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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · 26d

From tracking SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater to discovering hidden marine RNA viruses, CLAE unlocks read-level viral variant detection and fixes short-read misassemblies.

⚡ Portable, field-ready
🧬 A game-changer for epidemiology & environmental surveillance.

#RNAvirus #metagenomics

Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 New tool for viral genomics!

Meet CLAE: a high-fidelity Nanopore sequencing strategy that pushes accuracy to Q30, boosts throughput >800 Mb/100 pores, and recovers full-length viral genomes from complex samples 🌊🦠

👉 [https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202505978]

#viromics #nanopore #genomics

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨NEW VIROCELL PAPER🚨 from Cristina Howard-Varona et al: "Virocell resource manipulation under nutrient limitation".

@howard-varona.bsky.social

How do virocells use resources during nutrient limitation to build phages and alter the ecosystem? Check out the link!

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Virocell resource manipulation under nutrient limitation | mSystems

This study addresses a knowledge gap in understanding how nutrient limitation shapes virus-infected bacterial cell (virocell) metabolism and its ecosystem footprints. Using multi-omics approaches, we ...

journals.asm.org

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 27

Microbiome researchers! Join Dr. Shareef Dabdoub (U of Iowa) for a free webinar on multi-omics microbiome data analysis. Learn to integrate DNA, RNA, proteins, & metabolite data. April 1st, 10 am EST.
go.osu.edu/2025_microbi...

#microbiome #workshop

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Time's ticking, microbiome researchers! ⏰ Submit your abstract for the Midwest Microbiome Symposium at Ohio State by March 31st.

Submit here: coms.osu.edu/midwest-micr... #microbiome #research #science #OhioState #CoMS

Midwest Microbiome Symposium Abstract Guidelines | Center of Microbiome Science

We are excited to invite you to submit your abstract to the Midwest Microbiome Symposium, Tiny architects: The microbiomes shaping our world. This year's symposium will be held May 12-14 at the Nation...

coms.osu.edu

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚨 Microbiome researchers! The deadline to submit your abstract for the Midwest Microbiome Symposium at Ohio State is March 31st! 🚨 Don't miss this chance to share your work with leading experts.

Submit here: coms.osu.edu/midwest-micr... #microbiome #microbiology
#symposium #OhioState #microbiome

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚨Multiple positions open in Bas Duthil's group (Viral Ecology and Omics Group, Jena, Germany):
- Postdoc experimental: lnkd.in/dJZ2GRUX
- PhD experimental: lnkd.in/ddqQmvA9
- PhD bioinformatics: lnkd.in/d-nTJfAh

Group: www.bio.uni-jena.de/en/2245/team

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 10

New week, new microbiome webinar topic: learn the DRAM tool for annotation and curation of function for microbial and viral genomes, presented by Dr. Garrett Smith.

📅 Date: March 11, 2025
🕒 Time: 10am EST
📍 Link: go.osu.edu/2025_microbi...
More details on full course: coms.osu.edu/webinars/mic...

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 5

🚨New paper from NSF EMERGE BII: A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A framework for integrating genomics, microbial traits, and ecosystem biogeochemistry - Nature Communications

Microbes drive the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. Here, Li et al. present a framework for integrating genome-inferred microbial kinetic traits into ecosystem mechanistic models, and use it to benchmar...

www.nature.com

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Mar 3

The Microbiome Informatics Webinar continues tomorrow with
Dr. Dylan Cronin, teaching how to go from metagenomic data MAGs.

March 4, 2025 at 10am EST
Virtual Event zoom link: go.osu.edu/2025_microbi...

🔗 More details on the SP25 Microbiome Informatics series schedule: coms.osu.edu/webinars/mic...

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Feb 27

Summer School on Quantitative Phage-Bacteria Dynamics Across Scales -> Application date: March 21, 2025. Open to MS + PhD students + postdocs

Application site: bit.ly/phageschool2...

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨Spring 2025 Updated Microbiome Informatics Webinar Series starts tomorrow Feb. 25!🚨 Free to attend, join us to learn with leaders in the field. More info and registration: coms.osu.edu/webinars/mic...

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Feb 24

New paper from our PhD student Marissa Gittrich! In-depth characterization of 24 phages of rhizobacterium Klebsiella sp. M5al at PLOS One. Congrats Marissa and team!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Isolation and characterization of 24 phages infecting the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Klebsiella sp. M5al

Bacteriophages largely impact bacterial communities via lysis, gene transfer, and metabolic reprogramming and thus are increasingly thought to alter nutrient and energy cycling across many of Earth’s ...

journals.plos.org

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Feb 19

Watch our latest research as a Video Byte about global ocean AMG function and distribution: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...!

From our lab's work in Microbiome (Tian & Wainana et al., 2024:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-01876-z)

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Feb 10

Upcoming wastewater virome webinar from Dr. Mike Tisza, Feb. 12! Free for everyone.
More: coms.osu.edu/events/early...

#virus #virome #viromics #pathogen #sequencing #microbiome #microbe #bacteria #science #microbiology #webinar

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Oct 17

Our 'global ocean AMGs in marine viruses' paper featured in
@OhioStateNews! Congrats to Funing Tian and James Wainaina et al: "Identifying the genes that viruses ‘steal’ from ocean microbes" news.osu.edu/identifying-...

#virus #phage #ecology #biogeochemistry #viromics #oceans

Identifying the genes that viruses ‘steal’ from ocean microbes

The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don’t do the work on their own – the viruses that infect them also influence the process. It’s a vital job for the rest of the planet, enabling oceans to...

news.osu.edu

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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2024🚨

Happy to announce the 7th International Viromics Workshop will take place Oct. 23-25, 2024 at Ohio State. Stay tuned for registration details. Enter our mailing list for updates: forms.gle/wAvZmRibq8rN.... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop

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