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Ingrida Olendraite

@ingrida.bsky.social
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Passionate about Microbes and Biodiversity. Bioinformatics. Novel Molecular Biology, RNA viruses and RdRp. Bioinformatician EMBL-EBI

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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This one clips hard this week.
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Join us! What a name, @urineri.bsky.social - creativity and passion for virus research never stops to amaze me!
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join tomorrow! / Friday the 25th! Deep phylogeny of RNA viruses is quite an important topics :) can structural RdRp comparisons help?:))
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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Me, @emma-harding.bsky.social, @rtarlinton.bsky.social and @royalsociety.org are organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements! 8-9 Feb 2027, Birmingham UK. 2 whole days of EVEs! Many amazing researchers already agreed to speak. Invites: shorturl.at/jp9sh Provisional schedule: shorturl.at/8O5KV
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Endogenous viral elements | Royal Society
Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Katy Brown, Dr Emma Harding and Professor Rachael Tarlinton
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Typas Lab @typaslab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How can we harness the vast functional diversity of microbes on our planet? Join us at EMBL Heidelberg from 8–10 December 2026 to hear about ongoing efforts to decode gene function and organisation in human gut microbes, and to present your own research. www.embl.org/about/info/c...
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
...and of course all work done by @evogytis.bsky.social : from phylogeography to everything about orthomyxas and the intriguing chuviruses. Thanks for bringing us all together! Massive shout out to @mgabrielaite.bsky.social on all organization and her bacterial work!
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Serafin ( @cirad.bsky.social ) has shared his very interesting work on plant #multipartite virus genomes☘️. Have you ever thought of what evolutionary advantage is to have multipartite vs segmented and packed into one particle genomes? How gene copy numbers vary depending on who is the host?
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Another invited speaker Rasa Bernotiene shared info on blood-sucking insects. Did you know how: a mosquito lives just 2-6 weeks & feeds only every 3-4 days. Also, while I think we all know that #mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animals - do you wanna guess who is in the 2nd place?
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I shared how we work and what we do at #MGnify, the FAIR scientific data principles and about open data and resources at @ebi.embl.org . Can we - virology community - learn from bacterial metagenomics approaches and improve broad-scale virology efforts?
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
3 days full of evolution, divergent orthomyxos/chuviruses and mosquitoes - thank you @evogytis.bsky.social for an invite to Puvociai retreat & discussions with his team & polycipi-ally Serafín Gutiérrez! ☀️ eclipse + meteorite showers 🌠 - perfect for late-night scientific (and life) talks.
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@spyroslytras.bsky.social is one of the most inspiring researchers of our cohort and while extremely fun to be around, also intelligent, smart and innovative. I couldn't wish for a better PI - anyone looking for their postdoc and moving to Paris?:) Sharing is caring! #job #position #postdoc
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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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Dimitris Karapliafis @dkarap.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Very excited to share our paper (and first for my PhD) on RdRpCATCH in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics! doi.org/10.1093/narg... Co-authors: @urineri.bsky.social, @ingrida.bsky.social, Justine Charon, @sho1.bsky.social, @xinhou.bsky.social, Dick de Ridder, Mark P. Zwart, and @annecmg.bsky.social
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RdRpCATCH: a unified resource for RNA virus discovery using viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase profile Hidden Markov models
Abstract. Recent advances in large-scale sequence mining have expanded our knowledge of RNA virus diversity. Most genome mining approaches for detecting RN
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Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our review on the role of metagenomics in the future of One Health is now published in One Health Outlook @eddieholmes.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Empowering One Health with metagenomics - One Health Outlook
In an increasingly connected world a global One Health approach to the management of human, animal and ecosystem health will be critical to effective infectious disease responses. The emergence and ra...
