New manuscript accepted today! 🎉🎉🎉 “xoxF-linked methanol oxidation signals recur across wetland metagenomes” in ASM Microbiology Spectrum by lead author graduate student Sukhjit Kaur. Stay tuned for updates once it’s out! @sfstatebio.bsky.social #wetland #metagenomes #methanol #methane #xoxF

Excited to host @simrouxvirus.bsky.social for our Phage Power Hour speaker series this Friday, June 26, 10-11 am pst! For the zoom link please visit www.phagepathways.com Supported by @departmentofenergy.bsky.social

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Talking about #viruses in #wastewater to a room full of #microbiologists? That’s my idea of fun. 😊 Great discussion today at #ASMMicrobe on phages and viral ecology across human water systems. If you’re attending the meeting, come by my ASM Studio Talk at 2 PM and let’s talk #phages!

Excited to be at #ASMMicrobe2026! If you’re here, let’s connect! I’ll be giving a talk in the micro session “Phage Discovery in Human Water Systems,” moderated by Lauren Sanders from Ceres Nanosciences, sharing work on #phages in #human #water systems. Supported by @departmentofenergy.bsky.social

Almost time to kick-off this year's ASM Microbe, including some very cool sessions in the next few days in the AEM meeting ! If you're around and want to chat anything metagenomes, phages, viruses, and all that, let me know !

I’m not crying; you’re crying…such a beautiful sight— @sfstatebio.bsky.social 2026 #graduates celebrate with their peers, their families and friends, biology staff and faculty-COMMUNITY!! #SFSU2026 @calstate.bsky.social #CONGRATULATIONS

🎊 New Preprint from phagefoundry.org ! Super excited to share our latest work on generating systematic phage-MDR P. aeruginosa interaction dataset & use of ML to predict phage susceptibility & phage cocktails from target genome sequences alone, w validations www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New episode of the #MattersMicrobial podcast! Episode 130 is with Dr. Kevin Kohl of the Univ of Pittsburgh, and explores how the microbes within organisms can impact fitness and success: the complex and interesting holobiont concept. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/gH7q8C32JIQ?...

Have you registered for our Early Career Summer Conference? 👀 Join us 6–7 July at the University of Birmingham. EC Forum members get subsidised fees, don't miss out! Secure your spot: https://microb.io/ECConf26 #ECConf26 #Microbiology #EarlyCareer

Join the conversation at Scripps/UCSD tomorrow on navigating careers at PUIs - with @bielleogy.bsky.social, @kauzenne.bsky.social, Scott Kelley (SDSU), @cawatran.bsky.social, Dennis Kolosov (CSUSM) and me! scripps.ucsd.edu/community/de... Thursday, May 21, 2026, 2 - 4pm | Vaughan 100

Been a bit behind in our posts off late! So thrilled to host Dr Catherine Mageeney from the @sandialabs.bsky.social for a guest seminar in our gigantic general #microbiology class and for our #Phage #Pathways cohort earlier last week! 🙏 we loved learning about #mobilegeneticelements and #waxworms!

We are thrilled to welcome Dr Faith Dukes for our Phage Power Hour Speaker Series! Visit www.phagepathways.com for the zoom link. This program is funded by the Department of Energy, Office of Science. #phage #research

Super thrilled to be welcoming Dr Gabriele Ghiotto, postdoc at the @jgi.doe.gov for a seminar on “Single nucleotide variants drive evolutionary phage-host arms race" today! He develops novel tools and computational strategies to study the human virome. #virome #phage

Really happy to have played a small part in this cool piece of work led by @guido-valverde.bsky.social and @msabrysarhan.bsky.social. We characterised S. pyogenes in a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy (suggesting circulation before European contact) #VivaBolivianMummies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nanoscale #robotic cleaner can hunt, capture and remove #bacteria ... | #nanorobots | #MicroSky | #microbes | #drones | By @uni-wuerzburg.de via @sciencex.bsky.social

A nanoscale robotic cleaner can hunt, capture and remove bacteria

Tiny robots—around 50 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair—open up fascinating possibilities: they enable the controlled manipulation of objects far too small for human hands. This brings…

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Hands-down one of the best lectures I’ve attended in a while. Thank you, @bielleogy.bsky.social for being such an amazing researcher and student advocate!

