🚨 We’re looking for a PhD student to join @phimresearch.bsky.social and explore phages in emerging rice epidemics 🌾 We will investigate phage–bacteria interactions and the seed microbiome/phageome. #phd #phage #plantscience #microbiome #scijobs ‪ 👉 More info: tinyurl.com/yhc2fa7

1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper published: aggressive ladybirds, slow-eating lacewings, and parasitoids greedy for resources. #BES #JAE besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Greenpeace's ship Arctic Sunrise will join the Global Sumud Flotilla leaving Barcelona on 12 April, to help break the siege on Gaza 1000+ people on 70+ vessels will show the world's solidarity with the people of Gaza, while governments have failed to uphold international law and prevent genocide

📣Huge preprint 🔔 Today we share something our group has been working toward for a long time, led by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social We asked can we predict which receptor a phage targets from its genome sequence alone? For most phages, we couldn’t. So Lucas set out to do something I had only dreamed of.

Global source of cholera & role of phage in controlling evolution/spread of Vibrio cholerae lineages within the current 7th pandemic @nature.com @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @amberbarton.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #IWD2026 to our FEMS community and to everyone working to advance microbiology across Europe and beyond. To mark the day, we are sharing reflections from across our community on the FEMS blog buff.ly/TSSQccE Thank you to all the women in microbiology for the impact you make every day.

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

🔬 𝐢𝐕𝐨𝐌 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 – 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟑: Viromics⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 🗓 25 Feb 2026⁣⁣ ⏰ 17:00 CET | 11:00 EST | 08:00 PST⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ 👉 Register for links & updates:⁣⁣ 🔗 isvm.org/ivom/%E2%81%... ⁣⁣ #iVoM #VoM2026 #Virology #ECRs #OnlineEvent

The enteric virome, dominated by bacteriophages, can autonomously activate host immune signaling to modulate intestinal metabolic responses @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Back to Madagascar 🇲🇬 for our 2nd phage field season: exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics in rice fields. Aiming to limit sampling to just 1 year of lab + bioinformatics 😅! Great teamwork between Xplain (@phimresearch.bsky.social) and FOFIFA @mariandm.bsky.social #microsky #phagesky #phage #inrae

How does population density affect evolutionary trajectory? Microbes construct their own niche which in turn reshapes their evolution. Preprint drop from grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social whose evolution experiments featured blue/white colonies, 1000 generations, a lab move, and much more!

TnPedia provides a curated framework for understanding prokaryotic transposable elements doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics www.cell.com/cell-reports...

It's Friday! ...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩 Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-46 Highlights: 🇺🇸 Rebecca L. Knoll 🇯🇵 Akito Sakanaka Keynote: 🇺🇸 @simrouxvirus.bsky.social ⭐️ Talks: 🇦🇺 @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @erikbakkeren.bsky.social 🇨🇳 Guanxiang Liang

#microsky #phagesky #phage At last! Great to see this one out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen... Here, we discovered a nested phage-bacteria network despite their high genetic and ecological diversity. Kudos to everyone involved, especially @chloe-feltin.bsky.social ! @phimresearch.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...

🚨 New paper from our lab in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, led by Clara Douadi! We show that bacteriophages can cross the intestinal barrier, with increased translocation in Crohn's disease. 🔗 www.cell.com/cell-reports... Many thanks to all the authors!

#microsky #microbiomesky The #microbiome of living trees! How cool! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check our new perspective paper exploring how the seed holobiont goes to sleep 😴 and reactivate for germination. A lot of exciting research to be done to understand dormancy mechanisms in microbes and plants ☘️ @emersys-irhs.bsky.social @irhs-angers.bsky.social

I'm proud to share the latest methods work from my group. Led by @revathykri.bsky.social we wrote a book chapter on how we process and analyse viromes. Thanks to co-authors @rikhaagmans.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social & Alise Ponsero link.springer.com/protocol/10....

Capsule diversity limits #phage host range by affecting receptor-binding protein (RBP) interactions in capsulated #bacteria. @pilardomingoc.bsky.social &co show that generalist phages evolve host range via RBP mutation & recombination, but specialists remain stable @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/48nvOqY

Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

Greetings from Nancy after an amazing #Phages.fr 2025 meeting! Xanthomonas phage folks from @phimresearch.bsky.social + Fernando Clavijo on Ralstonia phages!

