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...

Here's our new paper on the circulation of West Nile virus lineage 1 in Italy, one of Europe's most WNV-affected countries. We definitely need stronger Europe-Africa surveillance! #WNV #PublicHealth doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Our work on the Last Universal Common Ancestor is out!! 🧬💻 To improve data reproducibility and accessibility, I have created a GitHub repository that documents the steps you need to follow to reproduce all our timetree inference analyses. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It has been amazing to discuss my work with such an exceptional committee!

Two days ago I defended my PhD dissertation: 'Viral Metagenomics and Phylogenomics for One Health'. Immensely grateful to my supportive colleagues and to my exceptional supervisors (Nicola Segata and Omar Rota-Stabelli) for their guidance throughout this journey! 🎓 #PhD #virus #OneHealth

If you can do it, individual animals are the way to go for virus metagenomics: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our latest preprint for all phage enthusiasts! We present a novel virus discovery approach that leverages viral enrichment, enabling us to obtain a set of over 162,000 viral sequences. 🧬 #phage #virusdiscovery