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The diel disconnect between cell growth and division in Aureococcus is interrupted by giant virus infection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

For those of you who love all things Aureococcus anophagefferens Alex Truchon Steven Wilhelm journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mr…

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

New paper led by @Tm_Pitot on giant viruses in polar lakes! Cool collaboration Simon Roux Frederik Schulz @CulleyAlex @cath__girard Josephine Z. Rapp! #giantviruses #viruses #polarresearch #arctic #antarctic #phylogeny academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…

.Erin Bertrand, Alastair Simpson and I are seeking a postdoc to work with us on metabolomics of a fascinating protist-bacterial symbiosis in the Anaeramoebae! drive.google.com/file/d/1dIXX7z…

Are you interested discovering novel microbial pathogens and viruses? We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our New Lineages of Life group: jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/postdocto… Berkeley Lab

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…

Now available! You can get faster, more focused search results with our new BLAST core nucleotide (core_nt) database. The core_nt database will become the default in August 2024. Learn more: ow.ly/o0JP50SFxS6 #NCBICGR

👏Congrats to PhD Candidate Sonja Rose who's first thesis chapter is now out in Sci Advances! An exciting globally important heterotrophic bacterial nitrogen fixer now isolated and characterized!🦠🌊: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 📷: Cand. Thalassolituus haligoni (shown in purple)

"The history of science teaches us that we should be open-minded and recognize the value of different perspectives. Debate is healthy" Super nice read on the history of symbiosis by John Archibal PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Timing is everything - even the simple task of measuring growth rate for phytoplankton can be tricky. An example from harmful algae (and their virus) and insights into how this effects export. Great teamwork from Alex Truchon Emily Erin Chase Ashton Stark frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

🚨The ECSO Lab at Purdue is looking for *two* PhD students and *one* postdoctoral researcher for the projects *“The energetic costs of new genes and cellular complexity”* and *“The physiology and metabolism of common and rare photosymbiotic associations.”* Please share 🙏

Excitement is building for the 12th iteration of the Aquatic Virus Workshop to be held at the fantastic Oceanologic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France during 5-9 May 2025. We have a great lineup of speakers, and a nascent website: avw12.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Congratulations to Steven Wilhelm for his election as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Academy of Science. This recognition is the RSC’s highest honor in areas of arts, social sciences, humanities, and science. The Royal Society bit.ly/3XPFDKh

Many of us want to detect & infer roles of giant virus in metagenomes but are limited by available tools and bioinfo expertise. BEREN is a modular, one-stop-shop for giant virus & virophage identification in metaG datasets. Latest from our lab, spearheaded by Benjamin Minch !

Time of day at which an eukaryotic HAB host becomes infected by a giant virus plays a role in how infection progresses. academic.oup.com/femsec/article…

Just updated taxid-changelog. Now you can track each NCBI Taxonomy taxon's detailed changes in the past 10 years😮😱😃 This is the proudest work I've done in my past 10+ year academic career, cause it's useful and funny but no one else did this, haha. github.com/shenwei356/tax…