Dr. Arun Sethuraman@arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Aah! Stoked to welcome my bestie @bielleogy.bsky.social to deliver our @sandiegostate.bsky.social EEB seminar this coming Monday, April 13, 2026. Noon PST in the Gold Auditorium! Do join us!

Kicking off the 2026 Phage Pathways cohort with our first speaker: Oscar Luo, MBA, CLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, SBBCM. We’re excited to launch this year’s cohort and associated events with his expertise. April 10, 2026 | 10–11 AM. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. #PhagePathways www.phagepathways.com

The Silva Lab (PI: @nicholasjsilva.bsky.social) studies how glia regulate neurons during development and disease. Using genetic, cellular, and molecular tools in zebrafish, we’re uncovering key neuron-glial mechanisms. Support our work on #GatorsGiveDay! #Neuroscience #Zebrafish #Research

We reached 125% of our goal today! Thank you for making this happen! #GatorsGiveDay

Join us Monday, March 16 from 6-7 p.m. for a webinar featuring scientists from the NIH RECOVER Initiative discussing the latest insights into Long COVID and what they could mean for future diagnosis and treatment. Register: isbscience.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join us Wed, Mar 11 at 11 AM at EOS + on Zoom for a seminar by Dr. Sophie George (University of Washington; Professor Emerita, Georgia Southern University): Marine Heatwaves effects on growth and development of Pisaster ochraceus larvae in multidimensional space #MarineBiology #MarineHeatwaves

Join us for a Biology Seminar with Adrianne Correa, PhD (UC Berkeley): Weaving Community-Science Partnerships to Understand and Bolster Reef Health in a Changing Ocean 📅 Thurs, March 12, 2026 ⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM 📍 SEC 116

🦠 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝘀 — 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄?” Historian @kirchhelle.bsky.social chats with 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗲 & 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗯𝗱𝗲𝗻 about revival of phage biology & phage therapy as antibiotics fail. 🎧 2024 BBC Radio 4 — listen worldwide: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #phage #phagesky #microsky

In Our Time - Bacteriophages - BBC Sounds

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how viruses can help us track and cure bacterial illnesses

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On International Women’s Day, we celebrate not only the women who are recognised, but also those whose achievements were overlooked. Their contributions still shape the world we live in today. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomenInScience #RosalindFranklin #STEM #WomenInSTEM #ukisotope #Science

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply to Methods in Computational Neuroscience by March 16. This four-week course is designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in a variety of fields. Financial aid is available. 🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/MCN

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Mysterious Asgard microbes may point to origins of complex life | CNN

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

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Is #COVID a thing of the past? ... | #flu | #virus | #SARSCoV2 | #coronavirus | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via @the-independent.com

Covid a thing of the past? Flu is again the most common winter ailment

Covid is now considered to be endemic, meaning that the virus is constantly circulating

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➡️ preprint from the lab! Bacteria have loads of antiviral defences in their mobile genetic elements (MGEs). So when MGEs move between bacteria, the defences move with them, generating a fast turnover of defences in bacteria. But what about the antiviral defence turnover in the MGEs themselves? 🤔 🧵👇

📣new preprint from the phagefoundry.org team 🎉 Jessica Trinh and Catherine Mageeney (Sandia National Laboratories)!! Systematic analysis of prophages from ~1000 Acinetobacter baumannii isolates, induction & screening. We found this 😎 looking phage with bunch of 💍💍

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Discovery, induction, and screening of prophages in clinical Acinetobacter baumannii isolates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706188v1

📣 New preprint from us at phagefoundry.org 📣 A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...