Guys, this is one of the most spectacular encounters I've ever filmed! And I'm sure these are the weirdest creatures you will see today! Specimens from Northern Atlantic Phase contrast microscopy Video by Rafael Martín Ledo

Latest release of Mykrobe out, which now supports Shigella sonnet, thanks to a great collaboration with Jane Hawkey and @DrKatHolt and a lot of work by @martibartfast .Also upgrades TB lineage assignment to latest schema from Iñaki Comas and @AlvaroChiner github.com/Mykrobe-tools/…

PanGenie, Jana Ebler's awesome method to leverage haplotype-resolved assemblies (= a pangenome representation) for rapidly genotyping short read data sets. Huge gains in terms of genotypable insertion SVs. Stay tuned for updates (eQTLs, GWAS, etc).

A thread to refute the nonsense spewed by #covid deniers/minimizers...

In science, people tend to be most interested in positive results — a manipulation changes what you are measuring, two groups differ in meaningful ways, a drug treatment works, that sort of thing.

There are many, many #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 variants out there! A few have caught the attention of scientists in Europe - we're trying to monitor them! I'll be maintaining updated information here: github.com/emmahodcroft/c… #newvariant 1/7

Great resource! Glad to see builds for my small home country.

Why did cyanobacteria become multicellular?Reconstructing evolutionary trait emergence infers the tradeoff between N2 fixation & photosynthesis as main driver. Collaboration with G Landan, F Tria, J Alcorta & Tal Dagan. Thanks Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, DAAD News buff.ly/3snWdy7

Great paper now out from Grace Blackwell ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Grace wanted to study MGEs across the bacterial phylogeny, so assembled 661,405 bacterial genomes (all data from ENA as of Nov 2018, minus those failing QC), providing the community with a great resource. 1/n

1/11 Bacteria that cause serious disease often have smaller genomes and fewer genes than their relatives. But why?academic.oup.com/mbe/article/38…

Very nice to see this study published! Congrats Tanita Wein, Wang, Yiqing and Tal Dagan !

Our new study on pangenome evolution in mussel endosymbionts transmitted via the environment, we find that gene content is mainly evolving vertically, not horizontally, with Devani Romero Picazo Tal Dagan biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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New preprint with Mario Santer Tal Dagan Hildegard Uecker on the fixation dynamics of plasmids and polyploid chromosomes. We find that genetic variation can be maintained for some time - the heterozygosity window. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very happy to have been involved in this story while in Paris, congrats @ccoluzzi1 and all authors! Check the thread linked here.

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