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Some highly active, salty viruses hanging out at the bottom of the ocean in this extreme Brine pool environment. Go check out our preprint in collaboration with the UM geoscience department! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Time of day of infection shapes development of a eukaryotic algal-Nucleocytoviricota virocell biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Our study on the diversity and distribution of polintoviruses across the sequenced stony coral genomes are out in the Virus Evolution journal. Congratulations to my PhD student Danae Stephens who spearheaded this research! academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art…

Active prokaryotic and eukaryotic viral ecology across spatial scale in a deep-sea brine pool academic.oup.com/ismecommun/adv…

Active viral ecology of deep sea brine pool in the Gulf of Aqaba. Latest from our lab, and great collaboration with UMiami Marine Geoscience department. Spearheaded by Monir lab PhD student Benjamin Minch! academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…

Our paper on eukaryotic and prokaryotic viruses in deep sea brine pools is out now in ISME comms! Go check out the extreme viruses in this unique environment through geochemical and biological lens. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…

Our latest collaborative research on giant viruses with @JedFuhrman lab on how evolutionary history dictates the temporal succession of marine giant viruses. Preprint out! Benjamin Minch biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's Thursday!  Time for a new episode of #MattersMicrobial to be released!  This time, the #QualityQuorum will hear from M Moniruzzaman about giant viruses and how they interact with their hosts.  Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. ASM youtu.be/FWutndOo9aw?si…

Couldn't find a file to easily convert from PDB (protein data bank) IDs to actual protein information so I decided to make one. Hope someone finds it useful. github.com/BenMinch/PDB-a…

BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨New del Campo Lab Preprint: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! researchsquare.com/article/rs-539…

Just put together a super easy-to-use and comprehensive pipeline for calculating various genome statistics in bulk (GC, length, codon bias, TNF, complexity, N50, num genes). github.com/BenMinch/genes… #bioinformatics #genomics

New paper out where we highlight many newly recovered giant viruses and find new functional potential encoded in their genomes! #giantvirus #Bioinformatics nature.com/articles/s4429…