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Evelien Adriaenssens

@evelienadri.bsky.social
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Group Leader @ Quadram Institute. Phages, viromes and taxonomy with a side of gaming and yarn arts. EDI & Athena Swan lead. Ally.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics
Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...
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Lizbeth Sayavedra @lizsayavedra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A first milestone for the lab! 🔬 Desulfovibrio are increasingly associated with human health and disease, yet their diversity remains poorly characterised. We described three new species from the human gut 🦠 Culturing and properly describing bacterial species remains as relevant as ever.
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here are my first thoughts as a phage person about the @anthropic.com announcement about a novel enzyme on a phage: www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-tho...
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My thoughts on the Anthropic phage enzyme discovery
* Disclaimer: This is not a scientific review, just a few thoughts I had while reading..
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really exciting news that we'll be able to keep training biomedical scientists in microbiome research! Watch this space for future projects.
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some of the smallest 😎 viruses on Earth are all around us. Three or four genes 😍 each, in nearly every environment. We keep finding thousands by sequencing, yet don't know who they infect, can't easily isolate them, or even how the few we have infect a cell. Our new preprint takes this on 🧵👇
Schematics of how single strand RNA and DNA phages infect bacteria with F-pilus
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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This #PeerReviewWeek read Dr Revathy Krishnamurthi's reflections on how reaching the core emotions beneath her anxiety helped her understand old emotional patterns and approach the pressures of peer review with greater confidence ⤵️ buff.ly/Iz6EXrT
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From peer review to core emotions: looking beneath academic anxiety - Quadram Institute
Revathy Krishnamurthi reflects on how reaching the core emotions beneath her anxiety helped her with the pressures of peer review
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/08/2026
Professor Bonnie Bassler is awarded the Copley Medal for her discovery of the universality of chemical communication in bacteria and for her idea that interfering with this communication could form the basis of novel anti-bacterials. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…
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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy to see the last parts of my PhD with @milja001.bsky.social now published in @microbiomej.bsky.social (many thanks to all involved!) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Distinct gut viral communities across life stages in dairy cattle - Microbiome
Background Ruminant gut microbial communities influence host health, productivity, and methane emissions, yet viral communities across life stages remain uncharacterized. Whilst bacteriophages shape m...
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dear eukaryotic, archaeal and bacterial virologists, I don't know how most of you feel about taxonomy, but it has an impact on all of our working lives. I am curious to hear from you about your opinion on subspecies classification based on this survey: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Virus community views on the possible extension of virus taxonomic assignments to a below-species rank
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is considering a proposal submitted in July 2025 to create an optional additional taxonomic rank below the level of species. This was designed...
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remember the manuscript with the nine reviewers? Here's @revathykri.bsky.social's side of the story, an insightful tale of self-reflection.
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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Professor in Bacteriophage Biology & Evolution at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Closing date 1 October, with an expected start date no earlier than January 1, 2027, and a salary within the range of $200,000 to $270,000 per year. For details: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
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Falk Hildebrand @bioinf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
After a very long time, I'm very proud that we have now Joachim "magnus opum" on www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Protal is a ultra fast metagenomic species profiler. More precise than other profiled software, faster than most (not sylph though), but generates strain resolution instead.
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For all of you hunting for prophages in bacterial genomes, we have a tool for you: PHORAGER will help you find the phages but will also get rid of false positive predictions. And the summary files can help you make pretty plots! Led by Xena Github: github.com/aponsero/PHO...
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GitHub - aponsero/PHORAGER: PHORAGER is not for fungi...
PHORAGER is not for fungi... Contribute to aponsero/PHORAGER development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Finally, PHORAGER is freely available as open-source software (github.com/aponsero/PHO...) and the ESKAPE prophage collection generated in this study is available online as a reusable resource for further investigations (zenodo.org/records/1832...) Happy PHORAGING! 🦠🧬🧺
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We also investigated anti-phage defence systems and found that 23.6% of prophages encoded at least 1 system 🛡️ Additionally, we observed that bacterial defence carriage is negatively correlated with prophage carriage among the ESKAPE pathogens 📉
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We screened the recovered prophages for AMR genes (ARGs) and virulence factors, and found that putative ARGs were detected at very low frequencies, with only 0.48% of prophages encoding an ARG 💊 Putative virulence factor genes were found to be more common, particularly in S. aureus prophages⚡
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In total 23,132 putative prophages were identified, 99.9% belonging to the class Caudoviricetes, and exhibiting a high degree of host-specificity 🦠 Further taxonomic analysis classified the prophages into 115 viral families and 2,250 viral genera, the majority representing putatively novel taxa!
