Simon Roux
@simrouxvirus.bsky.social
Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own.
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Simon Roux
@simrouxvirus.bsky.social
· Jun 12
🚨 Registration for VEGA26 is 👏 officially open 👏 🚨
The 5th edition of our Viral EcoGenomics and Applications symposium will be held November 18-19, 2026, on the UC Berkeley campus 🧬 🦠 🔬 🧫
Event website ➡️ jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
Registration link ➡️ cvent.me/e0RnA0
The 5th edition of our Viral EcoGenomics and Applications symposium will be held November 18-19, 2026, on the UC Berkeley campus 🧬 🦠 🔬 🧫
Event website ➡️ jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us...
Registration link ➡️ cvent.me/e0RnA0
Reposted by Simon Roux
A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes
The amoeba Incendiamoeba cascadensis demonstrates that eukaryotic life can withstand
temperatures beyond what was thought possible and sheds light on molecular strategies
for survival in extreme heat.
www.cell.com
Our description of fire amoeba, 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, is now online at Cell! Thanks @oliverio.bsky.social and amazing team for questioning the limits of eukaryotes! 🔥
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Reposted by Simon Roux
Want to explore host-plasmid and plasmid-plasmid distributions in your dataset? Or any tree with a set of binary traits?
I’ve made a CLI for our model here:
github.com/wtmatlock/pl...
I’ve made a CLI for our model here:
github.com/wtmatlock/pl...