Loïs Maignien, PhD.
loimai.bsky.social
Loïs Maignien, PhD.
@loimai.bsky.social
PI Microbial Ecogenomics Group at Brest Univ. 🇫🇷
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our new study! We show that mirusviruses include lineages packed with spliceosomal introns and likely replicating in the nucleus of unicellular eukaryotes—a sharp contrast to most large and giant eukaryotic viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm.
Widespread and intron-rich mirusviruses are predicted to reproduce in nuclei of unicellular eukaryotes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental metagenomic explorations show that Mirusviricota lineages lack essential replication and transcription genes and contain spliceosomal introns, suggesting nuclear reproduction.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
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November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.

Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia

Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.

Deadline: 11.01.26

More info:

shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! 🌊

Long-range transport of iron via the #Agulhas Current and counter-current: a boon for the phytoplankton
www.geotraces.org/long-range-t...

Paper first authors: Eva Bucciarelli & Pierrick Penven, LEMAR

#oceanscience #traceelements
@scor-int.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Please, #microbiome and #sequencing data are NOT zero-inflated. Let's stop repeating this nonsense. Zero-inflated compared to what?? Those zeroes carry important information about abundance and sequencing depth, and are not "inflated" in any sense. 1/6
May 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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This meeting will be great!

Abstract submission open now

See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool

microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
microbiologysociety.org
April 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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#EBAME 10 Microbial Ecogenomics Workshop! Brest🇫🇷, Oct 11-25, 2025.
A two-week workshop of lectures & tutorials to learn about omics data analysis for microbial ecology and evolution, all in the beautiful Brest Bay!
Apply here until June 1: maignienlab.gitlab.io/ebame
April 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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🧬🔍There are 50 petabases of freely-available DNA sequencing data. We introducing Logan Search which allows you to search for any DNA sequence in minutes, bringing Earth’s largest genomic resource to your fingertips.
🏔️ logan-search.org 🏔️
#Genomics #Bioinformatics #OpenScience
November 11, 2024 at 7:29 PM