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Happy to share EVBC Newsletter No. 105 for September 2026, including: 📅 Upcoming events + deadlines 🚨 Info on ViBioM 2027 in Jena: 9-11 March 💼 Job vacancies 💻 Webinar announcements 🔗 evbc.uni-jena.de/evbc-newslet... #bioinformatics #virology #sciencecommunity

📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar: A Mysteriuos Outbreak in Dobermann dogs: Metagenomic Detection of Raccoon Dog and Fox Amdoparvovirus ‍🎙️ Vladimir Gajdov, Scientific Veterinary Institute Novi Sad, Serbia 🗓️14 Oct, 4 PM CEST 📍Zoom (register for login info) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-v...

doi.orgReport from the BV-BRC, CDC, NCBI, and NIAID Viral Sub-Species Classification Workshop | Journal of VirologyA vital component of the response to viral outbreaks is the classification and tracking of sub-species-level variation, which is essential for guiding public health risk assessment and communication strategies. Given this rapid and ongoing evolution of viruses, there is a need for sub-species classi...

A global workshop report calls for adaptable, non-stigmatising systems that combine virus genomes, phenotypes and #epidemiology to track lineages and strengthen outbreak response 🌍🦠 #Virology #BVBRC, #CDC, #NCBI #NIAID 📄 https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00210-26 👤 EVBC: Elliot J. Lefkowitz

doi.orgMechanistic and antigenic boundaries of Henipavirus and Parahenipavirus glycoproteins - Nature CommunicationsHenipaviruses are a group of emerging human pathogens including the deadly Nipah virus. Here, the authors biochemically, biophysically, and structurally investigate the antigenicity and functionality of their surface glycoproteins.

22 Sept

A global panel of henipavirus and parahenipavirus glycoproteins reveals structural diversity, cross-reactive epitopes and foundations for broadly reactive Nipah virus countermeasures 🦠🧬 #Henipavirus #NipahVirus 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74212-8 👤 EVBC member: Robert J. Edwards

21 Sept

Study presents #virus-mimicking artificial positive controls as #epidemiological approach for identifying & tracking virus infections, highlighting the value of robust lab methods for surveillance & public-health response🦠🔬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2026.115434 👤 EVBC: Bolaji Osundahunsi

doi.orgMetagenomic Analysis of Rural Groundwater Viromes Reveals Bacteriophage Contributions to Groundwater Microbial Ecology - Microbial EcologyGroundwater ecosystems host diverse microbial communities, yet the diversity and ecological roles of their associated viral genomes remain poorly characterized. Here, we investigated viral community composition, diversity, host associations, lifestyles, and auxiliary metabolic potential in groundwater from three hand pumps located in Toukh, Qalyubia, Egypt, representing distinct local surroundings and potential contamination pressures. Using complementary viral detection approaches and a quality assessment workflow, we recovered 9,534 non-redundant viral contigs spanning a wide range of viral genome quality. Taxonomic profiling revealed dominance of tailed dsDNA bacteriophages (Uroviricota/Caudoviricetes) across all pumps, with ~ 99% of contigs not assigned below the class level. Whereas the viral composition of pump 3 was distinct and its diversity was consistently higher, pumps 1 and 2 clustered together, a pattern mirrored across taxonomic scales and diversity metrics. The majority of predicted viral hosts belonged to phylum Pseudomonadota, followed by Actinomycetota, Bacillota and Bacteroidota, with levels that varied between pumps. Correlation and network analyses showed strong concordance between the relative abundance of bacteria and the abundance of viruses that potentially infect them. Lifestyle prediction indicated a descending relative abundance of viruses with lysogenic lifestyle from pumps 1 through 3. Auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) related mainly to nucleotide, amino acid, and cofactor metabolism were detected in all pumps, with distinct pump-specific repertoires suggesting localized viral metabolic strategies. Together, these results demonstrate that groundwater viromes are ecologically structured and highly novel, with the potential ability to modulate host metabolism, highlighting their potential role in shaping subsurface microbial communities.

