Ella Sieradzki
@sieravirus.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ Aarhus University | ERC starting 2024 | Microbial/viral ecology | crazy cat lady |
@EMG_Lyon @jemersonmicro @UCBerkeley @Firestone_lab @BanfieldLab @JedFuhrman 🇮🇱🇺🇦
@EMG_Lyon @jemersonmicro @UCBerkeley @Firestone_lab @BanfieldLab @JedFuhrman 🇮🇱🇺🇦
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
Let's talk -80 freezers:
Recommendations? Dis-recommendations?
What do you suggest prioritising and why?
Bonus points if you have input on buying one in Europe.
* photo of Muffin for cat tax
Recommendations? Dis-recommendations?
What do you suggest prioritising and why?
Bonus points if you have input on buying one in Europe.
* photo of Muffin for cat tax
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Let's talk -80 freezers:
Recommendations? Dis-recommendations?
What do you suggest prioritising and why?
Bonus points if you have input on buying one in Europe.
* photo of Muffin for cat tax
Recommendations? Dis-recommendations?
What do you suggest prioritising and why?
Bonus points if you have input on buying one in Europe.
* photo of Muffin for cat tax
Interested in RNA virus discovery? You can still register for the RdRp summit and attend remotely!
We'll have some really nice talks and cutting edge discussions on best practices and new directions in the field.
rdrp.io
#phagesky #virosky #bioinformatics
We'll have some really nice talks and cutting edge discussions on best practices and new directions in the field.
rdrp.io
#phagesky #virosky #bioinformatics
rdrp.io
The official website of the RdRp Summit.
rdrp.io
April 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Interested in RNA virus discovery? You can still register for the RdRp summit and attend remotely!
We'll have some really nice talks and cutting edge discussions on best practices and new directions in the field.
rdrp.io
#phagesky #virosky #bioinformatics
We'll have some really nice talks and cutting edge discussions on best practices and new directions in the field.
rdrp.io
#phagesky #virosky #bioinformatics
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
April 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025.
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️
More info at RdRp.io
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology: Thematic Issue on Ecology of Soil Microorganisms
Editors:
@pbaldrian.bsky.social
@jennihultman.bsky.social
Petr Kohout
Minna Männistö
@tainapennanen.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...
Submission deadline: 28 November 2025
Editors:
@pbaldrian.bsky.social
@jennihultman.bsky.social
Petr Kohout
Minna Männistö
@tainapennanen.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...
Submission deadline: 28 November 2025
Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, publishing leading research in the microbial ecology community, publishes a variety of thematic issues covering a diverse range of to
academic.oup.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Calls for papers from FEMS Microbiology Ecology: Thematic Issue on Ecology of Soil Microorganisms
Editors:
@pbaldrian.bsky.social
@jennihultman.bsky.social
Petr Kohout
Minna Männistö
@tainapennanen.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...
Submission deadline: 28 November 2025
Editors:
@pbaldrian.bsky.social
@jennihultman.bsky.social
Petr Kohout
Minna Männistö
@tainapennanen.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...
Submission deadline: 28 November 2025
RNA phages are phosphate limited, and possibly as implicated as their DNA counterparts in soil microbiome dynamics following soil wetup (first rain after the dry season).
Out today in SBB!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
@soilmicrobes.bsky.social
1/n
Out today in SBB!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
@soilmicrobes.bsky.social
1/n
Redirecting
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
RNA phages are phosphate limited, and possibly as implicated as their DNA counterparts in soil microbiome dynamics following soil wetup (first rain after the dry season).
Out today in SBB!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
@soilmicrobes.bsky.social
1/n
Out today in SBB!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
@soilmicrobes.bsky.social
1/n
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
Our paper is out and is open access!
Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@sieravirus.bsky.social @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social
Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@sieravirus.bsky.social @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social
Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up
Soil rewetting after a dry period results in a surge of activity and succession in both microbial and DNA virus communities. Less is known about the r…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Our paper is out and is open access!
Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@sieravirus.bsky.social @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social
Phosphate amendment drives bloom of RNA viruses after soil wet-up.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@sieravirus.bsky.social @jeffinerca.bsky.social @graemenicol.bsky.social @christinahazard.bsky.social
Marine nitrifies are incredibly important for the global nitrogen cycle.
Tangentially, I met Sookie at #ISME2024 and we had lots of fun testing out South African food and cocktails.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tangentially, I met Sookie at #ISME2024 and we had lots of fun testing out South African food and cocktails.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Basin-scale dynamics and enrichment-enabled genomics of marine nitrifiers: seasonality, niches, interactions, and genomic uniqueness
Nitrification occurs widely from the deep sea to animal holobionts, but the eco-evolutionary forces shaping the niches and dynamics of the lineages of the chemoautotrophic bacteria and archaea respons...
www.biorxiv.org
February 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Marine nitrifies are incredibly important for the global nitrogen cycle.
Tangentially, I met Sookie at #ISME2024 and we had lots of fun testing out South African food and cocktails.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tangentially, I met Sookie at #ISME2024 and we had lots of fun testing out South African food and cocktails.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A beautiful initiative: crowdfunding to purchase and protect biodiversity hotspots worldwide via local NGOs. I'm so in!
this-is-my-earth.org
this-is-my-earth.org
TiME · This is My Earth
We buy lands rich in biodiversity and hand them over to local communities and NGOs to protect. You can vote and decide which land to save.
this-is-my-earth.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A beautiful initiative: crowdfunding to purchase and protect biodiversity hotspots worldwide via local NGOs. I'm so in!
this-is-my-earth.org
this-is-my-earth.org
Going to #ViBioM2025 ? Interested in discovery of RNA viruses? Consider joining us 2 days early (May 11-12) in Lisbon for the 2025 RdRp summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ! Program and abstract submission will be available soon.
We'll talk advances in methodology from isolation to bioinformatics.
We'll talk advances in methodology from isolation to bioinformatics.
January 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Going to #ViBioM2025 ? Interested in discovery of RNA viruses? Consider joining us 2 days early (May 11-12) in Lisbon for the 2025 RdRp summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ! Program and abstract submission will be available soon.
We'll talk advances in methodology from isolation to bioinformatics.
We'll talk advances in methodology from isolation to bioinformatics.
Using stable isotope probing in the lab and wondering how it compares to reality in the field? Look no further. Bottom line: microcosms are more prone to opportunists, but aren't a horrible approximation. Considering labor/price differences I'd say they're acceptable
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
journals.asm.org
January 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Using stable isotope probing in the lab and wondering how it compares to reality in the field? Look no further. Bottom line: microcosms are more prone to opportunists, but aren't a horrible approximation. Considering labor/price differences I'd say they're acceptable
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Definitely saw this in mediterranean grassland via metatranscriptomics
www.biorxiv.org/node/4329066...
www.biorxiv.org/node/4329066...
Distribution of alternative routes for completing denitrification in microbial genomes and metagenomes of global biomes
Diverse microorganisms can execute one or more steps in denitrification, during which nitrate or nitrite is successively reduced into nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, and ultimately dinitrogen. Many of th...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Definitely saw this in mediterranean grassland via metatranscriptomics
www.biorxiv.org/node/4329066...
www.biorxiv.org/node/4329066...
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
doi.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Wetting dry soil rapidly stimulates microbial activity and has important consequences for biogeochemical cycling. In our paper out today, we show that part of that response can be explained by how bacterial genomes are written (i.e. codon usage, nucleotide freq., genome size)
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
👋 Hi antiphage defense community, we are soon releasing an update of DefenseFinder.
We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things.
Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏
We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things.
Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏
January 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
👋 Hi antiphage defense community, we are soon releasing an update of DefenseFinder.
We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things.
Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏
We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things.
Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏
Fungi and isotopes alert! Great paper to start off the new year.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions - Nature Communications
How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more drought-resistant than mic...
www.nature.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Fungi and isotopes alert! Great paper to start off the new year.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interested in discovering new viruses from soil that may be affecting global carbon sequestration? Apply for a PhD position with me at Aarhus University in Flakkebjerg! Our group is very international, supportive and friendly. Applications due by February 1st 2025.
