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...

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✍️ 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

New Research Assistant position available in my lab to work on a project testing the efficacy of pills dependent #phage against clinical isolates of enteric bacteria . Part of a growing phage research theme in my lab my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

A phage therapy using naturally occurring bacteryophages that not only kill but also selects for less resistant bacteria, shows promise in Cystic Fibrosis patients infected with drug resistant Pseudomonas. Kudos Dr. Chen, Stanley, Turner and Koff!!! #ScienceMatters www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join the ESEB 2025 symposium on bacteria-phage ecology and evolution (S43) with Frédérique Le Roux and Michael Brockhurst as invited speakers. Submit abstracts by April 25, 2025 (eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...). See you in Barcelona, August 17-22, 2025! #phagesky

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

I encourage you to NOT use generative AI when writing your application. In many cases, it is very obvious and will not work to your advantage

The latest atrocities are the grim reality of the Israeli government’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. States like the UK that continue to transfer arms to Israel are brazenly violating their obligation to prevent genocide & are deepening their complicity in this genocide.

Now online! Crop root bacterial and viral genomes reveal unexplored species and microbiome patterns

Our perspective on soil virus ecology research is out! Fantastic collab with @christinahazard.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social @lukehillary.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @simrouxvirus.bsky.social @gtrubl.bsky.social @KurtWilliams @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @JoanneEmerson

✍️ à noter dans les agendas : Table ronde "Phages et biocontrôle : quelles étapes vers l'application", organisée par le GiPh (Groupe Interdisciplinaire Phagothérapie) après le congrès de la Société Française de Phytopathologie à Bordeaux. @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social

🌍 L'initiative TSARA poursuit son développement au service des systèmes alimentaires durables en Afrique et en Europe avec de nouveaux projets, et 6 nouveaux membres accueillis lors de sa 3ème AG à Paris ! 🔄 INRAE et l'ISRA cèdent la présidence au CIRAD et à l'ENA de Meknès. url.inrae.fr/4bjKRTw

Join us at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM) in the south of France! ☀️ We're looking for a POSTDOC to explore the phageome and plant microbiome, diving into cutting-edge research at the intersection of viromics and microbial ecology. 📆 Deadline: March 15, 2025 @evbc.bsky.social

Kicking off an exciting hunt for #Xanthomonas #oryzae #phages in rice fields in Madagascar! 🦠🔎 Sampling with fantastic local collaborators for Sarah Delafosse’s PhD on phage diversity & co-evolution, plus the PhageLocks Explorae project investigating phageomes and disease dynamics. #PHIM #SPE #INRAE

Have you ever written a review with your best friends? Let me tell you, it's the ultimate testimony to true friendship! 😱Like a SynCom: if you want to play a symphony and help the plant thrive, you have to collaborate! Check out our new publication: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kdNr_,2Ci...

Also, we have a related Ph.D. position available at the University of Lund in the lab of @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social @hauryliuk.bsky.social. The deadline for application is the 5th of March.

"“French Phage Network” annual conference—eighth meeting report" published in #microLife #Phages.fr academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...

>50% of the bifidobacteria had CRISPR-Cas systems. We linked the spacers in these systems to the prophages that we predicted earlier, with ~3/4 of the prophages targeted by spacers. In turn, we found that the prophages encoded a variety of anti-CRISPR and anti-defence system genes. (3/4)

I’m excited to share our latest preprint in collaboration with @Halllab.bsky.social In this work, led by PhD student James Docherty, we investigated the presence of #prophages and anti-phage defence systems in human-associated #bifidobacteria: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/4)

Overall, this study paints a picture of a dynamic system between bifidobacteria and their phages where both have diversified their genomes in response to the other, showing evidence of arms-race dynamics. For much more analyses and info, go read the manuscript! (4/4)

PhageDive: the comprehensive strain database of prokaryotic viral diversity. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae878 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39373542/

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...

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-...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #phage

Mark your calendar: the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium will be held at Hotel Antequera, in Antequera, Spain, 3-7 Nov 2025 - organized by @microsos.bsky.social, @vcarryon.bsky.social, @gstringlis.bsky.social, and colleagues 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

Congratulations to Dr. Chloé Feltin (still not on Bluesky) on an outstanding PhD defense and her pioneering work on the "Diversity and Interactions of Pseudomonas syringae Phages in Agricultural Environments". #proudPI #phages #Psyringae #INRAE

Only one week left to apply for this PhD starting Jan/Feb 2025 to look at AMR and horizontal gene transfer in wastewater, marine mammals and the environment, with myself Plymouth Uni, ZSL and NRW. Let potential students know! #MicroSky #PhageSky *Please repost

Phage biocontrol success of bacterial wilt depends on synergistic interactions with resident rhizosphere microbiota. DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.70049 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39539110/