We have developed an automated tool for transductomics called TrIdent to detect DNA carried in virus-like particles in microbiomes. Quite amazing to see how much DNA carriage is happening in gut microbiomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 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)

Yesterday’s #MVIF 46 Pacific premiere was a real blast! I had the pleasure of chairing the keynote session, featuring a fantastic talk and Q&A with Dr. Simon Roux (@simrouxvirus.bsky.social). Don’t miss the Atlantic replay today at 8:30 a.m. (New York time)! www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

#phagesky #microbiomesky

Great new story from Sophie Helaine and Molly Sargen! www.helainelab.com

A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.

🚀 PhD opportunity The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates. One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts. Details and apply here 👇 bit.ly/48eqYNB #phage

Awesome #phage #bioinformatics preprint from @shelbyeandersen.bsky.social, who is also very close to finishing her PhD and on the lookout for her next position 👀

We studied how exogenous mucins influence phage-bacterium interplay in human epithelial cells. This work is now available in BiorXiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Presenting a poster at #EESMICROBIOLOGY today. Come by to talk about #jumbophage s at poster 204! #phage #phagesky

Great to see Lara Ambrosio Leal Dutra representing CANS and presenting her excellent work on bacteriophages during The Danish Viruses of Microbes symposium in Copenhagen! 😀

Are there virulent phages hiding in your bacterial culture? Here we find hundreds of virulent phage genomes in bacterial genome assemblies. Bioinformatic and experimental evidence indicate these are not contaminations, but represent persistent infections. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪 Very sad news from the field of #PlantVirology. Jari Valkonen, Professor and Chair of Plant Pathology at University of Helsinki, passed away this weekend. He contributed greatly to field of Potyviruses and how viruses overcome plant resistance. Moreover, was such a nice person. He will be missed

Get ready to dance, our paper – Phage DisCo: targeted discovery of bacteriophages by co-culture – has been pre-printed! 🪩 This has been a really fun project to work on with @sianowen.bsky.social, @baym.lol, @nquinoneso.bsky.social, and our two talented undergrads Kesther and Carmen!

there is a new #giantvirus in town! and it speaks Finnish! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A collection of researchers working on bacterial defense and offense systems, including secretion systems, immunity mechanisms, bacterial warfare, and microbial arms races. Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed) from the list.

How do mobile genetic elements (MGEs) like phages, plasmids and phage-plasmids shape the gut microbiome - and could they be hidden influencers for infant health?👀 Check out our new perspective article with @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen on this very topic! #microbiome #phagesky 🦠 1/8

Nice work by an excellent PhD student from our department, @kkreuze.bsky.social w/ @frimanscience.bsky.social and Tommi Vatanen

Should I stay or should I go? 🎵 In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)

Our latest on phage-plasmids(PP) is out! Two main findings. PP recombine more with (other) plasmids and phages than the latter, thereby connecting them. PP can become just phages or plasmids, which may then transition to be conjugative. All the world’s an MGE! www.nature.com/articles/s41...