2 days left to apply for a fully funded MIBTP Phd project with me at the School of Life Sciences @warwicklifesci.bsky.social at Warwick. We will do viral functional metagenomics and other cool techniques. Check out the details and apply in the link below warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

📣 We are excited to share our latest paper, led by @taliashaler.bsky.social! We explore the transcriptional basis of #microalgae resistance to #viral_infection and identified a core group of resistance-related genes. >> (1/3) #New_Phytologist #Marine_Biology #Viruses

Pear flower and leaf microbiome dynamics during the naturally occurring spread of Erwinia amylovora journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

#PhageSky #ProtistsOnSky endosymbionts have "their" phages, too. cyanos of sponges (below), 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 of insects, and then we have the piñata 👇 schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

Our paper on cyanophages of marine sponge symbionts is finally out. It is the outcome of a great collaboration with Laura Steindler's lab and was led by Tzipora Perez.

Expression level of anti-phage defence systems controls a trade-off between protection range and autoimmunity By Nitzan Aframian and Avigdor Eldar. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cyanophage Infections in a Sponge Intracellular Cyanobacterial Symbiont enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣Excited to share our latest review on using single-cell methods to study host-virus interactions in the ocean - led by Amir Fromm (@amirfromm.bsky.social) and Talia Shaler (x.com/ShalerTalia), in collaboration with Frank Aylward (@foaylward.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy) >>

📣A new preprint by Talia Shaler! 📣 How do populations develop resistance to viral infections? We mapped the transcriptomic landscape of algal resistance to lytic viral infection and identified a unique set of resistance-related genes expressed in those cells >> doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are looking for talented and curious students. If you are interested in joining, please contact me.

Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺

I am happy to introduce to you our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lab's first preprint! #newPI We show that viruses are active agents that recycle carbon fixed by productive chemoautotrophs, shaping our understanding of carbon cycling in redox-active ecosystems. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @julesdeep.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @mepjoe.bsky.social

Congratulations to @emmiamueller.bsky.social on: "Residence time structures microbial communities through niche partitioning" Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lysogen formation governs colonies while lytic infection is more prevalent in single cells of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium, Microcystis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We wrote a new review paper in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social on recently developed bioinformatic tools that facilitate elucidating protein functions in the era of big genomics data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This is the 1st paper of 2 talented students Shani Cheskis and Avital Akerman.

This paper has been a long time coming: We looked at the genomes of historical bacterial samples over a century to look for trends of antibiotic resistance genes, finding multiple instances of them in infections before the age of antibiotics, but an increase in both frequency and mobility after

The AVW12 committee wishes you a Happy New Year 2025! A quick reminder that the deadline for abstract submission is 15 February: avw12.sciencesconf.org. Spread the word with your network!

Happy to see this multi country collaboration published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social led by Polonca and Anna Ecology of prophage-like elements in Bacillus subtilis at global and local geographical scales www.cell.com/cell-reports... #Phage #Bacillussubtilis #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Cold Surface Waters of the Sub-Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biologytechnion.bsky.social

Protection Against Viruses – The Passive Version. www.technion.ac.il/en/2025/01/p...

Delighted to share news that our collaborative study with @justinmeyer.bsky.social 'Inferring strain-level mutational drivers of phage-bacteria interaction phenotypes arising during coevolutionary dynamics' is now officially out in Virus Evolution: academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

נגיפים נגד חיידקים: חוקרות מישראל חשפו מנגנון הגנה ייחודי בים www.ynet.co.il/environment-...

🚨New review🚨 Evolution and ecology of anti-defence systems in phages and plasmids Link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

OUT NOW: Adaptive loss of tRNA gene expression leads to phage resistance in a marine Synechococcus cyanobacterium by Debbie Lindell & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genome sequence of Leptolyngbya phage Dor1, a cyanophage induced from a fish pond journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

In time for the new year! Our single-cell dataset of male and hermaphrodite brains is online! & a freely available website weizmann.ac.il/dimorgena/ A Blueprint of Sex-Specific Neuronal Regulation in the C. elegans Nervous System at Single-Cell Resolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/3 I am very excited to tell you about our latest work where we looked not only into sea anemones but also 🪸 We find in #Nematostella that stress induces not immunity, but also viral replication, actually much faster than the immune response! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

AlphaFold 3 proteomic modelling reveals multiple photosystem structural homologs in freshwater cyanophages www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

open postdoc position in the MPI for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/8...

For those working on viruses in aquatic environments, mark your calendars and consider submitting an abstract for Aquatic Virus Workshop 12 (AVW12) to be held in Banyuls-sur-Mer, May 5-9, 2025. Limited to 125 in total (register early). avw12.sciencesconf.org

Using bacterial population dynamics to count phages and their lysogens. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51913-6 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39242585/

Interested in discovering new viruses from soil that may be affecting global carbon sequestration? Apply for a PhD position with me at Aarhus University in Flakkebjerg! Our group is very international, supportive and friendly. Applications due by February 1st 2025. phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

For anyone interested in #evolution #virulence #gutmicrobiome I have a new perspective with Bruce Levin and Fernando Baquero just out @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Made my first starter pack! If I missed you, my apologies. I can add you. go.bsky.app/URt3Fbp

Very interesting. cc: @soreklab.bsky.social

1/ Our review on sequencing-based #microbiome analysis is in the Dec 24 issue of Nature Reviews Genetics. We explore DNA/RNA-sequencing approaches for studying microbiome structure and function, highlighting the biological insights sequencing-based microbiome research offers. go.nature.com/3XFqonu

A great program with competitive salaries for postdocs (from US or Canada). DM me if you want to come work with us on toxins and MGEs. 🦠 zuckermanstem.org/ourprograms/...

Great preprint from Beja and Lindell lab on the cyanophage effect on marine photosynthesis via virally-encoded phycobilisome degrading protein NblA. Some really nice methods and results here t.co/fb8T8ionrh

Post election door placard, it’s going to be important to support our LGTBQ students, especially our trans trainees.