidden in previous metagenomic analyses? [1/7] Read: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

I had fun writing a short commentary on the importance of integrating prophage biology into microbiome research 🦠 Now out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social #microbiomesky #phagesky www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Making room for gut prophages in human health

Prophages are pervasive in the human gut yet largely overlooked in microbiome research, despite substantial functional potential. Emerging evidence indicates that prophages regulate bacterial fitness,...

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Phages as ecosystem engineers of plant microbiomes: Cell Host & Microbe www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Phages as ecosystem engineers of plant microbiomes

Phages modulate plant microbiomes through bacterial lysis and by equipping bacteria with auxiliary genes through lysogeny. In this Forum, we highlight the underappreciated role of phages in plant heal...

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🚨 We’re looking for a PhD student to join @phimresearch.bsky.social and explore phages in emerging rice epidemics 🌾 We will investigate phage–bacteria interactions and the seed microbiome/phageome. #phd #phage #plantscience #microbiome #scijobs ‪ 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/yhc2fa7

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Phage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications - Nature Reviews Microbiology

Comprehensive assessment of the host range of phages is a prerequisite for their safe and effective use in multiple applications but is rarely undertaken. This Review outlines the molecular and ecolog...

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1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper published: aggressive ladybirds, slow-eating lacewings, and parasitoids greedy for resources. #BES #JAE besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Consumption competition by a parasitoid wasp opens a window of survival under intraguild predation

Our study reveals a previously overlooked mechanism enabling coexistence under intraguild predation. Using long-term experiments and behavioural tests, we show that consumption rates and aggressive b...

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Greenpeace's ship Arctic Sunrise will join the Global Sumud Flotilla leaving Barcelona on 12 April, to help break the siege on Gaza 1000+ people on 70+ vessels will show the world's solidarity with the people of Gaza, while governments have failed to uphold international law and prevent genocide

📣Huge preprint 🔔 Today we share something our group has been working toward for a long time, led by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social We asked can we predict which receptor a phage targets from its genome sequence alone? For most phages, we couldn’t. So Lucas set out to do something I had only dreamed of.

Global source of cholera & role of phage in controlling evolution/spread of Vibrio cholerae lineages within the current 7th pandemic @nature.com @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @amberbarton.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #IWD2026 to our FEMS community and to everyone working to advance microbiology across Europe and beyond. To mark the day, we are sharing reflections from across our community on the FEMS blog buff.ly/TSSQccE Thank you to all the women in microbiology for the impact you make every day.

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

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The enteric virome, dominated by bacteriophages, can autonomously activate host immune signaling to modulate intestinal metabolic responses @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Back to Madagascar 🇲🇬 for our 2nd phage field season: exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics in rice fields. Aiming to limit sampling to just 1 year of lab + bioinformatics 😅! Great teamwork between Xplain (@phimresearch.bsky.social) and FOFIFA @mariandm.bsky.social #microsky #phagesky #phage #inrae

How does population density affect evolutionary trajectory? Microbes construct their own niche which in turn reshapes their evolution. Preprint drop from grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social whose evolution experiments featured blue/white colonies, 1000 generations, a lab move, and much more!

Noah Houpt@noahhoupt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Interested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages?? Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧵 (1/10)

TnPedia provides a curated framework for understanding prokaryotic transposable elements doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Emerging advances in prokaryotic transposition: TnPedia as a promising tool

TnPedia provides a curated framework for understanding prokaryotic transposable elements (TEs), including general and historical information and basic…

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