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Review: Metagenomic approaches in microbial ecology... covers marker gene and whole genome analysis microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

Hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome reveals a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Our paper on evaluating the relationship between gut microbiome, host lifestyle/diet, and clinical biomarkers in ~3,400 individuals is officially live on Nature Communications! ISB nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great PhD opportunity - Early life virome development. Mix of wetlab and bioinformatics. Awesome PI (Dennis S Nielsen), awesome cohort, fully funded, samples ready to go! In lovely Copenhagen, Denmark. SCIENCE - KU collab w/ COPSAC RTs appreciated! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni…

Hey Twitter! We are incredibly thrilled & proud to see CRISPRCasTyper hot off the press! 🔥🥳 CCTyper accurately identifies + annotates CRISPR & cas loci based on the 2020 classifications. Superfast, user-friendly + we will continue to upgrade it! liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108… 1/n

A large-scale genetic study on Danish Children with recurrent severe asthma attacks performed COPSAC, we identified a new asthma gene FUT2 as in interaction with the AB0 blood type increases the risk of asthma and bacterial infections. Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Proud to share our latest work showing that interactions between strains govern the eco-evo dynamics of microbial communities, led by Akshit Goyal Akshit Goyal, Leonora Bittleston Leonora Bittleston and Gabriel Leventhal Gabriel Leventhal ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out today: finding prophages without the use of sequence similarities. A great collaboration between University of Copenhagen and University of Leicester! Rapid discovery of novel prophages using biological feature engineering and machine learning academic.oup.com/nargab/article…

Postdoc position COPSAC: Join the microbiome group and analyze the world’s largest early life virome dataset in relation to clinical outcomes. Longitudinal vaginal, gut and airway samples in 700 mother-child pairs /10 years followup. RT appreciated. copsac.com/home/about/job…

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New paper alert🚨! Very happy to share with you our contribution to predict the host of unknown phages using CRISPR spacers Nucleic Acids Res 🕵🏻‍♀️👾 We obtained predictions for 49% of our reference phages with a precision of 69% at the genus level 🎯 (1/5) academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Job opportunity with Dave Scanlan , also involves Richard Puxty and me. Cyanophages, chemostats photosynthesis . See jobs.ac.uk/job/CFX938/res… #phage

New paper out 🥳 by the amazing Martine Sørensen, Amira and collaborators! We found that the Campylobacter phages use hypermutable polyG tracts to create phenotypic diversity and overcome phase variable receptors! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

.Eleanor M. Townsend et al published a new review on the origins and roles of phages in the human gut microbiome. They review phageome development in infancy and adulthood, and consider the phageome’s role both biologically and in the context of health & disease buff.ly/3gWhTxn

Our work on prophages in the infant gut is out!

Is this an open access microbiology textbook, sponsored by ASM to match their curriculum guidelines, with a comprehensive art program? Yes it is! Best find this year. openstax.org/details/books/…

Manual resolution of virome dark matter uncovers hundreds of viral families in the infant gut biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Our INPHARED paper has now been published in PHAGE: Therapy, Applications, and Research. Really good to see this one out alongside Tamsin Redgwell, @CyanoNey, Martha Clokie, @DovStekelLab, Andrew millard and many others not on Twitter liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10…

Book your place at the Phage Genome Annotation virtual workshop with Dr Andy Millard on 25-26 April! More information on our webpage: climb.ac.uk/phage-genome-a… Andrew millard

New pre-print alert! We sequenced a mock virome community of 15 phages using Nanopore, PacBio and Illumina, and tested different assembly approaches to determine which is best for viromics (1/9) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…