The (Yoav) Voichek lab has opened its gates at the Weizmann Institute, and is actively recruiting students and researchers at all levels - come explore gene regulation and computational genomics in a fun, friendly sprouting lab ๐ค๐ฅผโ๏ธ๐งช
www.weizmann.ac.il/plants/voichek
11.01.2026 20:41 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 31 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Out after peer review, led by @shanshanwang3.bsky.social.
Gating of immune responses in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells: after initial response, immune gene expression stays hi in some cells, while during PTI other cells reinitiate a growth-related program.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
08.01.2026 10:59 โ ๐ 45 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Postdoctoral Researcher in discovering the benefits of plant growth-promoting bacteriophages
Postdoctoral Researcher in discovering the benefits of plant growth-promoting bacteriophages
A four-year postdoc focusing on "plant growth-promoting bacteriophages" available in my group. Skills in metaviromics and metagenomics essential. Application deadline: 2.2.2026. For more info, see the link.
29.12.2025 06:28 โ ๐ 30 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Oh Josie, when you want someone who is always imagining the worse just come to me
14.12.2025 10:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis - Nature
Viral NblA accelerates the cyanophage infection cycle, directs degradation of the host phycobilisome and other proteins, and reduces host photosynthetic light-harvesting efficiency.
This is such a cool paper as it experimentally addresses the role of the auxiliary metabolic gene nblA in cyanophages showing a large benefit of NblA to the cyanophage and a negative effect on the host photosynthetic apparatus and host photosynthesis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
09.12.2025 09:00 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Causality?
06.12.2025 16:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
But do not despair, soon our dissident political leaders will also be prosecuted, and you will remember too ๐
06.12.2025 11:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
People in the southern hemisphere do
06.12.2025 11:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
AI people here don't speak about anything else (for days now)
02.12.2025 16:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Spectral tuning and signaling of diverse and most red sensitive visual rhodopsins that drive high colour discrimination in Mantis Shrimp eyes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
30.11.2025 05:28 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
2 days left to apply for a fully funded MIBTP Phd project with me at the School of Life Sciences @warwicklifesci.bsky.social at Warwick. We will do viral functional metagenomics and other cool techniques.
Check out the details and apply in the link below
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
25.11.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
An ancient anthozoan protein reveals an alternative evolutionary path of antiviral signaling
How antiviral immunity first arose in animals is a central question in evolutionary biology. Using the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, we identify CARDIB, a previously uncharacterized gene located...
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I wish to introduce CARDIB, not the singer, but the protein.
CARDIB=CARD Inhibitory Binding protein.
In our new work we discover this antiviral protein that is found in all Anthozoa (sea anemones and corals ๐ชธ) but not in other animals.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
25.11.2025 12:06 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Today's dive site, to ~2,200m. We will be streaming 9am-3pm Central. At www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
21.11.2025 09:46 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
That curly jellyfish was incredible
21.11.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Livestream?
21.11.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
@honour.bsky.social casually having a snack while presenting her work on Ralstonia wars. As nonchalant as it gets ๐
21.11.2025 14:58 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
the sun is shining through the clouds in the sky above the ocean
ALT: the sun is shining through the clouds in the sky above the ocean
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social
12.11.2025 16:00 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 27 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 2
Me too! ๐
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07.11.2025 12:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Jumbo phageโmediated transduction of genomic islands | PNAS
Bacteria acquire new genes by horizontal gene transfer, typically mediated by mobile
genetic elements (MGEs). While plasmids, bacteriophages, and c...
@prczhaoyansong.bsky.socialโs deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out ๐ Genomic islands hijack jumbo phagesโwhose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNAโshedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow ๐
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
28.10.2025 18:36 โ ๐ 71 ๐ 46 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
Having a PhD means you can find the word โunfortunatelyโ in an email faster that the search function
28.10.2025 03:58 โ ๐ 393 ๐ 41 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 4
1/2 Want to become up to date with pangenomes and genome graphs and their history? Check out this fantastic review by @zbao.bsky.social!
Complexity welcome: Pangenome graphs for comprehensive population genomics
#pangenomes #plantscience #genomegraphs
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
27.10.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 62 ๐ 34 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com
@qedscience.bsky.social
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v2. Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
15.09.2025 11:20 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
DFG funded Priority Programme SPP2330 focusing on prokaryotic virus-host interactions. Account managed by Dr. Eva Davoudi
Homepage https://spp2330.de/
Studying the twilight zone between transposons and endogenous retroviruses // Scientist, mom, bioart enthusiast
Professor in Microbiology at the University of Helsinki. Guitar in Insomnium. Honorary Fellow at the University of York and Honorary Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/microbial-ecology-and-evolution
Viral Replication & Plant Tolerance group
MPIMP Potsdam
Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Interested in plants, autophagy, and metabolism.
https://tamaravin-wittenbe.wixsite.com/awlab
Postdoctoral Fellow๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ
Plant-microbe interactions ๐ชด๐ฆ
Love Rugby ๐
Love Soccer โฝ
@HUJI @Finkel Lab
Postdoc. Legume-rhizobium symbiosis and its effects on plant nitrogen acquisition and geographical distribution.
Flower Designer at Neoplants ๐บ
Researcher at Binomica Labs
Degreeless Heathen
Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder
Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tรผbingen. Interested in Molecular Evolution of Fungal Plant Pathogens ๐๐ฌ๐งฌ
PI - Noda Lab - Hebrew University. Interested in enzymes and pathways, their evolution, and utilization for a sustainable future.
Microbial ecology / evolution / genomics @ University of York
Junior Group Leader at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social
NLR and effector biology
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Postdoctorate fellow @SorekLab, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Alumnus of the Weinstain and Shani labs, Tel Aviv University.
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The university's first department, now celebrating its centennial.
Opinions expressed are our own.
Israel's leading academic and research institution, serving 25,000 students from 90 countries.
Professor at Forschungszentrum Jรผlich and HHU Dรผsseldorf. Phage-host interaction, regulatory networks, metabolic engineering, SPP 2330
The International Society for Microbial Ecology is a non-profit association and owner of the ISME Journal and ISME Communications.
Next symposium #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2026.
How do cells form tissues? Our research program spans the scales from molecules to organisms. News from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden, Germany. Impressum: https://www.mpi-cbg.de/impressum
PhD Student in Lidbury Lab, Molecular Microbiology, University of Sheffield.
Interested in the molecular mechanisms underpinning rhizosphere colonisation and survival in plant-associated Bacteroidota.
They/them, innit.
Workgroup @ Agricultural Institute of Slovenia. Aiming to understand and manipulate microbial communities. Our research focuses on three interconnected directions: Soil, Host, and Synthetic microbiome. https://www.me2anda.eu/
