Bad budget news: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the biggest loser, with lawmakers imposing an 8.3% cut to $9.06 billion, some $820 million below 2023. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
We released a nice new version of sourmash, along with a super nice new version of the branchwater plugin - faster! lower memory! more convenient! better code! more zhuzh! Hat tip to @bluegenes.bsky.social@luizirber.bsky.social who did all the hard work here!
Please Repost! Registration is OPEN for the 12th annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop at the SNRI! April 19-21, 2024 FREE For presenting students and postdocs! KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Kabir Peay, Stanford University mykophile.stanford.edusnri.ucmerced.edu/form/symbios...
New year, new preprint: TIPP_plastid: A user-friendly tool for de novo assembly of plastid genomes, by @wenfeixian.bsky.socialwww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is a nice longitudinal metagenomic analysis of CRISPR dynamics in the gut with a lot of cool findings, including showing clearance of MGEs after spacer acquisition: Dynamics of CRISPR-mediated virus-host interactions in the human gut microbiome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Glad to present our new paper on RNA viruses in acidic hot springs. @NatureMicrobiol Together with S. Urayama, A. Fukudome, E. Koonin, T. Nunoura et al, we were hoping to find archaeal RNA viruses, instead we discovered a bunch of highly unusual bacterial viruses: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One step closer to a draught genome
Another very important paper published today The origins of the Guinness stout yeast www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧬🖥️
A genomic analysis of 22 S. cereviseae yeast strains used in beer brewing suggest that yeast used to brew Guinness form a distinct evolutionary sub-clade, and that the modern-day Guinness yeast is c...
Please Repost! Tenure track Assistant Professor position in Disease Ecology in my Department at UCR! This is a great time to join our growing department. Deadline is Jan. 22, so please check it out. aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01846
New postdoc position in our lab for a project led by Marie Touchon (bioinformatics) and with O Tenaillon (experiments) on the evolution and dynamics of microbial genomes to understand their diversification by gene flow. Check research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...