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Clara Torres-Barceló
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Researching the diversity and interaction of phages with plant pathogenic bacteria 🌱🔬 | INRAE | PHIM | Montpellier, France. 🇵🇸
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Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...
Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world | CNRS - Conférences Jacques Monod (CJM)
cjm.sb-roscoff.fr
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Greetings from Nancy after an amazing #Phages.fr 2025 meeting! Xanthomonas phage folks from @phimresearch.bsky.social + Fernando Clavijo on Ralstonia phages!
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Interested in doing a PhD in phage biology? See below a super cool project on megaphage ecology and evolution available at the University of Jyväskylä (FIN) in Elina Laanto's lab (Project no. 4). Co-supervision provided by yours truly.
🚀 PhD opportunity

The Dept of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, is recruiting 1–4 new PhD candidates.

One of the positions is potentially in my lab, focusing on megaphages and their hosts.

Details and apply here 👇
bit.ly/48eqYNB

#phage
Doctoral Researcher positions, Biological and Environmental Sciences
The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences is seeking applicants for 1–4 fully funded doctoral researcher positions. The positions will begin on August 1, 2026, or as agreed, for a maximu...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
L’Europe autorise son premier additif phagique 🧫🐔 ! Une avancée pour limiter les antibiotiques… mais vigilance : l’histoire pourrait se répéter. #phages #OneHealth @phimresearch.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social @sfp-france.bsky.social
www.jle.com/fr/revues/vi...
JLE - Virologie - Commercialisation en Europe d’un nouvel additif alimentaire à base de bactériophages dans le contexte « une seule santé » : qu’en disent les autorités réglementaires ?
www.jle.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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JOB OFFER #PhageSky

We have a postdoc position opening in my group to investigate phage-MGE interactions !

We're based in the very nice city of Lyon, France @mmsb-lyon.bsky.social

Contact me for more info !

>> Apply on the CNRS webpage emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctoral researcher Microbiology (M/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Phages evolve fast, or do they?
In oysters, some stay identical for years.
With >1,200 phages & 600 Vibrio genomes, we reveal long-term stability and new mobile elements.
Proud of this collaborative work across our teams (Roscoff-UdeM and @epcrocha.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Ecological constraints foster both extreme viral-host lineage stability and mobile element diversity in a marine community
Phages are typically viewed as very rapidly evolving biological entities. Little is known, however, about whether and how phages can establish long-term genetic stability. We addressed this eco-evolut...
www.biorxiv.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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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...
October 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Day 5, Moon. The physical structures of phages are often compared to the shape and landing action of a lunar lander, with tail fibres reminiscent of the landing struts, to gently settle on the surface of its host. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky
October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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You like phages ? In this publication, we use metaHiC and our new version of the MetaTOR pipeline to challenge the traditional view of phages with a narrow host range.
@rkoszul.bsky.social @natmicrobiol.nature.com @cnrs.fr @institutpasteur.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems - Nature Microbiology
Proximity-ligation-based sequencing from 111 samples and 5 environments reveals that a substantial proportion of phages infect multiple species.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We're looking for a technician at Institut Pasteur for experimental work on satellite-phage-bacteria interactions, working directly with @jmouradesousa.bsky.social and myself in the lab of @epcrocha.bsky.social ! ANR funded.

Link to the job emploi.pasteur.fr/offre-de-emp...
Thx for sharing!
INSTITUT PASTEUR - Technicien de recherche Microbiologie H/F
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September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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
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Interested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social
@sebwielgoss.bsky.social
@oxunipress.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Happy to see our paper out!

Functional assessment of anti-phage defence systems in their native clinical E. coli host
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Thread in previous post 👇
September 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Part of the XPLAIN team (Xanthomonas-PLAnts INteractions) from @phimresearch.bsky.social, Montpellier, at the @eseb2025.bsky.social meeting in Barcelona ! (with Claire Neema)
August 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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New preprint out! 🧬🦠🌱

What shapes #phage–bacteria #networks in #plant environments?
- Ecological origins of bacteria and phages?
- Phage taxonomy?
- Bacterial phylogeny?
- #Prophages? #Defence-systems?

📖 here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Discover which of these actually shape the network 👇
Ecological ubiquity and phylogeny drive nestedness in phages–bacteria networks and shape the bacterial defensome
Identifying the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape phage–bacterial interactions is key to understanding their dynamics in microbial communities. Yet, such interactions remain poorly charac...
www.biorxiv.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Excited 🥳 to share our latest work on gut phages!
Big thanks to @epcrocha.bsky.social, Erick D, Camille d'H, @fplazaonate.bsky.social, Quentin LB, and all others involved for support and contributions! 🙌
Out in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
Here's what we found 🤓
July 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🔬 24-month postdoc position Opening: "Rice Disease Metagenomics in East Africa"
Join UMR PHIM (Montpellier, France) @phimresearch.bsky.social
🧬 Oxford Nanopore long-read metagenomics
🌍 3-month field mission in Kenya
⚙️ Recent PhDs
Apply: sebastien.cunnac@ird.fr
#PostdocJobs #Metagenomics #Rice
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📣 Position available: Research tech in microbial experimental evolution! Working alongside postdoc Louise Flanagan (@flanagella.bsky.social) on understanding how Pseudomonas evolves resistance to antibiotics. 🦠🧫
Closing 9 July #Microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Technician :Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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How do multiple coexisting bacteria and phages (co)evolve? Well... they don't (or do so much less!

In this paper we tracked bacteria-phage (co)evolution in monoculture (individual bacteria-phage pairs) or in polyculture (all three pairs) over 6 weeks. Read more here👇
doi.org/10.1099/mic....
June 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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✍️ We had a great time writing this Spotlight article on one of our favorite topics: how phages interact with each other! 🦠
From cooperation to competition, phage-phage interactions reveal a fascinating layer of microbial life that’s often overlooked.
A piece crafted by the talented Josie Elliott!
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Engineering soil with phages to fight #AMR. Very cool.

"Harnessing phage consortia to mitigate the soil antibiotic resistome by targeting keystone taxa Streptomyces"

by Hanpeng Liao et al. in @microbiomej.bsky.social

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Harnessing phage consortia to mitigate the soil antibiotic resistome by targeting keystone taxa Streptomyces - Microbiome
Background Antimicrobial resistance poses a substantial and growing threat to global health. While antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are tracked most closely in clinical settings, their spread remain...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Our latest preprint just dropped @paulturnerlab.bsky.social

We evolved bacteria on swim plates, against a phage that attacks through the flagellum. Motility trades off AND trades up(!!) with phage-resistance!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Le MMSB propose une mobilité NOEMI
Rejoignez l'équipe "Ecologie et Évolution Moléculaire des Phages" qui travaille sur les éléments génétiques mobiles et l'immunité bactérienne. Profil Génétique bactérienne, Écologie microbienne et Evolution expérimentale
🤝Contactez-nous pour rejoindre notre unité!
MMSB – Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry
mmsb.cnrs.fr
May 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM