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UNC Charlotte Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics. Computational molecular synthetic virologist. Github - github.com/raw-lab Website - rawlab.org

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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🦀 Rust is coming for bioinformatics. Meet Cleaver-X — one binary for: ✂️ Trimming + QC 🧬 FASTA/FASTQ/SAM/BAM 📊 Counting + demux ⚡ Constant-memory streaming 180 MB in 0.17 sec. ~7 MB RAM. No Python. No C/C++. Just Rust. 🦀 #Rust #rustsky Crates crates.io/crates/Cleav...
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🧙‍♂️ I built Merlin. A pure-Rust RNA gene finder that detects tRNA, tmRNA & rRNAs. 🦀 No C ⚡ Parallel 🔮 Real HMMER Plan7 📦 No external tools or databases Fast. Parallel. Honest. Modern RNA gene finding. Crates crates.io/crates/merli... GitHub github.com/raw-lab/merl...
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
💥 I built DYNAMITE. 7 gene-calling engines. Phages, viruses, bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes. One command. Pure Rust. No Python. No dependencies circus. Crates crates.io/crates/dynam... GitHub github.com/raw-lab/dynamite 🧬 Genome in. Genes out. #Bioinformatics #Rust #Genomics
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🌊🦠 Viruses are everywhere. Counting them shouldn’t be the bottleneck. Our new 96-well, hands-free flow cytometry workflow counts 60 aquatic samples in 2.25 hours—faster, cleaner, and more reproducible. In AEM Today journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #phagesky #microbesky #phage #flow
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High-throughput viral enumeration of aquatic ecosystems via flow cytometry | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Viruses represent the most numerically abundant biological entity on planet Earth. Enumeration of viruses within aquatic ecosystems (e.g., lakes and oceans) is essential to viral ecology and our under...
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Python got bioinformatics started. Rust will scale it. 🦀 Today we released rustyomestats, our first Rust crate for genome assembly statistics. Fast. Memory safe. Built for massive genomic datasets. Crates: lnkd.in/dP88c83F GitHub: lnkd.in/dDw2KNuX Rust is the way. #RustLang #Bioinformatics
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Most high-performance bioinformatics software written 10 years from now will be in Rust. 🦀 Today we released rustyomestats — our first Rust crate ⚡ Genome size 🧬 GC content 📊 N50/L50/U50 🔬 Codon density 🚀 FASTA parsing GitHub: lnkd.in/dDw2KNuX Rust is the way. #RustLang #Bioinformatics
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Most high-performance bioinformatics software written 10 years from now will be in Rust. 🦀 Today we released rustyomestats — our first Rust crate ⚡ Genome size 🧬 GC content 📊 N50/L50/U50 🔬 Codon density 🚀 FASTA parsing GitHub: lnkd.in/dDw2KNuX Rust is the way. #RustLang #Bioinformatics
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Python got bioinformatics started. Rust will scale it. 🦀 Today we released rustyomestats, our first Rust crate for genome assembly statistics. Fast. Memory safe. Built for massive genomic datasets. Crates: lnkd.in/dP88c83F GitHub: lnkd.in/dDw2KNuX Rust is the way. #RustLang #Bioinformatics
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Its official as of today - I am now an Associate Professor with Tenure at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dept of Bioinformatics & Genomics. A promise to my father - 20 years ago this Jan is finally complete. Never give up on your dreams - believe. #tenure
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place yesterday. We had 171 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about diseases and immune responses. At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #microsky #bats #Stem Great job team!