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
To validate PHORAGER, we tested it on a dataset of 30,824 publicly available ESKAPE pathogen genomes. PHORAGER recovered more high-quality prophages than individual mining tools alone, and through extensive quality assessments removed a substantial number of false-positive predictions ✅
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
PHORAGER incorporates robust bacterial genome pre-processing steps 🦠, methods to de-replicate predictions generated by multiple prophage mining tools 🧬, and advanced quality assessments to reduce the number of false positives identified ✅
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Xena Dyball @xenadyball.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am excited to share that our manuscript titled 'Defining the ESKAPE pathogen prophage repertoire with PHORAGER' is now available online as a preprint in BioRxiv! 🤩 (doi.org/10.64898/202...) Here we present PHORAGER, a Nextflow pipeline for the identification and quality assessment of prophages 🧬
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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’m embarrassed that this is the first I’ve heard of the amazing courage of Linda Guamán. Amazing read on what it means to be a scientist in the face of political pressure.
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I've been using Sanger's Artemis to view #genomics since ... who knows (it was first published in 2000). It's still super useful, but getting harder to install. I vibe-coded a lightweight browser-only version that views #GenBank files: linsalrob.github.io/genbank_view... 🧬💻 #phagesky
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Masschelein Lab @masscheleinlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 We're hiring a postdoc! If you're passionate about microbial biosynthetic pathway elucidation and enzyme discovery we'd love to hear from you! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoc Microbial Biochemistry: Biosynthetic Enzyme Discovery in Cable Bacteria
Elucidating the biosynthesis of a unique nickel-containing conductive structure for long-range electron transport in cable bacteria
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is a first: got reviews back for a manuscript and there are 9 reviewers 😱 Upside: I feel the paper is well-assessed Downside: my postdoc's wellbeing leading the rebuttal
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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What microbes shared between parents and children? And what microbes are shared between grandparents, parents and children? 👪 Take part in our PEARL-AGE study to help us find out ➡️ buff.ly/48VykCL @earlhaminst.bsky.social
An illustration of silhouettes of five people in a family holding hands. There are illustrations of microbes inside their guts
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Starting with the DNA sequence of a #phage genome, #PholdAPhage will create a 3D reconstruction of the complete phage, almost like you did cryoEM on it! Check out Renee's awesome software github.com/reneegreen81... to assemble unknown phage particles one protein at a time
A computer generated 3D reconstruction of a phage, based solely on its genome sequence. For this image, we started with the genome, and used PholdAPhage to create the structures. Colours are based on pLDDT scores.
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RevathyKrishnamurthy @revathykri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
#Vom2026: Had a fantastic opportunity to share my work on Maternal influence in shaping up the infants' virome at this year's VoM in front of 900 researchers. Thank you all for the wonderful feedback so far, and I will be happy to talk more about it. @evelienadri.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
In our final poster at #VoM2026, @rapher97.bsky.social explores the gut virome in healthy ageing. Visit his poster to find out what to expect when you get older…
Man standing in front of science poster titled Ecological structure and individuality of the gut virome during healthy aging.
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you work with Klebsiella phages, you would probably like to know what genes are involved in resistance. Check out @deuskamya.bsky.social’s poster at #VoM2026 featuring lots of mutants.
Man standing in front of science poster titled Genetic determinants of phage susceptibility and phage-driven capsule variation in Klebsiella spp identified by TraDIS
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Today @ryancook94.bsky.social is presenting his posters on the trials and tribulations of working with phages and organoid models. #VoM2025
Man standing in front of science poster titled Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Have you ever wondered about prophages in an important gut bacterium? Check out @xenadyball.bsky.social’s poster at #VoM2026
Woman standing in front of science poster titles Exploring phage-mediated adaptation of Ruminococcus gnavus to the human gut.
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Emma Waters @emmabeansworth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Banning a #Pride display may feel minor, but remember: rights & #visibility are often eroded 1 small step at a time. Today's display. Tomorrow something else E.g. Italy, 2023: After political change, authorities banned recording both parents in same-sex couples & retrospectively amended birth certs
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Who infects whom? A big question in virome research. If you want to learn more, check out the work from @apedramfar.bsky.social from her PhD. #VoM2026
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A little sad to be missing #VOM2026 this year, but excited that our lab will still be well represented! 🎉 look out for @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social talk on 1000+ phage receptor predictions @fmaucourt.bsky.social poster on 70+ M smeg 😳phage screens using CRISPRi!! Cheering 🙌 them on from afar.
