Virus Ecology and Evolution (VEE)-
New postdoc: Welcome Büşra!
This last February, Büşra joined the VEE team to study the virome during fecal microbiota transplantation. This project falls within the FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence Microbiomes...
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New bachelor students: Welcome Mia and David!
Last month, Mia and David joined the VEE team under the supervision of Dominik and Laura. Mia will be working alongside Dominik digging into novel Asfuvirales from waste...
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New work out! Visualizing transcription and translation in Mimivirus during an infection cycle
Spearheaded by Lotte, we have developed a single-molecule messenger RNA fluorescence in situ hybridisation (smFISH) protocol for giant viruses in an Acanthamoeba host. Combined with other...
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Conference: CJM 2024 on virus evolution!
Back to the lab after a week of really great research on virus evolution in Roscoff! The VEE team was represented by Anouk, Laura, Dani, and...
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New work out! We sequenced some new genomes!
We sequenced high-quality genomes of protists known as hosts of giant viruses (GVs). Matching of codon usage preferences is often used to predict virus-host pairs. Our...
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Welcome Faruk!
Faruk joined earlier in July the VEE team as a Master student (after a 2-month internship). He will work on exploring competition and fitness among giant...
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Conference: 5th Ringberg Symposium on Giant Virus Biology
How often do you get to attend a conference in a castle? This beautiful and unique location made the conference very special. We got to meet...
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Conference: Small New World 2.0
On September 4 and 5 we attended a conference on Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) at the Medical University of Graz. This conference was a joint meeting of...
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Meet the team!
From left to right: Laura, Lotte, Dani, Anouk. Happy to present to you the new Virus Ecology and Evolution team at the Division of Microbial Ecology...