Hugo Bisio
@molbiolgv.bsky.social
Molecular biologist digging into Giant Virus genomes at the IGS. 🏳️🌈🇺🇾👨🔬🌎 Views and opinions are my own. #Respect-Cuba #Free-palestina #Respect-venezuela #Respect-south-America. #f@ Trump.
Very dangerous. Against the entire humanity. www.euronews.com/2026/07/23/u...
US signs landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia
The Trump administration did not release details of the deal, but the framework could potentially provide Saudi Arabia with a facility that would allow it to enrich uranium.
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War, right? Shame on Israel! cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/06/06/m...
Soldados israelíes matan a tiros a un bebé palestino de siete meses en la Ribera Occidental | CNN
Soldados israelíes mataron a tiros a un bebé palestino de siete meses en la Ribera Occidental ocupada el viernes e hirieron a sus padres, según el Ministerio de Salud palestino.
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Just published! Check out our review of the Nucleocytoviricota infection cycle. Great teamwork! @mkrupovic.bsky.social @willemsenanouk.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social @puffy-virus.bsky.social
Nature Reviews Microbiology@natrevmicro.nature.com · 2mo agoNew online! Infection cycles of viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota
New Work out! A multilayered network reveals the centrality of newly discovered #Nucleocytoviricota in wastewater treatment plant communities w/ @dominikluecking.bsky.social & @amanzanom.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202... @erc.europa.eu @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social 1/4
Now this is the cinema that i wanna watch. cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/05/21/e...
Pedro Almodóvar llama “monstruos” a Trump y Netanyahu durante su participación en Cannes | CNN
Durante su participación en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Cannes, Pedro Almodóvar calificó como “monstruos” a personalidades como Trump y Netanyahu. El cineasta, que presentó la cinta “Amarga N...
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Latent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal host www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Latent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal host - Nature Microbiology
Giant endogenous viral elements integrated into the multicellular alga Ectocarpus are reactivated by specific temperature cues, driving productive latent viral infections.
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Someday, When the madness is done, And there is a true accounting, Of the lives that were saved, And those that were lost, I know we will find the name of Ralph Baric On the right side of the ledger. I, for one, am grateful.
Korie Dean@koriedean.bsky.social · 3mo agoBreaking @theassemblync.bsky.social: UNC-Chapel Hill coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric is retiring in June www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
We are incredibly excited to see our most recent story out @nature.com today:HIV triggers CD4-signaling to remodel nuclear pores and license infection!A heroic effort led by our very own @d-mesner.bsky.social & @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social! @blizardinstitute.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/HIVNup 1/11
Our News and Views article discussing @mfels.bsky.social et al's work on how a giant virus manipulates its host's translation during infection is out today in Nature Microbiology. PhD student Danae Stephens is a co-author. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Giant viruses rewire control of cellular protein synthesis - Nature Microbiology
A giant mimivirus encodes its own cap-binding translation initiation complex, revealing an unexpected level of viral autonomy in rewiring host translation towards viral protein production.
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I teared up reading this. Jake really did my story justice and understood my message, when I could have been very easily treated as "just a joke" Let's do this, y'all Time to fight for trans rights with the powers of science and whimsy combined! 🏳️⚧️ 🧬 💖 @beyondxandy.bsky.social
Windy City Times@windycitytimes.com · 4mo agoChicago scientist to launch a ‘transquake’ to counter anti-trans misinformation Chicago scientist Jey McCreight is marking DNA Day on April 25 by testing a simple, provocative question: What happens if trans people become “too powerful” all at once? It’s not a serious hypothesis. But the…
Out now in Nature Communications! We show that Dictyostelium vaults associate with ER and NE membranes in situ and encapsulate ribosomes with defined orientations, shining new light on their cellular function! #TeamTomo #TeamMassSpec #ProtistsOnSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sharing the latest preprint from our lab where we identify pervasive presence of Genomic Islands (GIs) in diverse giant viruses and characterize their functions and origins - leveraging cultured isolate genomes and long-read sequenced giant virus genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.
How come giant mimivirus virions retain icosahedral symmetry like smaller viruses? Chantal Abergel, Hugo Bisio @molbiolgv.bsky.social et al use bioinformatics, genetics & interactomics to elucidate spatial & functional organization of mimivirus virion morphogenesis link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The President of the United States is publicly threatening to commit genocide. For love of country, for the freedoms we cherish and for the values we hold dear, the House must immediately reconvene and vote to impeach Donald Trump. Read my full statement: tonko.house.gov/news/documen...
Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867426002710?dgcid=rss_sd_all
Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems
Arbitrium is a communication system that helps bacteriophages to decide between lysis and lysogeny through secreted peptides. In this system, the arbi…
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Arbitrium phages can manipulate each other’s lysis/lysogeny decisions - ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867426002278
Arbitrium phages can manipulate each other’s lysis/lysogeny decisions
Many viruses can switch between lytic replication and dormancy (or lysogeny). It was recently discovered that some viruses that infect bacteria (known…
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I want to believe that one day Israel will need to pay for allowing this atrocities to occur. Respect Palestinians! cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/03/31/m...
Colonos israelíes reanudan ataques contra aldea de la Ribera Occidental donde soldados israelíes agredieron a equipo de CNN | CNN
Los colonos israelíes llevaron a cabo el martes otro ataque en la aldea de Tayasir, en la Ribera Occidental ocupada, días después de que un equipo de CNN que cubría el establecimiento de un puesto ile...
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Excited to share our lab's new paper in Current Biology featuring MS student Sydney Schultz's work. We show that a polar alga carries large amount of giant viral DNA in its genome, and many of the viral genes respond to stress - with implications for host adaptation. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Extensive array of endogenous giant viral elements in a polar alga shows dynamic transcriptional response to abiotic stress
Schultz et al. show that polar algae harbor extensive endogenous giant virus elements that are transcriptionally active, stress responsive, and integrated into host regulatory networks, highlighting v...
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With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268
I am tierd of fucking wars everywhere... Out Trump and out Netanyahu.
Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
The giant viruses surprised us at almost every turn of this project, but ultimately led us down a very rewarding path. Happy to share this work is now available online 🧪
Cell - a Cell Press journal@cp-cell.bsky.social · 6mo agoNow online! Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life
In time of darkness, China is the only light. cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/02/10/m...
China se declara dispuesta a ayudar a Cuba ante sus problemas de escasez de combustibles | CNN
El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de China dijo este martes que el país está dispuesto a apoyar “firmemente” a Cuba frente a los problemas que padece por escasez de combustibles.
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FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
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