🚢 After 50 years of service, R/V Endeavor departed Narragansett for the final time.
From its home port at URI's Bay Campus, the ship carried thousands of scientists, students, engineers, and technicians to sea, supporting 736 research cruises and traveling more than one million miles. 🌊 🧪
An REU internship at BIOS was a critical experience that shaped my career path. Highly recommend!
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So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
Thomas Bosch and I have organized a symposium on the “Impacts of Microbiota on Animal and Plant Development” that will be part of the Euro EvoDevo meeting in Glasgow this summer. Please register through EED. Thanks to generous sponsors, we have some financial support for early-career scientists.
Permission granted! I’m a bit sore but also was itching to move after being cooped up!
6pm Monday 2/23 - Green Hill, South Kingstown RI
Gusts and heavy snow have dissipated.
Koonin's lab in NIH is looking for postdocs. If you know someone who is interested, please spread the word. The details about the position are below: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-ecb...
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"All T6SS-inducing regulators are equal, but some regulators are more equal than others".
Preprint 🚨: We use #Vibrio to show that #T6SS activation by regulator manipulation may result in the expression of different effector repertoires, affecting toxicity 🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Phylogenetically distinct Vibrio mediterranei lineages confer robust protection under thermal stress against oyster pathogens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.09.704869v1
CAZyme domain architectures suggest fine-scale functional differentiation among anaerobic fungi and bacteria during lignocellulose conversion to volatile fatty acids https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.09.704939v1
Check out our recent preprint about our Coral Probiotics Discovery Platform!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Check out this cool new preprint from @therubinlab.bsky.social led by @jnvmartinson.bsky.social
They shielded recipient strains from lethal zygosis (conjugative killing of the recipient) by encoding protective DNA cargo via CASTs 🧪🦠🧬🧫
NEW: Registration is now FREE for graduate students and postdocs for the 14th Annual Yosemite Symbiosis workshop. THANKS to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation! Space is limited. Learn more and REGISTER here: snri.ucmerced.edu/form/symbios...
Big deal! Congrats friend, can’t wait to see what you do during this next stage!
It is widely accepted that #T6SS -mediated intoxication occurs only on solid surfaces, where prolonged cell-cell interactions are forced, and not in liquid environments. But is this generalization true? Our new preprint says it isn't. A 🧵 ...
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🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Creation of Novel Methylating Conjugal Donor Strains for Genetically Recalcitrant Bacteria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701203v1
Our latest. Led by the very talented @ahoiching.bsky.social
Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊
Deadline is approaching (Feb 9) to apply for a PI position at Institut Pasteur. Come join us and contribute to an amazing scientific environment!!!
Genetic biosensor for optimizing double-stranded RNA production by bacterial symbionts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.18.700149v1
Phylogeny- Aware Metabologenomics Accurately Assigns
Natural Products to Biosynthetic Gene Clusters
@microbiotech.bsky.social by Judith Boldt et al from Ulrich Nübel and @drrolfmueller.bsky.social
enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...
The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
Approaches for accelerating microbial gene function discovery using artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
New preprint out: Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@mingyan-igi.bsky.social
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During my postdoc in @therubinlab.bsky.social, @leosong.bsky.social and I aimed to make CRISPR-associated transposons more efficient for editing bacteria.
Couldn’t have done it w/o a CAST of characters at IGI and beyond @innovativegenomics.bsky.social, @cresslab.bsky.social, @doudna-lab.bsky.social
