RNA virus Journal Club is back after the pause for #ViBioM2026 📚 June 11th | Thursday, 15:30 Central European Time. AmpliDiff: a tool to find discriminatory genomic regions in viral genomes of a single species! Perfect for primer design! Join, talk & discuss! Details ⬇️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social

. @davidlrobertson.bsky.social is chairing the phylogenomics session of #VibioM2026 ; Great talks 👏 from @evogytis.bsky.social @willharv.bsky.social

We’re excited to highlight our invited keynote speakers at #ViBioM2026 🎉 🗓️ Mon 18 May – Rayan Chikhi (@rayanchikhi.bsky.social) 🗓️ Tue 19 May – Darius Kazlauskas (@dariusbio.bsky.social) 🗓️ Wed 20 May – Mathias Munschauer (@munschauerlab.bsky.social) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...

🌟 Day 1 of #ViBioM2026 at Vilnius University 🏛️ with a warm welcome by Manja, Gytis, and Ingrida – we already feel at home! Excited to start a full programme of talks, posters, and discussions on computational approaches in #virology. #viralgenomics #datascience #virusevolution

The #ViBioM2026 was everything I could have dreamt about. There are several points that made me really happy in this transitional period of my life. 💻 Virus Bioinformatics 🦠 - is the joy and food for my soul: 3 days of ongoing talks, chats, discussions - it was good to be back!

We had an amazing time at #ViBioM2026 last week in Vilnius 🇱🇹🤝 Researchers from around the world shared insights on virus #metagenomics, #phylogeny, protein & RNA biology, and #ML approaches. Huge thanks to all organizers, helpers, and our sponsors (GoVilnius, Viruses/MDPI, @febsopenbio.bsky.social#ViBioM2026#metagenomics,

🏗 Working on virus #bioinformatics tools or data curation? Interested in building lasting, open-source workflows? 🛠 Join the satellite #hackathon at #ViBioM2026, online or in Vilnius! 👉 More information and registration until 8 May: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...

Book by Thursday of this week! (April 30th) :) Can't wait to hear from the most amazing virus bioinformaticians :)) Literally last change :) while everyone who registered - excited to meet you in Vilnius :)

#ViBioM2026 is not just in the next few weeks, but also has a fabulous satellite event (different projects different days, between May 12-17). Don't forget to register, explore the projects, suggest your own!

Now !:)

RNA virus Journal Club is on! 🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️ You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳 All welcome! Details ⬇️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social

Paper alert 📢: What drives variation in humoral responses to viruses? collab with @etienne-patin.bsky.social @darraghduffy.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social we show that for ~98k viral epitopes immunodominance vary by genetics, sex and origin: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hooray 🎉 from virologists! :)

I cherish this mug so much that I don't even use it for liquids.. And it's from the 1993 my beloved paper by Dolja and Koonin. I will forever be grateful for @thekatybrown.bsky.social for such a thoughtful gift! :) Their work was also what got me into virology without any hesitation:)

Milica Raco hosting the prof Dolja! :) Join us on Zoom: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9426515785... RNA virus club by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social

what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja? Nothing for me.. :) Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow: Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦) (or 7pm London time 🇬🇧) for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)

Remember? RNA virus journal club is already this Thursday! 🤩 Join us and join our (RdRp summit) slack (link in the comment): calendar.app.google/K2fwcsL78K1E... RNA Virus Journal ClubJoin Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/8109697228... Meeting ID: 810 9697 2281 Passcode: 174610

Save the date for phylogenetics! RNA virus Journal Club returns ( @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) with @evogytis.bsky.social intro to his "Baltic" - python module to visualise phylogenetic trees. January 15th (Thu) - EEST Vilnius Time 3:00 PM Join slack for updates: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...

Loved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.

It's today! December 11th Finding endogenous viral elements in genomic data 🧑‍💻 by Sebastian Lequime (University of Groningen @rug.nl ) Time: 2pm EST🇺🇸 / 8pm CET 🇪🇺 / 4am JST 🇯🇵 Join @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RNA Virus Journal Club talk & discussion: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9164101918... #rdrpsummit

Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference. Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes! isvm.org #phagesky #virus

RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !) With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :) calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg... CET: 14:00–15:00, Format: 30 min + 30 min

We are looking for mentors for the Sci.STEPS program! Please apply if you want to help your junior colleagues around the globe navigate their career path in any science related field.

Assembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social

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...

While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search! Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼

This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷

what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)

Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation). September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST rdrp.io/journal-club...

Happy world RNA day! AUG1 🎉 🎉 🎉 While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule! This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public. #RNAday

This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵

One of the small life joys is how Macs with M chip batteries basically never die. You travel, forget your chargers etc - never a problem. Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac. Happy weekend!

how many 21-mers are shared between different species genomes at the genus level? #sourmash

Not just great k-mer content but some important historical facts (: Thanks @rayanchikhi.bsky.social !

This is for sure my fav book. This is why I am going through it slowly. Thanks to Bluey (: can read it for a bit on a Saturday morning:). "Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.

And founding ARTIC member @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social) will build innovative portable and low-cost laboratory solutions and training packages to accompany them, now working with new ARTIC investigator Jenny Molloy who will develop open-source wet lab reagents for sequencing

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Wellcome Genome campus started to feel like home :) back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25 last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :) 🎊 90 countries >600 attendees! Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎

What turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? 🌍🦠 Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting. 📍Oxford Martin School & Online ⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics

I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

Even the event photographer seems interested in @thekatybrown.bsky.social talk :)) Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !

You can find RdRpCATCH here github.com/dimitris-kar...

Detecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown

Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture. #RdRpSummit2025

And it's a wrap! The second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RdRp Summit has ended, endless discussions, collaborations and friendships have started! :) All of this wouldn't be possible without the organisers: thank you, it was a pleasure! Everyone - join our slack, join the next committee :) #rdrpsummit

Absolutely loved @lukehillary.bsky.social talk! Much needed for the field and seemed very balanced requirements :)

Introducing RdRpCATCH- mining RNA viruses using RdRp HMMs! Dimitris Karapliafis is here to talk about the community project we took up during the 2023 RdRp Summit! #RdRpSummit2025

Manual curation of your virus group is like #Tinder, you get to know them and become intimate.. :D Rachid simply being iconic at the #RdRpsummit2025 :D

Excited for #RdRpSummit2025 and #ViBioM2025! Just starting off now in Lisbon.