We're hiring a bioinformatics postdoc to join our growing lab and explore viral ecology, metagenomics, and host-microbe interactions! integrativeviromicslab.com/open-positions

In #Microbiome 🦠Introducing MicrobeRX: a tool for enzymatic-reaction-based metabolite prediction in the gut microbiome 🚨Better predictive potential, molecular diversity, reduction of redundant predictions, & enzyme annotation 👉doi.org/pcv2

Tatta Bio is growing! We are looking for people who want to revolutionize the way biological sequence data is collaboratively explored and analyzed. Please share with your network! Job descriptions are found at: tatta.bio/careers

Protein and genomic language models chart a vast landscape of antiphage defenses | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Seeing what bacteria see from a flying UAV 👁️ rdcu.be/ehkQB #synbio #biotech Itai Levin Yonatan Chemla

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Out Now! Phollow reveals in situ phage transmission dynamics in the zebrafish gut microbiome at single-virion resolution bit.ly/3RXIgpk #Microbiology #PhageTherapy #Zebrafish

Engineering bacteriophages through deep mining of metagenomic motifs science.org/doi/full/10.11…

研究室のZhaoさんらの論文です。dsDNAウイルスの類似配列領域を真核生物の全ての系統のゲノムデータ中に徹底的に探索しました。最大16%のゲノム領域がdsDNAウイルス類似配列の例もあり、これまでに知られていないウイルスと宿主の関係が多数浮き彫りになりました。biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

FastAAI: efficient estimation of genome average amino acid identity and phylum-level relationships using tetramers of universal proteins | Nucleic Acids Research | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

A DNA-gated molecular guard controls bacterial Hailong anti-phage defence | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Hidden in plain sight: Bacterial genomes reveal thousands of lytic phages with therapeutic potential biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

1/6 🚀 Delighted to see our review out online in Nature Reviews Bioengineering: CRISPR–Cas therapies targeting bacteria. Read: doi.org/10.1038/s44222…

Today in Science Magazine we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells, a collaboration with Sternberg Lab. 1/13 drive.google.com/file/d/1I-UbCR…

Vertical transport and spatiotemporal dynamics of giant viruses in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | The ISME Journal | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

Unexpected diversity and ecological significance of uncultivable large virus-like particles in aquatic environments academic.oup.com/ismecommun/adv…

Evolution of gene order in prokaryotes is driven primarily by gene gain and loss pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

New groups of highly divergent proteins in families as old as cellular life with important biological functions in the ocean: …ronmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Interactions and evolutionary relationships among bacterial mobile genetic elements | Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

The ECS Committee is excited to explore Career Choices for Microbial Ecologists! This month, we’re featuring María A. Baustista. She encourages ECS to be adaptable and proactive in shaping their own path. Read her full interview here: isme-microbes.org/career-choice-…