A new paper from the lab on virus-like particles called eCISs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How bacteria evolved thousands of precision nanoinjectors?
Some bacteria donโt secrete toxins โ they inject them using phage-derived machines called extracellular contractile injection systems (eCISs).
Phycocyanobilin biosynthesis in Galdieria sulphuraria requires isomerization of phycoerythrobilin synthesized by bilin reductases febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab ๐ค๐ฅผโ๏ธ๐งช
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social.
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.
Oh Josie, when you want someone who is always imagining the worse just come to me
This is such a cool paper as it experimentally addresses the role of the auxiliary metabolic gene nblA in cyanophages showing a large benefit of NblA to the cyanophage and a negative effect on the host photosynthetic apparatus and host photosynthesis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causality?
But do not despair, soon our dissident political leaders will also be prosecuted, and you will remember too ๐
People in the southern hemisphere do
AI people here don't speak about anything else (for days now)
Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and most red sensitive visual rhodopsins that drive high colour discrimination in Mantis Shrimp eyes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
2 days left to apply for a fully funded MIBTP Phd project with me at the School of Life Sciences @warwicklifesci.bsky.social at Warwick. We will do viral functional metagenomics and other cool techniques.
Check out the details and apply in the link below
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
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๐จ๐จ preprint alert! ๐จ๐จ
I wish to introduce CARDIB, not the singer, but the protein.
CARDIB=CARD Inhibitory Binding protein.
In our new work we discover this antiviral protein that is found in all Anthozoa (sea anemones and corals ๐ชธ) but not in other animals.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Today's dive site, to ~2,200m. We will be streaming 9am-3pm Central. At www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
That curly jellyfish was incredible
Livestream?
@honour.bsky.social casually having a snack while presenting her work on Ralstonia wars. As nonchalant as it gets ๐
Nature research paper: Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis
go.nature.com/3JKJofG
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Me too! ๐ ๐
@prczhaoyansong.bsky.socialโs deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out ๐ Genomic islands hijack jumbo phagesโwhose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNAโshedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow ๐
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Having a PhD means you can find the word โunfortunatelyโ in an email faster that the search function
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
@qedscience.bsky.social
Please RT:
We have an opening for a junior group leader position in โPhage Biology & Biotechnologyโ.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.
@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social
Looking forward to attending and presenting on
"coral bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene: at this conference in beautiful Valencia, Spain www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025 Join us! ๐งช๐ชธ๐ฆ ๐งฌ๐ฅ๏ธ
v2. Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
