This afternoon, we will cover how to bring to life high-quality Metagenome Assembled Genomes (#MAGs), again with Iva Veseli and Florian Trigodet at Quadram Institute #Anvio #Metagenomics #MerenLab

As the elusive microbial dark matter finally emerges in Woods Hole, physicists from all around the globe are preparing their apologetic press releases with the realization that microbial ecologists in fact knew what they were talking about all along.

The ERC project RosaLind is looking for a postdoc in Microbial Ecogenomics! Come join our team to study microbial population genomics and symbiosis in mosquitoes. Please RT! #Montpellier #anvio #InfectiousDiseases MIVEGEC INRAE Santé Animale European Research Council (ERC)

In our new paper at Cell (Cell), we reveal secrets of how the third form of life, archaea, make energy. We uncover new lineages of hydrogen-using enzymes, both minimal and complex. These help archaea thrive in all sorts of extreme environments. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

First paper from my student Daria Frolova's PhD now on biorxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… The key question: plasmids change structurally ~as fast as they mutate, so how can we decide whether 2 plasmids are "the same plasmid" for epi purposes? 1/n

I have a new video on network centralities with a particular focus on spectral centrality. Part 2 will focus on the iterative eigensolvers that go with it. youtu.be/fD_H-3Ht1gc

📰 Out now: HIFMB newsletter with topstory on the landlocked nations' perspective on the #BBNJ processes and objectives, a look back to the #OceanDecade Conference, a comment on the malaise of open access publishing & more. 241806.seu2.cleverreach.com/m/15370760

We found large eukaryotic DNA viruses (the #egoviruses) prevalent/abundant in the human gut & other animals worldwide. They are closest relatives of infamous #poxviruses (e.g., variola virus) and represent the third order within Pokkesviricetes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. More 👇

4⃣5⃣ days left to submit your application and become part of our fantastic international and interdisciplinary team. We have: 🔹5 #postdoc positions 🔹salary level E13 TVÖD (100%), 3 yrs fixed term 🔹start: 1 January 2025 hifmb.de/news/jobs/ #jobsinscience #jobalert

Very excited to share this paper is now in ISME Communications after several years of work! Wolbachia populations show remarkably conserved core pangenome within individuals but polymorphism between mosquitoes. w/awesome Blandine Trouche, @Hschrieke, O. Duron & A. Murat Eren (Meren) academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…

Are you going to #ISME19? Will you present a poster? Do you use #anvio for your research? If yes, please consider filling out this form so we can bring stickers to your poster, say hi, and ask your advice on how to make anvi'o better. forms.gle/idoXJbN5bpUPjC… Thank you! 😇

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday #throwback to sampling surface seawater microbes from the crystal clear waters of Hawaii with A. Murat Eren (Meren) and team!

In my work, I use a dereplicated dataset of the species reps of the GTDB, GEM, SPIRE and SMAG datasets a lot. The current set is 202.601 genomes. I've called it GlobDB, more info and downloads can be found on globdb.org

My favorite thing about this morning's 'omics session put on by A. Murat Eren (Meren) and Mihaela Pertea is all the recognition the speakers are giving to each other's hard work. Daan Speth #ISME19 #sciencetwitter #anvio #gtdb #globDB #sandpiper #microbiology #bioinformatics

Today I learned that my father died a few days ago. He was an excellent person, but a terrible father. I tried very hard to forget about him growing up and I had zero emotions to this news as I always hoped. Life is short. Embrace your family and be great fathers to your kids.

Our new paper nature with BGI Group Ocean University of China and other collaborators provides evidence from the laboratory that ocean microbiomes advance biotechnology and biomedicine. UEA School of Environmental Sciences UEA Research #microbiome #biodiversity nature.com/articles/s4158…

I had the immense pleasure of attending #ISME19 as Press this year. As always, ISME and the LOC held a stellar conference. Tagged here are mentioned in piece: Emil Ruff Jens Kallmeyer Iva Veseli A. Murat Eren (Meren) Thulani Makhalanyane Leslie Daille Mihaela Pertea Dylan McGarry Luthando Madonsela

Well, tom delmont and I wrote this short piece for YOU, and it is now online at Nature News & Views! nature.com/articles/d4158… It was a great opportunity to discuss the utility of MAGs from marine systems to support bioprospecting and to deliver one of the promises of microbiology 😇

Delighted to share a new publication that I co-first-authored with Iva Veseli and Michelle DeMers as part of the Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) project where we discuss an open-source framework for collaborative computational microbiology called the Digital Microbe: nature.com/articles/s4159…