Vivek Mutalik
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Dad, Teacher, Artist, Gardener and Scientist.
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Some partnerships are always fun!! Excited to share one such 🎉 product w Simon Roux, perspectives on our favorite “atypical” phages, for special issue to celebrate my former mentor Carol Gross @ UCSF Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tapping the treasure trove of atypical phages
With advancements in genomics technologies, a vast diversity of ‘atypical’ phages, that is, with single-stranded DNA or RNA genomes, are being uncover…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369527424001310
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A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
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4.4 Earthquake in Berkeley 😩. Perfect timing about how I feel about everything now
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We have 3.2 more years to go.
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Of course. Adviced by Only the best.
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Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return
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People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.
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An illustration for our times
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We are godfather era of the governance There are thousands of people of H1B visa out of country (vacation, emergency etc) and can not return unless they $$🤯
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Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
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Do you know who’s on H1B visa? Most doctors, scientists, software ppl and engineers. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ This is turning out to be a h hole
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Corrie Moreau
3 days ago
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P7BfU0emdcGFVIWIs_erFxyy0UGXXORw7h0rpU19gQ8/edit?gid=1219796980#gid=1219796980
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Dan Sloan
15 days ago
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
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Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165524
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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There will be a new day.
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#SynBYSS
Thur 10 am USA CT 174th, Sep 18: Dr Vivek Mutalik at LBNL & Dr Dimitrije Ivančić at Harvard Med School
@vivekmutalik.bsky.social
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov
175th, Oct 2: Prof Jose Avalos at Princeton U. & Prof Hannes Beyer at H-H-U. Düsseldorf Zoom for audience:
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88380504839
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Christoph Fischer
7 days ago
It's when the clouds clear that the true beauty of mountains unveils itself. Pine trees dressed in fall's first snow, are dwarfed by the towering cliff faces of Castle Mountain, in the beautiful Canadian Rockies.
#bluesky
#photography
#landscapephotography
#nature
#naturephotography
#travel
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Nicely Nicely Jones
7 days ago
Sad day. Here's a story published yesterday about what is almost the perfect, platonic ideal of a shop-bought tweed jacket which Redford wore so stylishly (as he did always in anything) in Three Days of the Condor. I almost thought you might have written this,
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Emmanuele Severi
8 days ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#microsky
#genomics
#phagesky
#phage
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De novo discovery of conserved gene clusters in microbial genomes with Spacedust - Nature Methods
This work presents Spacedust, a tool for de novo identification of conserved gene clusters from metagenomic data.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-025-02816-x
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Cameron Thrash
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Bacterial community adaptation after freshwater and seawater coalescence
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Evaluation of machine learning-assisted directed evolution across diverse combinatorial landscapes: Cell Systems
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Evaluation of machine learning-assisted directed evolution across diverse combinatorial landscapes
Machine learning-assisted directed evolution (MLDE) enhances protein engineering by efficiently identifying high-fitness variants. However, a limited understanding of MLDE performance across diverse p...
https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712%2825%2900220-0
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Timothy McBride
11 days ago
[Editorial] Heart failure: time to prioritise prevention
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Heart failure: time to prioritise prevention
Heart failure is a major contributor to the global burden of cardiovascular disease, affecting more than 55 million people. Prevalence has more than doubled over the past three decades, and it is the ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01775-1/fulltext?rss=yes
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USA. This moment.
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Well…..
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Pat Bagley
11 days ago
Inexplicable
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www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
#microsky
#microbiome
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Host-specific microbiome and genomic signatures in Bifidobacterium reveal co-evolutionary and functional adaptations across diverse animal hosts
Bifidobacterium are beneficial members of the microbiota across animal hosts. Kujawska et al. demonstrate that bifidobacteria have likely co-evolved more closely with mammals, particularly primates, a...
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(25)00334-8
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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
11 days ago
The application is now open for the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. If you are interested in applying for this fellowship to work with me, do reach out and visit the How to Apply section for key dates and application requirements. see
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Andreas Peschel
4 months ago
Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on
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pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of
@dzif.bsky.social
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@cmfi.bsky.social
! Please send your application or forward to colleagues!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Antimicrobial stewardship from a One Health perspective
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Antimicrobial stewardship from a One Health perspective - Nature Reviews Microbiology
In this Review, James, Thursky and colleagues explore strategies that promote the responsible use of antimicrobials from a One Health perspective, emphasizing the roles of data and surveillance, imple...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-025-01233-3
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Register NOW for the inaugural Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics, October 12–14, 2025, Washington, DC. A 2.5-day program of invited talks, symposia, workshops, and abstracts will highlight the latest advances. For more info:
www.iasusa.org/bacteriophag...
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Conference on Bacteriophages: Biology, Dynamics, and Therapeutics - IAS-USA
Physical Education: Bridging Clinical Research and Patient Care
https://www.iasusa.org/bacteriophage-conference/
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GoldenBraid2.0 E. coli: a comprehensive and characterized toolkit for enterics
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GoldenBraid2.0 E. coli: a comprehensive and characterized toolkit for enterics
Abstract. Modular cloning systems streamline laboratory workflows by consolidating genetic ‘parts’ into reusable and modular collections, enabling research
https://academic.oup.com/synbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/synbio/ysaf015/8234327
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14 days ago
Happy to see this paper finally out in
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🦠 🧫 🔬 Gift link:
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Exploring the deletion landscape of S. aureus Cas9 with SABER
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Exploring the deletion landscape of S. aureus Cas9 with SABER
Profiling tolerated amino acid deletions in proteins can elucidate structure-function relationships, reconstruct intermediate stages in protein evolution, and be used to engineer minimized versions of...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669962v2
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Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research
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Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research
Reproducing microbiome experiments across laboratories is a major challenge in soil and plant health research. In a collaborative effort involving five laboratories, this study achieved consistent, in...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003358
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The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems'.
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A bunch of interesting reviews
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Preface: the ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0064
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Gene co-occurrence and its association with phage infectivity in bacterial pangenomes
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Gene co-occurrence and its association with phage infectivity in bacterial pangenomes | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Phages infect bacteria and have recently re-emerged as a promising strategy to combat bacterial infections. However, there is a lack of methods to predict whether and why a particular phage can or cannot infect a bacterial strain based on their genome ...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0070
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Bacteria–phage infection network structure and genomic defence system content predict efficacy of a phage therapy cocktail against Pseudomonas aeruginosa from chronic lung infections
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Bacteria–phage infection network structure and genomic defence system content predict efficacy of a phage therapy cocktail against Pseudomonas aeruginosa from chronic lung infections | Philosophical T...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronic lung infections pose serious challenges for phage therapy due to high between-patient strain diversity and rapid within-patient phenotypic and genetic diversification, n...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2024.0080?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed
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