Psychrophiles elude genomic prediction of optimal growth temperature journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs
Xabier Vázquez-Campos
@xabivc.bsky.social
Nearly-dry wet-lab microbiologist 😅 Biologist, (env.) microbiologist, bioinformatician. First gen.
We're having fun developing post-cloud bioinformatics tools: reimagining some of the bioinformatics canon as local, browser-native applications so your data never has to leave your laptop. Here's the first set: edwards.flinders.edu.au/viz/ Let us know if you want other tools local to your laptop
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Welcome to the -viz suite of tools: classic bioinformatics tools, reimagined for the browser. agviz · bamviz · genbankviz · phispyviz Each of our tools is a classic bioinformatics tool, but reimagi…
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Unraveling the coastal marine plastisphere archaeome www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Oxygen production as an electron overflow pathway in ammonia-oxidizing archaea www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Oxygen production as an electron overflow pathway in ammonia-oxidizing archaea
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are widespread in nature and contribute to global carbon and nitrogen cycling. Although their energy production is an aerobic process, AOA occur in environments of low ...
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Amazing to be a part of this fantastic work led by the @brendanburns999.bsky.social lab! Here, for the first time, we visualized unique viruses associated with Asgard archaea using cryoET. You can read it here: lnkd.in/gs7mztKw
🤩 figure 1 of this preprint on Asgard archaea-associated viruses should win a poster prize.
Debnath Ghosal@debnathghosal.bsky.social · last wk.Amazing to be a part of this fantastic work led by the @brendanburns999.bsky.social lab! Here, for the first time, we visualized unique viruses associated with Asgard archaea using cryoET. You can read it here: lnkd.in/gs7mztKw
Viruses, Proviruses and Satellites from Asgard Archaea Enrichments Reveal Complex Microbial Interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs
Viruses, Proviruses and Satellites from Asgard Archaea Enrichments Reveal Complex Microbial Interactions | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Great to see Julia’s work from the Burns lab out in preprint!!! Yep- even weird organisms living in Shark Bay Stromatolites get attacked by viruses. Amazing team effort- beautiful tomography by the Ghosal group and we enjoyed contributing to the protein story. 🥰🧶🧬 #archaea
Julia Meltzer@juliameltzer.bsky.social · last wk.Excited to share what I've been working on with an incredible team! Visualisation of Asgard viruses on cell surfaces and vesicles, and a story of complex viral interactions. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @brendanburns999.bsky.social @belindaferrari.bsky.social @xabivc.bsky.social
bioRxiv/medRxiv have been dealing with endless bot attacks recently (plus usual DDOS stuff, etc). Tricky to address without impacting genuine users - many of you affected. Apologies. We're working with our hosting service on solutions & think we're getting there [he shouts in his Red Queen costume].
Very exciting stuff from @juliameltzer.bsky.social!
Julia Meltzer@juliameltzer.bsky.social · last wk.Excited to share what I've been working on with an incredible team! Visualisation of Asgard viruses on cell surfaces and vesicles, and a story of complex viral interactions. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @brendanburns999.bsky.social @belindaferrari.bsky.social @xabivc.bsky.social
Excited to share what I've been working on with an incredible team! Visualisation of Asgard viruses on cell surfaces and vesicles, and a story of complex viral interactions. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @brendanburns999.bsky.social @belindaferrari.bsky.social @xabivc.bsky.social
Amazing first first-author work by @juliameltzer.bsky.social. Shout out to the lab heads @brendanburns999.bsky.social @belindaferrari.bsky.social @kmichie.bsky.social and Debnath Gosal #archaea #phage #asgard #microsky
Viruses, Proviruses and Satellites from Asgard Archaea Enrichments Reveal Complex Microbial Interactions
Asgard archaea are the closest known relatives of eukaryotes and are central to models of eukaryogenesis involving archaeal bacterial symbiosis, yet the contribution of viruses remains unexplored. Her...
biorxiv.org
If you heard about anvi'o but never had a chance to figure out what it really is, please consider watching this 12-minute video by Iva Veseli: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fExu... It is a short and sweet introduction to what (and what not) to expect from anvi'o 😇
A brief introduction to the anvi'o software platform for microbial 'omics research
YouTube video by Meren Lab
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Metagenomic insights into microbial communities of terrestrial mud volcanos: functional diversity of subsurface archaea and bacteria #microbiology #metagenomics #MicrobialEcology #MicroSky @frontiersin.bsky.social doi.org/10.3389/fmic...
Frontiers | Metagenomic insights into microbial communities of terrestrial mud volcanos: functional diversity of subsurface archaea and bacteria
Terrestrial mud volcanoes are surface geological features where fluidized sediments and gasses from the subsurface are discharged along a fracture network pr...
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Giant viruses encode vitamin K–based redox modules for lipid modification #virus #viruses #vitamins #MicroSky @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Giant viruses encode vitamin K–based redox modules for lipid modification | PNAS
Viruses with large DNA genomes often carry auxiliary metabolic genes that reprogram host physiology, yet their contributions to host redox and memb...
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Our paper identifying a stop codon reassignment in Eggerthellaceae species found in mammalian guts is now out! Great collaborative effort with Pierre Chaumeil, Maria Chuvochina, and Phil Hugenholtz (@xrefugee13.bsky.social). www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... @microbiologysociety.org
Stop codon reassignment to tryptophan in members of the bacterial phylum Actinomycetota
Reassignment of stop codons is a significant evolutionary event with recoding of UGA to tryptophan being previously identified in only three bacterial phyla, the Bacillota, Pseudomonadota and Verrucom...
microbiologyresearch.org
Soil microbial growth rate, trophic strategy, and the oligotroph–copiotroph continuum journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs
Recombitrons enable bacterial genome editing across phyla www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconstructing ancient protein alphabets: what can we truly infer? #genetics #proteins #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) for the ERC Synergy project “Archean Park”! 📍 Location: Essen, Germany ⏱ Duration: 36 months (Full-time | EG 13 TV-L) 📅 Start Date: As soon as possible ⏰ Application Deadline: September 2, 2026 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum Myxococcota #microbiology #taxonomy #NaturalProducts #MicroSky doi.org/10.1002/advs...
Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum <i>Myxococcota</i>
Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new My...
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Metagenomics deciphers diagenetic processes of ferruginous mineralization in the deep biosphere www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs
Metagenomics deciphers diagenetic processes of ferruginous mineralization in the deep biosphere - Communications Earth & Environment
Authigenic minerals reflect specific respiration and fermentation pathways leading to diagenetic redistribution of iron and carbon isotopes during burial, according to an in-depth characterization of ...
nature.com
deep learning–based score to evaluate multiple sequence alignments | Molecular Biology and Evolution | Oxford Academic
A deep learning–based score to evaluate multiple sequence alignments
Abstract. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) inference is a central task in molecular evolution and comparative genomics, and the reliability of downstream
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Growth characteristics of natural microbial populations are skewed toward bacteria with low specific growth rates journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #jcampubs
A prolonged hydrothermal past at Santorini Caldera revealed by sedimentary trace metal and microbial signatures www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space #proteins #bioinformatics #MachineLearning #AI @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space | PNAS
Establishing a coherent mapping of the relationships among all known proteins is crucial for elucidating processes of protein emergence and evoluti...
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Phylogenetic conservation of bacterial environmental responses predicts soil bacterial biogeographic patterns www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs