@marjanghotbi.bsky.social
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New preprint out: Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@mingyan-igi.bsky.social
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@mingyan-igi.bsky.social
Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs), including plasmids and viruses, drive microbial evolution and ecosystem dynamics, yet their distribution, host range, and functions remain poorly understood, especially...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
New preprint out: Revealing the pervasive landscape of MGE-host interactions in situ with single-cell genomics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@mingyan-igi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
@mingyan-igi.bsky.social
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Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Provirus induction diversifies adaptive variation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lysogen populations
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that forms chronic infections in people with cystic fibrosis. Often P. aeruginosa strains are lysogens, infected with proviruses, that ...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.
Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.
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Newest preprint from the group on megaplasmids in E. coli led by @assemblerag.bsky.social. In addition to our findings in metagenomic datasets, we identified an RNA-seq project from a giant panda gut sample with evidence of megaplasmids. We would like to include the data creators in our study.
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Newest preprint from the group on megaplasmids in E. coli led by @assemblerag.bsky.social. In addition to our findings in metagenomic datasets, we identified an RNA-seq project from a giant panda gut sample with evidence of megaplasmids. We would like to include the data creators in our study.
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SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad (SLU) and Camilla Engblom (@ki.se) appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows ↓ 🧪
“This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social
Q&A ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/long-te...
@kawresearch.bsky.social
“This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social
Q&A ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/long-te...
@kawresearch.bsky.social
Long-term funding to SciLifeLab researchers: “a huge boost and game-changer to starting a lab”
SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad and Camilla Engblom are appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows, and receive five-year basic research grants.
www.scilifelab.se
December 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
SciLifeLab researchers Maliheh Mehrshad (SLU) and Camilla Engblom (@ki.se) appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellows ↓ 🧪
“This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social
Q&A ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/long-te...
@kawresearch.bsky.social
“This program gives researchers the chance to pursue high-risk, high-gain research ideas” – @mehrshmali.bsky.social
Q&A ↓
www.scilifelab.se/news/long-te...
@kawresearch.bsky.social
Think you need large volumes for microbial experiments?
Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.
Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.
From microscale to microbial insights: validating high-throughput microvolume extraction (HiMEx) methods for marine microbial ecology
Abstract. Extracting and directly amplifying DNA from small-volume, low-biomass samples would enable rapid, ultra-high-throughput analyses, facilitating th
academic.oup.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Think you need large volumes for microbial experiments?
Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.
Our recent publication introduces HiMEx, a simple, scalable method for microbial ecology. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
🦠 it provides an easy, efficient approach to capturing viral diversity, opening new opportunities for virome analysis.
Amazing ability of invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla to control microbial interaction network of its biofilm. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Amazing ability of invasive Gracilaria vermiculophylla to control microbial interaction network of its biofilm. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...