Ingrida Olendraite

Paper alert 📢: What drives variation in humoral responses to viruses? collab with @etienne-patin.bsky.social @darraghduffy.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social we show that for ~98k viral epitopes immunodominance vary by genetics, sex and origin: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hooray 🎉 from virologists! :)

So much needed! Happy Fantastic Virus database made it to the AF and congratulations George @gbouras13.bsky.social et al! May all underrepresented sequences be finally implemented!:)

Evolution and taxonomy of positive-strand RNA viruses: implications of comparative analysis of amino acid sequences - PubMed Despite the rapid mutational change that is typical of positive-strand RNA viruses, enzymes mediating the replication and expression of virus genomes contain arrays of conserved sequence motifs. Proteins with such motifs include RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, putative RNA helicase, chymotrypsin-like …

I can't double check it but think this one:
Evolution and taxonomy of positive-strand RNA viruses: implications of comparative analysis of amino acid sequences - PubMed share.google/0cM007wUcmDx...

They had all main protroms rdrp, protease and helicase alignments by taxonomic groups :)

I cherish this mug so much that I don't even use it for liquids..
And it's from the 1993 my beloved paper by Dolja and Koonin. I will forever be grateful for @thekatybrown.bsky.social for such a thoughtful gift! :)

Their work was also what got me into virology without any hesitation:)

Milica Raco hosting the prof Dolja! :)
Join us on Zoom:
oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9426515785...

RNA virus club by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social

A dream! But this is how it is if you work on Addenbrookes' ;D come for a MnS meal, see the flu jab station, and leave immunised.
This seems even more streamlined;D

😅🤣

Diversity and evolution of the global RNA virome. | rdrp.io Professor Dolja is a leading, world renowned virologist whose research has revolutionized and shaped our understanding of the global RNA virome . Over half a c…

You can add Prof. Dolja's talk/ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social event to your calendar by one click here: rdrp.io/journal-club...

Or join us on the RdRp summit slack (join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...)

Or if you want to simply join the zoom:
oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9426515785...
Password: 609697

what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja?
Nothing for me.. :)
Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow:
Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦)
(or 7pm London time 🇬🇧)

for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)

I don't have it on me but anyone can join the RdRp summit slack and the link to the recording is already available:) @sho1.bsky.social is the master of this!

Remember? RNA virus journal club is already this Thursday! 🤩
Join us and join our (RdRp summit) slack (link in the comment):

calendar.app.google/K2fwcsL78K1E...

RNA Virus Journal ClubJoin Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/8109697228...
Meeting ID: 810 9697 2281
Passcode: 174610

There will be a zoom link and recording (available upon request or to our slack community) - so all welcome to join us there! :)

Save the date for phylogenetics!

RNA virus Journal Club returns ( @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) with @evogytis.bsky.social intro to his "Baltic" - python module to visualise phylogenetic trees.

January 15th (Thu) - EEST Vilnius Time 3:00 PM

Join slack for updates: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...

The front cover of the book: Crick, by Matthew Cobb

Loved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.

detectEVE: Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are fragments of viral genomic material embedded within the host genome. Retroviruses contribute to the majority of EVEs because of their genomic integration during t...

It's today! December 11th

Finding endogenous viral elements in genomic data 🧑‍💻
by Sebastian Lequime (University of Groningen @rug.nl )

Time: 2pm EST🇺🇸 / 8pm CET 🇪🇺 / 4am JST 🇯🇵

Join @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RNA Virus Journal Club talk & discussion: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9164101918...

#rdrpsummit

Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference.

Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes!

isvm.org

#phagesky #virus

CLAE: A High‐Fidelity Nanopore Sequencing Strategy for Read‐Level Viral Variant Detection and Environmental RNA Virus Discovery High-fidelity Nanopore sequencing offers a cost-effective, portable path to uncovering viral dark matter in complex environments—but suffers from severe read-length bias, low throughput, and limited ...

RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !)

With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :)

calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg...
CET: 14:00–15:00,
Format: 30 min + 30 min

We are looking for mentors for the Sci.STEPS program! Please apply if you want to help your junior colleagues around the globe navigate their career path in any science related field.

A catalog of metagenome-assembled genomes from Amazonian forest and pasture soils | Microbiology Resource Announcements Our group previously recovered 64 bacterial and 5 archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from Amazonian forest and pasture soils and evaluated their genomic traits (1). Here, we formally announc...

Assembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social

Is there a link to read about anvio?

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search!
Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼

This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷

congratulation on the medal! :)

what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)

Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation).

September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST
rdrp.io/journal-club...

what on earth is their methodology? cameras on the bums?
😅 >probably need to check the paper, but maybe someone already did<

we just published it 6ish months ago in Lithuanian, and we started to feel that translation to english for the second edition - sounds like a good idea :)
Do you know any similar general-public oriented RNA books? maybe it's not needed, but maybe there is a niche:)

ChatGPT version of RNA.. :D
#RNAday