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Alex Probst @alexjprobst.bsky.social · 12d

New article on equitable reuse of public sequencing data, published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com!
Led by the Data reuse core team @lhug.bsky.social @environmicrobio.bsky.social Cristina Moraru, @geomicrosoares.bsky.social, @folker.bsky.social and with Anke Heyer and The Data Reuse Consotrium!

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 7d

#Editorial

If you have ever been surprised by seeing an editor at a conference and wondered what they are doing there, this month's editorial has all the answers you need.

#MicroSky #AcademicChatter

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why editors go to conferences - Nature Microbiology

You may have spotted us at different conferences and wondered what we’re doing amid active researchers. Here, we demystify the editorial aims of conference attendance.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 8d

In a Consensus Statement in Nature Microbiology, a consortium of #microbiome scientists discusses current sequencing data sharing policies and proposes the use of a Data Reuse Information tag to promote equitable and collaborative data sharing. go.nature.com/4o1Gl1f 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows the summary results from a survey of 306 scientists on data reuse.

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kinetoplastids papers @kinetoplastpapers.bsky.social · 4d

Targets of the human antibody response to the variant surface glycoprotein of Trypanosoma brucei pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41040341/

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Dewar Lab @dewarlab.bsky.social · 7d

🔬Fascinated by the unique mitochondrial biology that keeps deadly parasites alive?
🥼We have a fully funded NorthWestBio PhD just for you‼️
🌎 @blslancasteruni.bsky.social
📍Co-supervisor Kostas Tokatlidis @uofglasgow.bsky.social
⏰Deadline 21st Nov
📮Info and to apply👇
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Caroline Dewar

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kinetoplastids papers @kinetoplastpapers.bsky.social · 21d

vsgseq2: an updated pipeline for analysis of the diversity and abundance of population-wide Trypanosoma brucei VSG expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675796v1

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SheinerLab @sheinerlab.bsky.social · 21d

Calling all mitochondria enthusiasts, we are recruiting for a new project (and the post will be split between Glasgow and Helsinki)

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Research Associate

Job PurposeThe purpose of this role is to carry out cutting-edge research to understand the structure and function of complexes essential for organelle biology and function in the apicomplexan para...

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Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our 2025 Sep issue bit.ly/2N9R8Es reviews species sanitation & structural resilience in malaria control, animal trypanosomosis control, parasite genome organization, Leishmania attachment in sandflies, nonchemotherapeutic nematode control, tick & host microbiotas, parasitic neural manipulation &more

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 17

A study in Nature Medicine uses a supervised deep neural network to explain the network of concurrent molecular and macroscopic patterns related to insurgence and course of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. go.nature.com/4mhoLpp #medsky 🧪

This is figure 3, which shows that BioMapAI identifies both disease- and symptom-specific biomarkers.

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Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Aug 14

Drs @singh-parul.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social‬ Maureen Cabahug @fariatrypslab.bsky.social & @jessmbryant.bsky.social review #Plasmodium & #Trypanosoma #genome organization.

#Trypanosome #Transcription #Chromatin #Epigenetics #Nuclear #Compartment

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

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Jeziel D. Damasceno @jezieldamasceno.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pleased 2 share our new article: single-molecule replication mapping in Leishmania using DNAscent.
We show widespread stochastic origin firing and insights into genome variability.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 11

#NewResearch

A human cytomegalovirus long non-coding RNA, RNA4.9, that interacts with cGAS and prevents its activation in the nucleus, thereby suppressing virus-induced IFN expression and antiviral activity

#MicroSky 🦠

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human cytomegalovirus long non-coding RNA counteracts nuclear cGAS to facilitate immune evasion - Nature Microbiology

The authors identify a human cytomegalovirus long non-coding RNA, RNA4.9, that interacts with cGAS and prevents its activation in the nucleus, thereby suppressing virus-induced IFN expression and anti...

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 11

#NewResearch

Streptomyces use both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during rapid, exploratory growth @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social

#BacteriaCellWall #MicroSky 🦠

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Streptomyces uses both polar and dispersed cell wall synthesis during exploratory growth - Nature Microbiology

Streptomyces venezuelae requires MreB1-dependent dispersed peptidoglycan cell wall synthesis and DivIVA-mediated polar cell wall synthesis during its rapid exploratory growth phase.

