Back in Calgary after an incredible week in New Zealand for #ISME20 in Auckland! 🌊🥝 Grateful for the chance to present my research on fungal viruses and connect with so many new people. Now looking forward to #ISME21 in Vancouver! 🍁 #MicrobialEcology #Virome #Fungi #Candida

Virus discovery has overcome many challenges in identifying these elusive infectious agents over the last century. The latest review in Microbial Genomics reflect on the history, current advances, and future prospects of virus discovery tools🔗 https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001785

Happy to see our review on the future of virus discovery published in Microbial Genomics! Excited to contribute to this rapidly evolving field. 🎉

Ann Gregory, PhD@gregoryannc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share my lab's new #MGen review! Evolving Strategies for Virus Discovery explores how virus identification is moving beyond sequence similarity toward AI- and protein structure-based approaches to uncover hidden viral diversity. doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

Nice to finally see this one out! 🎉 We used metatranscriptomics for the first characterization of tick viral diversity in Italy, detecting known viruses (including TBEV) and finding several putatively new to science. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Ticks #Virome #OneHealth #TBEV #VirusDiscovery

Virome diversity and novel virus discovery in Italian ticks through metatranscriptomics - Discover Viruses

Ticks are parasites of a wide range of animal species and the main vectors of many viruses of health concern. However, a genome-scale characterization of tick diversity in Italy remains lacking, altho...

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Curious about microbes in glacial environments? 🧊 MSc & PhD opportunity in viromics/metagenomics in Prof. Ann Gregory’s lab at the University of Calgary. 🤠⛰️ As a postdoc, I’ve found it to be a very supportive, collaborative environment with strong mentorship. Happy to chat if you have questions!

Ann Gregory, PhD@gregoryannc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Integrative Viromics Lab at the University of Calgary is recruiting MSc and PhD students to study viruses in lakes, glaciers, permafrost, and other changing environments. Strong computational skills are preferred. Send a CV and cover letter to ann.gregory[at]ucalgary.ca

Back from #CSM2026 in Edmonton, inspired and full of new ideas! It was an incredible week of amazing science, engaging discussions, and new connections. Huge thanks to the conference organizers and @phagecanada.bsky.social for making this such a fantastic meeting! 🧬 #Microbiology #Viruses #Candida

Curious about the viruses found in one of the most common human-associated fungi? Join me tomorrow for this webinar!

European Virus Bioinformatics Center@evbc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar "Discovery of putative active and cryptic viral infections in prevalent gut fungi" ‍🎙️ Andrea Silverj, University of Calgary, Canada 🗓️ 10 June 2026, 4 PM CEST 📍 Online/Zoom (register for login details) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-v...

Yesterday’s #MVIF 46 Pacific premiere was a real blast! I had the pleasure of chairing the keynote session, featuring a fantastic talk and Q&A with Dr. Simon Roux (@simrouxvirus.bsky.social). Don’t miss the Atlantic replay today at 8:30 a.m. (New York time)! www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

Here's our new paper on the circulation of West Nile virus lineage 1 in Italy, one of Europe's most WNV-affected countries. We definitely need stronger Europe-Africa surveillance! #WNV #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Our work on the Last Universal Common Ancestor is out!! 🧬💻 To improve data reproducibility and accessibility, I have created a GitHub repository that documents the steps you need to follow to reproduce all our timetree inference analyses. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade...

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It has been amazing to discuss my work with such an exceptional committee!

Segata Lab@cibiocm.bsky.social · 3y ago

Discussion with Gerardo Puopolo (#UniTrento), Laura Treu (#UniPadova) and Mang Shi (Sun Yat-sen University)

Two days ago I defended my PhD dissertation: 'Viral Metagenomics and Phylogenomics for One Health'. Immensely grateful to my supportive colleagues and to my exceptional supervisors (Nicola Segata and Omar Rota-Stabelli) for their guidance throughout this journey! 🎓 #PhD #virus #OneHealth

If you can do it, individual animals are the way to go for virus metagenomics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our latest preprint for all phage enthusiasts! We present a novel virus discovery approach that leverages viral enrichment, enabling us to obtain a set of over 162,000 viral sequences. 🧬 #phage #virusdiscovery

Segata Lab@cibiocm.bsky.social · 3y ago

🆕 Our @biorxiv_micrbio preprint on human gut virome is out! @azufre451.bsky.social & team reported a novel approach leveraging Virome enrichment to catalog new viral members of the human gut microbiome.  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/4