Paul Rivarez
@ViromeHunter
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@UBC @UBCLFS Assistant Professor | Phytopathology + Virology Research Group Leader | Fascinated with plant & agroecosystem #viromes & #microbiomes 🦠🌾
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Joined August 2012
Bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination
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Bacteriophage-loaded microneedles are a minimally invasive, decontamination solution for phage diffusion within 3D food matrices.
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Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes
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Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.
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Viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their nanosized DPANN symbionts reveal intricate nested interactions | Nature Microbiology
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Nature Microbiology - An exploration of the viromes of haloarchaea and their ultra-small DPANN symbionts reveals plasmid-derived satellites of viruses from both archaeal groups, highlighting the...
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Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
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Nature - Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
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Viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their nanosized DPANN symbionts reveal intricate nested interactions | Nature Microbiology
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Nature Microbiology - An exploration of the viromes of haloarchaea and their ultra-small DPANN symbionts reveals plasmid-derived satellites of viruses from both archaeal groups, highlighting the...
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Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories | Nature
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Nature - MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.
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‘Google for DNA’ brings order to biology’s big data
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Nature - MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery.
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The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes | Science Advances
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VAD is a Viral AlphaFold Database of protein monomers and homodimers from viruses infecting hosts across the tree of life.
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Editor’s Pick: @_brandon_roy_ et al. present a first report of a soilborne virus modifying both the RSA of a plant host and transmission by its dagger nematode via a single viral amino acid. Read the open access article: https://t.co/I68gGfMpY9
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Predicting protein-protein interactions in the human proteome | Science
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential for biological function. Coevolutionary analysis and deep-learning (DL)–based protein structure prediction have enabled comprehensive PPI identific...
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A dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus with a micron-length tail
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Viral infection is a ubiquitous source of marine plankton mortality, but relatively few viruses that infect phytoplankton have been characterized. Here we describe a virus, PelV-1, with unusual...
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Illuminating the Virosphere's Dark Matter using Hierarchical Deep Learning
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Systematic discovery of novel viruses is essential for pandemic preparedness, understanding tumor-associated viruses, developing viral delivery systems, and advancing biomedical applications. Yet,...
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Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models | bioRxiv
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Many important biological functions arise not from single genes, but from complex interactions encoded by entire genomes. Genome language models have emerged as a promising strategy for designing...
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Very important reading for all plant pathologists. A wonderful perspective on the history of the discipline, and on some of the breakthrough moments.
NEW: "Landmarks in Phytopathology" celebrates influential research that has helped to shape the field of plant pathology. This virtual issue features seminal studies and thoughtful reflections from authors and senior editors. 🌱🦠 Explore it here: https://t.co/ZwjzuU7PiO
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✈️ Take your research global! Spend 12 weeks in Canada next summer with the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship. 📅 Apply by Sept 17, 2025 Learn more: https://t.co/vhz4x48NRq
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David Baltimore, Nobel-Winning Molecular Biologist, Dies at 87
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He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of retroviruses and viruses, including H.I.V.
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Dissecting microbial communities with single-cell transcriptome analysis | Science
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Revealing insights into the function of microbial communities requires moving beyond measuring bulk taxonomic composition to detecting interactions between subpopulations. Following the transformat...
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Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants | Science
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Plants deploy a diverse array of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which perceive microbe-associated molecular patterns to activate immune responses. Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase...
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🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. https://t.co/dDBtAjfdYL
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