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 11

#NewResearch

Cryo-EM structures of the full-length Junin virus and Machupo virus spike glycoprotein complexes stabilized in the prefusion conformation - analyses reveal features that regulate glycoprotein pH-dependent membrane fusion activity.

#MicroSky 🦠

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Molecular organization of the New World arenavirus spike glycoprotein complex - Nature Microbiology

Cryo-EM structures of the full-length Junin virus and Machupo virus spike glycoprotein complexes stabilized in the prefusion conformation. Analyses reveal features that regulate glycoprotein pH-depend...

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Romain Koszul @rkoszul.bsky.social · Aug 11

New work from @beckof.bsky.social and our lab's collaboration, with @alengronne.bsky.social! Multifaceted influence of transcription on yeast chromosome folding... loop extrusion of course but also active promoters making loops, bypassing centromeres boundaries
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

RNA Pol II-based regulations of chromosome folding

The spatial organization of eukaryotic genomes and its dynamics are of functional importance for gene expression, DNA replication, and segregation. St…

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Faria Tryps Lab @fariatrypslab.bsky.social · Aug 11

A great team effort with @singh-parul.bsky.social Maureen Cabahug, @trypsleon.bsky.social & and the amazing @jessmbryant.bsky.social !!

Huge thanks to our funders @wellcometrust.bsky.social @yorkshirebiodtp.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social

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Faria Tryps Lab @fariatrypslab.bsky.social · Aug 11

How do parasites strategically organise their genomes to influence gene expression? If you’re curious, check our latest review in @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social !

@biologyatyork.bsky.social @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @pasteur.fr

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Faria Tryps Lab @fariatrypslab.bsky.social · Aug 10

And what a pleasure it was!!!

Jessica Bryant @jessmbryant.bsky.social · Aug 10

We @singh-parul.bsky.social teamed up with the amazing @fariatrypslab.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social to highlight how recent technological advances have revealed exciting new features of parasite genome architecture and its impact on survival and pathogenicity:

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Parasite genome organization: come together, right now!

Links between genome organization and transcription have been extensively studied in model eukaryotes; however, recent application of state-of-the-art chromosome conformation capture techniques to kin...

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Jessica Bryant @jessmbryant.bsky.social · Aug 10

We @singh-parul.bsky.social teamed up with the amazing @fariatrypslab.bsky.social @trypsleon.bsky.social to highlight how recent technological advances have revealed exciting new features of parasite genome architecture and its impact on survival and pathogenicity:

www.cell.com/trends/paras...

Parasite genome organization: come together, right now!

Links between genome organization and transcription have been extensively studied in model eukaryotes; however, recent application of state-of-the-art chromosome conformation capture techniques to kin...

www.cell.com

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 10

Beyond polyA: scalable single-cell total RNA-seq unifies coding and non-coding transcriptomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.669394v1

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · Jul 25

Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells go.nature.com/4mgXR0C

Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells - Nature Biotechnology

A deep convolutional neural network model predicts the influence of the full-length mRNA sequence on translation efficiency.

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jul 31

Generalizable direct protein sequencing with InstaNexus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666861v1

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Department of Biology, University of York @biologyatyork.bsky.social · Jul 31

Over a week since Graduation already!

Débora shares her experience:
"Through all challenges I have had to overcome, very notably moving from the other side of the globe alone, I know I would not be here if it were not for my degree and the Department of Biology..."

Read more here - bit.ly/4fznGXD

The best things Biochemistry at York has to offer - Student Voices

Biochemistry at York: A third-year student reflects on how studying biochemistry shaped her academic journey and career goals.

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kinetoplastids papers @kinetoplastpapers.bsky.social · Jul 31

Decoding post-transcriptional gene expression controls in trypanosomatids using machine learning pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40735494/

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Seb Besteiro @s-besteiro.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨 2-year post-doc position available in my lab. More details below. Please repost!

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