Sebastian Lequime 🟥
@lequimelab.eu
Assistant prof @rug.nl | virus ecology and evolution | arboviruses | arthropods | epidemiology
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Data editor at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
https://lequimelab.eu/
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Data editor at the Journal of Evolutionary Biology
https://lequimelab.eu/
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Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
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@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
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Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
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2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!
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📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬
Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨
Key findings in thread below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨
Key findings in thread below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Heterogeneity in inhibition of genetically diverse dengue virus strains by Wolbachia
The release of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes transinfected with the virus-inhibiting Wolbachia bacterium has the potential to reduce the burden caused by dengue virus (DENV). However, the robustness of thi...
www.biorxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬
Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨
Key findings in thread below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨
Key findings in thread below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
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📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025
Very happy to have had time to sit with Gemma Venhuizen from NRC to chat about viruses! (if you are a Dutch speaker) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Virussen zijn geniaal, maar er zitten natuurlijk ook bad guys tussen
Sebastian Lequime | viroloog: Sommige virussen besmetten mensen na een beet van een mug of een teek. „Jezelf repliceren in een mug én een mens? Dat is, als je erover nadenkt, mindblowing.”
www.nrc.nl
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Very happy to have had time to sit with Gemma Venhuizen from NRC to chat about viruses! (if you are a Dutch speaker) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics
EVE Meeting Expression of Interest
forms.gle
May 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics
It all starts with an ‘how it should be easy enough right’ on a Friday evening drink with colleagues. About two years later we finally have a genome, but it wasn’t as easy as thought (it never is, right?). Happy to see the preprint out!
De novo whole genome assembly of the globally invasive green shore crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) via long-read Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654951v1
May 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It all starts with an ‘how it should be easy enough right’ on a Friday evening drink with colleagues. About two years later we finally have a genome, but it wasn’t as easy as thought (it never is, right?). Happy to see the preprint out!
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Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...
Assistant professor Arbovirology
We are looking for a passionate researcher interested in basic arbovirology to join our team!
www.academictransfer.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...
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We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.
April 3, 2025 at 5:46 AM
We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.
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Check out our latest study "Comparative performance of novel viral landscape phylogeography approaches", which is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social - 1/8
Comparative performance of novel viral landscape phylogeography approaches
The fast rate of evolution in RNA viruses implies that their evolutionary and ecological processes occur on the same time scale. Genome sequences of these pathogens can therefore contain information a...
www.biorxiv.org
March 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Check out our latest study "Comparative performance of novel viral landscape phylogeography approaches", which is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social - 1/8
Very happy to see our Endogenous Viral Element workflow detectEVE published today in Molecular Ecology Resources. Open for all to read, and use of course! Led by @nbrait.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1755...
detectEVE: Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data
Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are fragments of viral genomic material embedded within the host genome. Retroviruses contribute to the majority of EVEs because of their genomic integration during t....
doi.org
February 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Very happy to see our Endogenous Viral Element workflow detectEVE published today in Molecular Ecology Resources. Open for all to read, and use of course! Led by @nbrait.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1755...
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We are looking for a #postdoc to discover cell-autonomous innate immune antiviral factors in mammals, based on newly-identified defense of prokaryotes!
#EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology
Please share
@inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...
#EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology
Please share
@inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...
Postdoc position in comparative immunology and virology — Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie
A 1-year renewable postdoctoral researcher position is available in our lab (PI: Lucie ETIENNE, CIRI, ENS-Lyon) to discover new antiviral cell-autonomous innate immune factors in mammals, based on new...
ciri.ens-lyon.fr
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We are looking for a #postdoc to discover cell-autonomous innate immune antiviral factors in mammals, based on newly-identified defense of prokaryotes!
#EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology
Please share
@inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...
#EvoCure #comparativeImmunology #virology
Please share
@inserm.fr @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social
ciri.ens-lyon.fr/teams/lp2l/j...
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Just over week until the deadline👇
Please share widely!
We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc at the RVC to develop new methodology to infer epidemic dynamics from wild animal viromes sampled across changeable environments.
Further details: jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline Feb 9th
We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc at the RVC to develop new methodology to infer epidemic dynamics from wild animal viromes sampled across changeable environments.
Further details: jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline Feb 9th
January 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Just over week until the deadline👇
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A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of other factors.
Dengue Virus Effects on Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes: Genetic Manipulation or Byproduct?
A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of…
entomologytoday.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A new research review examines how carrying dengue virus affects Aedes aegypti mosquitoes' life cycle and behavior and whether the virus manipulates its mosquito host—or if changes are byproducts of other factors.
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Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
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Looking for a postdoc in environmental virology? Fascinated by giant viruses and their glycobiology?
We have a position available at the MPI for Marine Microbiology!
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/8...
We have a position available at the MPI for Marine Microbiology!
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/8...
Post-Doc Protist Viruses
career.mpi-bremen.de
December 9, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Looking for a postdoc in environmental virology? Fascinated by giant viruses and their glycobiology?
We have a position available at the MPI for Marine Microbiology!
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/8...
We have a position available at the MPI for Marine Microbiology!
@mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/8...
Happy to see @nbrait.bsky.social and Muriel Ritsch-led paper on data accessibility and availability of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) published in Virus Evolution doi.org/10.1093/ve/v...
I really think this is holding back EVE research at the moment: is it easy to solve?
I really think this is holding back EVE research at the moment: is it easy to solve?
Endogenous viral elements: insights into data availability and accessibility
Abstract. Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are remnants of viral genetic material endogenized into the host genome. They have, in the last decades, attract
doi.org
December 19, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Happy to see @nbrait.bsky.social and Muriel Ritsch-led paper on data accessibility and availability of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) published in Virus Evolution doi.org/10.1093/ve/v...
I really think this is holding back EVE research at the moment: is it easy to solve?
I really think this is holding back EVE research at the moment: is it easy to solve?
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We are looking for new editors at @jevbio.bsky.social! If you would like to get involved in publishing and support your society and its journal, then please apply. The deadline is January 20. We will aim for a quick turn-around for a start in early 2025.
Further information via the post below:
Further information via the post below:
Opportunity! We are looking for new editors - application deadline is Monday 20th January. Positions available:
Associate Editors
Handling Editor
Commissioning Editor
Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Associate Editors
Handling Editor
Commissioning Editor
Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
December 16, 2024 at 5:28 PM
We are looking for new editors at @jevbio.bsky.social! If you would like to get involved in publishing and support your society and its journal, then please apply. The deadline is January 20. We will aim for a quick turn-around for a start in early 2025.
Further information via the post below:
Further information via the post below:
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🦠 We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the intersection of virus genomics and infectious disease. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely!
December 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
🦠 We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the intersection of virus genomics and infectious disease. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely!
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"What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness"
Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025.
#HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025.
#HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EastBio: What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:01 PM
"What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness"
Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025.
#HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025.
#HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Opportunity! We are looking for new editors - application deadline is Monday 20th January. Positions available:
Associate Editors
Handling Editor
Commissioning Editor
Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Associate Editors
Handling Editor
Commissioning Editor
Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
December 10, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Opportunity! We are looking for new editors - application deadline is Monday 20th January. Positions available:
Associate Editors
Handling Editor
Commissioning Editor
Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Associate Editors
Handling Editor
Commissioning Editor
Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
Guess it's finally time to move on; here I am! Some Endogenous viral elements/RNA virus evolution/ecology in arthropods are to come (hopefully) soon! 🦠
November 19, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Guess it's finally time to move on; here I am! Some Endogenous viral elements/RNA virus evolution/ecology in arthropods are to come (hopefully) soon! 🦠