Mya Breitbart

@viromegirl.bsky.social

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Professor at the University of South Florida. Marine microbiology and virology, with a smattering of eukaryotes here and there because focus is for losers. Characterizing the global virome, one virus at a time. Owned by a very cute dog and cat. She/her .. more

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Mya Breitbart is an American biologist and professor of biological oceanography at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science. She is best known for her contributions to the field of viral metagenomics. Popular Science recognized her because of her approach of not trying to sequence individual viruses or organisms but to sequence everything in a given ecosystem. .. more

Environmental science 38%

Biology 28%

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Reposted by Mya Breitbart, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Zen Faulkes , and 1 more Mya Breitbart, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Zen Faulkes, Jason Williams

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

A number of our students got the following comment back on a rejection for the NSF GFRP. They are in an eligible STEM field. Is this something people in other places are getting too? Is it a quirk or targeted?

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Bas E. Dutilh @bedutilh.bsky.social · 11d

We have an open position for a bioinformatics/theoretical microbial ecology PhD student to study viral strategies in the global Microverse! Join us at the @microverse.bsky.social at @uni-jena.de, please apply through this link:
jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/9...

PhD student bioinformatics: Viral strategies in the global Microverse

jobs.uni-jena.de

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 20d

What animal would you ride into battle?

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Ian Hewson @ianhewson.bsky.social · 22d

Final morning in St Thomas for our NSF Diadema project emergency trip responding to an outbreak. Cultures are growing, urchins continue to die, and a quick survey of the site on the way to the airport revealed constrained impact for the moment. Collaborators at UVI will continue monitoring.

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Ian Hewson @ianhewson.bsky.social · 26d

Emergency for Caribbean collaborators: There appears to be Diadema mortality somewhat reminiscent of the 2022 die off occurring right now in the USVI. If anyone hears of wider occurrences in the region please let us know! Please re-post!

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 26d

Sorry, I haven’t done any with that kit for metagenomics, only amplicon data for microbial community markers

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Emily Schmeltzer, PhD @eschmeltzer.bsky.social · 27d

Crowdsourcing please come through! Has anyone shotgun sequenced a negative kit control metagenome of the Qiagen DNEasy Blood & Tissue extraction kit between 2012-2020? Trying to get creative with some data rescue. 🧬

Reposted by Curtis A. Suttle, Mya Breitbart

Corina Brussaard @brussaard7.bsky.social · Jan 7

Postdoc position available, on Arctic phytoplankton mortality and viral ecology -- Check it out!

workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po...

NIOZ - Postdoc position: Mortality and virus-host interactions of phytoplankton in Arctic winters under warming

The Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry (MMB) of NIOZ is looking for a talented and dedicated Postdoctoral scientist to join our research on marine virus ecology. You will be part of

workingat.nioz.nl

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Jan 5

Happy New Years All! I am so excited to share the very first preprint from my lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... - from @lydiaruggles.bsky.social's thesis-also my first student 😊. tldr: Only bacteria collected during a Pyrodinium bloom rescued Pyro from B12 limitation #microbialsky #microsky 🦠🧪🧬🌊

B-vitamin requirements and phycosphere interactions for the HAB-forming dinoflagellate, Pyrodinium bahamense var. bahamense

Pyrodinium bahamense is a saxitoxin-producing dinoflagellate found in tropical and subtropical estuarine waters globally, with the var. bahamense variety forming recurrent harmful algal blooms (HABs) ...

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 25

Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social

Reposted by Simon Roux, Mya Breitbart

Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · Dec 23

🎄 Just published 🎉! Our ongoing genome sequencing of the basal dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncovered a new lineage of endogenized Polinton-like viruses, OmPLV. Notably, OmPLV encodes ... [cont]
#VirEvol #MicroSky #Mevosky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky

Endogenized polinton-like viruses in the dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina uncover novel PolB fusion

Marine viruses are ubiquitous entities that impact the biology of a large fraction of prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity. Dinoflagellates are heterotrophic, mixotrophic and photosynthetic eukaryotes...

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Dec 15

I like GoodNotes for this

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Dec 14

Congrats!!!!

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · Dec 13

Oh time flies - my very first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social graduated yesterday! I am so proud of her & her work (stay tuned for a preprint very soon!!). Also proud to wear @oistedu.bsky.social regalia for the first time (graduated spring 2020…), esp. the custom Yuntanza Minsa hood ❤️ 🌊 #microsky

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Julie Meyer, PhD @lebetimonas.bsky.social · Dec 13

Looking for a postdoc in 2026? The Ewel fellowship at UF provides $70K salary and $20K research support for 2 yrs. I'm happy to sponsor a postdoc interested in microbial ecology of Florida coastal ecosystems (seagrass, coral, mangroves, springs). 🦠 Due 1/11/26

postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...

postdoc.aa.ufl.edu

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Dec 9

We're #hiring an Aquatic Ecotoxicologist at @cmarinescience.bsky.social - come be my colleague! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/676280/t...

