Fantastic efforts from my @UWaterloo graduate students at this year's @CSM_SCM meeting in #Montreal. What a great event and an amazing city!

Great to be on the #water again today for some #microbial sampling in lake #belwood. What a way to start the #summer.

Congratulations to all our co-authors on publishing this great work, led by our own @UWaterloo gradate student Delaney Nash:.Hybrid sequencing reveals the genome of a Chrysochromulina parva virus and highlight its distinct replication strategy.

Clear waters, hidden toxins: Viruses that combat algal blooms may actually increase risks for people and ecosystems via @physorg_com.

Had the privilege to teach #marine #biology this year @UWaterloo, the same subject I studied as a BSc student 2 decades ago @PlymUni During the course I had wonderful recollections of the #professors I had at the time and the diversity of subjects they passionately covered.

Great work led by @profaucoin's lab @uwaterloo_che Thanks for inviting us (my lab and @trevorcharles's) to be part of this important paper (enabled by the endless efforts of our own grad student Delaney Nash @WaterlooBio) .#mdpiviruses via @VirusesMDPI.

Very proud of this short communication paper by our ex BSc student @Victoriaaaaaal @UWaterloo that experimentally shows for the first time that #virus infection of a #HAB-forming #cyanobacterium significantly contributes to the release of toxins upon lysis

This was a very inspiring, thought-provoking talk and discussion on debunking myths about #GMOs by two #NobelPrize Laureates: Donna Strickland and Sir Richard Roberts. We are very lucky to have TRuST @UWaterloo organizing such important events. #GoScience #ScienceUpFirst.

Our graduate student at @UWaterloo Delaney Nash keeps on producing! An excellent collaboration between our lab, @trevorcharles's, and Steven Short's from @UTM, on sequencing & analysis of a new #algal #Virus genome. One of the most detailed works in this field in recent years.

I of course forgot a very important person here who helped us a lot in this work. Thanks @NTromas.

Another one from our team at @UWaterloo in partnership with @forWaterNetwork, investigating #virus communities in a #Canadian #lake. Cell-associated viral community composition and its functional potential in a dimictic lake on the Canadian Shield

Latest pre-print from our lab at @UWaterloo using #AlphaFold for functional predictions of #cyanophage proteins:. AlphaFold 3 proteomic modelling reveals multiple photosystem structural homologs in freshwater cyanophages

RT @AVW12_Banyuls: Here we go! We are excited to announce that the 12th edition of the Aquatic Virus Workshop (AVW12) be held in Banyuls-su….

RT @CaulfieldTim: These are dark, dark times. But we can't let science and reason fade. We can't let lies win. The scientific communit….

Thanks for highlighting our work @JPhycology and also to our funders which includes the @PSAAlgae and @NSERC_CRSNG.

There was something for everyone at this year's Kid's #Science Open House, an annual event for kids ran by @WaterlooSci. As always, kudos to the organisers and to our student volunteers!

6/6 Well done to our graduate student Isaac Meza-Padilla for this amazing work and to @NSERC_CRSNG for funding our work.

5/6 If this wasn’t enough, we also show through #phylogenetic analysis that the virus nblA gene that does all this likely "came" into the virus #genome from a different host organism than the one it normally infects.

4/6 Because phycobilisome degradation protects the cell from high-light intensities and increases the intracellular nitrogen pool under nutrient limitation (viruses too can be sensitive to high light and they too need essential building blocks for making amino acids and proteins).