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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Viruses are highly abundant in the oceans, but there is one place you won't typically find them: in global ocean ecosystem models... until now. Introducing "vDarwin", an explicit integration of viruses into the MITgcm/Darwin global ecosystem framework: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... a 🧵

Excited to share our grad student Maxine Pruvot’s (@maxinepruvot.bsky.social) first PhD preprint: 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 🔗 Full text: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705374v1

Happy to share our new work on Temperature-driven biogeography of marine viruses infecting Micromonas: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses infecting picoeukaryotes Micromonas

Abstract. Climate shapes the biogeography of microbial and viral communities in the ocean. Among abiotic factors, temperature is one of the main drivers of

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PhD opportunity in marine virus eco-evo dynamics Joint CNRS–UBC program: @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social × @ubcoceans.bsky.social 📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (LBBM UMR8176) 🗓️ Start: Oct 2025 | Duration: 3 years 🔍 Skills: Modelling, Bioinformatics, Marine Virology 🔗 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Grateful for the opportunity to work with such an amazing team, to our collaborators around the 🌍 and the Nomis foundation for supporting our work. New insights into the diversity and biogeography of bacteria in glacier-fed streams across 11 mountain ranges, out now in @nature.com

Susheel Bhanu Busi@susheelbusi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Many congratulations @layeb.bsky.social for this amazing work!! So excited to finally see it published and what a start to the New Year 🎊 🥳🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cold Surface Waters of the Sub-Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biologytechnion.bsky.social

Cold Surface Waters of the Sub‐Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels

Here, we investigated the abundance of cyanophages and the extent to which they infect Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, important primary producers, in the cold, low-light, iron-limited, sub-Antarc...

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Happy to share that our work on viral infection of cyanobacteria in the Southern Ocean has been published 🦠❄️🌊 doi.org/10.1111/1462... Thank you to all the collaborators in this project @d2mory.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @biologytechnion.bsky.social

Cold Surface Waters of the Sub‐Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels

Here, we investigated the abundance of cyanophages and the extent to which they infect Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus, important primary producers, in the cold, low-light, iron-limited, sub-Antarc...

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Delighted to share our new preprint on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Where we integrated viral metagenomics and mathematical modelling to explore the temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses - where do they live and why? (1/6)

Temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses infecting the picoeukaryote Micromonas

Climate shapes the biogeography of microbial and viral communities in the ocean. Among abiotic factors, temperature is one of the main drivers of microbial community distribution. However, we lack kno...

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Delighted to share this paper out via Virus Evolution: academic.oup.com/ve/advance-a... in which we develop and assess a quantitative method to infer phage and bacterial mutations driving changes in infection phenotypes arising in coevolutionary dynamics. a 🧵 about people (and some science)

We are delighted to announce that the registrations are now open for the 12th Aquatic Virus Workshop (AVW12), to be held in Banyuls-sur-Mer (France), May 5-9 2025. Consider to register early because we have limited space! avw12.sciencesconf.org avw12.sciencesconf.org/data/header/...