Poster abstract for VOM2026 by LucasPainter abstract for VOM2026 by Flavien
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Earlier today at #VoM2026 @revathykri.bsky.social presented her work on the virus population sharing between mothers and infants. She did a amazing job! Find her during breaks to talk methods, findings and everything virome!
Woman on stage in front of a presentation entitled Preferential sharing of virus populations between mothers and infants in early life
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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Day 2 of #vom2026 starts with virus host interactions
The introduction to viruses of microbes 2026
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you’re at the Viruses of Microbes conference, interested in Pseudomonas or phage therapy, check out @hannahvpye.bsky.social ‘s poster no84. #VoM2026
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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🆕 Blog! Dr Hannah Morelli reflects on her journey from studying animal health to launching Quadlytics, a new spinout company developing bacteriophage therapies to tackle Salmonella in livestock 🧪 buff.ly/0wCCXJW
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From phages to pigs: turning research into a spinout company - Quadram Institute
“I’m currently a postdoctoral researcher here at the Quadram Institute. My day-to-day research is looking at bacteriophages, which are viruses that can infect and kill bacteria, and how they can be…
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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It's that time of year when the JIFs are out. Over-reliance on it fuels integrity risks like papermills & fraud. Everything is connected! Join us in shifting the focus from venue prestige to merit. Explore RRA resources & course: sfdora.org/reports/ & bit.ly/DORA-Intro-Course
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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How does a phage cocktail affect the healthy human microbiota? We tested the Intestiphage cocktail from the Eliava Institute in a human colon model system and observed an E. coli phage bloom and minimal disruption of the microbiota. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... Led by Teagan Brown
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The effects of bacteriophage cocktail treatment on healthy gut microbiota: an in vitro human colon model study
The human gut microbiome is a complex community that plays an important role in health, where perturbations can result in dysbiosis and disease. Bacteriophages (phages) can provide treatment for bacte...
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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In raw numbers, the number of complete phage genomes from cultured isolates has doubled but the amount of unique genomes has slightly decreased- we're starting to sequence the same phages again. People are also getting better at giving their phages unique names! (Please no more phages named P1)
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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
During my PhD, @milja001.bsky.social and I started counting phage genomes, and tried to make them available in useful formats with useful metadata. We also described the extent of sequenced phage genomes at the time. Five years on, we've had a look at what's changed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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nisbetalice.bsky.social @nisbetalice.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
✨️ Milestone complete! ✨️ I'm so excited to share my 1st ever paper with world! In collaboration with @ukhsa.bsky.social, we explored the #genomic #epidemiology of enteric fever in England & Wales from 2004-2023 🦠 with a focus on bacterial carriers within the population. Check it out in @plos.org NTD!
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The typhoid Mary legacy: Genomic epidemiology uncovers contemporary carriage dynamics across two decades of enteric fever surveillance in England and Wales
Author summary Enteric fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A/B, is a major global health issue. The burden of enteric fever is worsened by bacterial carriers – individual...
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Really happy to have played a small part in this cool piece of work led by @guido-valverde.bsky.social and @msabrysarhan.bsky.social. We characterised S. pyogenes in a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy (suggesting circulation before European contact) #VivaBolivianMummies www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An ancient genome of Streptococcus pyogenes from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy - Nature Communications
Streptococcus pyogenes is a human pathogen responsible for a range of diseases. Here, the authors reconstruct an ancient S. pyogenes genome from a pre-Columbian Bolivian mummy, supporting that the pat...
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Langridge Lab @langridgelab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Its our favourite day at @microbiologysociety.org #microbio26 #genetics & #genomics. In the poster session at A039 we have our @eh-hayles.bsky.social presenting her hot off the preprint work on the dynamics of Shiga toxin subtype #stx2a in #STEC across England, 2016-2024. Read here: tiny.cc/y0u1101
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Multi-Defence @multidefence.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Stimulating keynote from @jojofoth.bsky.social on advancing phage therapy for chronic respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis, addressing key translational challenges from clinical pathways and phage biobanking to delivery, diagnostics, and public engagement at #Microbio26.
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Caroline Jarvis @carolinejarvis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Come and see my posters at #microbio26 A034 and A035 to hear all about my work with transposon sequencing, DNA supercoiling and location-based transcriptional potential, or come to chat about the impact of location on antimicrobial phenotype and fitness!
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