Xabier Lopez-Alforja
@xabilopalf.bsky.social
Marine Microbial Ecology 🔬 at the @icmcsic.bsky.social
💻 🧬 Virus Bioinformatics
📊 Omic-data Analysis
Resque Diver | Night & Nitrox diver || (he/him)
💻 🧬 Virus Bioinformatics
📊 Omic-data Analysis
Resque Diver | Night & Nitrox diver || (he/him)
Pinned
Long-term decline of marine viruses associated with warming and oligotrophication at a NW Mediterranean coastal site
Abstract. Viruses play key roles in controlling microbial abundance and community composition, nutrient cycling, and productivity in marine systems. Rising
doi.org
#NewPaperAlert in @isme-microbes.bsky.social
🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social
📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social
📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Reposted by Xabier Lopez-Alforja
#NewResearch
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology
Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
www.nature.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#NewResearch
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co
#microsky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Xabier Lopez-Alforja
📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar:
"Untangle the complexity of the virosphere using single-cell RNA-sequencing"
🎙️ Amir Fromm | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
🗓️ 12 November 2025, 4 PM CET
📍 Online | Zoom (register for login details)
👉 coms.osu.edu/webinars/ecr...
"Untangle the complexity of the virosphere using single-cell RNA-sequencing"
🎙️ Amir Fromm | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
🗓️ 12 November 2025, 4 PM CET
📍 Online | Zoom (register for login details)
👉 coms.osu.edu/webinars/ecr...
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar:
"Untangle the complexity of the virosphere using single-cell RNA-sequencing"
🎙️ Amir Fromm | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
🗓️ 12 November 2025, 4 PM CET
📍 Online | Zoom (register for login details)
👉 coms.osu.edu/webinars/ecr...
"Untangle the complexity of the virosphere using single-cell RNA-sequencing"
🎙️ Amir Fromm | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
🗓️ 12 November 2025, 4 PM CET
📍 Online | Zoom (register for login details)
👉 coms.osu.edu/webinars/ecr...
A press note on our latest study has been released (select the language in the web)
📉 An unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the Western Mediterranean, based on over 20 years of data from the Blanes Microbial Observatory.
🗞️ Read the full press release here:
www.icm.csic.es/en/news/unpr...
📉 An unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the Western Mediterranean, based on over 20 years of data from the Blanes Microbial Observatory.
🗞️ Read the full press release here:
www.icm.csic.es/en/news/unpr...
Unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the western Mediterranean linked to climate change revealed | Institut de Ciències del Mar
A team led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has described a sustained and unprecedented decrease in the abundance of marine viruses in the northwestern Mediterranean over the last two de...
www.icm.csic.es
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A press note on our latest study has been released (select the language in the web)
📉 An unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the Western Mediterranean, based on over 20 years of data from the Blanes Microbial Observatory.
🗞️ Read the full press release here:
www.icm.csic.es/en/news/unpr...
📉 An unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the Western Mediterranean, based on over 20 years of data from the Blanes Microbial Observatory.
🗞️ Read the full press release here:
www.icm.csic.es/en/news/unpr...
Same patterns to those we've been observing in the mediterranean sea! Decrease in the overalll chlorophyll-a values
Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊
Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate
Chlorophyll a is declining in low- to mid-latitude oceans, indicating reduced ocean productivity and fewer phytoplankton blooms.
www.science.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Same patterns to those we've been observing in the mediterranean sea! Decrease in the overalll chlorophyll-a values
What a week in @same18-bcn.bsky.social in Barcelona! 🔬🧬
🌊🦠Presented my work on giant viruses & virophages in marine protists - even in the Hangover session!
🥂Great to have a moment to answer brilliant questions and make new connections 🌊
#giantvirus #virophages #SAME18 #AquaticMicrobiology
🌊🦠Presented my work on giant viruses & virophages in marine protists - even in the Hangover session!
🥂Great to have a moment to answer brilliant questions and make new connections 🌊
#giantvirus #virophages #SAME18 #AquaticMicrobiology
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What a week in @same18-bcn.bsky.social in Barcelona! 🔬🧬
🌊🦠Presented my work on giant viruses & virophages in marine protists - even in the Hangover session!
🥂Great to have a moment to answer brilliant questions and make new connections 🌊
#giantvirus #virophages #SAME18 #AquaticMicrobiology
🌊🦠Presented my work on giant viruses & virophages in marine protists - even in the Hangover session!
🥂Great to have a moment to answer brilliant questions and make new connections 🌊
#giantvirus #virophages #SAME18 #AquaticMicrobiology
Reposted by Xabier Lopez-Alforja
🏆The GAMANN-vir code is now open-source for the community!🏆
This tool was designed to analyze complex time series and handle intricate interactions. GAMANN-vir strategically combines GAMMs (trends and seasonality) and Neural Networks (ANNs) (robust predictive modeling).
github.com/xabilopalf/G...
This tool was designed to analyze complex time series and handle intricate interactions. GAMANN-vir strategically combines GAMMs (trends and seasonality) and Neural Networks (ANNs) (robust predictive modeling).
github.com/xabilopalf/G...
GitHub - xabilopalf/GAMMANN-Vir: GAMM and ANN modelling for Viral Abundance Time Series
GAMM and ANN modelling for Viral Abundance Time Series - xabilopalf/GAMMANN-Vir
github.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🏆The GAMANN-vir code is now open-source for the community!🏆
This tool was designed to analyze complex time series and handle intricate interactions. GAMANN-vir strategically combines GAMMs (trends and seasonality) and Neural Networks (ANNs) (robust predictive modeling).
github.com/xabilopalf/G...
This tool was designed to analyze complex time series and handle intricate interactions. GAMANN-vir strategically combines GAMMs (trends and seasonality) and Neural Networks (ANNs) (robust predictive modeling).
github.com/xabilopalf/G...
#NewPaperAlert in @isme-microbes.bsky.social
🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social
📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social
📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Long-term decline of marine viruses associated with warming and oligotrophication at a NW Mediterranean coastal site
Abstract. Viruses play key roles in controlling microbial abundance and community composition, nutrient cycling, and productivity in marine systems. Rising
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#NewPaperAlert in @isme-microbes.bsky.social
🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social
📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social
📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.
doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Reposted by Xabier Lopez-Alforja
Reposted by Xabier Lopez-Alforja
@putomikel.bsky.social i Enrique Moral de Eusebio ens parlaran d’arqueologia queer; entenent-la no només com un nou enfocament del passat, sinó també com una interpel·lació als discursos que hem produït històricament i al lloc des d’on s’han enunciat.
www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ar...
www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ar...
Arqueologies queer (Presencial)
Gènere, sexualitat i materialitats des de la prehistòria fins a la modernitat
www.instituthumanitats.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:49 AM
@putomikel.bsky.social i Enrique Moral de Eusebio ens parlaran d’arqueologia queer; entenent-la no només com un nou enfocament del passat, sinó també com una interpel·lació als discursos que hem produït històricament i al lloc des d’on s’han enunciat.
www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ar...
www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ar...