Sullivan Lab at OSU
@sullivan-lab.bsky.social
We develop new ways to “see” and understand viruses in the laboratory and in nature.
🧵 More details & relevant topics: Perfect for postdocs, PhDs, and researchers working with viral metagenomics, phage biology, and environmental samples. Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... Topics: #MicroSky #Virology #CompBio #PostdocSky #Phage #MetaGenomics #Rstats #Python #PhDSky #ECR
📢 Applications open! Join us for our upcoming Viromics Workshop! 🧬 Learn cutting-edge metagenomic assembly, viral identification, and annotation pipelines. 🗓️ Dates: Oct 14-16 ⏰ (Extended) Deadline: Aug 20, 2026 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... #Viromics #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky
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📢 Applications open! Join us for our upcoming Viromics Workshop! 🧬 Learn cutting-edge metagenomic assembly, viral identification, and annotation pipelines. 🗓️ Dates: Oct 14-16 ⏰ (Extended) Deadline: Aug 20, 2026 🔗 Apply here: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... #Viromics #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky
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Sustainable Microbiology journal Calls for Papers! #Microbiology #CallForPapers #MicroSky #Sustainability #EnvironmentalMicrobiology
🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2026🚨 Application is now OPEN for the 8th International Viromics Workshop, Oct. 14-16, 2026, in-person at Ohio State University. Application closes Aug. 7. Apply: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop
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Out today in Nature Microbiology: a paper that started in 2021 with an email from @sullivan-lab.bsky.social. Subject line: "Crazy ideas". www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/23
Out Now! Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils #MicroSky
Mobile genetic elements shape microbial diversity and functions in thawing permafrost soils
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 29 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02391-7An 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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New review in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social led by postdoc Marion Urvoy: "Beyond AMGs: Phage-encoded transcription and sigma factors as understudied virocell reprogramming tools" Read here: tinyurl.com/5f3z3wzr TLDR:👇
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🚨NEW PAPER @isme-microbes.bsky.social on phage-bacteria dynamics. Collab between us and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social labs. "Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics". 👉 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics
Abstract. Diverse phage-bacteria communities coexist at high densities in environmental, agricultural, and human-associated microbiomes. Phage-bacteria coe
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New paper 🔔 Collaboration @sullivan-lab.bsky.social Marissa Gittrich led the work Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape
New paper from @adjiep.bsky.social on viral impacts in groundwater at Nature Comms. Congratulations Adjie and team! Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #viruses #viromics #groundwater
Diversity and ecological roles of hidden viral players in groundwater microbiomes - Nature Communications
Groundwater viruses are less well studied. Here, using large-scale sequencing, the authors uncover extensive, largely uncharacterized viral diversity in groundwater, showing that viruses infect domina...
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Congratulations Gary! #viruses #soilviruses #ecology
Gareth (Gary) Trubl@gtrubl.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew paper published in @natcomms.nature.com! Population ecology and biogeochemical implications of ssDNA and dsDNA viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient doi.org/10.1038/s414... www.nature.com/collections/... @sullivan-lab.bsky.social
Viruses transform microbes, populations, & ecosystems. In new work jointly led w/@tn-marine-micro.bsky.social + more, we find a link between enhanced viral infection and productivity 50 meters below the surface in the otherwise nutrient limited Sargasso Sea. a 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Critical review for integrating viruses into ocean modelling now in Frontiers: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... Bringing viruses into Earth system models will sharpen predictions of carbon sequestration, nutrient retention, and climate sensitivity in the ocean.
Frontiers | Viruses in multi-scale ocean models: challenges and opportunities
While viruses affect the flow of elements and energy at a planet-wide scale through lysis, gene transfer, and metabolic reprogramming, they are yet to be inc...
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🚨vConTACT3 now in Nature Biotechnology: - >95% agreement with ICTV for known viruses - Classifies both prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses - Extends beyond genus → subfamily, family & order - Systematically assigns taxonomy to tens of thousands of previously unclassified viruses
🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust, benchmarked thresholds for Hi-C linkages. Key results: 👇
Benchmarking with synthetic communities provides a baseline for virus-host inferences from Hi-C proximity linking
Virus discovery has accelerated but linking viruses to hosts remains challenging. This study uses synthetic microbiomes to optimize and benchmark Hi-C for virus-host linkage inference, and applies thi...
