Evelien Adriaenssens
@evelienadri.bsky.social
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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🚨New preprint out!
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨New preprint out!
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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🆕 Blog! This #WorldPhageWeek our PhD student @deuskamya.bsky.social from the @evelienadri.bsky.social ’s group explains the nuances of bacteriophages and their potential for live-saving treatments 🔬
Shades of Phage: The complexity of the biology of bacteriophages - Quadram Institute
PhD student Deus Dedit Kamya explains the nuances of biology bacteriophages and their potential for live-saving treatments
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October 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🆕 Blog! This #WorldPhageWeek our PhD student @deuskamya.bsky.social from the @evelienadri.bsky.social ’s group explains the nuances of bacteriophages and their potential for live-saving treatments 🔬
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October 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Another kitome paper: discovering new viruses is hard when there are viruses in the extraction columns! Controls so important... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Another kitome paper: discovering new viruses is hard when there are viruses in the extraction columns! Controls so important... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience
3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses
Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social?
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses
Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social?
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowships | Biology, Medicine and Health | University of Manchester
Find out about and apply for a Bicentenary Early Career Research Fellowship.
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience
3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses
Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social?
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses
Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social?
www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...
For those of you working on tailed #phages, this is the virus realm for you!
#Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy
The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...
#Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy
The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...
October 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
For those of you working on tailed #phages, this is the virus realm for you!
#Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy
The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...
#Duplodnaviria #virus #taxonomy
The Profile in #JGenVirol provides the citable reference. More details in the chapter on the ICTV website: ictv.global/report/chapt...
Reposted by Evelien Adriaenssens
Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Happy to say this has now been published in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social 🫁🦠 #Phages #Viromics
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.
Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.
Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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🆕 Blog! Our Quadram Student Forum committee share their top tips to help you make the most of your PhD in Norwich 🎓
@quadramsf.bsky.social
@quadramsf.bsky.social
How to make the most of your PhD in Norwich - Quadram Institute
Our Quadram Student Forum share their top tips for studying a PhD in Norwich. This will equip you with the tools to become a scientific leader in the future.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🆕 Blog! Our Quadram Student Forum committee share their top tips to help you make the most of your PhD in Norwich 🎓
@quadramsf.bsky.social
@quadramsf.bsky.social
Incredibly proud of Dr Revathy who is inspiring the next generation of scientists around the world. And even though we can't see them through a foldscope, bacteriophages are still our favourite microbes 🤩
quadram.ac.uk/blogs/inspir...
quadram.ac.uk/blogs/inspir...
Inspiring the next generation: exploring the invisible microbial world with students in Koothanoor, India - Quadram Institute
Research Scientist Dr Revathy Krishnamurthy reflects on her visit to the village where she grew up in India and inspiring the next generation to discover the world of science.
quadram.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Incredibly proud of Dr Revathy who is inspiring the next generation of scientists around the world. And even though we can't see them through a foldscope, bacteriophages are still our favourite microbes 🤩
quadram.ac.uk/blogs/inspir...
quadram.ac.uk/blogs/inspir...
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Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Chimeric infective particles expand species boundaries in phage-inducible chromosomal island mobilization
Capsid-forming PICIs (cf-PICIs) produce their own capsids and exploit phage tails
from unrelated species to transfer their DNA across bacterial hosts. This tail piracy
enables broad dissemination and ...
www.cell.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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My plans to start a new university in Dorset have run into significant economic headwinds, but I am confident that the business case is solid
September 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
My plans to start a new university in Dorset have run into significant economic headwinds, but I am confident that the business case is solid
We have expanded our ICTV Virus Taxonomy profiles and chapters to include higher ranks, which have been recently introduced and may not be familiar to all virologists.
You can find our 2-page Profiles (citable record) in JGV @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv...
You can find our 2-page Profiles (citable record) in JGV @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv...
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles | Microbiology Society
Journal of General Virology ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles are a freely available series of concise, review-type articles that provide overviews of the classification, structure and properties of indivi...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We have expanded our ICTV Virus Taxonomy profiles and chapters to include higher ranks, which have been recently introduced and may not be familiar to all virologists.
You can find our 2-page Profiles (citable record) in JGV @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv...
You can find our 2-page Profiles (citable record) in JGV @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv...
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Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
August 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis
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🚨 Job alert 🚨
I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub
Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e
Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2
Deadline: 21st September.
I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub
Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e
Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2
Deadline: 21st September.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology
www.kcl.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...
August 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper.
Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.
www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...
Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.
www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...
“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant
My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…
www.southernfriedscience.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper.
Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.
www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...
Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.
www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...
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Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!
We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨
Huge team effort!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨
Huge team effort!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!
We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨
Huge team effort!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨
Huge team effort!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
An overview of open science in eco-evo research and the publisher effect.
ecoevorxiv.org
July 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology
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Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate:Clifton Campus
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
I’m very excited to be at the 26th #Evergreen Phage Biology Conference, now in Knoxville TN. We started yesterday with preconference workshops and have our first full day of talks today. I can’t wait to hear about all the great #phage research going on!
August 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I’m very excited to be at the 26th #Evergreen Phage Biology Conference, now in Knoxville TN. We started yesterday with preconference workshops and have our first full day of talks today. I can’t wait to hear about all the great #phage research going on!
Amazing opportunity and seems like there's project for every type of phage researcher!
🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages”
Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide.
👇 Read on for details!
#Phage
Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide.
👇 Read on for details!
#Phage
July 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Amazing opportunity and seems like there's project for every type of phage researcher!
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Congratulations to all our former PhD students who are graduating this summer! 🥳
Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸
Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓
➡️ buff.ly/3gSiDwt
Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸
Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓
➡️ buff.ly/3gSiDwt
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Congratulations to all our former PhD students who are graduating this summer! 🥳
Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸
Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓
➡️ buff.ly/3gSiDwt
Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸
Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓
➡️ buff.ly/3gSiDwt