Me and my RdRp folders after a great 8 years at Cambridge University . Massive thanks to Firth Lab (and for a bit @aj_velthuis group) for nurturing me into the scientist I am today. #goodbye

🤯Take a deep dive on the tiny #microbes living around us, and how they shape our health & planet 🤯 Join us today *1PM EST* for the Gairdner Foundation Global Perspectives Panel Discussion on The #Microbiome: From Planetary🌎 to Microbial🦠 Scale! Free: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Dr. Babaian (Artem Babaian) and his team are doing big things. Using computational biology and AI, he identified over 150k+ new RNA viruses in only 11 days. That number will grow to 100 million by 2030. Ep. 12 | In Vivo with Dr. Artem Babaian on Planetary Wide Virus Surveillance -

Review of HPAI, w focus on molecular and ecological factors driving HPAIs sudden expansion in host range + assess likelihood of different zoonotic pathways leading to an potential pandemic. Also, really like this figure highlighting all the reassortment! 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

I have a new preprint! Uncovering hundreds of exogenous and endogenous RNA viral RdRp sequences amongst uncharacterised sequences in public protein databases biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵1/6

Thanks to everyone in Firth Lab especially Andrew Firth, also Ingrida Olendraite for helpful chats! I had fun working on this one! @CamPathology University of Cambridge Pathology Postdocs European Virus Bioinformatics Center #bioinformatics #rnavirus

If you work with metagenomes (or metatranscriptomes), would like to explore what viruses/phages are in your datasets, but don't know where to start, we have (an) MVP for you now \o/ Really happy to see this one published, and also welcoming feedback/suggestion of improvement!

We're in the midst of a Computational revolution in biology, comparable to the Molecular revolution of the 70s. Baker, Demis Hassabis , and Jumper receiving the Nobel Prize not only recognizes their achievement, it's a coming of age for #bioinformatics. 🥳🎉

😎🗣️So exited to share my Cell paper - using AI model to unveal hidden RNA virosphere across global!! Today's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to protein design and AlphaFold, highlighting the importance of this pathbreaking research!! See more here: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

If you like this kind of work we have a funded PhD place in the lab starting in Oct 2025 to explore antiviral innate immune responses across species. See here for details of how to apply or ask me for more info: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-targ…

I'm opening the doors to my very own microbial genomics research lab at From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. I'm looking for talented biologists to join me on this journey through sequence space. Featuring: - Wastewater and human virome - Phages, all of them - Microbial epigenomes

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Sharing this feels vulnerable but meaningful. 💛 In this piece for nature, I reflect on having 3 children during my PhD - why I’d do it all over again, but also why academia shouldn’t make it this hard for parents to thrive.🍼🎓Academic Mom, PhD 🔗nature.com/articles/d4158…

The second RdRp Summit will take place at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT NOVA) in Lisbon Portugal on 11th & 12th May 2025! Abstract and registration details coming this week! #RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025

EXCITING NEWS🥳! ISME - International Society for Microbial Ecology is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025. Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️ More info at RdRp.io

Guess who is invited as the keynote speaker for the session on "Data Mining & Metadata Analysis"??? It is Rayan Chikhi!!! He will introduce us to Logan. You can read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/vx4cykr7 Registrations are still open for #RdRpSummit2025!

Forcing people back to the office backfires. Data on >3M tech & finance workers: After return-to-office mandates, firms lose stars and struggle to attract new talent. The most likely to quit are senior, skilled, & female employees. Flexibility is a feature of a great workplace.

I don't know if there is anyone who doesn't know what Logan project is, but if you don't: treat yourself with this thread 🧵 and most importantly updated preprint! Brilliant and exciting work by Rayan Chikhi et al 🔥🤩