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Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social · 22h

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature!
nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

Isolation, engineering and ecology of temperate phages from the human gut - Nature

Human host-associated cellular products may act as induction agents for bacteriophages.

nature.com

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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 1d

Was great to chat with @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social about bacteriophages today! #phages

Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Today we welcomed @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social to the Quadram Institute to learn more about our food, gut microbiome and health research including hearing from our experts about our work on bacteriophages

Find out more about our research targets
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Natalie Bennett meets researchers working on bacteriophages

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Branko Rihtman @cyanoney.bsky.social · 2d

PhD project claxon!!

Interested in phage functional metagenomics? Want to learn how to program a robot?

Apply for a fully funded MIBTP PhD with myself, Rich Puxty, and @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social here at Warwick, working on viral anti-biofilm gene discovery.
Apply here:
tinyurl.com/phagegenomics

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 6d

For those of you working on tailed #phages, this is the virus realm for you!
#Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy

The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...

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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 7d

Check out the latest ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile on Duplodnaviria. Published in JGV as part of the ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles collection: doi.org/10.1099/jgv.... #JGenVirol

Current taxonomy of the realm Duplodnaviria.

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 13d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 13d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 14d

We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

Apply - Genomics

www.marine.usf.edu

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 28d

Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"?

With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

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Vijini Mallawaarachchi @vijinim.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to share our latest preprint on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs. (1/n)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#Bioinformatics #genomics #assembly #assemblygraphs #software

agtools: a software framework to manipulate assembly graphs

Assembly graphs are a fundamental data structure used by genome and metagenome assemblers to represent sequences and their overlap information, facilitating the assembler to construct longer genomic f...

www.biorxiv.org

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Franklin Nobrega @fnobrega.bsky.social · Sep 16

Three new kids on the block. ARMADA, BRIGADE, and TALON. Impressive how multiple labs all come together to contribute to discovery. Great collaboration with Simon, Chase, and Eugene. From the very talented Ryan Bell, together with Thomas Gaudin and our own Yi Wu.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YprA family helicases provide the missing link between diverse prokaryotic immune systems

Bacteria and archaea possess an enormous variety of antivirus immune systems that often share homologous proteins and domains, some of which contribute to diverse defense strategies. YprA family helic...

www.biorxiv.org

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Daniel Figeys @dfigeys.bsky.social · Sep 16

Interested in healthy aging and the microbiome? Join my lab to explore how ex vivo microbiome assays can guide personalized interventions that modulate specific microbiome-derived metabolites critical for health.

Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Sep 16

🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a Research Scientist (Clinical Microbiome) to advance precision prebiotic microbiome intervention trials aimed at promoting healthy ageing.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
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Daniel Figeys @dfigeys.bsky.social · Sep 16

Interested in compound- microbiome interactions, and how they affect health? Join my lab at the Quadram Institute.

Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Sep 15

🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a Research Scientist (Xenobiotics) to investigate xenobiotic–microbiome interactions and understand the variation in responses across different individual microbiomes.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 2 October 2025
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Ann Gregory, PhD @gregoryannc.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨

The Integrative Viromics Lab @UCalgary 🇨🇦 is looking for a Lab Technician!

🔬 Phage isolation & culture
🧫 Anaerobic chamber work
📦 Lab management & student mentoring

Apply now & help us explore the virosphere!

You must have work authorization to work in Canada already.

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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · Sep 16

Dangers of no confirmation screen + me being an idiot. I'm gonna make some coffee ☕️

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Sep 12

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Chief Scientific Officer to support the development of the institute’s scientific strategy and scientific leadership of the institute.

💷 Competitive
🗓️ Apply by 12 October 2025
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Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social · Sep 12

Only 5 days left to apply for our Soil metagenomics position: estimating the impact microbiomes in restored agricultural sites can have on climate change (closing 19th Sep):
jobs.earlham.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

Earlham Institute

jobs.earlham.ac.uk

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Sep 12

🆕 Blog! Our Research Scientist Dr Revathy Krishnamurthi reflects on her recent visit to the village where she grew up in India to inspire the next generation to discover the world of science 🔍

@norwichmicro.bsky.social

Inspiring the next generation: exploring the invisible microbial world with students in Koothanoor, India - Quadram Institute

Research Scientist Dr Revathy Krishnamurthy reflects on her visit to the village where she grew up in India and inspiring the next generation to discover the world of science.

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Sep 11

I thought I'd try this technical molecular microbiology question here. #MicroSky

Does anyone have experience with cloning 7-10 kbp fragments into a vector for Gram-positives?

We are trying, but the vectors we generally use become quite unstable when we try to clone in a fragment of that size.

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Anita Tarasenko @anitatarasenko.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨New Review Out🚨
We explore how phage-antibiotic synergy can dismantle efflux-driven resistance in multidrug-resistant ESKAPEE pathogens. By reprogramming bacterial defences, phages offer a precision strategy to restore antibiotic efficacy.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Reprogramming resistance: phage-antibiotic synergy targets efflux systems in ESKAPEE pathogens | mBio

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to global health. If unaddressed, it is projected to cause over 39 million cumulative deaths globally by 2050 (1). While resistance is a b...

journals.asm.org

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Sep 3

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a #Metagenomics Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social to study diet impact on the gastrointestinal microbiome.

💷 £37,500 - £42,000
🗓️ Apply by 30 September 2025
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today, I'm excited to announce the publication of the Duplodnaviria realm Profile and Chapter.
The realm includes viruses of archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes and is best known for its inclusion of herpesviruses and tailed phages.

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Duplodnaviria 2025

The realm Duplodnaviria includes viruses of archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes, with linear dsDNA genomes. Duplodnavirians share a distinct morphogenetic module of four hallmark genes encoding the HK97-...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Sep 3

The ICTV Report chapters, which are linked to the profiles and get updated when the taxonomy changes, can be found on the ICTV website:
ictv.global/report

ICTV Report Chapters | ICTV

ictv.global

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