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GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.

Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.

Remember, you can find our previous newsletters here - getgenome.net/network
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Hela Gargouri kicking off the Tunisian Bioinformatic Congress #Tbio2025 in Sousse 🇹🇳

@GetGenome is proud to support this event!
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
GetGenome Newsletter -- September 2025 getgenome.net/network
September 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🌍 Early Career Researcher from an Arab or African country? Fellowships available for 3–12 months at Nanjing Agricultural University. Apply by Oct 15 — don’t miss out!
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Warmest congrats to Nourelhouda Abdelkafi and colleagues at University of Sfax 🇹🇳 for their paper "Comparative genomics of three rhizobacteria strains indicate functional complementarity for inoculum development" #GGTunisia2022 #GetGenome doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...
September 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA):

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has triggered seven pandemics, with the seventh pandemic emerging in 1961. The success of seventh pandemic El Tor (7PET) V. cholerae as a human pathogen is linked to its acquisition of mobile genetic ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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For anyone who has used pling for comparing plasmids using rearrangement distances ("how many structural events apart are these plasmids"), here's how to tweak parameters, and integrate it with typing info, and the host phylogeny
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/iqbal-lab-or...
Clustering of plasmid genomes for genomic epidemiology by using rearrangement distances, with pling
Integration of plasmids into genomic epidemiology is challenging, because there are no clearly defined evolving-units (equivalent to species), and because plasmids appear to evolve as much by structur...
www.biorxiv.org
September 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#MustWatch Cape to Carthage—AI across Africa @instadeep.bsky.social youtu.be/8i-_zepmkxA?...
Cape to Carthage - An African AI Journey | Full award-winning documentary
YouTube video by Decisive Agents
youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
August 2025 newsletter t.co/Ipf6GoFZDf
August 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Cool: for free. And here is story that is related becasue you might not want vector surprises of the less positive kind. This is free with registration...and here is a quasi open-access link. rdcu.be/eAfnP
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vector choices, vector surprises - Nature Methods
Vectors can be the ultimate vehicle for transporting material into cells. Except when they’re not so ultimate.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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This is a genuinely great thing. Please boost it.
We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)

Through @GetGenome scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.

medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through GetGenome, scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing — removing barriers, improving quality control…
medium.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)

Through @getgenome.bsky.social scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.

medium.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)
Through GetGenome, scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing — removing barriers, improving quality control…
medium.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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I just published: Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy

This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇
medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...
Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy
This post is adapted from a talk I gave at the Plantae Presents webinar More Money, More Data: Data-Driven versus Hypothesis-Driven…
medium.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Yesterday we presented our work on the impact of 🌳🌲 conversion to 🥑 orchards on soil microbial communities at #ISMELat2025.

If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
July 2025 newsletter getgenome.net/network
July 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on July 18 at 11:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱

👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp

#plantscience
July 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Join us in ~2 hours 4PM BST / 11AM EST for a discussion of Data-driven Versus Hypothesis-driven Research... #AcademicChatter #phdchat
📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on July 18 at 11:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱

👉 Free registration at buff.ly/Ee5ZtXp

#plantscience
July 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I just published: When war and famine hit home: A PhD student who stepped up

What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is how Hagos @hagos98.bsky.social chose to act.

medium.com/p/when-war-a...
When war and famine hit home: A PhD student who stepped up
What would you do if war and famine broke out in your homeland — while you were ten thousand kilometers away, working on your PhD? This is…
medium.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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It's great to be here! The morning session has been fantastic, session 2 is kicking off now with a talk from Manel Chaouachi from the Center of Biotechnology of Borj Cédria Tunisia, about how bacteria living inside plants boost their immune systems 🦠🌱

#ECR #MicrobialGenomics #PlantImmunity
We’re thrilled to host the ECR Symposium with @microbesNG @micronorwich #MNGPopUp
July 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We’re thrilled to host the ECR Symposium with @microbesNG @micronorwich #MNGPopUp
July 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today we host in Norwich @GetGenome pioneer and plant microbiologist Naceur Djebali from the Centre of Biotechnology of Borj Cedria, Tunisia @BiotechCbbc 🇹🇳
 
“Biodiversity and ecology of fungi associated with wilt disease of alfalfa in the oases of Southern Tunisia”
July 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📣 Excited to announce our #MNGPopUp keynote: @pathogenomenick.bsky.social
🎤 “Pathogen surveillance through metagenomics: the next frontier?”
🗓️ 3 July | 📍 Norwich + online
🎟️ linktr.ee/microbesng
#MicroSky #Genomics #ECR @getgenome.bsky.social
@imibirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Great article @kamounlab.bsky.social, inspiring story from both the Algerian scientist working on desert soil microbiomes and microbes producing secondary metabolites and amazing what @getgenome.bsky.social has already set in motion. #democratizeScience
June 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Inspiring article highlighting who democratizing science by providing access to #Genomics has already let to results and new collaborations. Great initiative and expertly executed by @getgenome.bsky.social
I just published: Mountains can meet: farming the desert with microbes, not fertilizers

In the harsh deserts of Southern Algeria, Nadjette Djemouai is uncovering the power of native microbes to support sustainable agriculture.

@getgenome.bsky.social 🇩🇿

kamounlab.medium.com/mountains-ca...
June 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Inspiring account from @kamounlab.bsky.social on a symposium in Algeria organised by @getgenome.bsky.social

Mountains can meet: farming the desert with microbes, not fertilizers by @kamounlab.bsky.social medium.com/p/mountains-...
Mountains can meet: farming the desert with microbes, not fertilizers
In the harsh deserts of southern Algeria, scientists like Nadjette Djemouai are uncovering the power of native microbes to support…
medium.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM