Vincent Delafont
@vincentdlft.bsky.social
Passionated by water microbiology, microbial ecology, host-microbe interactions and endosymbioses. Assistant professor at U. of Poitiers 🇫🇷. bike commuter since 2006🚴🏼♂️
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Belated happy birthday to the #LTEE.
Started 24-Feb-1988.
Evolve cells, evolve!
#science #evolution #bacteria #microsky @barricklab.bsky.social
Started 24-Feb-1988.
Evolve cells, evolve!
#science #evolution #bacteria #microsky @barricklab.bsky.social
February 27, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Belated happy birthday to the #LTEE.
Started 24-Feb-1988.
Evolve cells, evolve!
#science #evolution #bacteria #microsky @barricklab.bsky.social
Started 24-Feb-1988.
Evolve cells, evolve!
#science #evolution #bacteria #microsky @barricklab.bsky.social
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COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️ github.com/linxingchen/...
COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes - Nature Microbiology
Contig overlap-based reassembly enables the generation of accurate and high-quality viral genomes from assembled metagenomes.
www.nature.com
February 9, 2024 at 2:28 PM
COBRA improves the completeness and contiguity of viral genomes assembled from metagenomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️ github.com/linxingchen/...
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We now have a fully funded (3 year) PhD position available in disease ecology (Lyme disease with focus on modeling of ecological interactions and processes influencing disease dynamics). Please help spread to interested applicants! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
January 30, 2024 at 2:43 PM
We now have a fully funded (3 year) PhD position available in disease ecology (Lyme disease with focus on modeling of ecological interactions and processes influencing disease dynamics). Please help spread to interested applicants! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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3rd protistology Nordics meeting now open for registration #protistsonsky
protistologynordics.netlify.app/upcoming/pro...
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Protistology Nordics Meeting 2024 | Protistology Nordics Society
Join us for the 3rd Protistology Nordics Meeting in Uppsala on 2-3 May 2024!
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January 31, 2024 at 2:33 PM
3rd protistology Nordics meeting now open for registration #protistsonsky
protistologynordics.netlify.app/upcoming/pro...
protistologynordics.netlify.app/upcoming/pro...
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Interested in drinking water flow cytometry? Check out our new studying evaluating near real-time FCM for disinfection system monitoring! @lutraskin.bsky.social 🧪 #MicroSky
Assessing the effectiveness of near real-time flow cytometry in monitoring ozone disinfection in a full-scale drinking water treatment plant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.29.23300640v1
Assessing the effectiveness of near real-time flow cytometry in monitoring ozone disinfection in a full-scale drinking water treatment plant https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.29.23300640v1
While real-time monitoring of physicochemical parameters has widely been incorporated into drinking
www.medrxiv.org
December 30, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Interested in drinking water flow cytometry? Check out our new studying evaluating near real-time FCM for disinfection system monitoring! @lutraskin.bsky.social 🧪 #MicroSky
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Ten days remaining to apply to this exciting PhD position - join us in our quest to explore novel archaeal lineages!
Want to do a #PhD focusing on discovery, cultivation and characterization of novel prokaryotes? Come and join my group in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #cultivation #microscopy #archaea #PhDposition Please share & repost
December 21, 2023 at 9:24 AM
Ten days remaining to apply to this exciting PhD position - join us in our quest to explore novel archaeal lineages!
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📢Listen up Microbial Ecology nerds! 🤓
#ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation!
We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year!
isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...
#ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation!
We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year!
isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...
Abstract Submission | ISME
isme19.isme-microbes.org
December 20, 2023 at 9:51 AM
📢Listen up Microbial Ecology nerds! 🤓
#ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation!
We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year!
isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...
#ISME19 Abstract submission deadline is February 2nd if you want to be considered for an oral or poster presentation!
We want to see and hear from you in Cape Town from August 18-23 next year!
isme19.isme-microbes.org/isme19-abstr...
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The protist cultural renaissance www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs
The protist cultural renaissance
Protists are key players in the biosphere. Here, we provide a perspective on integrating
protist culturing with omics approaches, imaging, and high-throughput single-cell
manipulation strategies, conc...
www.cell.com
December 15, 2023 at 2:26 PM
The protist cultural renaissance www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs
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"Gene duplication as a major force driving the genome expansion in some giant viruses"-Machado et al describe a new giant virus, Cedratvirus pambiensis, and show that its 623,564 kb genome has evolved through gene duplication, a common theme among giant viruses. #giantViruses doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
December 15, 2023 at 7:32 PM
"Gene duplication as a major force driving the genome expansion in some giant viruses"-Machado et al describe a new giant virus, Cedratvirus pambiensis, and show that its 623,564 kb genome has evolved through gene duplication, a common theme among giant viruses. #giantViruses doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
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Want to do a #PhD focusing on discovery, cultivation and characterization of novel prokaryotes? Come and join my group in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #cultivation #microscopy #archaea #PhDposition Please share & repost
November 29, 2023 at 9:01 AM
Want to do a #PhD focusing on discovery, cultivation and characterization of novel prokaryotes? Come and join my group in the Laboratory of Microbiology at Wageningen University! Apply here: wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #cultivation #microscopy #archaea #PhDposition Please share & repost
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~85% of animal species are Arthropods.
~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont.
~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO.
-#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia
-Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy.
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont.
~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO.
-#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia
-Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy.
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Isolation of Phage WO Particles from Wolbachia-Infected Arthropods
Nearly all arthropod-associated Wolbachia contain intact and/or genomic remnants of phage WO, temperate bacteriophages that facilitate horizontal gene transfer, genomic rearrangement of the bacterial ...
link.springer.com
November 28, 2023 at 2:00 PM
~85% of animal species are Arthropods.
~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont.
~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO.
-#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia
-Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy.
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont.
~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO.
-#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia
-Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy.
link.springer.com/protocol/10....
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Pretty interesting preprint on Legionella longbeachae from some smart French colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 25, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Pretty interesting preprint on Legionella longbeachae from some smart French colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Amazing work by @annamichalik.bsky.social and co., from the Jagiellonian University, showing a quite interesting "trick" from an #endosymbiont to insure its maternal transmission. As a puls, an "unstable" #Sulcia genome and a tiny #Vidania
#SymbioSky #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
#SymbioSky #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
Facultatively intra-bacterial localization of a planthopper endosymbiont as an adaptation to its ver...
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
doi.org
November 21, 2023 at 12:09 AM
Amazing work by @annamichalik.bsky.social and co., from the Jagiellonian University, showing a quite interesting "trick" from an #endosymbiont to insure its maternal transmission. As a puls, an "unstable" #Sulcia genome and a tiny #Vidania
#SymbioSky #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
#SymbioSky #MicroSky
doi.org/10.1101/2023...
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🔍 Exciting news from @ettema.bsky.social
! Stay tuned for a forthcoming PhD position in cultivating novel microbial lineages, specifically #archaea, at Microbiology lab, at WUR campus in Wageningen. Spread the word to potential candidates! #ScienceCareers
! Stay tuned for a forthcoming PhD position in cultivating novel microbial lineages, specifically #archaea, at Microbiology lab, at WUR campus in Wageningen. Spread the word to potential candidates! #ScienceCareers
First post here: I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!!!). If you are interested in joining our lab at WUR campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.
November 6, 2023 at 9:34 AM
🔍 Exciting news from @ettema.bsky.social
! Stay tuned for a forthcoming PhD position in cultivating novel microbial lineages, specifically #archaea, at Microbiology lab, at WUR campus in Wageningen. Spread the word to potential candidates! #ScienceCareers
! Stay tuned for a forthcoming PhD position in cultivating novel microbial lineages, specifically #archaea, at Microbiology lab, at WUR campus in Wageningen. Spread the word to potential candidates! #ScienceCareers
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First post here: I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!!!). If you are interested in joining our lab at WUR campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.
November 3, 2023 at 12:48 PM
First post here: I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!!!). If you are interested in joining our lab at WUR campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.
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I am just so fascinated by this image. From this paper: analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#protistsonsky
#protistsonsky
October 31, 2023 at 8:37 AM
I am just so fascinated by this image. From this paper: analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#protistsonsky
#protistsonsky
It was good to hang around in #London, a first since Covid lockdown! Always pleasant to (re)discover places that makes this city such a great venue !
October 30, 2023 at 1:48 PM
It was good to hang around in #London, a first since Covid lockdown! Always pleasant to (re)discover places that makes this city such a great venue !
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Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
ISME Journal by Margaret I. Steele et al from David Queller and Joan Strassmann labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ISME Journal by Margaret I. Steele et al from David Queller and Joan Strassmann labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 28, 2023 at 9:34 AM
Predation-resistant Pseudomonas bacteria engage in symbiont-like behavior with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
ISME Journal by Margaret I. Steele et al from David Queller and Joan Strassmann labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ISME Journal by Margaret I. Steele et al from David Queller and Joan Strassmann labs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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happy to contribute to the new fees #protistsonsky
with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. >
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. >
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
![Halteria sp. dorsal view looking down showing the adoral zone of membranelles (AZM). (Modified) Image by Robert Berdan. [Source: https://www.canadiannaturephotographer.com/ciliates.html]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gudh3x7pgeh4uc6eee3zogtr/bafkreihew3q2ih7cx2lyrtwjjivgimnr56dkahmgwo74oa77vtnay6ujyy@jpeg)
October 28, 2023 at 4:21 PM
happy to contribute to the new fees #protistsonsky
with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. >
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. >
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
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Yay let’s get the #protistsonsky party started 😉
happy to contribute to the new fees #protistsonsky
with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. >
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
with and older post on "virovory" (?🤔 yes, munching viruses/phages😋) by protists, here Halteria sp. >
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...
October 28, 2023 at 5:16 PM
Yay let’s get the #protistsonsky party started 😉
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For all the people migrating here that work on #Symbiosis, I have now created a (hopefully) working feed for us. For now, simply tag posts with #SymbioSky and they will be collected there. No sign-up needed!
October 27, 2023 at 8:04 AM
For all the people migrating here that work on #Symbiosis, I have now created a (hopefully) working feed for us. For now, simply tag posts with #SymbioSky and they will be collected there. No sign-up needed!
Reposted by Vincent Delafont
DNA metabarcoding focused on difficult‐to‐culture protists: An effective approach to clarify biological interactions ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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October 19, 2023 at 1:02 PM
DNA metabarcoding focused on difficult‐to‐culture protists: An effective approach to clarify biological interactions ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs
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Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs
Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence sp...
ISME Communications - Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space
www.nature.com
October 18, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Extracellular vesicles are the main contributor to the non-viral protected extracellular sequence space www.nature.com/articles/s43... #jcampubs