19 Sept

Metagenomics of three rural #groundwater pumps in Egypt recovered 9,534 virus contigs, revealing site-specific viromes dominated by novel bacteriophages with potential roles in microbial ecology and metabolism 🧬💧 #Viromics 📄 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-026-02818-y 👤 EVBC member: Ali Elbehery

doi.orgDecoding Viral Dark Matter: Metagenomic Prokaryotic Virus Characterization With Pharokka, Phold, and PhyntenyViral metagenomics is an increasingly powerful tool for understanding the function and structure of viruses across the diverse environments of our planet. However, decoding the functional potential o...

18 Sept

New protocol combines sequence homology, protein structures, genome synteny & protein language models to annotate metagenomic prokaryotic viruses. Pharokka, Phold and Phynteny help uncover viral dark matter and visualise genome features🦠🔬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.70405 👤EVBC: Robert J. Edwards

doi.orgTen quick tips for classifying unknown bacteriophage

17 Sept

How can an unknown #bacteriophage be classified? A new guide presents 10 practical tips, covering genome quality, taxonomic tools, similarity searches, phylogenetics, protein structure, host range and ecology. 🦠🔬 #Virology 📄 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014403 👤 EVBC member: Colin Hill

16 Sept

RNA #VirusDiscovery gets a boost with RdRpCATCH, a unified framework combining multiple profile HMM resources to detect and taxonomically annotate #RNA viruses in (meta)transcriptomic data.🦠🔎 📄 https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqag076 👤 EVBC: U. Neri, I. Olendraite, J. Charon, S. Sakaguchi, A. Kupczok

doi.orgEvolving strategies for virus discoveryViruses interact with all domains of life and play fundamental roles in shaping biological systems from individual hosts to global ecosystems. Yet their identification remains difficult due to a lack of a universal marker gene and the extensive diversity of viral genomes. Despite this, the speed of...

15 Sept

A review traces #VirusDiscovery from classical assays to metagenomics and AI, highlighting protein-structure comparison as a promising route beyond sequence similarity and viral dark matter 🧬🤖 #Viromics 📄 https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001785 👤 EVBC: Amanda Araujo Serrao de Andrade, Ann C. Gregory

doi.orgFrom sites to structure to serology: a roadmap for structure-aware molecular evolution of antigenically evolving viruses | Journal of VirologyAdvances in virus genomics have made it increasingly possible to track evolutionary changes at the population level over the timescales of outbreaks and epidemics (1). Before the current era of large-scale genomic surveillance, our inferences relied on sparse, heterogeneous datasets—dozens to hund...

14 Sept

A new review links virus sequence evolution, protein structure and serology to improve the prediction of immune escape and antigenic change in influenza and SARS-CoV-2 🧬🦠 #VirusEvolution #Vaccines 📄 https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01687-25 👤 EVBC members: Spyros Lytras, Jumpei Ito

doi.orgConvMut: Exploration of Viral Convergent Mutations Along Phylogenies | MDPIConvergent evolution in protein antigens is common across pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2; the most likely reason is the need to evade the selective pressure exerted by previous infection- or vaccine-elicited immunity.

12 Sept

New tool ConvMut maps recurring SARS-CoV-2 mutations across PANGO-based phylogenies, helping researchers track immune escape and inform vaccine and antibody design 🧬🦠 #SARSCoV2 #VirusEvolution #GenomicSurveillance 📄 https://doi.org/10.3390/v18070724 👤 EVBC member: Cesare Gruber

doi.orgStudying the Deep Evolution of Viruses in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Structure PredictionHigh mutation rates erode viral sequence similarity, obscuring deep evolutionary history. While protein structure is far more conserved than sequence, its use in evolutionary studies has historically been bottlenecked by experimental determination. The recent revolution in artificial intelligence (A...

11 Sept

AI structure prediction is opening a new window onto deep virus evolution, helping classify viral dark matter, infer protein function and develop structural phylogenies 🧬🤖 #VirusEvolution #AI 📄 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-virology-100424-122154 👤 EVBC member: Spyros Lytras

doi.orgExtended poly(A) tails are a shared feature of herpesvirus mRNAsAuthor summary Poly(A) tails are found on almost all cellular mRNAs and many viral mRNAs, serving as binding platforms for proteins that enhance translation and regulate mRNA stability. In this study, we used a new RNA sequencing approach, nanopore direct RNA sequencing, that allows us to measure poly(A) tails on individual mRNAs during infections by herpesviruses and other DNA and RNA viruses. We found that herpesvirus mRNAs consistently possess longer poly(A) tails than both host and other viral mRNAs, suggesting a widespread and previously unrecognized strategy to enhance viral gene expression. By contrast, coronavirus and poxvirus mRNAs exhibit poly(A) tail lengths comparable to host mRNAs. While non-As are present within some herpesviral poly(A) tails, which could potentially slow poly(A) tail degradation, this “mixed tailing” occurs too infrequently to account for the broadly extended tails observed.

