Chroococcus turigidus, a novel cyanobacterial source for l-sparaginase production www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No Genetics? Try ASOs – A non-genetic approach to silence genes at the phage-host interface. We use it to study jumbo phage biology and anti-phage defence. @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social published now in @nature.com

The Biology, Microclimate, and Geology of a Distinctive Ecosystem Within the Sandstone of Hyper-Arid Timna Valley, Israel enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢 We are thrilled to announce the International Soil Virus Conference 2026 in conjunction with the Saint Loup Research Institute. 🗓️ June 16 – 18, 2026 📍 Château de Saint Loup sur Thouet, France 👇 RSVP by October 31st, 2025 #virus #phage #ISVC2026

📣A new preprint by Talia Shaler! 📣 How do populations develop resistance to viral infections? We mapped the transcriptomic landscape of algal resistance to lytic viral infection and identified a unique set of resistance-related genes expressed in those cells >> doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📣Excited to share our latest review on using single-cell methods to study host-virus interactions in the ocean - led by Amir Fromm (@amirfromm.bsky.social) and Talia Shaler (x.com/ShalerTalia), in collaboration with Frank Aylward (@foaylward.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy) >>

New pre-print out \o/ All about CRISPR, metagenomes, and what you learn when you collect (a lot of) spacers from natural communities, with @apcamargo.bsky.social @urineri.bsky.social @lhug.bsky.social but also Uri Gophna, Nikhil George (not on Bsky I think) & others at JGI doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

Join NFDI4Microbiota as a participant for 2026–2031! Gain early access to tools, bilateral exchange via an early-career ambassador, and targeted support for ELNs, DMPs, SOPs & FAIR data. Apply by June 10, 2025: www.nfdi4microbiota....

tinyurl.com/MIUViG2 Here's the MIUViG2 survey form! If you're interested in sharing your experience to update MIUViG for RNA and ssDNA viruses.

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

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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

Comprehensive Analysis of CRISPR Array Repeat Mutations Reveals Subtype-Specific Patterns and Links to Spacer Dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.02.646798v1

We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.

Working on RNA virus ecology? check this travel grant 🖖

RNA phages are phosphate limited, and possibly as implicated as their DNA counterparts in soil microbiome dynamics following soil wetup (first rain after the dry season). Out today in SBB! doi.org/10.1016/j.so... @soilmicrobes.bsky.social 1/n

Starting off the new semester with a talk from @mrblab.bsky.social !

Registration and abstract submission still open!

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

Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please update this list of #WomenInPhage (docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) #phagesky

Conference announcement: VEGA 2024 is officially *on* \o/ Will be Nov. 12 - 13, 2024, in Berkeley, in collaboration with NIST. More info to come soon re: speakers, etc, but in the meantime you can already check the provisional agenda and register at jgi.doe.gov/events/vega/

We just published a consensus statement (with 47 institutes) on advancing #RdRp-based RNA virus discovery! We sum up the challenges identified at the 1st #RdRpSummit and propose solutions to ensure greater interoperability. Here’s a summary- t.ly/Uwqge

Update! I've relocated to the bay area to work at the JGI with @simrouxvirus.bsky.social focusing on bioinfo tools, RNA viruses and (I hope) making this research niche more interoperable 😉 Not easy leaving home at such a time, but I know it'll always be there 💙