1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬ #plantscience #microbiome #holobiont www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Wild legume performance is shaped by whole nodule microbiome profile, including non-rhizobial endophytes (NREs). Sulfur assimilation by NREs and type VI secretion system in rhizobial symbionts strongly associated with host traits. New Preprint! @finkel-lab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Announcing StrainVis! 🦠🧫🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This nifty web-based tool allows you to visualize your strain level analyses. You can combine ANI and synteny based analyses and it will make all kinds of cool publication ready plots for you - examples follow. By Hagay Enav and Inbal Paz:

A new paper from the lab on virus-like particles called eCISs www.nature.com/articles/s41... How bacteria evolved thousands of precision nanoinjectors? Some bacteria don’t secrete toxins — they inject them using phage-derived machines called extracellular contractile injection systems (eCISs).

Phycocyanobilin biosynthesis in Galdieria sulphuraria requires isomerization of phycoerythrobilin synthesized by bilin reductases febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab 🤗🥼⚗️🧪 www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek

Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social. Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

This is such a cool paper as it experimentally addresses the role of the auxiliary metabolic gene nblA in cyanophages showing a large benefit of NblA to the cyanophage and a negative effect on the host photosynthetic apparatus and host photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and most red sensitive visual rhodopsins that drive high colour discrimination in Mantis Shrimp eyes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2 days left to apply for a fully funded MIBTP Phd project with me at the School of Life Sciences @warwicklifesci.bsky.social at Warwick. We will do viral functional metagenomics and other cool techniques. Check out the details and apply in the link below warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

1/5 🚨🚨 preprint alert! 🚨🚨 I wish to introduce CARDIB, not the singer, but the protein. CARDIB=CARD Inhibitory Binding protein. In our new work we discover this antiviral protein that is found in all Anthozoa (sea anemones and corals 🪸) but not in other animals. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today's dive site, to ~2,200m. We will be streaming 9am-3pm Central. At www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

@honour.bsky.social casually having a snack while presenting her work on Ralstonia wars. As nonchalant as it gets 😎

Nature research paper: Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis go.nature.com/3JKJofG

Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social

Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...

@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function

1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social! Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics #pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social

Please RT: We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“. www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/... Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details. @spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

Looking forward to attending and presenting on "coral bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene: at this conference in beautiful Valencia, Spain www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025 Join us! 🧪🪸🦠🧬🖥️

v2. Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How diverse are the individual strains within your species? How broad is their Pangenome? How will you choose representatives from the whole collection? Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you! From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

קם פרויקט להעברת תרכובות הזנה לתינוקות (תמ״ל) בעזה, בהובלת ד״ר דייויד חסאן, והאיגוד האירופי לרפואת ילדים, שהצליח כבר להעביר אלפי בקבוקי פורמולה לעזה אחרי בירוקרטיה לא פשוטה, וגם בהובלת אנשי רפואה ישראלים. להלן הלינק לתרומות: www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/eap אשמח אם תשתפו הלאה.

Please consider donating to Standing Together, a non-profit movement of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian people for a better future built from within. causematch.com/standing_tog...

Ilay David, brother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, who was seen in a video published by Hamas on Saturday, said there is "immediate danger" to his brother's life, and that he will die within days if he does not receive food and medicine. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

At Tübingen's art museum, having a flashback to one of my favorite #TCTeAC talks, cell-inspired home design and experiment-based architecture. By Yael Allweil from @technion.bsky.social

"In Gaza, the UN system & its related organizations are there. They have the resources and plans. The UN presented a plan on May 16, for extremely rigorous distribution, including monitoring to prevent the food from getting into the hands of Hamas," says Alex de Waal www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab. Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process. #plantscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Tel Aviv, July 31, 2025: Protesters with @standing-together.bsky.social (Omdim BeYachad) hold photographs of emaciated Palestinian children in Gaza.

"The situation in Gaza is likely the most extreme example of politically–driven starvation in the 21st century. An hour's drive from Gaza, there are enough calories & nutrients, packed in sacks & containers, to feed its entire population." @haaretzcom.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Our paper on cyanophages of marine sponge symbionts is finally out. It is the outcome of a great collaboration with Laura Steindler's lab and was led by Tzipora Perez.

#MicroSky job alert: Senior Research Technician in the Mausz Lab at Warwick, on responses of marine microbes to nutrient limitation & environmental changes. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Attending #2025ISMPMI? Let's talk about leaf-associated Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas evolution! Find me at Poster P-278 during Session 1, Tuesday 15th (10:00-11:30). Hope to see you there! @plantevolution.bsky.social

I just published: Why I’m skipping the Congress this year (And why you should still publish your posters) Publishing your poster creates a citable record and protects you from bad actors. #ISMPMI2025 #OpenMPMI #AcademicChatter #PhDchat medium.com/p/why-im-ski...

Please Re-Post. Our global GRUMP microbial ocean database is out in Scientific Data! Unfractionated, single universal PCR, with Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes all on the same scale with the same denominator. Pole to pole, depths to 6000m. Lots of metadata. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biology or Theology? #TCTeAC @hagenom.bsky.social

A very short summary of "Data Visualization against fascism": Fascism conceals truths, disregards evidence-based decision-making, and jeopardizes the education of the next generation. Standing up against means: MONITOR, EXPOSE, and EDUCATE. As scientists we are ready for this! #TCTeAC

@helenajambor.bsky.social could not have enough party in site, so she keeps it up in the bus. #TCTeAC

On our way to dinner #TCTeAC

@helenajambor.bsky.social is back at sketching talks!!!

@anaisbailles.bsky.social took very seriously the advice "be your model organism" #TCTeAC