10 Sept

Herpesvirus mRNAs consistently carry longer poly(A) tails than host and other virus transcripts, suggesting a widespread strategy that may enhance virus gene expression 🧬🦠 #Herpesvirus #RNA #MolecularVirology 📄 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1014341 👤 EVBC member: Daniel Depledge

9 Sept

Nonstandard virus genomes with structural rearrangements can shape virus ecology and evolution, influencing transmission, host range and adaptation. 🧬🦠 #VirusEvolution #Virology 📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coviro.2026.101567 👤 EVBC members: Santiago F Elena , Julia Hillung

8 Sept

#Phages reprogramme infected cells through more than auxiliary metabolic genes. Review highlights phage-encoded transcription and sigma factors as powerful, understudied tools shaping host physiology and ecosystem processes. 🦠🔬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2026.05.019 👤 EVBC: Matthew B. Sullivan

7 Sept

A benchmark shows that sequence-search tool choice changes recall, runtime and resource use in #CRISPR spacer–protospacer detection. Bowtie1 with ≤3 mismatches offers a practical balance for large-scale host–MGE analyses 🧬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag394 👤 EVBC: Uri Neri, Simon Roux

doi.orgPrediction of pre- and postfusion conformations of class I fusion proteins with AlphaFold2Viruses such as coronaviruses or filoviruses use their surface glycoproteins (GPs) to attach to the host cell, triggering the fusion of the viral membrane with the endosome membrane. Epitopes on the viral GP are major targets for antibody-mediated recognition and neutralization. During the fusion process, the GP undergoes conformational changes triggered by fluctuations in environmental pH. Structural states are typically classified into three distinct conformations: prefusion, intermediate, and postfusion. These conformations serve as essential templates for prediction of conformational epitopes and structure-based vaccine design. Despite their importance, many viral GP structures remain absent from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Fortunately, recent breakthroughs in computational structure prediction have greatly enhanced the accuracy and accessibility of protein modeling. In this study, we utilized AlphaFold2-Multimer (AF2-M), version 2.3, to predict various GP structural conformations and observed that the overall frequency of predictions in the postfusion conformation is low. Therefore, we hypothesized that adapting the AF2-M protocol is necessary to enrich for specific conformations, thereby enabling the prediction of both pre- and postfusion conformations. AF2-M requires only the input sequence and internally generates multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) and optional templates before applying its pretrained model weights. We tested the use of template data to enrich pre- or postfusion conformations and demonstrated that our approach significantly increases the prediction frequency of class I fusion protein structures in both conformations, with the template dataset playing a crucial role in guiding modeling towards the intended state. Furthermore, we showed that the lack of correlation between pLDDT and TM-scores suggests that low pLDDT values may obscure the presence of valid alternative conformations.

5 Sept

An adapted AlphaFold2-Multimer workflow predicts both pre- and postfusion conformations of class I virus fusion proteins, supporting structure-based epitope mapping and vaccine design 🧬🤖 #AlphaFold #VaccineDesign 📄 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0351662 👤 EVBC: Clara Schoeder, Jens Meiler

