Thanks for the great collaboration with Prof. Hiro Ogata and Dr. Hisashi Endo at the Institute of Chemical Research of @kyotouniversity.bsky.social; Prof. @joshuasweitz.bsky.social at the @umaryland.edu; and our funders, The @simonsfoundation.org and the ICM at Kyoto University 🙏

We integrated mathematical modelling with in situ metagenomics using the TARA Oceans and TARA Arctic datasets, and we recapitulated virus presence and absence in the ocean through a model describing temperature-driven cell-based interactions between viruses and phytoplankton.

Happy to share our new work on Temperature-driven biogeography of marine viruses infecting Micromonas:
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PhD opportunity in marine virus eco-evo dynamics

Joint CNRS–UBC program: @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social × @ubcoceans.bsky.social

📍 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (LBBM UMR8176)
🗓️ Start: Oct 2025 | Duration: 3 years
🔍 Skills: Modelling, Bioinformatics, Marine Virology

🔗 Apply: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

Grateful for the opportunity to work with such an amazing team, to our collaborators around the 🌍 and the Nomis foundation for supporting our work.

New insights into the diversity and biogeography of bacteria in glacier-fed streams across 11 mountain ranges, out now in @nature.com

Cold Surface Waters of the Sub-Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biologytechnion.bsky.social

Happy to share that our work on viral infection of cyanobacteria in the Southern Ocean has been published 🦠❄️🌊
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Thank you to all the collaborators in this project
@d2mory.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social
@biologytechnion.bsky.social

Japan w/ Hisashi Endo and Hiroyuki Ogata at ICR Kyoto Univ, USA w/ @joshuasweitz.bsky.social at Univ. of Maryland and France w/ @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social, @sorbonne-universite.fr, @sbroscoff.bsky.social, LBBM at OOB Banyuls and Tara Oceans Foundation.

Our results highlight that temperature-driven cellular mechanisms can drive the community dynamics and biogeography of marine viruses.

This multidisciplinary study has been possible through great collaborations involving 3 continents: (5/6)

We used a mathematical model describing the temperature-driven virus-host dynamics to predict MpV-s distribution. We found that viral abilities to lyse and infect were good predictors of MpV-s presence and absence. (4/6)

By reconstructing virus phylogeny, we found that MpV-s were clustered into cryophile groups, growing mainly at low temperature below 10°C, or cryo-mesophile groups, growing from cold to more than 20°C. (3/6)

We focused on prasnoviurses infecting Micromonas (MpV), a picoeukaryote genus distributed from poles to tropics. We explored the distribution of isolated MpV-s in Tara datasets and highlighted that temperature is the main descriptor of their community composition. (2/6)

Delighted to share our new preprint on bioRxiv:

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Where we integrated viral metagenomics and mathematical modelling to explore the temperature-driven biogeography of marine giant viruses - where do they live and why? (1/6)

Delighted to share this paper out via Virus Evolution:

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in which we develop and assess a quantitative method to infer phage and bacterial mutations driving changes in infection phenotypes arising in coevolutionary dynamics.

a 🧵 about people (and some science)

We are delighted to announce that the registrations are now open for the 12th Aquatic Virus Workshop (AVW12), to be held in Banyuls-sur-Mer (France), May 5-9 2025. Consider to register early because we have limited space!
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