Assistant professor @ Aarhus University | ERC starting 2024 | Microbial/viral ecology | crazy cat lady |
@EMG_Lyon @jemersonmicro @UCBerkeley @Firestone_lab @BanfieldLab @JedFuhrman 🇮🇱🇺🇦
Ella Sieradzki
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Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses
RNA virus Journal Club is on!
🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️
You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳
All welcome! Details ⬇️
@rdrpsummit.bsky.social
I'm hiring my first postdoc! Apply by 20/4/26, position #20443. Seeking an environmental microbiologist with experience in metagenomics (preferably viromics) and molecular biology. Experience with targeted metabolomics is a plus.
international.au.dk/about/profil...
If you want to see just how big the difference is, I recommend this paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s413...
Soil viral ecology notice: having found myself rejecting paper after paper for the same reason, let me make this clear. If you're trying to draw conclusions about the drivers/effects of the viral community but your data is from bulk metagenomes, not viromes, that's an automatic no from me. 1/n
Provisionally accepted! Proceedings of the 2nd RdRp summit on RNA viruses out in Frontiers in virology. I attended the 1st RdRp summit, was an organizer of the 2nd but broke my leg and had to bail. Hoping to see more virus enthusiasts at the 3rd summit in 2027!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir...
Came to learn about polar microbiomes and found myself at the carnaval. Gotta love #PAM2026
Soil is hard to work with, polar areas are hard to work in and viruses are hard to work on, but Gary didn’t let any of these deter him. The full paper is now out in Nature Comms!
This is the equivalent of making overarching statements about microbial community based on cultured microorganisms. It's just not valid.
The amount of non viral DNA in a bulk metagenome is so overwhelming that no matter how deeply you sequence, you will never get a good representation. 3/n
