Happy to announce the defense of PhD student Cody Martin tomorrow, May 1, at 3 pm CST for his thesis titled "Decoding the language of viral genomes
with evolutionary-scale, context-aware
genome language models".
Talk is open to public - Email me for zoom link. #phagesky #microsky #Microbiomesky
Cody also put in a ton of extra work to make the code organized and usable in the GitHub repo: github.com/Anantharaman...
It links to a Colab notebook for model inference, training data, and pretrained models.
I’ll be presenting at the next ECR Viromics Webinar on March 11 at 9 AM CT, highlighting a new tool I’ve been developing in the @karthik-a.bsky.social lab for scalable, automated discovery and curation of auxiliary viral genes: CheckAMG.
Details and registration here: coms.osu.edu/webinars/ecr...
News article from @uwmadison.bsky.social describing our recent study on viruses in peatland soils! news.wisc.edu/viruses-foun...
New preprint led by @annaschreck.bsky.social that capitalized on the wealth of publicly available 18S rRNA datasets to explore the oceanic distribution and diversity of understudied anaerobic ciliates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
Viral theft of light: A cyanophage protein dismantles cyanobacterial photosynthesis to accelerate infection www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Join us for next week's MDTP student seminar, featuring James Kosmopoulos from Karthik Anantharaman's Lab!
@kosmopoulos.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social
#UWMadison #viromics #MDTP
Anthony Gitter
Excited to share that @michelle-hauer.bsky.social's paper with @katiekliermicrobe.bsky.social @maggielangwig.bsky.social @karthik-a.bsky.social on phage interactions with chemosynthetic symbionts was published today. #NSF and @schmidtocean.bsky.social supported. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
