Sheila Roitman

Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 - The Azrieli Foundation

Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship-2026-27 azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...

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Jumbo phage–mediated 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.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function

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
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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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We have an opening for a junior group leader position in „Phage Biology & Biotechnology“.
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me via email for further details.

@spp2330.bsky.social; @mibinet.bsky.social

עבורי זה לא ערב חג. זה עוד ערב כואב של המתנה לקריאה לבוא לאסוף את איתן | דעה "איך ההרגשה בערב חג נוסף בו בנך עדין בשבי?". כך נפתח כל ראיון בשבוע האחרון. אז אלו הן המחשבות בערב השנה החדשה ובפתחו של שבוע נוסף של פחד, כאב וגעגוע לבני הצעיר

www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...

PANGENOME2025 The biology of prokaryotic cells is directly dependent on the differential gene pools that characterize each cell or strain. This has been a fundamental aspect of epidemiology for delimiting outbreaks...

Looking forward to attending and presenting on
"coral bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene: at this conference in beautiful Valencia, Spain www.alocongress.com/pangenome2025 Join us! 🧪🪸🦠🧬🖥️

v2. Evidence for the acquisition of a proteorhodopsin-like rhodopsin by a chrysophyte-infecting giant virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nu?? I'm curious!

Happy birthday🥳

New tool for clustering bacterial genomes: PanGene-O-Meter, provides a higher level of granularity than ANI when classifying bacterial isolates of the same species. Work of the talented @haimashkenazy.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PanGene-O-Meter: Intra-Species Diversity Based on Gene-Content Bacterial genome evolution is shaped to a great extent by horizontal gene transfer, detectable as genes with a presence-absence pattern of variation that does not follow phylogenetic relationships acr...

How diverse are the individual strains within your species?
How broad is their Pangenome?
How will you choose representatives from the whole collection?

Look no further! PanGene-O-Meter is here for you!
From @haimashkenazy.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

קם פרויקט להעברת תרכובות הזנה לתינוקות (תמ״ל) בעזה, בהובלת ד״ר דייויד חסאן, והאיגוד האירופי לרפואת ילדים, שהצליח כבר להעביר אלפי בקבוקי פורמולה לעזה אחרי בירוקרטיה לא פשוטה, וגם בהובלת אנשי רפואה ישראלים.
להלן הלינק לתרומות:
www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/eap
אשמח אם תשתפו הלאה.

Please consider donating to Standing Together, a non-profit movement of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian people for a better future built from within.
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Hostage Evyatar David's brother: Video released by Hamas 'broke' our father ***

Ilay David, brother of Israeli hostage Evyatar David, who was seen in a video published by Hamas on Saturday, said there is "immediate danger" to his brother's life, and that he will die within days if he does not receive food and medicine.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans.
Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/eap

לא ראיתי, האמת, אבל היה חלק שלא הספקנו, אז אולי יש

כמובן, אפילו הגענו בזמן לסיור ילדים. תערוכה על ארכיטקטורה ותכניות ארכיטקטוניות למגורים במאה הקודמת.

@kamounlab.bsky.social encourages everyone to publish their posters. Go ahead!

I think you have the right to add thr article to your publications list

At Tübingen's art museum, having a flashback to one of my favorite #TCTeAC talks, cell-inspired home design and experiment-based architecture. By Yael Allweil from @technion.bsky.social

'Pasta won't help. Gaza is on the brink of an exponential surge in starvation deaths' ***

"In Gaza, the UN system & its related organizations are there. They have the resources and plans. The UN presented a plan on May 16, for extremely rigorous distribution, including monitoring to prevent the food from getting into the hands of Hamas," says Alex de Waal

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

1/3 New preprint led by Shanshan Wang, in collaboration with the Timmermans lab.

Several groups have presented sc/snRNA-seq analyses of Arabidopsis leaves after bacterial infection before. Is there anything left to discover? Turns out: Yes.

#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Long-read detection of transposable element mobilization in the soma of hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana individuals - Genome Biology Background Because transposable elements (TEs) can cause heritable genetic changes, past work on TE mobility in Arabidopsis thaliana has mostly focused on new TE insertions in the germline of hypometh...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process.
#plantscience
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Protesters in Tel Aviv hold photographs of emaciated Palestinian children in Gaza, July 31, 2025

Tel Aviv, July 31, 2025: Protesters with @standing-together.bsky.social (Omdim BeYachad) hold photographs of emaciated Palestinian children in Gaza.

What Israel must do to stop the starvation in Gaza, right now ***

"The situation in Gaza is likely the most extreme example of politically–driven starvation in the 21st century. An hour's drive from Gaza, there are enough calories & nutrients, packed in sacks & containers, to feed its entire population."

@haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Cyanophage Infections in a Sponge Intracellular Cyanobacterial Symbiont Intracellular cyanobacterial symbionts of sponges are shown to be susceptible to cyanophages, challenging assumptions about their isolation from viral exposure. The study reveals novel phage–host int...

Our paper on cyanophages of marine sponge symbionts is finally out. It is the outcome of a great collaboration with Laura Steindler's lab and was led by Tzipora Perez.