#Notadepremsa Investigadors del @ctbeta.cat, la @univgirona.bsky.social i l’ICRA-CERCA han desenvolupat un reactor basat en biofilms i plàncton que millora de manera notable la qualitat de l’aigua en depuradores petites. 📄 Pots llegir tots els detalls aquí👉 icra.cat/noticia/un-r...

Plásticos biodegradables: ¿solución ecológica o nuevo problema sanitario? @icrawater.bsky.social newsweekespanol.com/2025/07/22/p...

Integrating comparative genomics and risk classification by assessing virulence, antimicrobial resistance, and plasmid spread in microbial communities with gSpreadComp. #Genomics #MicrobialGenomics #AMR @gigascience.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

📉 The UK once led the global fight against #AMR. Cutting The Fleming Fund undermines years of progress, weakens health systems worldwide — and puts UK health at risk. We need renewed leadership, not retreat. 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Antihistamines' disturbance of the gut microbiome, contributing to susceptibility to GI infection! 😱 #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR 🧪

Citrobacter freundii ain't ever been a friend of ours... now becoming even more hostile! #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #MedSky @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧬 Superbugs could cost $2 trillion a year by 2050 New modelling shows antibiotic-resistant infections could kill millions more and slash global GDP by $1.7 trillion annually, unless action is taken now. Cutting aid may worsen the crisis. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #SciComm #AMR 🧪

ProtPhage: a deep learning framework for phage viral protein identification and functional annotation. #PhageProteins #FunctionalAnnotation #DeepLearning #Phages #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

Note this down! www.vom2026.org #viruses, #bacteria, #mycoviruses, #microbes, #phages, #archaea, #RNA, #evolution, #bioinformatics, #biocontrol, #ecology

Because of the forces they have to withstand being whizzed around on #flagellae, flagellotropic #phages are super stable. It turns out that the same super-stability remains long after you adapt to a host bacterium without a #flagellum rdcu.be/ewnzT

Phages play a key role in spreading virulence genes among Salmonella, while a bacterial gene, csrA, can limit this process, offering new insights for safer phage therapies and food safety strategies. doi.org/g9k9d9

New online! Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

La plastisfera: una amenaza emergente para el medioambiente y la salud pública theconversation.com/la-plastisfe...

If you are interested in phage satellites, we hope you'll enjoy this. Fun collaboration with the Rocha, Seed, Bikard, and Chen labs! rdcu.be/efkvG

Pangenomes suggest ecological-evolutionary responses to experimental soil warming journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Limitations of sequence dissimilarity as a predictor of prokaryotic lineage royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

MicrobeRX: a tool for enzymatic-reaction-based metabolite prediction in the gut microbiome microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs

NanoASV: a snakemake workflow for reproducible field-based Nanopore full length 16S Metabarcoding amplicon data analysis academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

Addressing the dynamic nature of reference data: a new nucleotide database for robust metagenomic classification journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Horizontal transfer of bacterial operons into eukaryote genomes academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... #jcampubs

🔬 Discover the latest in #AMR monitoring with our interactive data tools! Explore our data viz, story maps and dashboards for E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, & MRSA Check resistance levels in humans, animals, and food – country by country for 2022-2023 Check it out here → europa.eu/!63cF6p

El 2007 érem 2 dones, i avui som 46 en un equip en creixement d’aproximadament 100 persones. 👩‍🔬💪 Aquest canvi és una mostra de l’esforç, el talent i la dedicació de totes les dones que formem part de l’equip d’ICRA. Feliç Dia Internacional de la Dona 💟 #8M

Phage interactions may contribute to the population structure and dynamics of hydrothermal vent microbial symbionts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Evaluation of Metagenome Binning: Advances and Challenges www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

mettannotator: a comprehensive and scalable Nextflow annotation pipeline for prokaryotic assemblies academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

Viroid-like “obelisk” agents are widespread in the ocean and exceed the abundance of RNA viruses in the prokaryotic fraction academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Polyphosphate: The “Dark Matter” of Bacterial Chromatin Structure onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

New @mncn-csic.bsky.social @csic.es #Proyecto_Aphanius publication: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Kraemer et al. use machine learning to model epidemics more efficiently. Their work shows faster forecasting, better handling of incomplete data, and more accurate infection estimates, pointing to improved global health decision making. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MARTi: a real-time analysis and visualisation tool for nanopore metagenomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

🔬💜 Avui celebrem el Dia Internacional de la Dona i la Nena en la Ciència! — 🔬💜 Today, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔹 Which female scientist inspires you? Drop her name in the comments! 👇💬 #WomenInScience

An ICE, a PICI, and a phage walk into a cell… and start crosstalking. Interesting read on how MGEs juggle interactions like pros! 🦠 academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Call for papers: Special issue on bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas for combating multidrug-resistant bacteria. Original research papers and reviews are welcome. @icrawater.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Great seminar about RNAseq analysis in non-model organisms by @mgclaros.bsky.social . Interesting R-tool to easily analyze and visualize RNAseq data. Really nice! #RSeqFlow github.com/mgclaros/RSe...

📢 @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social are seeking an Associate Professor or #Professor with experience in the #biology and mechanisms of microbial #biofilms to contribute to enhancing NBIC’s reputation as a pioneering centre for #biofilm research and #innovation Apply by 28 Feb 2025➡️ tinyurl.com/mr756rap

We are thrilled to share our latest article in @pubs.acs.org “Bacterium-Phage Symbiosis Facilitates the Enrichment of Bacterial Pathogens and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Plastisphere” #phages #AMR doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Review highlights the transformative role of phylogenetic methods in genomics, enhancing understanding of evolutionary genetics by addressing species' data non-independence. Key for comparative studies. #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for a new target microbes for cultivation? Check out our new review on "Earth's most needed uncultivated aquatic prokaryotes"! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advancements of paper-based sensors for antibiotic-resistant bacterial species identification. doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Increased Transmission of Antibiotic Resistance Occurs in a Soil Food Chain under Pesticide Stress. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Dysbiosis of gut microbiota in COVID-19 is associated with intestinal DNA phage dynamics of lysogenic and lytic infection. doi.org/10.1128/spec...

Domainator, a flexible software suite for domain-based annotation and neighborhood analysis, identifies proteins involved in antiviral systems. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Exploring the diversity of anti-defense systems across prokaryotes, phages and mobile genetic elements. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Diverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial host @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Heartwarming: The AMI Pierce Prize Award goes to 550+ @psumbiome.bsky.social members from 42 depts & 10 colleges for Global Impact in Microbiology. 1st time a Center received the Prize in its 30 year history. Great job by many to recognize the collective. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/one-hea... .

To honour Lone Gram’s significant contributions to microbial secondary metabolite research, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces lonegramiae (DSM 41529) after her. Fun Fact: Gram's great-grandfather developed the Gram stain 😉 #herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #microbiology

The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth” But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners? Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts. Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k

Paper alert 🚨🐦‍⬛📣 Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona @jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social @odeigg.bsky.social SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nathan Bullen and Aaron Whiteley wrote a nice summary of our Osterman et al 2024 study www.cell.com/molecular-ce...