We are #hiring!! 👩‍🔬 The Vardi lab and Thorsten Dittmar lab are looking for candidates for an exciting new collaborative project on #marine microbiology and geochemistry. Deadline for submission – 5 December 2024

RT @chuanku_: Cathepsin X is a conserved cell death protein involved in algal response to environmental stress @CurrentBiology @vardilab….

**The conference is limited to 120 participants. Registration will close once we reach capacity, so we encourage early registration to secure your spot.

Don't miss registration for the M2C2-2025: Marine Microbial Chemical Communication conference! 🌊📢.Early-bird registration, including abstract submission, is extended until Sunday, December 8th.

📢 Two weeks left for early-bird registration and abstract submission for M₂C₂ 2025! 🌊

Can we trace the #metabolic footprint of viral infection in the ocean? In our new preprint by Constanze Kuhlisch, in collaboration with @guy_schleyer and @TaraOcean_ , we mapped metabolic biomarkers for the #viral shunt across the Atlantic Ocean 🌊

📢 Registration is now open for M₂C₂ 2025:.Marine Microbial Chemical Communication​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Conference!.🦠🌊🦠🌊.17-20 March 2025.NIOZ – Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Texel, The Netherlands 🇳🇱.Register now:.

RT @WeizmannScience: Giant viruses invade single-celled algae - vital to Earth's oxygen supply. Prof. Assaf Vardi’s team developed a new me….

Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, located on the beautiful island of Texel, Netherlands. See you there!. 🇳🇱🌊.

Save the date! 📢.We are excited to announce M2C2-2025: Marine Microbial Chemical Communication, a conference exploring cutting-edge research on chemically mediated microbial interactions in the marine environment. The conference will take place from March 17-20, 2025, at NIOZ >>

RT @EvolvedBiofilm: @Stebe69 Javier on single cell transcriptome examples on microeukaryotes with known genomes .Many reference from @vardi….

RT @CommsBio: Being on a ship and collecting samples is not everything Constanze Kuhlisch from the @WeizmannScience (former @PohnertL, now….

RT @roi1avraham: Boycotting academics in Israel is counterproductive

מה עושים כל הפחמן הדו חמצני העודף באטמוספירה? חברת סטארטפ ישראלית מציעה פשוט לקבור אותו בים. קראו עוד בכתבתה של מאי שדה @mai_sadeh .

RT @g_dom_huerta: "Hunting for the authentic host of giant viruses in the marine environment". By @amir_fromm and @vardilab. https://t.co/….

RT @NatureMicrobiol: OUT NOW in @ScienceMagazine 👉 Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga.

We thank Daniella Schatz, Flora Vincent (@vincentflora), our collaborators from the Aylward Lab, and all involved in this project (10/10) 🌊🌊.

So, we started from a natural sample, went down to the individual cells, and back to the population level. We believe that this method can help pair viruses with their native host and identify co-occurring viral infections in the natural environment (9/10).

When we look at the population of the Katablepharid class from our field experiment, their population dropped right after we found most of our infected cells in the single-cell data (the red dot) (8/10) >>

We identified the host as Leucocryptos and the virus as belonging to the Imitervirales clade 7. It is the first virus from this clade with a predicted host. Thanks to the RNA reads, we detected that the virus highly expressed genes involved in cell-fate regulation (7/10) >>