Also, hurry up and book a hotel room already!

Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025! Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025

Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference. Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes! isvm.org #phagesky #virus

Day 31, Costume. Phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs) use the proteins of incoming phage that infect the they inhabit. These phage proteins allow the PICI to package its own DNA and infect a new host. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Congratulations to Dr. @npbhavya.bsky.social and bon voyage. Good luck in your new adventures in Europe (Featuring #phagesky artwork by @elliejameson.bsky.social )

@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/...

Day 21, Secret. Prophages hidden within bacteria can confer genetic gifts on their host and protect them from further phage infection. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky

🔥Late breaking abstract submissions for poster presentations at the COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference are now open! Please note that this call is for posters only! ⏳Deadline: 31 October 2025 🔗Submit your abstract here, please use the provided template: forms.gle/TnEWMMcPz5m9...

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

#SouthAustralia is suffering from an ongoing and expanding harmful algal bloom (#HAB) but @flindersuniversity.bsky.social and @sagenomicscentre.bsky.social are sequencing the genome of the miscreant to help figure out how to control it #microsky #microbiome sahmri.org.au/news/researc...

Also tagging with 🧬 & 🖥️ for the Genomics/Bioinformatics Feed

Superb news to kick off the week! 🎉 Our new paper is out today in @natcomms.nature.com 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗙𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀

🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics 💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass 🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics 🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry 🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases 👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app... #MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

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Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up: doi.org/10.1093/bioi... (1/3)

Really pleased to announce that registrations are open for the two-day series of workshops, immediately following the ABACBS conference in Adelaide this year. Workshops are presented as a combined event between BiocAsia and ABACBS. www.abacbs.org/abacbs-2025-... #Bioconductor #rstats #ABACBS

This is a fantastic thread, can't wait to read the paper. Great work

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com

Excited to share our latest preprint on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs. (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #genomics #assembly #assemblygraphs #software

Terrific talk from @motherofphage.bsky.social about the impact of conflicts on the rise of #AMR and how they are using #phage to help save lives in war zones #BSVOM @bsvom.bsky.social

Excited to hear from @surtlab.bsky.social about his work on #phage tailocins

The @isvm-society.bsky.social is at the #phage protein meeting in Ghent. Fantastic meeting, beautiful city, wonderful colleagues

I wish I didn't have to tempt anyone with the idea of abandoning a sinking ship, but Australia is ramping up their own CDC, and there might soon be some opportunities to go work where science still retains respect, and neither you, nor your children, are shot at .... www.cdc.gov.au/newsroom/new...

Great talk from Rob Edwards. Lots of new #phage tools to play with. Scan the QR codes. Also he has 5 year #postdoc positions below. Seems like a sufficient amount to get some good work done.

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available. virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas. Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis

Finally, huge thanks to my awesome collaborators who helped make Phold possible (those with bsky: @susiegriggo.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social )

The notebook uses Pharokka, Phold and @susiegriggo.bsky.social's Phynteny to comprehensively annotate your phage - please also check out the related very recent preprint for Phynteny www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Welcome @isvm-society.bsky.social to bsky, the International Society for the Viruses of Microorganisms. Check the new look website isvm.org and become a member for free! #phagesky #microsky

New in @asm.org #MMBR Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins. How to annotate your #phage and #bacteria genomes by @susiegriggo.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social and Bob #phagesky #microsky journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

Thrilled to share our new review just published in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (@asm.org #MMBR): “Computational Function Prediction of Bacteria and Phage Proteins” with @gbouras13.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social 🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We have been working on ways to find #phage with long shelf-life and this one is a winner. 12 months freeze-thawing as much as you like, no loss of viability #phageSky #microSky rdcu.be/ewnzT

Postdoc position to work at the Institut Pasteur with Alex Kaminski and Didier Mazel on Z-DNA phages ! research.pasteur.fr/en/job/a-two...

Excited 🥳 to share our latest work on gut phages! Big thanks to @epcrocha.bsky.social, Erick D, Camille d'H, @fplazaonate.bsky.social, Quentin LB, and all others involved for support and contributions! 🙌 Out in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Here's what we found 🤓

#PhageSky #ProtistsOnSky endosymbionts have "their" phages, too. cyanos of sponges (below), 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢 of insects, and then we have the piñata 👇 schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

Thrilled to see our Kiwa story out today! A membrane-associated supercomplex that senses infection and blocks replication and transcription. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Huge congratulations to Yi and Zhiying for bringing it home, to Thomas for starting us off, and to all the collaborators.

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages” Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide. 👇 Read on for details! #Phage

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fold first, ask later: structure-informed function annotation of Pseudomonas phage proteins Structural predictions to improve #phage genome annotation! @hannelorelongin.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social y.social @susiegriggo.bsky.social @veravannoort.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 New preprint alert! Happy to share the first results from our effort to reannotate Pseudomonas #phage proteins of unknown function, using structural bioinformatics. 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The 10th anniversary #ABACBS conference will be held in Adelaide from Nov 24-28. If you're thinking of coming, get in quick, as it's going to be a big week: A fantastic #bioinformatics conference with outstanding national and international speakers, and we're wrapping up the ABACBS week an AC/DC gig

My latest Conversation article is about #plaque !!! theconversation.com/a-person-in-...

Here's the NYT article www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

We've folded a lot of proteins! You can see some of them here @linsalrob.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social

We made structural predictions of representatives of each #PHROG from #phage genomes, and put the whole lot online. You can browse through montages or go to your favourite phrog directly and download its PDB. 💻🧬 #phagesky linsalrob.github.io/PHROG_struct...

PhD opportunities at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in Adelaide, Australia's most liveable city, to study genetics in #phage We will also have genetics #postdoc positions too! #microsky #phagesky www.linkedin.com/pulse/phd-pr...