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Most RNA-seq pipelines are doing this wrong. They run differential expression… and stop there. You’re leaving biological signal on the table. I built pygage to fix that 👇 pip install pygage #Bioinformatics #rnaseq #computation #computationalbiology
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#Bioinformatics #computationalbiology #datascience
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🔬 Pathview-plus = powerful pathway visualization for bioinformatics 🚀 Thousands of pathway maps (KEGG + SBGNview) and super easy to use. Install in seconds: pip install pathview-plus GitHub: github.com/raw-lab/path... PyPI: pypi.org/project/path... #Bioinformatics #DataScience #Omics
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The first automated computer vision–based software enabling the detection, enumeration, and sizing of virus-like particles from epifluorescence microscopy (EFM) images of environmental samples. Published online in BMC methods today. #giantvirus #phagesky Paper link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Resolving and quantifying viral-like particles via blind deconvolution - BMC Methods
BMC Methods - Viruses represent the most numerous’biological entities’on Earth; but the direct quantification of viruses within ecosystems is a significant challenge. The classical...
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@bhuwanabbot.bsky.social @morgancarterphd.bsky.social @raw937.bsky.social @andrabuchan.bsky.social et al. present a pangenome analysis of the endofungal genus Mycetohabitans, showing bacteria-fungus coevolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf231 #genome #evolution #pangenome #MicrobeSky
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Comparative Genomics Reveals Multipartite Genomes Undergoing Loss in the Fungal Endosymbiotic Genus Mycetohabitans
Abstract. Endosymbiotic bacteria extensively impact phenotypes of their eukaryotic hosts, while experiencing dramatic changes to their own genome as they b
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place yesterday. We had 324 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about diseases and immune responses. At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #microsky #bats Great job team!
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Awesome work. With some phageyness at the end. #phage #phagesky #microsky #evolution
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Rita Ramalhete @ritaramalhete.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Latest in our #Phage collection Through #experimentalevolution, researchers at @ucsandiego.bsky.social trained #phages to increase their ability to inhibit multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae 🧫 @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Experimental phage evolution results in expanded host ranges against antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates - Nature Communications
Ghatbale et al. adapted a co-evolutionary technique to develop Klebsiella pneumoniae phages to be highly active longitudinally against K. pneumoniae clinical isolates, including drug resistant isolate...
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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#microsky #phagesky #phage
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Thanks for the repost
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Congratulations to my student Josh Hensley and our amazing collaborators at UCSD David Pride lab! In press today, we developed a technique to evolve phages to broaden bacterial host range to tackle bacteria that evade antibiotics. #phagesky #phage #microsky #virussky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Experimental phage evolution results in expanded host ranges against antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates - Nature Communications
Ghatbale et al. adapted a co-evolutionary technique to develop Klebsiella pneumoniae phages to be highly active longitudinally against K. pneumoniae clinical isolates, including drug resistant isolate...
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place today. We had 193 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune responses. At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Cool 😎 paper @vivekmutalik.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Phylogeny-agnostic strain-level prediction of phage-host interactions from genomes
Bacteriophages offer promising alternatives to antibiotics for treating drug-resistant infections and engineering microbiomes, but applications are limited by inability to select phages infecting spec...
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In a world where an ancient evil has been awaken. Tom Cruise in "Phage." Coming Summer 2026 Needed a laugh/joke today. #phage #microsky #giantvirus #phagesky
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#phage #phagesky
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Take a look y'all phys.org/news/2025-10... #phage #phagesky #bacteriophage
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Phage G genome: AI analysis maps out world's largest cultivated bacteria-killing virus
Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a multidisciplinary team across four universities have successfully resolved the entire ge...
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Happy World Phage Day! May the phage be with you always! #bacteriophage #phage
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Are these articles AI generated about our paper on phage G? Not even a phage shape. It looks like a CoV or InfA. #phage #phagesky Here is the real article about it cci.charlotte.edu/2025/10/10/c... Bioengineer - AI? bioengineer.org/decoding-the... Scienmag - AI? scienmag.com/decoding-the...
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Decoding the Genome of a Cultivated Megaphage
In an era where the microscopic realm constantly challenges our understanding of life’s boundaries, a groundbreaking study has thrust megaphages into the scientific spotlight. These colossal v
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Andra Buchan and Stephanie Wiedman completing the multiome of the only cultivated megaphage on Earth. #phage #phagesky cci.charlotte.edu/2025/10/10/c...
