Quantitative microbial ecology and evolution, oceanography, phytoplankton and their viruses. Researcher @CNRS and @OOBanyuls.
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PhD opportunity in marine virus eco-evo dynamics
Joint CNRS–UBC program: @CNRS and @UBC
📍Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (LBBM UMR8176)
🗓️Start: Oct 2025
🔍Skills: Modelling, Bioinformatics, Marine Virology
🔗Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctor…
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I am happy to share that our work on cyanophage infection in the Southern Ocean was published 🤩doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.70…
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We focused on prasnoviurses infecting Micromonas (MpV), a picoeukaryote genus distributed from poles to tropics. We explored the distribution of isolated MpV-s in Tara datasets and highlighted that temperature is the main descriptor of their community composition. (2/6)
Our results highlight that temperature-driven cellular mechanisms can drive the community dynamics and biogeography of marine viruses.
This multidisciplinary study has been possible through great collaborations involving 3 continents: (5/6)
Japan w/ @HisashiEndo and @HiroDorcus at @icr_ku, USA w/ @joshuasweitz at @UMDScience, and France w/ @CNRSbiologie, @Sorbonne_Univ_, @SBRoscoff, @OOBanyuls, and @TaraOceans_Sci. (6/6)
Delighted to share our new preprint on bioRxiv:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Where we integrated viral metagenomics and mathematical modelling to explore the temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses - where do they live and why? (1/6)
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For those working on viruses in aquatic environments, mark your calendars and consider submitting an abstract for Aquatic Virus Workshop 12 (AVW12) to be held in Banyuls-sur-Mer, May 5-9, 2025.
Limited to 125 in total (register early).
avw12.sciencesconf.org/
ALT AVW12 title page
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It's publication day for "Asymptomatic" via @JHUPress. The book explores the paradox of asymptomatic transmission and rationale for proactive steps to confront future pandemics:
bit.ly/asymptomatic-jhupress
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Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world.
How it started & how it's going
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New paper in @nature shows #AI models collapse when trained on their own outputs—repeated AI-generated content leads to redundancy & gibberish. This mirrors our "Dilution of expertise" theory of cultural collapses: "too much imitation kills creativity." nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Postdoc Dinh @qdinhtran is half way to his destination, the Sorbonne University marine station @OOBanyuls at Bayuls-sur-Mer to present his work at the Arago seminar series: Defective viral genomes of mosquito-borne viruses: parasites or components of viral populations?
He will also set up collaborations with David Demory @D2mory who studies phytoplankton and the infection dynamics of their viruses.
check out their institute's website to dream about nice places that could be your office - better than most commutes to work :
obs-banyuls.fr/en/
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So excited the latest discovery is out on Viral coinfection, Superinfection dominance, and Temperature modulating outcome. Super research by Claudia Meyer! And Vicky Jackson :-)
Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae1…
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Excitement is building for the 12th iteration of the Aquatic Virus Workshop to be held at the fantastic Oceanologic Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France during 5-9 May 2025. We have a great lineup of speakers, and a nascent website: avw12.sciencesconf.org/?lang…
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Delighted to share news of a new @mbiojournal paper from @weitz_group at @UMDscience led by @mariandommi joint w/@D2mory & J. Harris:
"Accounting for cellular-level variation in lysis: implications for virus–host dynamics"
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
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More soon... for now, delighted to share news of a @biorxivpreprint led by @mariandommi joint w/@D2mory & J. Harris focusing on the widely used one-step growth curve and how variability in cellular lysis can lead to biases in latent period estimates:
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Thank you to @carlzimmer, who's written a very nice synthesis of people studying the dynamics of virus populations and cooperation and cheating of viruses - the sociovirology - including our work at @astar_research @idlabs_astar and with @meletios_tx on using these concepts to create new antiviral interventions.
Nice to see so many colleagues and friends in this article! I wish I were attending the Sociovirology meeting this year! I really need to try and organize one on this side of the world!
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New paper from the MuLTEE in @NatureEcoEvo, this one on emergent eco-evolutionary dynamics. Led by @PineauRozenn and @SFI_elibby, we explore how the evolution of multicellularity creates opportunities for ecological niche expansion and coexistence.
rdcu.be/dBbn5
