📢 The best Illustration for #MicrobeArt2023 goes to is Giulia Ghisleni! 👏👏 We all loved your illustration showing the threads of life! #InternationalMicroorganismDay International Microorganism Day

A new study by A. Murat Eren (Meren) and team suggests that IBD and other gut disorders seem to select for bacteria that can produce their own food. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr… Check out the Insight paper I wrote about this for eLife: elifesciences.org/articles/92319

Just published - our latest review in FEMS Microbiology reviews on the incredible array of 'virologs' in diverse giant viruses- pushing the limit of viral mimicry! Sincere thanks to all the co-authors and Monir Lab students who have participated! academic.oup.com/femsre/advance…

🚨 #anvio v8 (marie) is out 🚨 This version includes new toys for integrated studies of microbial metabolism, genomic inversions, & phylogeography of proteins among many fixes and improvements. Release notes: github.com/merenlab/anvio… Installation page: anvio.org/install

Fantastic opportunity 👇👇👇

Our new preprint on pervasive presence of Polintoviruses in stony coral (SC) genomes. Polintoviruses with genomes 10-50 kbp occur in hundreds to thousands of copies in SC genomes! (1/3) tinyurl.com/5hbstczm

Our paper debunking the 2020 cancer microbiome results is now published, in mBio. We'll see if @nature (or the authors) will retract these deeply flawed results. h/t Professor Booty PhD Eric Topol journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…

Metabarcodes and metagenome-assembled genomes are valuable approaches to study protist community structure and function. How do they correspond to one another? Our answer: it’s complicated, and it doesn’t necessarily depend on taxonomic group. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1…

研究員のLingjie Mengさんの論文がNature Communicationsに掲載。巨大ウイルスの極域適応が、進化の過程で頻繁に起き、遺伝子組成を改変することにより適応が進んだ可能性を提示しました。Lingjieさん、おめでとう。nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Geneva Conventions ensure: 👉 Torture is illegal. 👉 The dead deserve dignity. 👉 Hospitals are not attacked. 👉 Sick and wounded are cared for. 👉 Detainees are treated humanely. 👉 Families know the fate of missing loved ones. The Geneva Conventions preserve our humanity.