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🚨 Registration for VEGA26 is 👏 officially open 👏 🚨 The 5th edition of our Viral EcoGenomics and Applications symposium will be held November 18-19, 2026, on the UC Berkeley campus 🧬 🦠 🔬 🧫 Event website ➡️ jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us... Registration link ➡️ cvent.me/e0RnA0
This image shows the VEGA logo (an Earth-shaped capsid colored with green continents and blue oceans), and the taglines: "VEGA Viral EcoGenomics & Applications", "Symposium hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute", "Novermber 18-19, 2026"
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢 Join us for the next Viruses in silico webinar lecture! 🎙️ "The ICTV at Sixty Years: Classifying the Worldwide Virosphere" 👨‍🔬 Elliot J. Lefkowitz (University of Alabama at Birmingham, US) 🗓️ 25 June 2026 🕑 4 PM CEST 📍 Zoom - Register to receive the login details 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/virus...
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It's today - don't miss it - simply click on zoom link below to join, no registration needed :) but adding it to your calendar for a reminder - suggested ;) @rdrpsummit.bsky.social
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Zoom link to join AmpliDiff talk - new comers, long-time-no-see, just-a bit-curious - everyone welcome :) RNA Virus Journal Club Time: Jun 11, 2026 03:30 PM Paris Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/8258756616... Meeting ID: 825 8756 6169 Passcode: 406800
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Amplidiff publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Amplidiff: an optimized amplicon sequencing approach to estimating lineage abundances in viral metagenomes - BMC Bioinformatics
Background Metagenomic profiling algorithms commonly rely on genomic differences between lineages, strains, or species to infer the relative abundances of sequences present in a sample. This observati...
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
June 11th Journal Club: times and topic, all information available: rdrp.io/journal-club... Thank you @marcoforgia.bsky.social and Laura Patino for organising and the wizzard @sho1.bsky.social for organising all the information!
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AmpliDiff: optimized amplicon selection for profiling of viral metagenomes | rdrp.io
Metagenomic profiling algorithms commonly rely on genomic differences between lineages, strains, or species to infer the relative abundances of sequences prese…
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
RNA virus Journal Club is back after the pause for #ViBioM2026 📚 June 11th | Thursday, 15:30 Central European Time. AmpliDiff: a tool to find discriminatory genomic regions in viral genomes of a single species! Perfect for primer design! Join, talk & discuss! Details ⬇️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My biases come from climate change, ecology. I.e. death is always tragic but a very narrow approach to measure something. Within virology, we are so overfocused on just SARS-CoV-2 and HIV and flu - basically 3 viruses are getting absolutely most of the virology funding. Horrible strategy.
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
but could you also say other way around - that funding to understand cancer is funding to understand aging (partly) ?:) coronaviruses and especially all other infectious disease sobbing in the shadows.. (:
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CVR Bioinformatics @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
. @davidlrobertson.bsky.social is chairing the phylogenomics session of #VibioM2026 ; Great talks 👏 from @evogytis.bsky.social @willharv.bsky.social
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We’re excited to highlight our invited keynote speakers at #ViBioM2026 🎉 🗓️ Mon 18 May – Rayan Chikhi (@rayanchikhi.bsky.social) 🗓️ Tue 19 May – Darius Kazlauskas (@dariusbio.bsky.social) 🗓️ Wed 20 May – Mathias Munschauer (@munschauerlab.bsky.social) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🌟 Day 1 of #ViBioM2026 at Vilnius University 🏛️ with a warm welcome by Manja, Gytis, and Ingrida – we already feel at home! Excited to start a full programme of talks, posters, and discussions on computational approaches in #virology. #viralgenomics #datascience #virusevolution
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
this joy: from morning till late night talks - wouldn't have happened without massive helpof @evogytis.bsky.social team, without the most organised person ever Maria & the soul of @evbc.bsky.social for 9 years: Manja Marz who created this fantastic relaxed and fun research family (truly).
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
here the hand is up if it's the person's 1st time in Lithuania. Almost 100 researchers coming from 25 countries and 50 cities - 1st time discovered how lovely Vilnius 🇱🇹 Can't wait to meet the same and new people next year - without the fantastic attendees the event would be meh. #ViBioM2026
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The #ViBioM2026 was everything I could have dreamt about. There are several points that made me really happy in this transitional period of my life. 💻 Virus Bioinformatics 🦠 - is the joy and food for my soul: 3 days of ongoing talks, chats, discussions - it was good to be back!
