Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869

The insides of a bivalve larva! Bloomin’ gorgeous!
#marineplankton 🦑

📢 Apply NOW for our Int #MaxPlanck #research school of #marine #microbiology #marmic @maxplanck.de
and take aninterdisciplinary approach at marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, evolution and more
#womeninstem #Bremen #marinescience

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Excited to share that we have just released genomenotebook 1.0 together with @trichomedoctor.bsky.social ! If you like to analyze genomics data in Jupyter notebooks this is for you. You can get beautiful genome browsers directly in your notebooks: dbikard.github.io/genomenotebo...

The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia? Long thought to be sterile, our brains are now believed to harbour all sorts of micro-organisms, from bacteria to fungi. How big a part do they play in Alzheimer’s and similar diseases?

This keeps coming up, and I think there is ambiguity in the field that is really not helpful. So to be clear, based on my knowledge and experience in microbiome research, I am confident that there is no such thing as a "brain microbiome"

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The Alker lab at the University of Rhode Island is hiring (students, postdocs and lab staff)! We use cutting edge tools in microbiology to investigate marine animal symbioses. Email or DM for further inquiries

🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨

If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊

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Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web.
🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
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We are seeking a PhD student in marine biology The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) in Iceland is seeking a PhD student in Marine Biology for a funded full-time position for 4 years with

The Marine & Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland seeks a PhD student (funded 4 yr position) to research bycatch of #marinemammals & #seabirds in Icelandic fisheries (with some cross over with us here at SLU on EU projects on bycatch of sensitive species). 🐟🧪🦑🌎

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Sequencing-based analysis of microbiomes - Nature Reviews Genetics In this Review, Pinto and Bhatt provide an overview of DNA-sequencing and RNA-sequencing approaches that can be used to study the composition, structure, and function of microbiomes and discuss the bi...

1/ Our review on sequencing-based #microbiome analysis is in the Dec 24 issue of Nature Reviews Genetics. We explore DNA/RNA-sequencing approaches for studying microbiome structure and function, highlighting the biological insights sequencing-based microbiome research offers.
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Cluster-efficient pangenome graph construction with nf-core/pangenome https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/40/11/btae609/7821182 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/nf-core/pangenome

Generating lineage-resolved, complete metagenome-assembled genomes from complex microbial communities - Nature Biotechnology Metagenome sequencing can now distinguish closely related microbes using long reads and haplotype phasing.

I strongly suggest to use #PacBio HiFi by itself for metagenome assembly. Hybrid assemblers do not work well and the HiFi data is Q30-Q40 (e.g., more accurate than Illumina data), so short reads do not add anything. We explored this here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

hifiasm-meta works very well!

Octopus, squid and cuttlefish arms evolved to ‘taste’ different compounds Octopus suckers can taste a variety of greasy, sticky molecules, while squid and cuttlefish suckers detect bitter compounds.

“But octopus evolution led them to develop a taste for greasy things, while squid and cuttlefish evolution tweaked the brain proteins to detect bitter compounds, the researchers discovered”.

#scicomm
#neuroskyence
#sensoryecology

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