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Monir Moniruzzaman

@giantvirus.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Miami's Rosenstiel School.

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Wilhelm Lab at the University of Tennessee @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social · 8h
Nice to see the hard work of former UG Gracie Wren pay off with this paper. A small lesson in how normalizing data is really important - it completely shapes the interpretation of that data. Another fun collaboration with @utkmicrobiology.bsky.social & @sunyesf.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ha...
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Alex de Mendoza @alexdemendoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How can a #GiantVirus 👾 lurk inside the host genome undetected? We find that epigenetic conflict lies at the centre of the ⚖️ between infection and co-existence with the host. Great collaboration with the Aylward lab out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Roland Faure @rfaure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Thread) New Logan preprint 🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...! We sketched all the metagenomes of Logan1.0 and released the sketches. These sketches allow quick content comparison with any/all metagenomes of Logan. Cool applications in the paper and hopefully many others we did not foresee yet 😀
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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Last day to apply! (By Midnight est)
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Out today in @nature.com: our review on how single cells evolve into multicellular organisms. With Ozan Bozdag, @kaitong25.bsky.social, Peter Yunker, and @matthewherron.bsky.social. rdcu.be/9ZuiKow9twKa For an overview, check out the video below.
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I miss that view of the shore with the two power station chimneys!
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Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬
Chlamydomonas cells
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UF Biology is searching for an Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology, pass it along explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/search...
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University of Florida - Search Results
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes - including microbes! faculty.utexas.edu/career/191568
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Faculty Careers - The University of Texas at Austin
Unleash your intellectual power by joining a world-renowned faculty that is solving the world's most urgent problems. At UT Austin, we provide you the freedom to blaze trails, follow your curiosity, e...
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Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My weekly reminder that there is still time to register for VEGA26, and come hang out with us to talk about everything virus/phage ecology, genomics, and applications ! And also still time to submit your abstract for poster/short talk, although this deadline is approaching :-)
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Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Array @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
El Niño is building in the Pacific, and our BGC-Argo floats are watching. As warm water cuts off the nutrient supply, phytoplankton shift deeper to find what they need to grow, particulate carbon drops, and there's less biomass to feed the rest of the food web. 🌊 #ElNiño @bgc-argo.bsky.social
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Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're hiring a tenure-track faculty member in geochemistry & climate at Brown! apply.interfolio.com/193121
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pls share: Two tenure-track positions in Molecular Microbiology at Virginia Tech. I had a great visit there a couple of years ago! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Grand Prismatic Spring. Yellowstone National Park, 2026 #photography #hotspring #geothermal #yellowtone
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Single-cell-resolved genome atlas of prokaryoplankton inhabiting the ocean’s interior from Chang et al. - www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Single-cell-resolved genome atlas of prokaryoplankton inhabiting the ocean’s interior
GORG-Dark presents genomes of 9,698 individual bacterial and archaeal cells from the ocean’s sunless interior. The atlas resolves depth stratification to abyssal waters, uncovers particle-attached Pel...
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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 16/09/2026
Help recognize the next generation of aquatic science leaders! Nominate a colleague for ASLO’s Early Career Awards, including the Lindeman Award and Yentsch-Schindler Award. 📅 Deadline: Oct. 1, 2026 Awardees receive recognition at #ASM27 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 🔗 www.aslo.org/nominations-...
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes - including microbes! faculty.utexas.edu/career/191568
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Faculty Careers - The University of Texas at Austin
Unleash your intellectual power by joining a world-renowned faculty that is solving the world's most urgent problems. At UT Austin, we provide you the freedom to blaze trails, follow your curiosity, e...
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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ASLO Meeting Abstract deadline extended until September 21! Consider joining our session on bioluminescence, dinoflagellates, ecotourism, and conservation! #oceanography 🌊
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My star fruit tree. This was a good year. #starfruit #miami
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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why did some #viruses evolve to be #giants while others did not? Our perspective piece on this topic with Eugene Koonin. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Why did some viruses evolve to be giants while others did not? | PNAS
Viruses are ubiquitous mobile genetic elements that are obligate symbionts of cellular life forms and replicate exclusively within host cells. The ...
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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My lab is hiring two(!) postdocs interested in (1) building trait prediction models capable of resolving complex microbial traits from genomes and metagenomes, and/or (2) building mathematical models of microbial community dynamics www.microbialgamut.com/mGAMUT_postd...
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our paper describing two new photosynthetic Paulinella species is out today in JPhycol! This is the kind of work I love to do and even it though took many years to finish, we had a lot of fun stomping around together in the marsh! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #protistsonsky
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wanna hear about the new NSF BIO Core Solicitation (NSF 26-517)? Join us at our next BIO Virtual Office Hours (Sept 16, 2026 at 1pm ET). This is a webinar where we will present information and then take questions through the A&A feature. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
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NSF BIO Virtual Office Hour Webinar: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences
Program directors provide information and answer questions about newly issued funding opportunities.
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New research from our lab revealing pervasive genomic islands (GIs) in giant viruses (GV). Leveraging long-read assembled GV genomes we reveal these GIs, their functional repertiore and roles in GV genome variation. Research led by PhD candidate Benjamin Minch! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Widespread genomic islands are hotspots of genome variations and mosaicism in giant viruses - Nature Communications
Researchers analyzed 369 giant virus genomes and identified widespread genomic islands, regions of rapid gene turnover that help these viruses adapt to hosts and even exchange genes with bacteria, rev...
