Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes #eukaryotes #DNA #chromatin #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...

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Stress triggers viral outbreaks in digesters. Abiotic inhibitors induce proviruses reshaping microbial community dynamics. doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

Archaeal viruses manipulate hosts. A toxin in SSV1 that halts growth without blocking replication. doi.org/10.3390/v180...

Archaeal transcription machinery assembles modularly. Dissect RNA polymerase biogenesis in Methanococcus maripaludis, revealing stoichiometric control. doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

Dissection of in vivo archaeal RNA polymerase assembly reveals a modular pathway and stoichiometric control | mBio

RNA polymerase is the core transcriptional machinery that underpins gene expression across domains of life, yet the in vivo assembly of the multi-subunit RNAP in archaea has remained poorly understood...

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Can fertilizing the ocean with iron help beat climate change? #ClimateChange #ecology #oceans www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate benefit and ecological cost trade-offs for ocean iron fertilization - Nature

A process-rich global biogeochemical model is used to determine the trade-offs between carbon dioxide removal efficiency and ecosystem impacts in ten ocean ocean biomes following ocean iron ...

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Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils - Nature Microbiology

An 8-year soil meta-omic time series shows how mobile genetic elements shape permafrost microbial diversity and impact a range of functions, including carbon and nutrient cycling.

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Halorubrum marinum sp. nov., Halorubrum rarum sp. nov. ... halophilic archaea from coastal tidal flats, a saline lake, and a marine solar saltern #microbiology #NewSpecies #taxonomy #MicroSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bacteriocins in archaea and archaeocins in bacteria. @romainstrock.bsky.social surveys the the exchange of molecular weaponry between archaea and bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bacteriocins in archaea and archaeocins in bacteria

Archaea and bacteria routinely live side by side in microbial communities and must interact at least on occasion. Whether such cross-Domain interactions are dominated by mutual disregard, co-operation...

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⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

I've been using Sanger's Artemis to view #genomics since ... who knows (it was first published in 2000). It's still super useful, but getting harder to install. I vibe-coded a lightweight browser-only version that views #GenBank files: linsalrob.github.io/genbank_view... 🧬💻 #phagesky

The manuscript introducing ArchaeaHQ is still under review😴 As science can't wait... I'm making available a version of the dashboard we use. vee-lab.eu/archaeahq Here the user can have quick access to the information in the database, and select specific genomes of interest. Enjoy 🎉

Pedro Leão@pedroleao.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉 Introducing ArchaeaHQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)

Interested in a PhD on bacteriophages? Check out www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3623... #phagesky if you are interested and also happen to be at #VOM2026, send me a dm

How do phages kill dormant bacteria

Are you excited about exploring the biology behind phages infecting dormant bacteria? Join forces to uncover fundamental biology with great potential for clinical impact. We offer a fully funded PhD p...

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Great feeling delivering a talk at #VoM2026, what a stage! If you are into #giant viral entities, be sure to visit the team's posters 👇 55: Laura (MGEs and competition) 154: Daniela (Tupanvirus gene expression) 162: Dominik (Ecological interactions) 208: Büşra (Viruses and jumbo phages in FMT)

Who infects whom? A big question in virome research. If you want to learn more, check out the work from @apedramfar.bsky.social from her PhD. #VoM2026

#microsky New preprint from the lab! Widespread immune systems protect bacteria against conjugative plasmids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Kudos to the extremely talented lead author Ludovic Poiré! Key contributions by @francoisrousset.bsky.social and also help from C. Lesterlin/TacC lab. 🧵⬇️

Widespread immune systems protect bacteria against conjugative plasmids

Conjugative plasmids are a class of mobile genetic elements capable of efficient transfer between bacterial cells. Although they can introduce beneficial traits such as antibiotic resistance to recipi...

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Happy to announce that a new opinion paper of our group just came out: A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities with @swagatika.bsky.social @sharvari27.bsky.social @anjanaprasad.bsky.social @palshubharthi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities

Microbial communities play vital roles in diverse ecosystems and are key drivers of numerous industrial or health-related applications. In many cases,…

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Decoding phage communication: molecular networks, evolutionary dynamics, and therapeutic applications (a review on arbitrium lysis-lysogeny switch in Bacillus phages) NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PhageSky

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

New proteomics offerings open.substack.com/pub/albertvi...

New Proteomics offerings from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)

And other NGSX news

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it's summer, and time to go to the pool. our post next monday will be about bacteria that swim the backstroke. stay tuned... #MicroSky

@lakhanp01.bsky.social @annecmg.bsky.social et al. characterized the genomic diversity of a tailocin and discovered that diversity is maintained through exchange of the tail fiber locus DNA across Pectobacterium, a pathogen causing soft rot. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag106 #genome #evolution

I'm happy to share the first pre-print of out Lab! 🎉 Introducing ArchaeaHQ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We curated 21,644 genomes across all 4 archaeal kingdoms to bridge the gap in public datasets for computational biology What is inside ArchaeaHQ... (1/2)

🌟 Postdoc position open at Karolinska Institutet to advance research on healthy aging 🔬 🧫 See here: : lengefeldlab.com Please RT! We are excited for your application 😄 @ki.se @novo-nordisk.bsky.social

Discovery could explain the origin of complex life www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

Discovery could explain the origin of complex life

New research suggests previous findings may have been incorrect.

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New feature to help plan Modular Cloning (Golden Gate) experiments and streamline the otherwise confusing dance of overhang compatibility and vector hopping. Gonna find some time to try this out and compare to my current SnapGene workflow. Tools all day!

Manuel Lera-Ramirez@manu-lera.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚀 Excited to launch the #OpenCloning Assembler! 🧬 Built to demystify Golden Gate for beginners and save time for experts -> MoClo assembly blazing fast ⚡ ✍️ Use existing syntaxes or design your own! #SynBio #GoldenGate #MoClo #OpenSource #Biotech 👉 Try it: app.opencloning.org Feedback welcome!

You go, Katy! 🚀 I’m so proud of you, and so happy to finally see this in its final form! Count me in on your corner to keep on cheering for you! Looking forward to doing more amazing science together 💪 Check @katyappler.bsky.social thread below for highlights and the full paper here: rdcu.be/e4A70

Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor - Nature

Sequencing of marine sediments finds 136 newly identified Heimdallarchaeia and several novel lineages, and indicates that Heimdallarchaeia evolved distinct metabolic capabilities from other Asgar...

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Kathryn (Katy) Appler@katyappler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Beyond thrilled to share that our study has been published! This project encompasses years of work, including my thesis research on Asgard archaea in the @archaeal.bsky.social lab at @utmsi.bsky.social and @texasscience.bsky.social!!! #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky 1/12

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thrilled to share our new study! We show that mirusviruses include lineages packed with spliceosomal introns and likely replicating in the nucleus of unicellular eukaryotes—a sharp contrast to most large and giant eukaryotic viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm.

Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes - Nature Microbiology

Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.

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#Virus discovery has accelerated but linking viruses to hosts is hard. @sullivan-lab.bsky.social use synthetic #microbiomes to optimize & benchmark #Hi-C for virus-host linkage inference, applying this to existing #soil data to reveal 100s of novel linkages @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3MlAENO

🚀New preprint from our lab! I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡 Continue reading (🧵)

#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH