JOB OFFER #PhageSky We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions ! We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social Contact me for more info ! >> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

PhD opportunity with me at University of Edinburgh linked with Forest Research, funded by E5 DTP. On the microbial mechanisms of soil carbon cycling in tree-planted upland soils. Apply before 14th Dec. Please share with your network. Pic: one of our Scottish sites. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

I'll be writing more about this soon, but Reyme's developed a very cool culturomics workflow to enable us to understand and recreated real microbiomes from the human underarm. Corynebacterium focus in this paper. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

🚨Exciting #Postdoc opportunity in the Fogg & Antson labs: 3-year post based @biologyatyork.bsky.social to explore the #StructuralBiology & mechanism of viral DNA-packaging motors using cutting-edge #Cryo-EM, biophysical and molecular approaches. Apply by 9th Oct at bit.ly/3Iz3bOu #ScienceJobs

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.

Really looking forward to sharing our science with Yorkshire Philosophical Society at Tempest Anderson Hall on Oct 14th - thank you to @gavinhthomas.bsky.social for the invite www.ypsyork.org/events/antib...

closing at the end of this week!

"the assemblage used a peak of 2.18 million CPU cores" Fair enough 🤯

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁 COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper is online in Genome Biology: "Plasmids, prophages, and defense systems are depleted from plant microbiota genomes" genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason. @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky:

I *finally* get to share our work on plasmid competition– super proud to now have this on bioRxiv: CRISPR-Cas is beneficial in plasmid competition, but limited by competitor toxin-antitoxin activity when horizontally transferred www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/6 👇

Come join us! Next week marks my 1 year anniversary at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and I've never looked back!

This was great fun during my PhD- highly recommend!

📢 New round of PhD studentships. Open to applicants worldwide. 📅 Deadline 14th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #microsky #archaeasky #chromosome 🧬🧬🧬 @steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social @georgerheath.bsky.social Join us in beautiful York, UK!

🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Bioinformatician job at Aberdeen. Opportunity to work with David Fisher and other great people (inexplicably not on BSky). www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/bioi...

🚨PhD studentship opportunity! Bacteria protect themselves with a huge arsenal of defences, but does this affect how they gain new traits on plasmids? 🧫🦠💫 Apply for a funded 4y position with me @livuni-ives.bsky.social, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @jojofoth.bsky.social & @multidefence.bsky.social ⬇️

Here's a project with surprising results: we show the presence of virulent phages across bacterial genome assemblies. Not any phage, and not your typical T1 contaminant, many phages have large genomes and seem to be in a state of persistence/oscillation (?!) between lysogeny and the lytic cycle.

New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc... (1/5)

Out in NAR, AntiDefenseFinder & our "systematic" analysis of inhibitors of antiphage systems wt Bondy-Denomy lab led by @ftesson.bsky.social and E. Huiting. Not so "systematic" as very few known, fun stuff on MGE, antidefense islands and cool phages exaptations! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

PhD opportunity in St Andrews on plasmids, antibiotics and defence systems, in collaboration with Helen Alexander in Edinburgh. Funding via BBSRC EastBio, please share & pass on to anyone interested! #microsky🦠🧫🧬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

To celebrate the closing of my first year as a PI, I present the drastically miss-sized things I have ordered next to what I was trying to order, a thread. #sciencesky #neuroskyence #neuroscience Up first...Rosie the wrench. Silver lining torque is amazing and we now have a lab mascot.

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Great opportunity with fantastic person in sunny Cornwall!

Two days left to apply for this! Please share.

Fully funded 4-year PhD (Oct 2025 entry). This PhD seeks to understand the fundamental principles of membrane remodelling in photosynthetic organisms. Open to international applications. Deadline 6th January. More details: tinyurl.com/mtvwu3h8

Yesterday I was in the @royalsociety.bsky.social to collect the Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize for Climate Change and Health. Excited to expand my group and start collecting new data! The prize is a (dormant) fig tree! A proud day, feel very lucky and got to celebrate the wins!

Looking for a PhD in phage ecology, metagenomics and defence systems? We have a fully funded PhD opportunity to join us at the University of York with great collaborators. See here for more info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share our newest research: "Metagenomic time-series reveals a western English Channel viral community dominated by members with strong seasonal signals" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Sharing new tools made by Artyom Egorov in my group! 1) loVis4u sensitively compares & visualises #phage or #plasmid seqs with beautiful vector graphics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2) iLund4u finds diversity hotspots/islands encoding eg virulence/ defence systems www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PLEASE SHARE: PhD opportunity to start September 2025! Come work on climate change and antibiotic resistance with me, Ed Feil, Angus Buckling, and others. We will use lab experiments, modelling and sequencing to look how plasmid transfer, selection, and costs of resistance change with temperature.

Tried to put together a Microbial Evolution starter pack, but there were so many great people I didn't want to leave out it turned into 3 starter packs Comment or DM me if you were missed or would like to be added! A thread (1/3) go.bsky.app/6pkuYhi

New review paper led by Mick Vos (currently not on social media) Why do mobile genetic elements transfer DNA of their hosts?: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Funded Master's position with us here in York, working with me, Paul Fogg, @gavinhthomas.bsky.social and Michelle Rudden. Skin phages, bioinformatics and synthetic biology. Contact me for more info. tinyurl.com/y2ewh5ce

3x PDRA positions linked to our BBSRC sLoLa 'Rules of life in CO2-driven communities: Microbiome engineering for a Net Zero future' all based at University of Manchester 1/5

Hey #isme19 folks - if you work at the interface of global change and host -microbe interactions and are looking for an assistant professor position, we are hiring! I’m here at the meeting and happy to chat with anyone who is interested in hearing more. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

5 days left to apply! Innovative grad scheme run by Generation Research at York to start a PhD with me and James Chong studying phages in soils (and beyond).