Ingrida Olendraite
@ingrida.bsky.social
CSO at VUGENE | Bioinformatics for your research. Molecular Biology of RNA viruses and RdRp. Transitioning from Virology bioinformatics postdoc at Firth group, University of Cambridge. Views my own.
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Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference.
Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes!
isvm.org
#phagesky #virus
Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes!
isvm.org
#phagesky #virus
ISVM – International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms
isvm.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference.
Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes!
isvm.org
#phagesky #virus
Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes!
isvm.org
#phagesky #virus
RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !)
With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :)
calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg...
CET: 14:00–15:00,
Format: 30 min + 30 min
With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :)
calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg...
CET: 14:00–15:00,
Format: 30 min + 30 min
CLAE: A High‐Fidelity Nanopore Sequencing Strategy for Read‐Level Viral Variant Detection and Environmental RNA Virus Discovery
High-fidelity Nanopore sequencing offers a cost-effective, portable path to uncovering viral dark matter in complex environments—but suffers from severe read-length bias, low throughput, and limited ...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !)
With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :)
calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg...
CET: 14:00–15:00,
Format: 30 min + 30 min
With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :)
calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg...
CET: 14:00–15:00,
Format: 30 min + 30 min
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We are looking for mentors for the Sci.STEPS program! Please apply if you want to help your junior colleagues around the globe navigate their career path in any science related field.
🤩Join the Sci.STEPS 2026 Mentor Cohort!
We invite #mentors from varied backgrounds and stages of their #scientific careers to apply and share their knowledge and expertise with our #mentees.
✏ Register here: lnkd.in/edZggY32
🗓 Deadline: November 10th 2025
👀more about #SciSTEPS: www.scisteps.org
We invite #mentors from varied backgrounds and stages of their #scientific careers to apply and share their knowledge and expertise with our #mentees.
✏ Register here: lnkd.in/edZggY32
🗓 Deadline: November 10th 2025
👀more about #SciSTEPS: www.scisteps.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We are looking for mentors for the Sci.STEPS program! Please apply if you want to help your junior colleagues around the globe navigate their career path in any science related field.
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Assembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social
A catalog of metagenome-assembled genomes from Amazonian forest and pasture soils | Microbiology Resource Announcements
Our group previously recovered 64 bacterial and 5 archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes
(MAGs) from Amazonian forest and pasture soils and evaluated their genomic traits
(1). Here, we formally announc...
doi.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Assembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social
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Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search!
Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼
Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼
Logan enables minute-scale k-mer search, and hour-scale deep homology protein alignment search, across 100+ Billion proteins.
www.logan-search.org
www.logan-search.org
September 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search!
Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼
Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼
This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷
🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.
doi.org/10.1101/2024...
September 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷
what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)
Last week we had a 3-day lab retreat at Vilnius University's base in Puvočiai with Lander de Coninck & @ingrida.bsky.social joining us as visitors. These retreats keep getting better & more productive thanks to the students & especially fellow PI @mgabrielaite.bsky.social. I'm super proud!
September 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)
Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation).
September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST
rdrp.io/journal-club...
September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST
rdrp.io/journal-club...
September 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation).
September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST
rdrp.io/journal-club...
September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST
rdrp.io/journal-club...
Happy world RNA day! AUG1 🎉 🎉 🎉
While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule!
This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public.
#RNAday
While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule!
This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public.
#RNAday
August 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Happy world RNA day! AUG1 🎉 🎉 🎉
While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule!
This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public.
#RNAday
While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule!
This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public.
#RNAday
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This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵
July 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵
One of the small life joys is how Macs with M chip batteries basically never die. You travel, forget your chargers etc - never a problem.
Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac.
Happy weekend!
Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac.
Happy weekend!
June 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
One of the small life joys is how Macs with M chip batteries basically never die. You travel, forget your chargers etc - never a problem.
Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac.
Happy weekend!
Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac.
Happy weekend!
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how many 21-mers are shared between different species genomes at the genus level? #sourmash
Question about the impact of shared genus-level k-mers on abundance estimation · Issue #3694 · sourmash-bio/sourmash
Hi @ctb and collaborators, I had a thought recently and wanted to ask your input. I'm regularly using sourmash gather to estimate compositions (taxonomy + abundance), as well as Kraken and other no...
github.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
how many 21-mers are shared between different species genomes at the genus level? #sourmash
Not just great k-mer content but some important historical facts (: Thanks @rayanchikhi.bsky.social !
June 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Not just great k-mer content but some important historical facts (: Thanks @rayanchikhi.bsky.social !
This is for sure my fav book. This is why I am going through it slowly. Thanks to Bluey (: can read it for a bit on a Saturday morning:).
"Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.
"Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.
May 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is for sure my fav book. This is why I am going through it slowly. Thanks to Bluey (: can read it for a bit on a Saturday morning:).
"Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.
"Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.
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And founding ARTIC member @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social) will build innovative portable and low-cost laboratory solutions and training packages to accompany them, now working with new ARTIC investigator Jenny Molloy who will develop open-source wet lab reagents for sequencing
May 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
And founding ARTIC member @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social) will build innovative portable and low-cost laboratory solutions and training packages to accompany them, now working with new ARTIC investigator Jenny Molloy who will develop open-source wet lab reagents for sequencing
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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham
Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats
www.birmingham.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
Wellcome Genome campus started to feel like home :)
back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25
last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :)
🎊 90 countries >600 attendees!
Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎
back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25
last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :)
🎊 90 countries >600 attendees!
Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎
May 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Wellcome Genome campus started to feel like home :)
back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25
last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :)
🎊 90 countries >600 attendees!
Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎
back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25
last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :)
🎊 90 countries >600 attendees!
Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎
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What turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? 🌍🦠
Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting.
📍Oxford Martin School & Online
⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm
Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics
Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting.
📍Oxford Martin School & Online
⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm
Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics
May 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
What turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? 🌍🦠
Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting.
📍Oxford Martin School & Online
⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm
Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics
Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting.
📍Oxford Martin School & Online
⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm
Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics
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I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
May 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
Reposted by Ingrida Olendraite
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
Save and share the post!
These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs.
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Even the event photographer seems interested in @thekatybrown.bsky.social talk :))
Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !
Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !
May 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Even the event photographer seems interested in @thekatybrown.bsky.social talk :))
Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !
Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !
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You can find RdRpCATCH here
github.com/dimitris-kar...
github.com/dimitris-kar...
GitHub - dimitris-karapliafis/RdRpCATCH: A community effort to create a shared resource for HMM-based RdRp discovery
A community effort to create a shared resource for HMM-based RdRp discovery - dimitris-karapliafis/RdRpCATCH
github.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You can find RdRpCATCH here
github.com/dimitris-kar...
github.com/dimitris-kar...
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Detecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown
May 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Detecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown
Reposted by Ingrida Olendraite
Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture.
#RdRpSummit2025
#RdRpSummit2025
May 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture.
#RdRpSummit2025
#RdRpSummit2025