Many thanks to all who contributed to #RdRpSummit2025 & #ViBioM2025, making these meetings such great platforms for sharing #virus research insights and new #bioinformatics tools! An amazing week of networking & (a bit of) sightseeing in beautiful Lisbon ❤️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social @evbc.bsky.social

Closing remarks by our lead organizer Ingrida Olendraite :'( #RdRpSummit2025

Alexander Lucaci kicks off the second RdRp Summit consensus statement! #RdRpSummit2025

Spyros Lytras introduces the community project on structure based phylogeny and function prediction!

Thomas Krannich is introducing the community project on benchmarking various aspects of RNA viral discovery. #RdRpSummit2025

Tatiana Demina discussing the initiative on RNA virus journal club! #RdRpSummit2025

Rachid Tahzima's presenting the community project start-up on RNA virus host inference!

Finding new viruses is cool, but Gytis Dudas highlighted everything one can do with viruses we already know! #RdRpSummit2025

Our next keynote speaker, Rachel Kim, introduces us to BVFD. Now we know what the "F" stands for :) Truly FANTASTIC work! #RdRpSummit2025

Unravelling the viral dark matter! Our first keynote speaker Xin Hou works with transformer-based AI models for structural prediction, helping detect highly divergent RNA viruses! @xinhou.bsky.social

Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture. #RdRpSummit2025

Introducing PREDICTORix to predict spillover risk to cause potential pandemics. #RdRpSummit2025

Detecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown

Great time in Lisbon so far at @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ! Looking forward to another day of great talks and discussing the future of RNA virus discovery! + #ViBioM2025 starting tonight! Can't wait to see lots more friends! 😁😁

Logan's the perfect way to kick-start the second day! Thank you, Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social

Are you ready for day 2 of the #RdRpSummit2025??

Introducing RdRpCATCH- mining RNA viruses using RdRp HMMs! Dimitris Karapliafis is here to talk about the community project we took up during the 2023 RdRp Summit! #RdRpSummit2025

Laura Luebbert on detecting RNA viruses in single cell data. #RdRPSummit2025

Mia Le introduced ViMOP, an easy-to-use bioinformatic pipeline for quick viral surveillance using Nanopore sequencing methods. #RdRpSummit2025

Josué Rodríguez-Ramos on biofractionation methods (both nucleic acid processing & library prep) on soil viromes! #RdRpSummit2025

Using MinION for plant virus detection. Our invited speaker - Anja Pecman. #RdRpSummit2025

Vladimir Gajdov sharing with us their findings on rat viromes. #RdRpSummit2025

RNA Viromes of subways and other urban biomes by Alexander Lucaci! #RdRpSummit2025

Lander De Coninck is sharing with us the tool he made to easily submit your viral genomes! #RdRpSummit2025

Lunch breaks are for good food and even better (RdRp) conversations! ❣️💃🏻 #RdRpSummit2025

@lukehillary.bsky.social is joining us remotely to enlighten us on best practices in annotating viral genomes - MIUViG2 #RdRpSummit2025

Rachid Tahzima presenting the RdRp modulome! #RdRpSummit2025

Karima Ben Mansour is our viral history detective! Going back in time to tell us when and where watermelon and grapevine viruses emerged! #RdRpSummit2025

Kaiyang Zheng is joining us remotely to present their work on VITAP - a tool to classify both DNA and RNA viruses! #RdRpSummit2025

Introducing the #ICTV taxonomy challenge , Cedric Lood! #RdRpSummit2025

Here we go! The #RdRpSummit2025 is live! @ingrida.bsky.social

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!

Stoked to have Luke Hillary (@lukehillary.bsky.social) joining us to talk about adapting MIUViG for RNA viruses—huge step for making sense of uncultivated RNA viromes!😍 #RdRpSummit2025 in 3 days!

4 DAYS TO #RDRPSUMMIT2025!!!!! WHO'S PACKED THEIR BAGS YET???

Have you been curious on how to optimize your @nanoporetech.com workflow to detect RNA viruses? Our next invited speaker is here to answer all your questions! Welcoming Anja Pecman to #RdRpSummit2025!!!💃🕺 The registrations for the summit will b closing in 3 days!

Not missing a beat when I'd say we're about to get a sneak peek into the findings of the #ICTV Computational Taxonomy Challenge by our invited speaker - Cedric Lood! You can find more on this community-wide effort on ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... Registrations are still open! #RdRpSummit2025

Guess who is invited as the keynote speaker for the session on "Data Mining & Metadata Analysis"??? It is Rayan Chikhi!!! He will introduce us to Logan. You can read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/vx4cykr7 Registrations are still open for #RdRpSummit2025!

The previous RdRp summit manifested in the consensus statement. What the second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social brings us?:)

Introducing our invited speaker for the session on 'Viral Dark Matter' we have Rachel Seongeun Kim from the Seoul National University!!!! The registrations for on-site & remote participation are still open! More info: RdRp.io #RdRpSummit2025

The abstract submission closes tomorrow! :')

Ummm... did we not mention that the #RdRpSummit2025 is a HYBRID event? We will consider remote presentation and you can attend the summit online! The abstract submission deadline is on the 22nd of April! Visit RdRp.io for more information!

CHOP CHOP, if you haven't already submitted an abstract for the #RdRpSummit2025. The abstract submission deadline is 22nd of April! I REPEAT- the abstract submission deadline is 22nd of April! Btw, @isme-microbes.bsky.social is sponsoring travel grants for this summit! #RdRp #RNA #Viruses

🔬 RDRP Summit 2025 – A Satellite Event of ViBioM 2025! Portugal! 🌍 📅 May 11–12, 2025 🔗 Register Now: rdrp.io 📢 We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon! #RdRpSummit2025 #Bioinformatics #VirusBioinformatics

NEW WEEK, NEW UPDATE! We know you've been wondering who we've invited as the keynote speakers for the #RdRpSummit2025. Well, the wait is finally over. here's a complete list of our speakers! rdrp.io/invited-spea... P.S.: Registrations & abstract submissions are still open! #RdRp

Feeling curious to know what we've got in store for you? We just posted a long version of the #RdRpSummit2025 program!! 😎💃🏻✨👯 rdrp.io/rdrp-summit-... #rnaviruses #rdrp

EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025. Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️ More info at RdRp.io

1 week till abstract submission deadline! If you haven't submitted your abstract yet, now is the perfect time! #RdRpSummit2025

The abstract submission & registration for #RdRpSummit2025 is NOW OPEN!!! 🎉🙌 Do you work on RNA virus discovery using RdRps? Are you joining the #ViBioM2025 in Portugal? Consider submitting your research in one of our sessions! More info: RdRp.io

The second RdRp Summit will take place at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT NOVA) in Lisbon Portugal on 11th & 12th May 2025! Abstract and registration details coming this week! #RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025

SAVE THE DATES & plan your trip to Lisbon (for #RdRpSummit2025 & #EVBC #ViBioM) this summer accordingly! Information on registration and abstract submissions coming very very soon! 🚄✈️✨🇵🇹🌊🌉