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🚨vConTACT3 preprint live!🚨(Peer Review soon...!) vConTACT3 delivers a unified, scalable, and transparent framework for genome-based virus taxonomy — helping translate big viral data into systematic classification. 🔗 Read the preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Improvements details below 👇
Scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy with vConTACT3
Viruses are key players in diverse ecosystems, but studying their impacts is technically and taxonomically challenging. Taxonomic complexities derive from undersampling, diverse DNA and RNA genomes wi...
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The ocean’s got rhythm — and so do its viruses. With the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series (BATS), we dove deep — every 4 to 12 hours — to see how viral populations swing through day and night.
🚨NEW VIROCELL PAPER🚨 from Cristina Howard-Varona et al: "Virocell resource manipulation under nutrient limitation". @howard-varona.bsky.social How do virocells use resources during nutrient limitation to build phages and alter the ecosystem? Check out the link! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Virocell resource manipulation under nutrient limitation | mSystems
This study addresses a knowledge gap in understanding how nutrient limitation shapes virus-infected bacterial cell (virocell) metabolism and its ecosystem footprints. Using multi-omics approaches, we ...
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Microbiome researchers! Join Dr. Shareef Dabdoub (U of Iowa) for a free webinar on multi-omics microbiome data analysis. Learn to integrate DNA, RNA, proteins, & metabolite data. April 1st, 10 am EST. go.osu.edu/2025_microbi... #microbiome #workshop
Time's ticking, microbiome researchers! ⏰ Submit your abstract for the Midwest Microbiome Symposium at Ohio State by March 31st. Submit here: coms.osu.edu/midwest-micr... #microbiome #research #science #OhioState #CoMS
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We are excited to invite you to submit your abstract to the Midwest Microbiome Symposium, Tiny architects: The microbiomes shaping our world. This year's symposium will be held May 12-14 at the Nation...
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🚨 Microbiome researchers! The deadline to submit your abstract for the Midwest Microbiome Symposium at Ohio State is March 31st! 🚨 Don't miss this chance to share your work with leading experts. Submit here: coms.osu.edu/midwest-micr... #microbiome #microbiology #symposium #OhioState #microbiome
🚨Multiple positions open in Bas Duthil's group (Viral Ecology and Omics Group, Jena, Germany): - Postdoc experimental: lnkd.in/dJZ2GRUX - PhD experimental: lnkd.in/ddqQmvA9 - PhD bioinformatics: lnkd.in/d-nTJfAh Group: www.bio.uni-jena.de/en/2245/team
New week, new microbiome webinar topic: learn the DRAM tool for annotation and curation of function for microbial and viral genomes, presented by Dr. Garrett Smith. 📅 Date: March 11, 2025 🕒 Time: 10am EST 📍 Link: go.osu.edu/2025_microbi... More details on full course: coms.osu.edu/webinars/mic...
🚨New paper from NSF EMERGE BII: A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications
Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...
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The Microbiome Informatics Webinar continues tomorrow with Dr. Dylan Cronin, teaching how to go from metagenomic data MAGs. March 4, 2025 at 10am EST Virtual Event zoom link: go.osu.edu/2025_microbi... 🔗 More details on the SP25 Microbiome Informatics series schedule: coms.osu.edu/webinars/mic...
Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales -> Application date: March 21, 2025. Open to MS + PhD students + postdocs Application site: bit.ly/phageschool2...
🚨Spring 2025 Updated Microbiome Informatics Webinar Series starts tomorrow Feb. 25!🚨 Free to attend, join us to learn with leaders in the field. More info and registration: coms.osu.edu/webinars/mic...
New paper from our PhD student Marissa Gittrich! In-depth characterization of 24 phages of rhizobacterium Klebsiella sp. M5al at PLOS One. Congrats Marissa and team! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Isolation and characterization of 24 phages infecting the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Klebsiella sp. M5al
Bacteriophages largely impact bacterial communities via lysis, gene transfer, and metabolic reprogramming and thus are increasingly thought to alter nutrient and energy cycling across many of Earth’s ...
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