doi.orgDeterministic access to global viral sequence data enables robust agentic scientific discoveryPublic viral genome resources such as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Virus database are central to outbreak response, evolutionary analysis, vaccine design, and genomic surveillance. Yet many high-value retrieval workflows remain optimized for interactive use rather than deterministic, reproducible programmatic interfaces. This creates a challenge for Large Language Model (LLM)-based scientific agents, where errors in metadata interpretation, filtering logic, or retrieval can propagate into incorrect datasets. To evaluate agentic viral data retrieval, we built VirBench, a manually curated benchmark of 120 queries spanning diverse pathogens, taxonomic levels, and metadata filters. When autonomous AI systems, including Biomni, Claude, GPT, and Edison Analysis, were tasked with these queries without a dedicated retrieval layer, performance varied widely: mean accuracy ranged from 16.9% for Claude Sonnet 4 to 91.3% for GPT-5.5, with newer frontier models showing progress but residual errors remaining consequential. To address this, we built gget virus, a deterministic query framework that formalizes NCBI Virus-style filtering as a reproducible programmatic system. By staging retrieval, applying metadata constraints before sequence download, and retrieving structured GenBank records, gget virus reduces data transfer by more than 98% for high-volume queries while preserving exact-match semantics. Instructing autonomous AI systems to use gget virus increased accuracy to at least 90.0% across all evaluated systems and up to 99.7% for GPT-5.5, improved response stability to 0.92-1.00, reduced error magnitude, and generally decreased runtime and tool calls. Together, this work establishes deterministic data access as critical infrastructure for reliable agentic science and provides a reproducible retrieval layer for robust human- and AI-driven viral genomics workflows.

4 Sept

A new study presents VirBench and gget virus, a deterministic tool for reproducible virus sequence retrieval. It raised AI-agent accuracy to ≥90% and reduced representative data transfer by 98% 🧬🤖 #VirusGenomics #AI 📄 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.06749 👤 EVBC: Bernhard Renard, Laura Luebbert

3 Sept

📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar "Build-A-Vir Workshop: Different bio-fractionation methods select for unique DNA and RNA viruses in experimental grassland system" ‍🎙️ Josué Rodríguez-Ramos, PNNL, USA 🗓️ 9 Sep, 4 PM CEST 📍 Zoom (register for login details) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-v...

doi.orgCross-family and phage-specific gene requirements for Klebsiella infection revealed by scalable RB-TnSeq genetic screensAuthor summary Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and play central roles in shaping microbial communities across ecosystems. Despite their ecological importance, the bacterial...

3 Sept

A scalable RB-TnSeq screen identifies 42 genes required for infection by 25 Klebsiella phages, revealing conserved and phage-specific requirements and informing phage host-range prediction and cocktail design. 🦠 📄 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 👤 EVBC member: Matthew B. Sullivan

21 Aug

Happy to share EVBC Newsletter No. 104 (July/August 2026), including: 📜 Newest EVBC member publications + tools 📅 Upcoming events + deadlines 💼 Job vacancies 🔗 evbc.uni-jena.de/evbc-newslet... #bioinformatics #virology #sciencecommunity

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28 July

📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar "Understanding the viral composition and the dynamic phage-bacterial interplay in Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome" ‍🎙️ Eman W. Abdelsalam, Sidra Medicine, Qatar 🗓️ 12 Aug 2026, 4 PM CEST 📍 Zoom (register for login details) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-v...

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7 Aug

Me, @emma-harding.bsky.social, @rtarlinton.bsky.social and @royalsociety.org are organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements! 8-9 Feb 2027, Birmingham UK. 2 whole days of EVEs! Many amazing researchers already agreed to speak. Invites: shorturl.at/jp9sh Provisional schedule: shorturl.at/8O5KV

royalsociety.orgEndogenous viral elements | Royal SocietyTheo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Katy Brown, Dr Emma Harding and Professor Rachael Tarlinton

28 July

8 July

Dense JCV genome sequencing reveals long-term circulation in North America and shows how mosquito life cycles shape #VirusEvolution and spread 🦟🧬📉 #Phylogenetics #VectorBorneDisease 📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.03.076 👤 EVBC: Simon Dellicour, Philippe Lemey, Marc A. Suchard, Nathan Grubaugh

7 July

Wastewater sequencing combined with #MachingeLearning enables learning and forecasting of SARS-CoV-2 variant selection dynamics via the Covvfit framework. 🧬🌊📈 #WastewaterEpidemiology #SARSCoV2 📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2026.126018 👤 EVBC member: Niko Beerenwinkel

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6 July

🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2026🚨 Application is now OPEN for the 8th International Viromics Workshop, Oct. 14-16, 2026, in-person at Ohio State University. Application closes Aug. 7. Apply: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop

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doi.orgInfection cycles of viruses of the phylum Nucleocytoviricota - Nature Reviews MicrobiologyIn this Review, Abergel et al. overview infection cycles across the Nucleocytoviricota phylum, highlighting shared mechanisms and lineage-specific features spanning viral entry, viral factory formation, genome replication, virion morphogenesis and egress, and discuss key unresolved questions in the field.

