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We have a fully funded PhD position out focusing on adaptation strategies in filamentous Cyanobacteria slu.se/en/about-slu/w… please share to those potentially interested 😊

Our paper out Cell: Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity Congrats Erez Tzvi Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai 🎗️ 🇮🇱🎗️, our collaborators @ Kranzusch lab, and coauthors A 🧵 1/10 cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Excited to announce that MANIAC is now out in mSystems! journals.asm.org/eprint/ISRAZYS… Major take-home messages: 1) MANIAC can reliably estimate ANI ~70%, 2) dsDNA phages exhibit ANI gap around 80%, 3) taxonomic assignment in temperate phages is tricky. Give MANIAC a spin and enjoy!

Are you interested in studying archaea with their diverse symbionts? We look forward hearing from you: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-posi…

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more & apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… #phage #Bioinformatics

The ecological success (prevalence and abundance) of freshwater microorganisms is mediated by streamlining and biotic interactions by Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón Armando Pacheco-Valenciana Felix Milke Luis M Rodriguez-R and more ... ... including 80,561 genomes and a curated dataset of 636 freshwater metagenomes

🤩🤩 now I have to stop everything and read this!

New paper out where we highlight many newly recovered giant viruses and find new functional potential encoded in their genomes! #giantvirus #Bioinformatics nature.com/articles/s4429…

Microbial model communities reveal widespread auxotrophies in abundant bacteria by Armando Pacheco-Valenciana et al. Our results highlight the value of cultivating microorganisms in groups to cultivate: 1) abundant microorganisms tinyurl.com/miintmodcom

Deep origin of eukaryotes outside Heimdallarchaeia within Asgardarchaeota | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

White smoke, we have not only a new pope, but also 16 new anti-phage systems in integrons ! In collaboration with the Didier Mazel lab, we show in our new paper that cassettes of these large platforms encode known anti-phage defenses and uncovered 16 new ones. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Diel Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics Under Contrasting Light Regimes …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

.Peter Turnbaugh (UC San Francisco) is hiring a Junior/Assistant/Associate/Full Specialist, to study human gut microbiome impact on disease treatment & engineer #phages for microbiome manipulation. It involves microbiology, molecular biology techniques, & lab management buff.ly/Uoke8dc

Overlooked & mislabeled 'parasites,' commensal protists are vital gut microbiome members! 🦠 Small in cell count, huge in biomass. They impact host immunity, gut ecology & disease. Check this great review by Elias Gerrick & Michael Howitt! cell.com/trends/microbi…

Two novel Patescibacteria: Phycocordibacter aenigmaticus gen. nov. sp. nov. and Minusculum obligatum gen. nov. sp. nov., both associated with microalgae optimized for carbon dioxide sequestration from flue gas | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

“Paraxenoviridae”, a putative family of globally distributed marine bacteriophages with double-stranded RNA genomes academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-…

A bacterial host factor confines phage localization for excluding the infected compartment through cell division: Cell Reports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

🥳🥳 Our paper using #metagenomics to explore the core species of stable #cyanobacteria #microbiome communities is now out in the The ISME Journal!!! Excellent work by Andreja Kust and company, and collaboration with The Banfield Lab. tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7

nature.com/articles/s4158… Rekindles my faith in Microbiology

We have a nice postdoc position open. The working place is flexible and can be at University Hamburg, but also at IGB. It is in the frame of our DFG graduate school BiCEst which is a nice option for synthesizing lots of data. stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/eb5…