🚨 A quick reminder: the PhD and postdoc positions within the ERC project #BindingShadows are still open! We’ve just moved into a brand-new building, and during the transition our servers and website were occasionally down, meaning we might not have received some applications.

Try our new Nanopore barcode trimming and data cleaning tool Barbell & get insights into the structure of your reads! 👇

Sassy is out now! Ever need to search for approximate matches of short DNA strings? Sassy is the tool to use! Available now wherever you get your code With @rickbitloo.bsky.social curiouscoding.nl/papers/sassy... github.com/ragnarGrootK...

💧🌊 What happens when freshwater bacteria meet their salty counterparts? Our new preprint explores the ecological factors driving community coalescence 👉https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.09.675091v1 @bedutilh.bsky.social @microverse.bsky.social

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/...

🎉 Roos Brouns (@bedutilh.bsky.social's #VEO-Group & @uni-jena.de) & Vikrant Minhas (mentee @kuesellab.bsky.social) won the ISME poster award at the AEM Gordon Conference! A great example of cross-institutional #excellence in microbial ecology. 👏 #Microbiology #ISME #AEMGordon #EarlyCareerResearchers

Researchers led by @bedutilh.bsky.social at the Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social investigate #phages, showing how viruses not only cause harm but also create the basis for diversity & balance. Read more in the #UniJena research magazine. ➡️ www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/en/3157/smal...

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

PhD position available at @binfutrecht.bsky.social. Join us if you are interested in modelling how plants respond to stress! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

🧬 New tool alert: Vclust helps researchers rapidly sort through millions of viral genomes—even fragmented ones. @bedutilh.bsky.social co-developed Vclust, a tool for ultrafast clustering of viral genomes. It's open-source, web-accessible, and just published. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Vclust generates fast and accurate estimation of average nucleotide identity (ANI) for viral genomes, scaling clustering to millions of genomes. @sdeorowicz.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @prozwalak.bsky.social @uni-jena.de @microverse.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Faster && more accurate virus sequence clustering with Vclust! Thanks to Andrzej, Sebastian, et al. for the great collaboration. The author list also includes @prozwalak.bsky.social from the VEO Group.

Interested in #soil #viruses? We are! Excited to share our study on #Acidobacteriota #phages in #Arctic #tundra #soils being now published together with an easy-to-follow video abstract: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We are looking for a #postdoc to join the VEO Group @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de and build an experimental research line into the dynamics and functioning of microbial communities: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/1...

📣 New, free webtool by the Snoek lab! Meet SpeSpeNet, an intuitive platform for automated network analysis of microbiomes to uncover complex interactions between microbes and their environments @ismepublications.bsky.social @isme-microbes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... #microsky #mevosky

Are you interested in the distribution of microbes, viruses, and #phages throughout the Microverse? Come and do a PhD with us in experimental microbial ecology @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/d...

Are you interested in the distribution of microbes, viruses, and #phages throughout the Microverse? Come and do a #bioinformatics PhD with us @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/b...

Exciting opportunity to join our group as postdoc! Apply now for this project on computational (meta)genome mining as part of a collaborative European research consortium: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please share!

🇩🇪 German speaker? Join us in Jena as a Professor of Bioinformatics and Digital Health: stellenticket.eah-jena.de/de/offers/19...

Get a grasp of the chemistry of microbiomes! Check out Pilleriin Peets' preprint: she developed chemical characteristics vectors to reanalyze EMP's untargeted metabolomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with Aris Litos, Daniel Garza, Kai Dührkop, @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social & Sebastian Böcker

One more week until the deadline!

Two weeks until the deadline! Please repost:

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Do you (plan to) use genome-scale metabolic models in your research? DNNGIOR facilitates model reconstruction from incomplete genomes and MAGs. See Meine Boer's new publication 👇 and the code on Github: github.com/MGXlab/DNNGIOR

🚨🚨 Reminder: the deadline for ICTV's Computational Taxonomy Challenge is coming up! Remind your bioinformaticians and colleagues to submit: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... 🦠🧬

We found new #Crassvirales clades on #Antarctica (prospective families): @goncalopiedade.bsky.social's new paper on the viruses in Antarctic waters is out! Check out the manuscript (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and Gonçalo's "Behind the Paper": communities.springernature.com/posts/unveil...

My group is recruiting a postdoc to study how environmental interactions shape the virulence of human fungal pathogens. Please share! Full job description and how to apply at barber-lab.com/join.

Scientists at Adam Mickiewicz University turned to poop to learn about how bacteria-killing viruses found in the human gut have changed over time, including 1 from 5,300 yr old Ötzi the Iceman! Learn more in our new adapted article: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how... @bedutilh.bsky.social

Is there a link between the microbes in your food and your gut microbiome? and how about the soil that your food grew on? join us for a postdoc to find out: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...

@lingyi.bsky.social and @ehauptfeld.bsky.social from the MGX Group are organizing a hybrid workshop in Utrecht, supported by NL Association of Virus Ecology. @yuvalmulla.bsky.social will explain how to measure phage parameters for quantitative viral ecology. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.08.607240v1

Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

The RAT is out! 🐀 Our new Read Annotation Tool integrates taxonomic signals from MAGs, contigs, and reads from #metagenomics 🧬 into one microbial community profile with great sensitivity and precision. Read the article at www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🧵 (1/5)

We finally put it together! The first ICTV #Virus #Taxonomy Challenge provides a dataset of thousands of contigs from diverse viruses, asking bioinformaticians to classify them in an automated, reproducible way. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... - tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

If you want more reliable annotation of your reads, try RAT. I have very good experiences with RAT, and it performs very well in the benchmarks! Also, can we all just appreciate that @bedutilh.bsky.social now published a bin-, contig-, and a read annotation tool. Bat. 🦇 Cat. 🐈‍⬛ Rat. 🐀

I've got a fully funded, 4-year PhD position available to work on virus-bacteria interactions in soils. Part of the GenerationResearch scheme at York aimed at widening access to postgrad research. Please share! generationresearch.ac.uk/phd_proposal...

Do you want to know which virus discovery tool to use? Check out @lingyi.bsky.social 's new paper:

Symposium "AMR Forensics" - Global tracking of antimicrobial resistance genes. Co-organized by @aldertzomer.bsky.social, @bedutilh.bsky.social, Utrecht University and KNVM Section Microbial Bioinformatics, and supported by ZonMw. For program & registration see: amrforensics.org

The VEO Group in #Jena is looking for a #postdoc with experience in #bioinformatics and #phage research jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/2...

Standardization of metagenomics is (not) required! Join the symposium on 2 February in Utrecht: www.knvm.org/activities/6... with @cmelkonian.bsky.social @annecmg.bsky.social @aldertzomer.bsky.social and many more

Interested in finding the maximum overlap between (meta)genomes, eg for HGT? Rick Beeloo, from @BEDutilh lab, has developed Graphite which makes this possible for 1000s of genomes. Graphite: painting genomes using a colored De Bruijn graph www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hi all, I have a postdoc position (3 years) in my group on a very challenging topic: co-cultivation of sponge cells and bacterial symbionts. Looking for someone with experience with marine invertebrate cells AND bacteria. Thanks for sharing! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...