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Thrilled to unveil PhageMaP—a powerful method for mapping phage gene essentiality and decoding gene-environment-function relationships. We created comprehensive gene essentiality maps for model and non-model phages across diverse hosts. Discovered key 'counters' & 'triggers' to

Super excited to share our new review article on the diversity and ecology of microbial sulfur metabolism. Please RT and share. Chao (Zhichao) Zhou Patricia Tran, PhD nature.com/articles/s4157…

Diversity and ecology of microbial sulfur metabolism Zhou, Tran & co. explore the metabolic reactions by which microorganisms transform inorganic sulfur compounds across varied microbiomes & ecosystems, and explore the link between sulfur cycling microorganisms & climate change

Recently, I had the opportunity to talk to Victoria Atkinson for Live Science to discuss the origin of viruses and if they predated bacteria and archaea. Check out the article here: livescience.com/health/viruses….

Deadlines for early bird registration have been extended to November 5. If you are interested in Microbiome Sciences, consider traveling to IIT Madras in Chennai and attending this fantastic meeting from Feb 19-21, 2025. We have a great line up of speakers and sessions. Please RT

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🧬🦠Join us for the 5th IBSE International Symposium, on Microbiomes: Exploring Invisible Frontiers in Health, Habitat, Space, and Beyond! 📅Feb 19-21, 2025 📍IIT Madras Register now! ibse.iitm.ac.in/symposium-05/ Early bird registrations close Nov 5! #Microbiome #Science

This is great! NIAID News have launched a collection of public domain illustrations (currently 550 individual icons) bioart.niaid.nih.gov

New preprint alert: We define two new metrics V-score and VL-score for genomes and protein families with applications in viral genomics and ecology. These metrics for KEGG, Pfam, eggNOG, VOG, PHROG, are publicly available -anantharamanlab.github.io/V-Score-Search/. Pls RT. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

I will be conducting a workshop on "Phage Ecology and Evolution in Microbiomes" at IIT Madras from 11-14 December. lf you are interested in phage applications, therapy, or biotechnology, this may be of interest. Please spread the word. elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-works…

OUT NOW Unraveling viral ecology and evolution over twenty years in a freshwater lake Karthik Anantharaman & co nature.com/articles/s4156…

VAST UNEXPLORED VIRAL DIVERSITY in FRESHWATER ! Amazing study which identified over 1.3 million viral genomes in the freshwater lake, highlighting the enormous untapped viral diversity in these ecosystems. nature.com/articles/s4156…

News and Views by Nature Microbiology on our recent papers describing the 20-year study of ecology and evolution of viruses and bacteria in freshwater systems. @archaeal Trina McMahon 🌪 Chao (Zhichao) Zhou UW–Madison CALS UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology The Anantharaman Lab nature.com/articles/s4156…

New lab paper alert: Presenting "Prophage-DB", a database of prophages mined from public databases along with metadata. …ronmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

This is not true! Any phage scientist could tell you that phage are everywhere from sewage, to rivers, to human skin and human gut. Literally everywhere. They are not a barometer of river purity or anything else.

A few more days until registration closes for our Phage Workshop at IIT Madras from 10-12 March. If you are interested in Phage, AMR, and biotechnology, this may be of interest. Come join us! And please spread the word. elearn.nptel.ac.in/shop/iit-works…