6 July

This comprehensive review synthesises current knowledge on the infection cycles of #Nucleocytoviricota (giant DNA viruses), highlighting shared mechanisms and lineage-specific innovations across diverse #virus families. 🦠🔬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-026-01319-6 👤 EVBC member: Mart Krupovic

doi.orgSequence to structure insights into Lassa virus population-level biophysical properties and glycoprotein structure catalogue - npj Virusesnpj Viruses - Sequence to structure insights into Lassa virus population-level biophysical properties and glycoprotein structure catalogue

3 July

Large-scale analysis of #LassaVirus sequences reveals lineage-specific biophysical features and delivers comprehensive #glycoprotein structure catalogue, supporting vaccine and therapeutic development🦠🧬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44298-026-00196-3 👤 EVBC: Knut Reinert, Clara Schoeder, Denise Kühnert

2 July

New microfluidic GP confocal imaging protocol enables precise quantification of lipid packing in GUVs, improving membrane order measurements. 🧫🔬📊 #Microscopy #Lipids #Microfluidics 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.xp... 👤 EVBC member: Christian Eggeling

doi.orgComputational prediction resolves thousands of homooligomeric phage protein structuresBacteriophages (phages) play essential roles in microbial systems, yet most phage proteins remain poorly characterised. Protein tertiary and quaternary structure information contributes valuable infor...

1 July

Structure-based prediction of #phage proteins (Phage Homomer Level Estimate and Generation Method PHLEGM) uses #AlphaFold Multimer and interface scoring to resolve thousands of virus protein complexes from sequence data🧬💻 #StructuralBiology 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... 👤EVBC: Robert Edwards, Bas Dutilh

29 June

Parallelised structured coalescent inference dramatically accelerates real-time phylogeography, enabling scalable epidemic reconstruction across many regions and genomes 🧬🌍⚡ #Phylogenetics #Epidemiology #Bioinformatics 📄 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2602412123 👤 EVBC member: Marc A. Suchard

doi.orgSmart event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy to catch and follow rare events - Nature CommunicationsEvent-triggered MINFLUX combines confocal monitoring with real-time analysis to selectively acquire single-molecule data, enabling nanometre-resolution studies of membrane dynamics in living cells with improved speed, efficiency and data throughput.

26 June

Event-triggered #MINFLUX #microscopy couples real-time confocal analysis with adaptive nanoscale imaging, enabling targeted capture of rare cellular events in 2D and 3D, such as during HIV-1 budding site formation 🦠🔬⚡#CellBiology 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73176-z 👤EVBC: Christian Eggeling

doi.orgA complete catalogue of human-infective RNA viruses - Scientific DataScientific Data - A complete catalogue of human-infective RNA viruses

24 June

A new open-access catalogue brings together all known human-infective RNA viruses, providing a valuable resource for virology, surveillance, and pandemic preparedness. 🦠📊 #Virology #InfectiousDiseases #OpenData 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07281-5 👤 EVBC member: Liam Brierley

doi.orgViral non-coding RNA structure annotation and API-based data retrieval with Rfam and R2DTRfam is a comprehensive database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) families providing curated sequence alignments, consensus secondary structures, and covariance models for thousands of RNA families. The database is essential for identifying structured non-coding RNAs in newly sequenced genomes and understa...

23 June

Rfam database and R2DT workflows enable automated virus ncRNA annotation and API-driven retrieval of RNA families, alignments and structures for scalable RNA biology pipelines 🧬🧫📊 #RNA #Virology #Bioinformatics 📄 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.10.724034 👤 EVBC members: Sandra Triebel, Manja Marz

doi.org Organization and evolution of the virosphere and the replicator space

22 June

Review summarises how viruses dominate genetic diversity on Earth and evolve through multiple origins, gene sharing, and host–virus arms races, reshaping the global virosphere and replicator space 🧬🌍🦠 #Virology #Evolution #Metagenomics 📄 doi.org/10.5802/crbi... 👤 EVBC member: Mart Krupovic

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11 June

📢 Join us for the next Viruses in silico webinar lecture! 🎙️ "The ICTV at Sixty Years: Classifying the Worldwide Virosphere" 👨‍🔬 Elliot J. Lefkowitz (University of Alabama at Birmingham, US) 🗓️ 25 June 2026 🕑 4 PM CEST 📍 Zoom - Register to receive the login details 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/virus...

