Miguel F. Romero

Maeng Hyeong Kyu's Clown face folded by Miguel F. Romero
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Out now, a comprehensive guide to metagenomics -- from sample collection to data analysis. This primer covers best practices, challenges, and applications in health, agriculture & environment. A roadmap for studying microbial communities 👇

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet.
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Global Metagenomics Reveals Hidden Protist Diversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645542v1

The National Research SLAM is March 5, 2025, 1:30 pm-3:00 pm (PT)

Early career researchers from all 17 DOE National Labs will present their research - including #TeamBioSci's own Yumary Vasquez and the giant viruses she works with!
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@berkeleylab.lbl.gov @jgi.doe.gov

The intruders that stole the master key - Nature Reviews Microbiology This Genome Watch article highlights how genomics and different experimental approaches reveal how intracellular bacteria control key processes of their hosts.

The intruders that stole the master key doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#microbiology #bioinformatics

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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Metatranscriptomes-based sequence similarity networks uncover genetic signatures within parasitic freshwater microbial eukaryotes - Microbiome Background Microbial eukaryotes play a crucial role in biochemical cycles and aquatic trophic food webs. Their taxonomic and functional diversity are increasingly well described due to recent advances...

Metatranscriptomes-based sequence similarity networks uncover genetic signatures within parasitic freshwater microbial eukaryotes microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #jcampubs

Definitely don’t poke this mantis shrimp, lest it poke back. Credit: Chris Spain | CC0

Mantis shrimp can break glass with their powerful punches. Now we know why they don't break their own claws. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Happy New Year! For new Forest Ecologists here: A while ago I put together a Forest Ecology Starter Pack👇 to help build a network of forest 🌲🌳🌴 ecology researchers. The list is now full but you can use it to “seed” your own network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, enjoy! 🌎🧪🌐
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a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engraving

a black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results

On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments Genomes contain mosaics of discordant evolutionary histories, challenging the accurate inference of the tree of life. While genome-wide data are routinely used for discordance-aware phylogenomic analyses, due to modeling and scalability limitations, the...

In a new Science study, researchers present CASTER, a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict the evolutionary relationships among species.

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Symbiosis across the tree of life The aim of this collection is to showcase symbiotic relationships across the tree of life, exploring their evolutionary basis and underlying mechanisms.

#SymbioSky #MicroSky
recommended reading 👇
article collection in PLOS: symbiosis across the tree of life

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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space - Biosciences Area Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, JGI researchers assess the known fraction of microbial diversity.

In Science Advances: "We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we’ve actually captured. Turns out that despite all the genomes we’ve sequenced, we’ve only scratched the surface." -Dongying Wu

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MGM-33 Workshop Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Rd Building 91, Room 310 Berkeley, CA 94720 April 28, 2025 - May 2, 2025

Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop

Want to learn how to use IMG, GOLD, and other @jgi.doe.gov -hosted platforms and tools for microbial and metagenomics?

Register now for the 33rd MGM Workshop in Berkeley

Early bird rates available until Jan 31!

mgm.jgi.doe.gov

Dormancy in the origins of life

"Dormancy in the origin, evolution and persistence of life on Earth"

@royalsociety.org: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A new @science.org article from 30+ leading international scientists including several @jcvi.org researchers, examines the potential dangers of building ‘mirror life’ — organisms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules. 🧪

Cthulhu by Miguel F. Romero.
From a single uncut square of tissue paper.
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