We will be advertising soon a PhD position in this consortium. Interested candidates (experimental/computational) are welcome to informally reach out to Tal Dagan. Practical experience (e.g., MSc thesis) in microbial genetics or molecular evolution (with programming) is a prerequisite.

Happy to introduce SegMantX. Analyzing #plasmid we find that most duplications are MGE-driven. Additional use cases include detection of DNA transfer between replicons and examination of plasmid sequence similarity. Try it out! doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Happy to finally share this! Read here about the best strategy the the persistence of low-copy plasmids. @mariosanter.bsky.social @iwangtoknow.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Lucaprot leverages AI to discover highly-divergent RNA-dependent RNA polymerase sequences, completely revolutionizing the field of RNA Virus discovery! We are ecstatic to have Xin Hou (@xinhou.bsky.social) as one of our invited speakers at the #RdRpSummit2025!

Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)