Erin Hahn (she/her)

erinhahn.bsky.social

20 October 2026 09:26

🌬️ New paper out in Environmental DNA! We developed a 3D-printable passive airborne eDNA sampler and tested practical sampling parameters. 🧬 Smaller filters performed better than expected! ⏰ Sampling duration matters! 📦 Signals are robust to short-term storage! 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Microbiology Society

microbiologysociety.org

14 October 2026 09:34

Introducing our 2026 Early Career Microbiologist of the Year finalists. The winner was announced yesterday, at the Microbiology Society office in London.

Evelien Adriaenssens

evelienadri.bsky.social

25 September 2026 10:15

Here are my first thoughts as a phage person about the @anthropic.com announcement about a novel enzyme on a phage: www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-tho...

Philippe Le Mercier, ViralZone

viralzone.bsky.social

22 September 2026 15:54

A clever new tool for building full icosahedral capsids from AlphaFold models — from the talented team behind ViperDB. FoldaVirus, a knowledge-based icosahedral capsid prediction tool using AlphaFold www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hernán E. Morales

hernmoral.bsky.social

01 July 2026 07:53

Just in time for #SMBE2026, our new preprint is out: using 130 genomes spanning ~200 years, fitness data and simulations, we show that conservation rescued the Mauritius kestrel from extinction, but not from genomic erosion. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #popgen #consgen #conservation