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
Discovery and physiology of soil viruses
phd.tech.au.dk
January 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Cool! SAR11 phylogenomics and so many new (almost) complete genomes! Wish I could see the sup info for how 16S compares between them. Guess I'll have to be patient...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New isolate genomes and global marine metagenomes resolve ecologically relevant units of SAR11
The bacterial order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is among the most abundant and widely distributed microbial lineages across the global surface ocean, where it forms an integral component of the marine ca...
www.biorxiv.org
January 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Cool! SAR11 phylogenomics and so many new (almost) complete genomes! Wish I could see the sup info for how 16S compares between them. Guess I'll have to be patient...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
#PhD #position #alert
2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC
#1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a
#2 on virus-host stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru)
Please share!
2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC
#1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a
#2 on virus-host stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru)
Please share!
Stellenausschreibung
tinyurl.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:37 PM
#PhD #position #alert
2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC
#1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a
#2 on virus-host stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru)
Please share!
2 bioinfo PhD positions @ProbstLab @RESIST_CRC
#1 on microbial & epigenetic stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/bdf8eu5a
#2 on virus-host stress response in rivers
tinyurl.com/43cjd6es (supervision Moraru)
Please share!
Really, ISME journal? On Dec 22nd you sent me an invitation to review and I haven't replied by Christmas Eve?
Shocker.
Shocker.
a man with a beard is talking on his cell phone
ALT: a man with a beard is talking on his cell phone
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Really, ISME journal? On Dec 22nd you sent me an invitation to review and I haven't replied by Christmas Eve?
Shocker.
Shocker.
Reposted by Ella Sieradzki
In addition to applied statistics, I have another repository on #DataVisualization: "quick data vis" (github.com/cxli233/Quic...). It used to be under "Online_R_learning" but now it has its own repository on GitHub. I have used this content to teach 1st year grad students for 3 years.
December 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
In addition to applied statistics, I have another repository on #DataVisualization: "quick data vis" (github.com/cxli233/Quic...). It used to be under "Online_R_learning" but now it has its own repository on GitHub. I have used this content to teach 1st year grad students for 3 years.
SIP friends: does anyone have experience with Eppendorf (formerly Koki) himac ultracentrifuges? I'm considering buying the CP80NX but only have personal experience with Beckman and Sorval.
*Biscuit and Muffin pic provided for increased traffic
*Biscuit and Muffin pic provided for increased traffic
December 4, 2024 at 9:36 AM
SIP friends: does anyone have experience with Eppendorf (formerly Koki) himac ultracentrifuges? I'm considering buying the CP80NX but only have personal experience with Beckman and Sorval.
*Biscuit and Muffin pic provided for increased traffic
*Biscuit and Muffin pic provided for increased traffic
Interested in discovering new viruses from soil that may be affecting global carbon sequestration? Apply for a PhD position with me at Aarhus University in Flakkebjerg! Our group is very international, supportive and friendly. Applications due by February 1st 2025.
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
Discovery and physiology of soil viruses
phd.tech.au.dk
December 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Interested in discovering new viruses from soil that may be affecting global carbon sequestration? Apply for a PhD position with me at Aarhus University in Flakkebjerg! Our group is very international, supportive and friendly. Applications due by February 1st 2025.
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
It's definitely about time I visit Helsinki. Let's hang out!
ITS OPEN NOW, Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 2025 Summer promotion: Short nights of Northern midsummer enable lots of science! #esm2025
www.lyyti.fi/p/Ecology_of...
www.lyyti.fi/p/Ecology_of...
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
It's definitely about time I visit Helsinki. Let's hang out!
Cool to see new tools focusing on harder to identify viruses. Looking forward to giving BEREN a shot! Will Luthien be next?
BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data
Viruses in the kingdom Bamfordvirae , specifically giant viruses (NCLDVs) in the phylum Nucleocytoviricota and smaller members in the Preplasmiviricota phylum, are widespread and important groups of v...
www.biorxiv.org
October 15, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Cool to see new tools focusing on harder to identify viruses. Looking forward to giving BEREN a shot! Will Luthien be next?
BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...