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We had an amazing time at #ViBioM2026 last week in Vilnius 🇱🇹🤝 Researchers from around the world shared insights on virus #metagenomics, #phylogeny, protein & RNA biology, and #ML approaches. Huge thanks to all organizers, helpers, and our sponsors (GoVilnius, Viruses/MDPI, @febsopenbio.bsky.social)!
ViBioM 2026 Participants in the Theatre Hall at Vilnius UniversityPoster Session at Aula Parva (Vilnius University)Quizz time at the conference dinner!
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What? Joining in disbelief...
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🏗 Working on virus #bioinformatics tools or data curation? Interested in building lasting, open-source workflows? 🛠 Join the satellite #hackathon at #ViBioM2026, online or in Vilnius! 👉 More information and registration until 8 May: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Book by Thursday of this week! (April 30th) :) Can't wait to hear from the most amazing virus bioinformaticians :)) Literally last change :) while everyone who registered - excited to meet you in Vilnius :)
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#ViBioM2026 is not just in the next few weeks, but also has a fabulous satellite event (different projects different days, between May 12-17). Don't forget to register, explore the projects, suggest your own!
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Now !:)
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Final gem: 📖 publication: academic.oup.com/nar/article/... 📚 metaVR database: www.meta-virome.org and all the info about March 17th event: rdrp.io/journal-club/ See you soon!
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Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes
Abstract. Viruses are ubiquitous in all environments and impact host metabolism, evolution, and ecology, although our knowledge of their biodiversity is st
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Thanks for hosting @deminatanja.bsky.social ! Join us on Zoom:  helsinki.zoom.us/j/6382189703... Meeting ID: 638 2189 7037 Passcode: 887025 Or join RdRp summit community @rdrpsummit.bsky.social slack: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Click here and add it to your calendar (useful for timezones): rdrp.io/journal-club...
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Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes | rdrp.io
Mateus is a Research Scientist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute , where he specializes in mining metagenomic data to uncover the hidden diversity of Mobile Ge…
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
RNA virus Journal Club is on! 🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️ You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳 All welcome! Details ⬇️ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social
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Petter Brodin @petterbrodin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Paper alert 📢: What drives variation in humoral responses to viruses? collab with @etienne-patin.bsky.social @darraghduffy.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social we show that for ~98k viral epitopes immunodominance vary by genetics, sex and origin: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hooray 🎉 from virologists! :)
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
So much needed! Happy Fantastic Virus database made it to the AF and congratulations George @gbouras13.bsky.social et al! May all underrepresented sequences be finally implemented!:)
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I can't double check it but think this one: Evolution and taxonomy of positive-strand RNA viruses: implications of comparative analysis of amino acid sequences - PubMed share.google/0cM007wUcmDx... They had all main protroms rdrp, protease and helicase alignments by taxonomic groups :)
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Evolution and taxonomy of positive-strand RNA viruses: implications of comparative analysis of amino acid sequences - PubMed
Despite the rapid mutational change that is typical of positive-strand RNA viruses, enzymes mediating the replication and expression of virus genomes contain arrays of conserved sequence motifs. Proteins with such motifs include RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, putative RNA helicase, chymotrypsin-like …
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I cherish this mug so much that I don't even use it for liquids.. And it's from the 1993 my beloved paper by Dolja and Koonin. I will forever be grateful for @thekatybrown.bsky.social for such a thoughtful gift! :) Their work was also what got me into virology without any hesitation:)
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Milica Raco hosting the prof Dolja! :) Join us on Zoom: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9426515785... RNA virus club by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A dream! But this is how it is if you work on Addenbrookes' ;D come for a MnS meal, see the flu jab station, and leave immunised. This seems even more streamlined;D
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
😅🤣
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
You can add Prof. Dolja's talk/ @rdrpsummit.bsky.social event to your calendar by one click here: rdrp.io/journal-club... Or join us on the RdRp summit slack (join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...) Or if you want to simply join the zoom: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9426515785... Password: 609697
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Diversity and evolution of the global RNA virome. | rdrp.io
Professor Dolja is a leading, world renowned virologist whose research has revolutionized and shaped our understanding of the global RNA virome . Over half a c…
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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja? Nothing for me.. :) Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow: Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦) (or 7pm London time 🇬🇧) for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)
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