A new preprint on expanding the genetic code, from IGI's Jill Banfield, Peter Penev, and collaborators across the country: https://ow.ly/HiYO50XVNXR

New preprint out: Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @mingyan-igi.bsky.social

Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.

Newest preprint from the group on megaplasmids in E. coli led by @assemblerag.bsky.social. In addition to our findings in metagenomic datasets, we identified an RNA-seq project from a giant panda gut sample with evidence of megaplasmids. We would like to include the data creators in our study.

SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad (SLU) and Camilla Engblom (@ki.se) appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows ↓ 🧪 “This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social Q&A ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/long-te... @kawresearch.bsky.social

Think you need large volumes for microbial experiments? Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... 🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.

Amazing ability of invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla to control microbial interaction network of its biofilm. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...