Monir Moniruzzaman

Preparation for the Halloween lab door decoration contest in full swing!

#monirlab #halloween @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites Abstract. Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most researc

Half of microbial eukaryote literature focuses on only twelve human parasites

-in #ISMEJournal by Joanna Lepper, @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social

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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

Come join us at UBC!

Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...

Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison.

TikTok(2k): 139
Instagram (22k): 719
Tumblr (13k): 12k
Bsky (52k): 22k

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Are you a recent PhD interested in a postdoc in Canada? Up to 20% of NSERC Postdoc Fellowships (70k/y for 2y) will be awarded to International applicants, who did their PhD outside of Canada. Deadline is 17 October. See: www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky

Birds of Everglades
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Florida 2025. #birds #wildlife #photography #everglades

Best wishes!

Also, I need to respond to your message - sorry for the delay.

Many interesting PhD projects, including ours. Consider applying!

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Hurricane season
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South Florida sky is full of drama this month.
#photography #hurricane #landing #flights #miami #MIA #clouds

ONT has a temporary bioinformatics position (8 months) open while I'm on maternity leave. Focus will be on microbial genomics but with opportunities to work on projects across the breadth of genomics!
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The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable | Quanta Magazine A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push li...

Great new article about the cool stuff we're finding (improbably) alive deep inside Earth's crust! Nice work, @laurapoppick.bsky.social at @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/the-pursuit-...

Pangenome biology and evolution in harmful algal-bloom-forming pelagophytes In prokaryotes, lateral gene transfer (LGT) is a key mechanism leading to intraspecies variability in gene content and the phenomenon of pangenomes. I…

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#protistsonsky

Join the Lab | Monir lab

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged.

More info & contact email here: monirlab.com/join/

Please share. Thank you!

Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series

Do you like coastal/estuarine microbiology, time-series data, and/or metagenomics? Have we got a dataset for you #NSFfunded

Metagenomes and 1,313 metagenome-assembled genomes from a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal time series www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Marine Viruses and Their Role in Marine Ecosystems and Carbon Cycling www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

Superb! Congratulations, @bradweilerdives.bsky.social !!

🚨New Preprint Alert🚨 P. strigosa, a reef-building coral shows tightly regulated transcriptional control over natural diel cycles. #CoralReefs #Symbiosky #bioinformatics #marinemicrobes #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

Melbournevirus encodes a shorter H2B-H2A doublet histone variant that forms structurally distinct nucleosome structures Nature Communications - Melbournevirus encodes a conserved shorter H2B-H2A doublet variant. Here the authors report a cryo-EM structure of a nucleosome-like particle reconstituted with viral H4-H3...

our paper is online! rdcu.be/exXBX . Who would have thought that some #giantviruses not only have #histones, but even histone variants that make weird #nucleosomes (pdb 9CVT). Fantastic work from Ale Villalta and Chelsea Toner, with Hugo Bisio @molbiolgv.bsky.social and Chantal Abergel

A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual morpho...

Excited that this is out as a preprint! ❇️

We are introducing a novel dinoflagellate giant virus that holds so many mysteries!

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

PMMoV_RdRp assay limit of detection experiment. Photographs of one of the triplicate runs (left) and a table with symbols (“+” = positive result, “∆” = changing, “—” = negative result) of all triplicate runs (right). The first positive result was observed at t = 10 min, and the assay's detection limit was observed at t = 20 min at a concentration of 100 copies/µL. NTC = no template control, using sterile water instead of the gBlock.

Our paper "A reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay for the rapid colorimetric detection of pepper mild mottle virus (PMMoV)" is out! Congrats to 1st author @ajgross.bsky.social @cmarinescience.bsky.social 🧪🌱🦠https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTg%7Ebm%7EZcCBT

A phylogenomic framework for charting the diversity and evolution of giant viruses Giant viruses have transformed our understanding of viral complexity, but we lack a framework for examining their diversity in the biosphere. This study presents a phylogenomic resource for charting t...

If you're at #SMBE2025, the @plosbiology.org paper about the expansion of the known Nucleocytoviricota (giant virus) repertoire, mentioned by Eugene Koonin in his (remote) plenary talk, is journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🧬 Interested in aquatic micro, nutrient cycling, river-ocean interfaces

I’m seeking a postdoc candidate to apply with me for the 2026 Walder Biota Fellowship ($70k+/yr 2 yrs, $20k/yr research).

Details: www.biotaawards.org/2026-applica...
#biogeochemistry #BiotaFellowship #microsky #ecoSky #evoSky