Viruses are watching you! theconversation.com/viruses-may-be…

New UMBC-led research in Frontiers in Microbiology suggests that viruses are using info from their environment to 'decide' when to sit tight inside their hosts and when to multiply and burst out killing the host cell #umbc #biology #bacteria #virus #phage #microbiology #science

Elia Mascolo U Maryland will talk about "#Viruses may have eyes & ears on us" with Sierra, Cecile Tamura, Bob Pray DVMedia+, and Qphotonics. SAT, Oct 29, 5 PM PDT #QP Clubhouse HappyMeeple clubhouse.com/event/M83lpvw8… #Stemm

📢The Department of #BiologicalSciences is recruiting a FT, non-tenure track #Lecturer for Spring '23 #umbc #UMBCbiology #mathscience #microbiology #prealliedhealth #lecturerjobs #STEM #baltimore #scienceresearch #universityjobs #govjobs #TeachingJobs #umbcjobs #mdstatejobs

This one gets our stamp of approval! Tagide deCarvalho, director of the Keith R. Porter Imaging Facility, will have her microscopic art featured as USPS stamps later in 2023. umbc.edu/stories/micros…

Happy to see the latest work by Miquel Sanchez-Osuna with the ErillLab published in Antibiotics MDPI . Amazing how simple computational approaches can yield powerful insights into the spread of #resistance to #antibiotics . Check it out! mdpi.com/2106794 .

The long arch of %GC content puts dissemination of bacterial antibiotic #Resistance on the spotlight umbc.edu/stories/novel-… UMBC Biology

Fantastic presentation by Emmanuel Mekasha at URCAD. UMBC Biology Way to go Emmanuel!

Very happy to see this beautiful work led by the UC Santa Cruz Fitnat lab published #PLOSPathogens! Wonderful detective work on the role of V. cholerae TCS in virulence by GiordanKitts, with comparative genomics analyses by UMBC Biology Isaac Chaudry ErillLab dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Just in time for a spooky #Halloween . It's great to see this story by Tagide deCarvalho and Elia Mascolo in print. Click on the link to see a virus preying on another virus by latching onto its neck, Dracula-style. nature.com/articles/s4139…

So viruses can prey on other viruses? The crim in things UMBC Phage Hunters discover at UMBC Biology !

OMG the satellite virus on its helper virus like a baby and momma. UMBC team makes first-ever observation of a virus attaching to another virus umbc.edu/stories/first-…

Vampire viruses prey on other viruses to replicate themselves − and may hold the key to new antiviral therapies theconversation.com/vampire-viruse… via The Conversation U.S.

This is the first known observation of a virus attaching to another virus – talk about exciting! In this picture, a satellite bacteriophage consistently attached to a helper phage at the neck. Take a look at the amazing pictures 🔗rb.gy/fo8n8r

UMBC #PhageHunters in the #WashingtonPost UMBC Biology UMBC CNMS Scientists have discovered what may be the first ‘vampire’ virus wapo.st/46ix2k2

The UMBC Phage Hunters are back in #SPAIN in January 2025! UMBC students can hunt phages, learn #genomics at UPF Barcelona , and see beautiful #Barcelona ¡Todo a la vez! UMBC Education Abroad UMBC CNMS UMBC Biology phagesdb CRAG #UMBCabroad ErillLab

"Stranger Things of the Microcosmos" is the talk I will give at Balticon this Sunday at 11:30 AM. I'll present exciting discoveries we made at UMBC Biology and other institutions.

Two years ago we published about what we named "lytic deferment" in phages (doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.…). The concept is re-discussed in this recent review by Casters et al. "Phage transmission strategies: are phages framing their host?" doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.… Food for thought.

Really happy to see Julia Lopez-Perez's dissertation work on #phage defense systems in print: mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/1… 🦠🔬 Check out a novel mechanism for #salmonella plasmid-mediated abortive infection MDPI

Congratulations Elia Mascolo for successfully defending his doctoral thesis. A beautiful illustration of how evolutionary information theory can be applied to understand biology. Way to go Dr. Mascolo!