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The core-resistance genes could serve as potential markers to detect resistant cells during algal blooms. A better understanding of algal resistance mechanisms is key to unraveling the host-virus arms race in the ocean and bloom dynamics. 🌊 >>

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📣 We are excited to share our latest paper, led by @taliashaler.bsky.social! We explore the transcriptional basis of #microalgae resistance to #viral_infection and identified a core group of resistance-related genes. >>
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Synergy in viral-bacterial coinfection expedites algal bloom demise www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Good idea !

Thanks a lot Oded!!

Congratulations to Asaf Vardi @vardilab.bsky.social for being elected to EMBO. microbial ecology rock!!!
www.embo.org/press-releas...

Metacaspases mediate thermotolerance of diatoms following marine heat waves www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Advancements in single-cell technologies are opening new frontiers in marine microbiology, helping us answer some of the most fundamental questions in marine microbiology and providing a holistic view of microbial life in the ocean.

📣Excited to share our latest review on using single-cell methods to study host-virus interactions in the ocean - led by Amir Fromm (@amirfromm.bsky.social) and Talia Shaler (x.com/ShalerTalia), in collaboration with Frank Aylward (@foaylward.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy) >>

A single-cell perspective on host–virus dynamics in the ocean

@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from @vardilab.bsky.social

www.cell.com/trends/micro...

>> The expression of these resistance-related genes was found to be shared among various resistant strains and included genes with domains linked to innate immune responses that are conserved across bacteria, plants and mammals. 🦠🌊

📣A new preprint by Talia Shaler! 📣
How do populations develop resistance to viral infections?
We mapped the transcriptomic landscape of algal resistance to lytic viral infection and identified a unique set of resistance-related genes expressed in those cells >>
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Cathepsin X mutants in distant algae had increased resilience to oxidative stress. Our findings shed light on the origin of programmed cell death in unicellular organisms and their strategies to cope with environmental fluctuations. 3/3

Using cell-to-cell heterogeneity in response to oxidative stress, we discovered genes linked to either cell death or stress resilience in diatoms. Among the hits we detected was Cathepsin X, a cysteine protease conserved from humans to algae and widely expressed in the oceans. 2/3 >>

📣 We are excited to share our latest paper about Cathepsin X, a new algal cell death gene, led by @aviamizrachi.bsky.social and @maisadeh.bsky.social, published in Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3 >>