19 June

A new Nextflow-based pipeline enables scalable reconstruction and analysis of virus genomes from #metagenomic sequencing data, supporting improved #VirusSurveillance and outbreak response. 🧬🦠#Bioinformatics 📄 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag187 👤 EVBC members: Philippe Lemey, Magda Bletsa

doi.orgQuantifying Components in a Model Vaccine with Machine-Learning-Augmented Raman SpectroscopyVaccination is a highly efficient strategy in controlling infections. Aluminum-containing adjuvants have long been used to enhance immunogenicity, but quantification of adsorbed antigens remains analytically challenging. This study uses Raman spectroscopy, a powerful, nondestructive technique, augme...

18 June

#MachineLearning augmented #Raman spectroscopy enables accurate quantification of components in model #vaccine formulations, improving spectral deconvolution and compositional analysis in complex biological mixtures. 🧪📊🔬 📄 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c05538 👤 EVBC member: Christel Kamp

doi.orgThe honey bee triad: a comprehensive catalogue of phages in the Apis mellifera gut microbiome - Nature CommunicationsThe gut microbiome of the honey bee is relatively simple, but its phages are not well studied. Here, Basler et al. use metagenomics to provide a comprehensive catalogue of honey bee gut phages across eight European countries, describing novel taxa as well as a core set of 97 prevalent phages.

17 June

Researchers have created the first comprehensive catalogue of #bacteriophages in the honey bee gut #microbiome, providing new insights into #BeeHealth, microbial ecology and host–virus interactions. 🐝🦠 📄 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72757-2 👤 EVBC members: Nikolas Basler, Jelle Matthijnssens

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15 June

Happy to share EVBC Newsletter No. 103 (May/June 2026), including: 📜 Newest EVBC member publications + tools 📅 Upcoming events + deadlines 💼 Open vacancies 🎤 Webinar announcements 🔗 https://evbc.uni-jena.de/evbc-newsletter/ #bioinformatics #virology #sciencecommunity

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13 June

A recent The New York Times article on treatment advances for the Bundibugyo #Ebola outbreak follows GVN's June 10 media briefing featuring Prof. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Ebola research expert and Director of INRB. Read the article: https://ow.ly/rlTi50ZblRe #GlobalVirusNetwork #GVN #Ebola

ow.lyScientists Race to Test Treatments as Ebola Outbreak WidensTrials are beginning on several drugs that have shown promise in preliminary studies against the virus that is causing the current outbreak.

11 June

2 June

📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar "Discovery of putative active and cryptic viral infections in prevalent gut fungi" ‍🎙️ Andrea Silverj, University of Calgary, Canada 🗓️ 10 June 2026, 4 PM CEST 📍 Online/Zoom (register for login details) 👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/ecr-v...

26 May

We had an amazing time at #ViBioM2026 last week in Vilnius 🇱🇹🤝 Researchers from around the world shared insights on virus #metagenomics, #phylogeny, protein & RNA biology, and #ML approaches. Huge thanks to all organizers, helpers, and our sponsors (GoVilnius, Viruses/MDPI, @febsopenbio.bsky.social)!

25 May

Congratulations to the #ViBioM2026 award winners! 🥇Best ECR Talk: Dr. Emma Harding, University of Oxford 🇬🇧 🥇Best Poster: AistėŽidonytė, Vilnius University 🇱🇹 Sponsored by Viruses (MDPI)🙏 Thank you to all the speakers and poster presenters!

20 May

Back on track with Day 3 of #ViBioM2026! After two engaging days of talks, posters, discussions, quizzes, and challenges, we are looking forward to more talks and discussions on #virus #bioinformatics. Great to see such active exchange throughout the meeting 🫶 #ScientificExchange

18 May

🌟 Day 1 of #ViBioM2026 at Vilnius University 🏛️ with a warm welcome by Manja, Gytis, and Ingrida – we already feel at home! Excited to start a full programme of talks, posters, and discussions on computational approaches in #virology. #viralgenomics #datascience #virusevolution