Interested in doing a PhD in phage biology? See below a super cool project on megaphage ecology and evolution available at the University of Jyväskylä (FIN) in Elina Laanto's lab (Project no. 4). Co-supervision provided by yours truly.

L’Europe autorise son premier additif phagique 🧫🐔 ! Une avancée pour limiter les antibiotiques… mais vigilance : l’histoire pourrait se répéter. #phages #OneHealth @phimresearch.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social www.jle.com/fr/revues/vi...

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...

Phages evolve fast, or do they? In oysters, some stay identical for years. With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements. Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

For those of you working on tailed #phages, this is the virus realm for you! #Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...

Day 5, Moon. The physical structures of phages are often compared to the shape and landing action of a lunar lander, with tail fibres reminiscent of the landing struts, to gently settle on the surface of its host. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

You like phages ? In this publication, we use metaHiC and our new version of the MetaTOR pipeline to challenge the traditional view of phages with a narrow host range. @rkoszul.bsky.social @natmicrobiol.nature.com @cnrs.fr @institutpasteur.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're looking for a technician at Institut Pasteur for experimental work on satellite-phage-bacteria interactions, working directly with @jmouradesousa.bsky.social and myself in the lab of @epcrocha.bsky.social ! ANR funded. Link to the job emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp... Thx for sharing!

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

An inspiring read! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... A beautiful historical perspective on Ester Lederberg's legacy from @ccwendling.bsky.social & @zacharybailey.bsky.social

Interested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social

Happy to see our paper out! Functional assessment of anti-phage defence systems in their native clinical E. coli host royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Thread in previous post 👇

Part of the XPLAIN team (Xanthomonas-PLAnts INteractions) from @phimresearch.bsky.social, Montpellier, at the @eseb2025.bsky.social meeting in Barcelona ! (with Claire Neema)

New preprint out! 🧬🦠🌱 What shapes #phage–bacteria #networks in #plant environments? - Ecological origins of bacteria and phages? - Phage taxonomy? - Bacterial phylogeny? - #Prophages? #Defence-systems? 📖 here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Discover which of these actually shape the network 👇

After many years in the making, here is our host range #phage paper with #ecology, #evolution and #biocontrol perspectives published in Molecular Ecology! @phimresearch.bsky.social‬ @inrae-pv.bsky.social‬ #PVBMT #JulianGarneau onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... These are our key findings:

Excited 🥳 to share our latest work on gut phages! Big thanks to @epcrocha.bsky.social, Erick D, Camille d'H, @fplazaonate.bsky.social, Quentin LB, and all others involved for support and contributions! 🙌 Out in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Here's what we found 🤓

🔬 24-month postdoc position Opening: "Rice Disease Metagenomics in East Africa" Join UMR PHIM (Montpellier, France) @phimresearch.bsky.social 🧬 Oxford Nanopore long-read metagenomics 🌍 3-month field mission in Kenya ⚙️ Recent PhDs Apply: [email protected] #PostdocJobs #Metagenomics #Rice

📣 Position available: Research tech in microbial experimental evolution! Working alongside postdoc Louise Flanagan (@flanagella.bsky.social) on understanding how Pseudomonas evolves resistance to antibiotics. 🦠🧫 Closing 9 July #Microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#phage #phagesky

✍️ We had a great time writing this Spotlight article on one of our favorite topics: how phages interact with each other! 🦠 From cooperation to competition, phage-phage interactions reveal a fascinating layer of microbial life that’s often overlooked. A piece crafted by the talented Josie Elliott!

Engineering soil with phages to fight #AMR. Very cool. "Harnessing phage consortia to mitigate the soil antibiotic resistome by targeting keystone taxa Streptomyces" by Hanpeng Liao et al. in @microbiomej.bsky.social microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Le MMSB propose une mobilité NOEMI Rejoignez l'équipe "Ecologie et Évolution Moléculaire des Phages" qui travaille sur les éléments génétiques mobiles et l'immunité bactérienne. Profil Génétique bactérienne, Écologie microbienne et Evolution expérimentale 🤝Contactez-nous pour rejoindre notre unité!

Officially published! 🧬🦠 What if more phages didn't mean more death? We show that even strictly lytic phages can stabilize host populations via persistent, episomal infections (often referred to as pseudolysogeny). It's time to move beyond the lysis/lysogeny binary. #phagesky #microsky