New week, new conference! 🇰🇷 Excited that our team will be strongly represented at the #IHMC Conference in Seoul from 3–5 June. @ihmc2026seoul.bsky.social If you're attending, here’s where you can find us 👇 #IHMC2026 #HumanMicrobiome #MicrobialGenomics #Virome #ComputationalBiology #HumanHealth

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,

🌟 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

Oxidative stress constrains evolution of bacteriophage host-range diversity academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

🔈Paper out! We turned the most fascinating phage host-switch mechanism, diversity-generating retroelements, into a programmable mutagenesis tool, DGRec. You can perform targeted hypermutation of any 50-200bp sequence directly in vivo in E. coli www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that our review: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗴𝘂𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲: 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀, 𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀” written together with Nataliia Kuzub has just been published in 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴. Check the 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 here and see the thread below: 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Now online! Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems

Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome github.com/shandley/awe...

Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Finally out! 🥂 link.springer.com/article/10.1... We used 3 different methods to profile fecal DNA and analysed how gut microbiome composition and human cell fractions define disease severity in IBD pediatric patients. Many thanks to my supervisor Moran Yassour and our collaborators 🧵⬇️

Our team is very well represented at 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 conference this week! Here’s where you can find us 👇 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟵 – Session 1 🍼 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗵𝗮: "Mom Matters: Maternal influences on infant gut microbiome and health in 714 mother-infant pairs in the Lifelines NEXT cohort"

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

Updated link to the 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘀📚: zenodo.org/records/1898...

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁! After years of work, I'm excited share our manuscript "𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁: 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀". doi.org/10.64898/202... A thread🧵👇 (1/11)

Prophages of infant-derived Bifidobacterium longum subspecies employ antagonistic and synergistic strategies to persist in their host https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706556v1

Out now!!

New pre-print out \o/ All about CRISPR, metagenomes, and what you learn when you collect (a lot of) spacers from natural communities, with @apcamargo.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social but also Uri Gophna, Nikhil George (not on Bsky I think) & others at JGI doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Early-life development of the gut virome and plasmidome: A longitudinal study in cesarean-born infants