Anne Kupczok

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

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Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Postdoc Ad Postdoctoral Position in Computational Phage Biology Microbial Genomics Group, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), Jagiellonian University, Kraków PL Summary We are seeking a postdoctoral rese...

📢 Hiring a Postdoc in Computational Phage Biology (Kraków, Poland)

We study the evolution & structural modularity of prophage-encoded glycan-degrading enzymes in Klebsiella pneumoniae — combining genomics and AlphaFold-based analyses.

Details in attached PDF 👇

Sounds like a great opportunity for a professor position in computational biology in the Netherlands careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

We are excited to welcome you to the #NLSEB2026 meeting that will be held on Tuesday April 14 at Akoesticum in Ede!

The deadline for abstract submission is March 1st!

To register and to learn more about this event, visit our webpage: www.nlseb.nl/nlseb-meetings

We hope to see you all there!

Stealing @agapakis.com's meme here

It's a bit last minute, but we have an RA/junior postdoc position available in my lab (closing Sunday). Please reach out if you're interested in developing and applying methods to analyse microbial genomes and metagenomes! careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...

Interested in developing your skills in microbial 'omics? Consider joining us in Brest 🇫🇷, Oct. 10-24 for two weeks of intensive lectures an tutorial from top faculties and TA! maignienlab.gitlab.io/ebame/
Bonus: beautiful seascape and friendly spirit!

Last seats available! 🚨
Join our #ComparativeGenomics course with @sedlazeck.bsky.social & @Ingo Ebersberger and learn how to analyse, compare, and interpret genomes using modern bioinformatics approaches. Don’t miss it—registration is closing soon!

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Hooray 🎉 from virologists! :)

Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...

Inferring context-specific site variation with evotuned protein language models Abstract. Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) have been traditionally used for making inferences about site-specific diversity in proteins. Recent advancem

Our paper on inferring context dependent entropy using protein language models is officially out in NAR Genomics & Bioinformatics! 🧬🤖

with Adam Strange, Jumpei Ito, and @systemsvirology.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

details below...

#NARGAB

what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja?
Nothing for me.. :)
Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow:
Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦)
(or 7pm London time 🇬🇧)

for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)

We are excited to share that @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social will be joining us as speaker at the 2026 International SPP 2330 Symposium.

We look forward to meeting you in Berlin!

📅 October 5 – 7, 2026
📍 Harnack House, Berlin
🌐 More information is available at lnkd.in/eeSphFER

At long last, my final PhD chapter is out: we developed a novel evolutionary simulator of bacterial pangenomes, Pansim, fitting it to data from >600K genomes using a likelihood-free framework, PopPUNK-mod, to explore neutral and adaptive pangenome dynamics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One week to go and some seats available. If you're interested, please sign up. Very relevant documentary.

PhD position in Jena! Unique German-French collaboration to work on integrating phage genomic modules into VirJenDB.org - make sense of #phages, #big_data, #front_end, #back_end, #database. Please apply here 👇
jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...

Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...

The abstract submission deadline for the 2026 Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology Meeting on Crete mceb2026.sciencesconf.org has been extended until February 6

Plant Pathogens Moonlighting as Beneficial Insect Symbionts Herbivorous insects can shape the epidemiology of disease in plants by vectoring numerous phytopathogens. While the consequences of infection are often well-characterized in the host plant, the extent...

Can plant pathogens boost vector fitness?

Together with @hassansalem.bsky.social, we review how phytopathogens can spread further by moonlighting as insect symbionts 🪲 More on this nifty lifestyle in @annualreviews.bsky.social!

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Bacteriophages mobilize bacterial defense systems via lateral transduction Bacteriophages and PICIs spread bacterial defenses via lateral transduction, shaping microbial immunity and pathogen evolution.

Very interesting paper. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses.
Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important.
The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵

🔁 🙏

#microSky #phagesky #UTIsky
@cnrs.fr

Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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Looking forward to an exciting International Symposium @spp2330.bsky.social "New concepts in prokaryotic virus-host interactions".

October 5-7, 2026; Harnack-Haus Berlin (Germany).

@dfg.de @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de

Ecological ubiquity and phylogeny drive nestedness in phages–bacteria networks and shape the bacterial defensome Author summary Viruses that infect bacteria, known as phages, are part of microbial communities and influence the abundance, diversity, and traits of their hosts. In an agriculture-related context, th...

#microsky #phagesky #phage
At last! Great to see this one out: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Here, we discovered a nested phage-bacteria network despite their high genetic and ecological diversity. Kudos to everyone involved, especially @chloe-feltin.bsky.social !
@phimresearch.bsky.social

I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!

nice paper, but not from me ;)

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻

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Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!