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UNC Charlotte researchers use AI to map out world’s largest cultivated bacteria-killing virus - College of Computing and Informatics
Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a multidisciplinary team across four universities have successfully resolved the entire ge...
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Multiomic analysis of the only megaphage in culture. In press today. Unlocking the genomic repertoire of a cultivated megaphage | npj Viruses share.google/HgU1cjRnaHWv... #phage #bacteriophage
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Unlocking the genomic repertoire of a cultivated megaphage - npj Viruses
npj Viruses - Unlocking the genomic repertoire of a cultivated megaphage
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place today. We had 217 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats and immunology At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab Great job team!
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The Probst Lab @probstlab.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We’re happy to announce Dr. Lennard Stach!! 🥳🥳 Well done Lennard for a brilliant defense and thesis!! We will miss you! Finally, thank you @leeselab.bsky.social for sitting in the thesis committee! 🫶
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Congratulations to Andra and Stephanie, master’s students in the lab, whose manuscript has been accepted for publication in Nature NPJ Viruses. Their study reports the multiomic characterization of the largest bacteriophage maintained in culture.
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach. 591 visitors at our booths today. This month we just crossed over 6,000 local Charlotte visitors to our booths since October 2024! At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab Great job team!
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Tenure dossier submitted
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Glad Science retracted the Arsenic life paper. Brilliant work by Rosie Redfield and others showed this study had issues 15 years ago. Rosie's paper in science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication
A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) outreach at Discovery Place today. Around 584 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, and infectious diseases At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab Great job team!
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
RAW Lab picture day! Summer 2025 Thank you @morgancarterphd.bsky.social for the photo. Missing TJ but it is what is. #teamraw #rawlab
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) at Discovery Place today. Around 366 visitors at our booths today. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune responses. At Discovery Place every 3rd Saturday of the month. #BITE #teamraw #rawlab
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Lots of secondary metabolite clusters, a plasmid that appears to be lost or transferred, weird ANI boundaries, something for everyone! We were also lucky that our neighbors in the @raw937.bsky.social lab looked for prophage in these endosymbionts. Did not think they would be there but they are!
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New from the Carter Lab! Led by @bhuwanabbot.bsky.social, we sequenced almost twice as many complete genomes as were available for the endofungal Mycetohabitans genus. Unsurprisingly, they are a little weird, giving us insight into endosymbiotic genome changes 🧬 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) at Discovery place today. A busier day today with 375 visitors at our booths. We will continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune responses. At Discovery place every 3rd Saturday of the month.
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A little smashing pumpkins this morning #smashingpumpkins #bacteriophage #phage
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Bat Immunological Training Education (BITE) at Discovery place on Saturday. A slow day, only 232 visitors. We continue to educate the public about bats, rodents, infectious diseases, and immune response. At Discovery place every 3rd Saturday of the month.
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thank you Mike Cove and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to host Bat Immunology Training Education (BITE) outreach. We had over 256 people visitors to our booths with preparation of samples. We will be at NCMNS in Raleigh (our state capital) four times a year (quarterly).
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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H5N1 bird flu mutates to better hijack human cells, new UNC Charlotte study shows | Newswise
The latest CIPHER research on H5N1 viral lineages could have major implications for vaccine development.
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Representing UNC Charlotte internationally here in Essen Germany. The #ZWUWaterDay2025! My talk, "Elucidating Microbialites to Resolve Ancient Aquatic Ecosystems", will take us on a journey through time. #WaterResearch #Microbialites #AquaticEcosystems #Unccharlotte #Charlotte #ZWU
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The Probst Lab @probstlab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Super happy to be hosting Prof. Richard Allen White III AKA @raw937.bsky.social from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte at @unidue.bsky.social for 3 surprisingly sunny weeks!! Great to have you around Rick!! 🦠🧬
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 Morgan!!
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raw9371 @raw937.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 🎊 to Dr. Madeline Bellanger, the first PhD student to successfully defend her PhD in the my lab (RAW lab). Well done, Madeline Bellanger !
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