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Aquatic Ecotoxicology - Saint Petersburg, Florida job with University of South Florida | 676280

The College of Marine Science (CMS) at the University of South Florida (USF) seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty in Aquatic Ecotoxicology.

jobs.sciencecareers.org

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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · Dec 1

Feeling festive?
Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases.
Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
#scicomm #sciart #decorations

A poster with branding for the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre fo Virus Research, labelled 'Virus Snowflakes.' The poster shows snowflake-like virus designs and song lyrics reading:
On the twelfth day of Christmas, a virus gave to me,
Twelve fights worth winning,
Eleven Christmas dinners,
Ten lunar landers,
Nine childhood vaccines,
Eight tools for teaching,
Seven dogs a-barking,
Six wasps a-laying,
FIIIIVE TIIINY RIIIIIIINGS,
Four vaccine platforms,
Three genome segments,
Two twinned capsids, and
A world that is too small to see

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Nov 25

#Virus discovery has accelerated but linking viruses to hosts is hard. @sullivan-lab.bsky.social use synthetic #microbiomes to optimize & benchmark #Hi-C for virus-host linkage inference, applying this to existing #soil data to reveal 100s of novel linkages @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3MlAENO

Comparison of virus-host prediction from Hi-C and in silico tools. Top: Eular plot showing the overlap of viruses with host predictions obtained from the experimental Hi-C linkage approach, or one of two in silico tools (iPHoP and VirMatcher) that use different probabilistic models to aggregate output of various sequence-based features to create host prediction scores. Bottom: Comparison of virus-host predictions across all samples between Hi-C and iPHoP, shown with and without applying a Z-score filter for the Hi-C linkages. Black bars indicate congruent predictions identified from both tools and gray bars indicate non-congruent predictions. Note: Although many viruses had multiple predicted hosts from each tool, only the top-scoring prediction for each virus was considered in this comparison.

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Evgenii Protasov @evgenii-protasov.bsky.social · Nov 25

Deep-sea corals near cold seeps associate with sulfur-oxidizing chemoautotrophs in the family Ca. Thioglobaceae
#microbiology #corals #microbiome
@microbiomej.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reposted by Simon Roux, Mart Krupovìč, Mya Breitbart , and 2 more Simon Roux, Mart Krupovìč, Mya Breitbart, José R. Penadés, Alan McNally

Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.

Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.

A thread 1/8

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Michael Henson, Ph.D. @aquaticmicrolab.bsky.social · Nov 20

So excited for our #nsffunded research to kick off with an amazing team of researchers @viromegirl.bsky.social @ianhewson.bsky.social @drchriskellogg.bsky.social Dr. Marilyn Brandt (UVI).
newsroom.niu.edu/niu-biologis...

NIU biologist dives into coral reef mystery with NSF-funded research | NIU Newsroom

DEKALB, IL — When long-spined sea urchins across the Caribbean began dying by the thousands in 2022, marine scientists feared a repeat of an ecological...

newsroom.niu.edu

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Mya Breitbart

Jennifer Biddle @jenbiddle.bsky.social · Nov 20

We’re hiring! Ad for coastal physical oceanographer: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

Chat me if you have any questions! #oceanography #marine

University of Delaware - Details - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Coastal Physical Oceanography

careers.udel.edu

Reposted by Jonathan A. Eisen, Jesse M. Shapiro, Mart Krupovìč , and 1 more Jonathan A. Eisen, Jesse M. Shapiro, Mart Krupovìč, Mya Breitbart

BejaLab @bejalab.bsky.social · Nov 12

Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
this project was led by @omernadel.bsky.social and is a joint work between the labs of @bejalab.bsky.social, Debbie Lindell and Oded Kleifeld from @biologytechnion.bsky.social

the sun is shining through the clouds in the sky above the ocean

ALT: the sun is shining through the clouds in the sky above the ocean

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Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Isabelle M. Côté, Simon Roux , and 5 more Scott C. Doney, Isabelle M. Côté, Simon Roux, Elena Litchman, Joshua S. Weitz, Dustin J. Marshall, Mya Breitbart, Jessica A. Gephart

Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · Nov 10

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.

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Julie Meyer, PhD @lebetimonas.bsky.social · Oct 16

Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship in 2026? The Ewel fellowship at UF provides salary and research support for 2 years. I would be happy to sponsor a postdoc interested in microbial ecology of Florida coastal ecosystems.

postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...

Ewel Postdoctoral Fellowship | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs - University of Florida

postdoc.aa.ufl.edu

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Oct 13

Thanks Rob!

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Oct 12

🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab

Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics
💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass
🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics
🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry
🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases

👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

#MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome

Welcome to the Breitbart Lab - Genomics

We are modern virus hunters, using metagenomic sequencing to discover viruses in a wide range of environments and hosts. Have fun exploring the marvels of microbiology on this website!

marine.usf.edu

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Oct 9

So exciting!!! Congrats Gina and Johana!

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Johana Rotterova @micrott.bsky.social · Oct 8

With all the craziness in the world, good lab news bring real joy.💚🪇 With Breitbart's Lab help, long lab hours & determination not to give up, Gina has established a culture of the coral-eating Philaster!🪸🧫🔬I'm so proud of her!🥇 @gfullller.bsky.social
@miapi314.bsky.social #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky

Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Oct 2

We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

Apply - Genomics

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