Really nice to see this one finally out :-) microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
A glimpse into phage diversity and activity across seasons in East River watershed soils thanks to the analysis of paired metagenome and metatranscriptome. Congrats Clément Coclet ! 😊

Read 'Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad' in Nature Biotechnology from Joint Genome Institute-led team incl. Nikos Kyrpides Antonio Camargo Simon Roux Frederik Schulz.
National Microbiome Data Collaborative Berkeley Lab Los Alamos National Laboratory nature.com/articles/s4158…

Be among the first authors to publish open access articles and reviews with our new publisher Oxford University Press! Please visit our journal home page for more info academic.oup.com/ismej. Our new submission system is live from September 1st - spread the word!

So excited our very first paper here at Syracuse University Biology Department led by Hannah (Beryl) Rappaport is out today! nature.com/articles/s4146… --- If you are interested in protists (microbial eukaryotes) or the biology of life in extreme environments, take a look! A quick 🧵...

This may be of interest if you're into bacterial evolution, and more generally the palaeobiology of microbes: how can we use other kinds of information to infer their history, and rates and patterns of evolution, without many fossils?

Interested in discovery of novel microbial pathogens and viruses?

We are currently looking for
2 Postdoctoral Fellows:
- jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/bioinform…
- jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/agnostic-…

We would be excited to have you join our team! Joint Genome Institute Berkeley Lab

Will you join us in Berkeley or online for our Joint Genome Institute 2023 New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium this August? Submit poster abstracts by July 28 to be considered for a short talk! Register at jointgeno.me/NeLLi2023

The first stage of eukaryogenesis likely involved a bacterium engulfing an #Asgard archaeal endosymbiont, which gave rise to the nucleus. The second stage probably featured the capture of an alphaproteobacterium by the archaeo-bacterial chimera to form the mitochondrion.

Our discovery of a major group of DNA viruses abundant in the oceans, the #mirusviruses , is out! These viruses have large genomes and a complex evolution linking #herpesviruses and #giantviruses . They pose no risk to humans but are important to plankton ->nature.com/articles/s4158…

Attention all microbiologists! We're seeking a talented postdoc to join our team and study giant bacteria that defy the laws of cell biology. If you're excited to tackle this fascinating topic, apply now to work in our cutting-edge Berkeley Lab #microbiology #postdoc #cellbiology

Which archaea are the closest relatives of eukaryotes?

To find out check out our latest preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great work by Laura Eme, Daniel Tamarit, @dh5alpha, Brett Baker & many others

A short 🧵 below…

Do you need to identify viruses or plasmids in sequencing data? geNomad can help you with that 😃

🚨 Preprint alert!

Fresh from press! So happy to see the 2nd big post piece wt @vardilab coming out in Nature Communications. Wonderful collaboration with Matti Gralka and all the AQUACOSM team.
The twitter thread from a year ago is still pretty valid but for the peer-reviewed =>
nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨🚨New paper out - trying to bring some 'order' to the diversity of virophage and their relatives ! Overall, they're some of the most fascinating viruses: sort of satellites, but not really, and connected to the also mind-blowing giant viruses mdpi.com/2218-273X/13/2…

So excited to see this out in it's final version after a bit of a bumpy road!
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Our latest: Work lead by Jennah Dharamshi & Stephan Köstlbacher shows that gene gain rather than genome reduction shaped the genome evolution of endosymbiotic Chlamydiae. Great collaboration between Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR and DOME - Microbial Ecology 🧫🔬🦠🧬! More info soon. #OpenAccess

Asgard archaea reignited discussions about the tree of life 🦠 But do they have eukaryotic features? YES!! 🤩 Check out our new paper nature by Florian Wollweber and Jingwei Xu, in an exciting collaboration with the Schleper lab Schleper Lab Vienna. nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Rare eukaryovorous predators are a new supergroup of eukaryotes! So happy to see this out in nature
🥳 Massive congrats to Denis T (the mastermind of hunting incredibly rare protists and culturing them!) and all other co-authors! Check it out ---> rdcu.be/c1b8Z

What’s on the December cover of Nature Reviews Microbiology? A giant virus! @JGI researchers provided a perspective on 30 years of research studying these acellular giants. (🧵/6)

CC: Tanja Woyke Frederik Schulz Berkeley Lab LBNL BioSci Aix-Marseille University 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Europe

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📢 Our December issue is now live!

Read it here:
nature.com/nrmicro/volume…

The cover 'Viral giants' is inspired by a Review on giant virus biology and diversity by Frederik Schulz, @chantal_abergel and Tanja Woyke: nature.com/articles/s4157…