Lavisha Parab receiving the FEMS microLife poster award for her outstanding poster presentation on “Need for speed: early lysogen formation following rapid lysis drives temperate phages persistence”. Congratulations! @lavishaparab.bsky.social @femsjournals.bsky.social

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We got an ERC StG! 🥳🎉 Huge thank you to all the people who helped us get here. Five years to explore some Qs we’re very excited about! 🧬🔬

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Delighted to share news that our preprint “Slower-than-exponential viral decay is prevalent and can reshape virus-microbe dynamics” is now online, led by Akash Arani (UMD-BEES PhD), Paul Fremont (UMD-Biology postdoc) and Emma Wachter (former UMD Honors Bio student) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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More than 40,000 insect species may live in a tiny patch of the Amazon, from the ground to the canopy. That's nearly half of all the insect species described in Brazil. I wrote about the ambitious project behind this estimate for @nature.com. It could uncover tens of thousands of species:

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Fantastic #VOM2026 in Prague! 3 posters on phage ecology & evolution in plants: 🌾 Phage–bacteria co-evolution in rice paddies – #SarahDelafosse 🦠 Phageome as plant disease biomarker – @mariandm.bsky.social 🌳 Apricot phageome (from @chloe-feltin.bsky.social 's work) Great science, great vibes!

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