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Hannah Reich @hannahgreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Be a #PyroPal and submit an abstract to our session (SS41) at #ASLO2027! Abstracts are due 9/15! 🧪🌊 @aslo.org @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social 🔗 www.aslo.org/san-juan-2027/
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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I discussed this paper in my class! Truly foundational.
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Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Check out this awesome New Yorker article James Dinneen wrote about our work with Emil Ruff's NASA ICAR work and Yasube Yabe's D-SEIS project in the South African Gold Mine! It was a pleasure to have James join us, he's an intrepid traveler! tinyurl.com/4k4fh33r
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The Mystery of Dark Oxygen
Scientists once thought that life-sustaining oxygen existed only near Earth’s surface. Then they detected it deep underground.
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Ted Morgan @tedmorgan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The new NSF BIO funding opportunity (solicitation) is out, which replaces the DEB, IOS, and MCB solicitations. The BIO Core accepts proposals that cover the scientific topics associated with the legacy programs historically supported by BIO. BIO Core - NSF 26-517. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Core Research in Biological Sciences (BIO Core)
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Backyard wildlife - #backyard #wildlife #birds #photography
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Thomas Mock @thomasmock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our new paper just out @natmicrobiol.nature.com led by Yumary Vasquez & Frederik Schulz @jgi.doe.gov @norwichmicro.bsky.social Genomic catalogue of giant #viruses reveals expanded diversity and functional potential www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MxA is one of the broadest antiviral proteins mammals make. It’s a big reason most bird flu strains never get a foothold in people. The rare ones that succeed have learned to dodge it. How MxA actually recognizes viral targets at the molecular level is unknown for a bunch of technical reasons.
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Anthony M. Bonacolta @ambonacolta.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Does anyone know of any Microbiology, Coral, or General Bio focused journals that don't charge publication fees? Doesn't necessarily have to be open-access. I've been working with some talented high schoolers on a project for the past ~2 years and they wish to publish their findings
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’ve often said (partly tongue in cheek) that spite can be a great motivator. But mudita (freudenfeude), the ability to be truly happy for others’ success, can be a much more reliable way to have a fulfilling career. Even if it can seem that way, science is not a zero sum game. Play the long game.
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ISEP @isepprotists.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New #ISEPpapers #PrePrint! Skiaviridae: a large DNA virus family that persistently infects thraustochytrid protists www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by Jessica Latimer et al. #Protists #Viruses #Microbes
electron microscopy images of microbial cells infected with viruses
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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Super cool symposium in Berkeley!!
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Integration and regulation of stolen organelles in a marine protist academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs
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Integration and regulation of stolen organelles in a marine protist
Abstract. Chloroplast-stealing (a.k.a., “kleptoplastidic”) plankton transiently obtain and integrate prey metabolic machinery into their own cells. To do s
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Suzana (Su) Gonçalves Leles @suleles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tenure-track open position in Biological Oceanography at Texas A&M College Station apply.interfolio.com/189672
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23/07/2026
A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal bloom causing mass marine mortality in South Australia. go.nature.com/3RjXCaZ 🌎🌊🧪
This is figure 3, which shows the morphology of K. cristata from South Australian samples and a laboratory cultured strain (SM2).
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is great! Congratulatons on the official publication. Long-read metagenome assembly is really a game-changer!
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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's out! Excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef - Nature
The Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database compiles prokaryotic, viral and eukaryotic genomes from seawater collected from the Great Barrier Reef, providing a rich resource for the study of mar...
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alex jaffe @alexjaf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
my first 'data descriptor'! hoping this one will be useful for folks interested in tracing the distribution of genomes/genes/proteins over physicochemical gradients in the (deep) marine water column.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Our latest, in which the microbes teach us about the DOM field. Led by Dr. Jordan Coelho: Enrichment of polyphenol metabolism within the ubiquitous SAR116 Puniceispirillales bacterioplankton www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Corina Brussaard @brussaard7.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An very interesting side track of my research I was slightly involved in. Check it out 😁
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Jozef Nissimov @jinoceanvir.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Virus infection of a #bloom, together with limiting #eutrophication can help in mitigating the effects of harmful algal #blooms (HABs). But what if nutrient reduction selects for virus resistance? And are all cells in a #HAB the same? Answers are in our latest preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I recently did this interview with NEB covering a lot of the work I've been involved with lately (e.g. @dudinlab.bsky.social) Hopefully there's something interesting in there and nothing too egregious! Some of the work fits #protistsonsky. Enjoy? www.neb.com/en-us/podcas...
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Interview with John Burns: Unravelling Marine Mysteries
John Burns of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences shares how he thinks about the information that drives biology.
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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2026🚨 Application is now OPEN for the 8th International Viromics Workshop, Oct. 14-16, 2026, in-person at Ohio State University. Application closes Aug. 7. Apply: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New study by Alexander Henoch (@ahenoch.bsky.social), a PhD student in our group @hifmb.de and @awi.de, shows what it takes to bring gene synteny into microbial pangenomes, and what we learn about the variability landscape of genomes when we do that. See the pre-print here: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Monir Moniruzzaman @giantvirus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I know Tara Pacific did include negative controls, but I am not aware of any such controls used in the Tara circumnavigation or polar expeditions.. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Integrative omics framework for characterization of coral reef ecosystems from the Tara Pacific expedition - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Integrative omics framework for characterization of coral reef ecosystems from the Tara Pacific expedition
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