Bas E. Dutilh

🎉 Roos Brouns (@bedutilh.bsky.social's #VEO-Group & @uni-jena.de) & Vikrant Minhas (mentee @kuesellab.bsky.social) won the ISME poster award at the AEM Gordon Conference! A great example of cross-institutional #excellence in microbial ecology. 👏 #Microbiology #ISME #AEMGordon #EarlyCareerResearchers

Chemical characteristics vectors map the chemical space of natural biomes from untargeted mass spectrometry data - Journal of Cheminformatics Untargeted metabolomics can comprehensively map the chemical space of a biome, but is limited by low annotation rates (< 10%). We used chemical characteristics vectors, consisting of molecular fingerp...

This paper is now published with @jcheminf.bsky.social : jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Angela Muraya (centre) examines her plants with Natia Geliashvili (left) and Bas E. Dutilh (right).

Researchers led by @bedutilh.bsky.social at the Cluster of Excellence @microverse.bsky.social investigate #phages, showing how viruses not only cause harm but also create the basis for diversity & balance. Read more in the #UniJena research magazine.

➡️ www.lichtgedanken.uni-jena.de/en/3157/smal...

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩

This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer.

Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

PhD Position in Modelling Regulation of Plant Stress Responses across Species Join us to model plant stress responses and help breed climate-resilient crops in a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment!

PhD position available at @binfutrecht.bsky.social. Join us if you are interested in modelling how plants respond to stress!

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Ultrafast and accurate sequence alignment and clustering of viral genomes - Nature Methods Vclust generates fast and accurate estimation of average nucleotide identity for viral genomes, scaling clustering to millions of genomes.

🧬 New tool alert: Vclust helps researchers rapidly sort through millions of viral genomes—even fragmented ones.
@bedutilh.bsky.social co-developed Vclust, a tool for ultrafast clustering of viral genomes. It's open-source, web-accessible, and just published.
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Vclust generates fast and accurate estimation of average nucleotide identity (ANI) for viral genomes, scaling clustering to millions of genomes. @sdeorowicz.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @prozwalak.bsky.social
@uni-jena.de @microverse.bsky.social

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Faster && more accurate virus sequence clustering with Vclust! Thanks to Andrzej, Sebastian, et al. for the great collaboration. The author list also includes @prozwalak.bsky.social from the VEO Group.

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils - Microbiome Background Arctic soils are climate-critical areas, where microorganisms play crucial roles in nutrient cycling processes. Acidobacteriota are phylogenetically and physiologically diverse bacteria tha...

Interested in #soil #viruses? We are! Excited to share our study on #Acidobacteriota #phages in #Arctic #tundra #soils being now published together with an easy-to-follow video abstract: microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We are looking for a #postdoc to join the VEO Group @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de and build an experimental research line into the dynamics and functioning of microbial communities: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/1...

SpeSpeNet: an interactive and user-friendly tool to create and explore microbial correlation networks Abstract. Correlation networks are commonly used to explore microbiome data. In these networks, nodes are taxa and edges represent correlations between the

📣 New, free webtool by the Snoek lab! Meet SpeSpeNet, an intuitive platform for automated network analysis of microbiomes to uncover complex interactions between microbes and their environments

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#microsky #mevosky

Are you interested in the distribution of microbes, viruses, and #phages throughout the Microverse? Come and do a PhD with us in experimental microbial ecology @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/d...

Are you interested in the distribution of microbes, viruses, and #phages throughout the Microverse? Come and do a #bioinformatics PhD with us @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/b...

Postdoc position on computational (meta)genome mining for natural products

Exciting opportunity to join our group as postdoc! Apply now for this project on computational (meta)genome mining as part of a collaborative European research consortium: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

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Professur für Bioinformatik und Digital Health (ID: 192006, de) - Stellenangebote - Stellenticket Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena Stellenangebot: Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena @ Stellenticket EAH Jena - Professur für Bioinformatik und Digital Health (ID: 192006, de)

🇩🇪 German speaker? Join us in Jena as a Professor of Bioinformatics and Digital Health: stellenticket.eah-jena.de/de/offers/19...

Get a grasp of the chemistry of microbiomes! Check out Pilleriin Peets' preprint: she developed chemical characteristics vectors to reanalyze EMP's untargeted metabolomics data: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with Aris Litos, Daniel Garza, Kai Dührkop, @jjjvanderhooft.bsky.social & Sebastian Böcker

Another year, another lecture on extremophiles coming up. What is your favorite extremophile and why? Bonus points if a relevant study has been published in the past year.

(I did this last year and it was full of fun surprises, so let's try again).

Please repost!

#microsky

One more week until the deadline!

Two weeks until the deadline! Please repost:

Bioinformatics Postdoc at UU/WUR: Map Metabolic Interactions in the Rhizosphere Contribute to plant health and our understanding of the metabolic interactions between microbes and plants in the rhizosphere by computational modelling!

We have an opening for a 4-year postdoc position to study the #rhizosphere #microbiome in @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social, joint project with @marnixmedema.bsky.social in the context of MiCRop. Please tag/forward this to potential candidates and/or repost: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Do you (plan to) use genome-scale metabolic models in your research? DNNGIOR facilitates model reconstruction from incomplete genomes and MAGs. See Meine Boer's new publication 👇 and the code on Github: github.com/MGXlab/DNNGIOR

🚨🚨 Reminder: the deadline for ICTV's Computational Taxonomy Challenge is coming up! Remind your bioinformaticians and colleagues to submit: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-Taxonom... 🦠🧬

Unveiling the Hidden World of Antarctic Marine Viruses

We found new #Crassvirales clades on #Antarctica (prospective families): @goncalopiedade.bsky.social's new paper on the viruses in Antarctic waters is out! Check out the manuscript (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and Gonçalo's "Behind the Paper": communities.springernature.com/posts/unveil...

My group is recruiting a postdoc to study how environmental interactions shape the virulence of human fungal pathogens. Please share!

Full job description and how to apply at barber-lab.com/join.

Scientists at Adam Mickiewicz University turned to poop to learn about how bacteria-killing viruses found in the human gut have changed over time, including 1 from 5,300 yr old Ötzi the Iceman! Learn more in our new adapted article: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how... @bedutilh.bsky.social

Is there a link between the microbes in your food and your gut microbiome? and how about the soil that your food grew on? join us for a postdoc to find out: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...

Extreme diversity of phage amplification rates and phage-antibiotic interactions revealed by PHORCE bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

@lingyi.bsky.social and @ehauptfeld.bsky.social from the MGX Group are organizing a hybrid workshop in Utrecht, supported by NL Association of Virus Ecology. @yuvalmulla.bsky.social will explain how to measure phage parameters for quantitative viral ecology. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.08.607240v1 Acidobacteriota are phylogenetically and physiologically diverse soil bacteria that play important r

Tunturi virus isolates and metagenome-assembled viral genomes provide insights into the virome of Acidobacteriota in Arctic tundra soils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.08.607240v1

Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes).

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

Integrating taxonomic signals from MAGs and contigs improves read annotation and taxonomic profiling of metagenomes - Nature Communications Metagenomic taxonomic profiling usually relies either on reads or assembled contigs/MAGs. Here, authors present RAT, a tool that integrates taxonomic signals from reads, contigs, and MAGs into one pro...

The RAT is out! 🐀 Our new Read Annotation Tool integrates taxonomic signals from MAGs, contigs, and reads from #metagenomics 🧬 into one microbial community profile with great sensitivity and precision. Read the article at www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🧵 (1/5)