Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky

@lukehillary

Viral ecology postdoc @ UC Davis. Interested in viruses and microbes in soil and their impact on soil and public health. Now on Bluesky @lukehillary.bsky.social

Davis, CA Katılım Şubat 2010

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·14 Tem

See what happens to soil viruses when you set their habitat on fire! #FEMS2025 Super excited to be presenting my work on DNA/ RNA viruses and how they respond to wildfire. Talk is 13:00 on Thursday, Brown 1&2 Massive thanks to @FEMSmicro for supporting my attendance!

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Joint Genome Institute@jgi·2 Eyl

Abstracts are due Oct. 19 for the 2025 New Lineages of Life Symposium — 80 slots available! See speakers below. More info: jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us/e… Full Agenda: #agenda" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jgi.doe.gov/work-with-us/e…

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RdRp Summit@RdRp_Summit·8 May

Stoked to have Luke Hillary joining us to talk about adapting MIUViG for RNA viruses—huge step for making sense of uncultivated RNA viromes!😍 #RdRpSummit2025 in 3 days!

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·11 Şub

Huge thanks from myself, @simroux_virus and others helping coordinate

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·11 Şub

...host associated, aquatic, terrestrial, etc etc) Once we've collated all the responses and people who are interested in contributing/ want to stay updated, we'll reach out again. Also happy to answer questions here but am mainly on BlueSky.

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·11 Şub

We're looking for suggestions on how to update and adapt the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUVIG) reporting standard. What works? What needs updating? Check out the survey forms.gle/DPHvMFe8GsdjCs… 🧵

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Sabrina Sadiq@RoyalFizzbin·13 Şub

Now published! Super divergent RNA virus lineages identified in Australian soils and some initial insights into the fascinating relationship between soil properties and virome composition. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.viro…

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·27 Oca

@jamesemcdonald @ucdavis @DarrenSmithdx Very nice timing that it was on whilst I was in the UK. Going back to the States bursting with ideas 😁

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James McDonald@jamesemcdonald·27 Oca

@lukehillary @ucdavis @DarrenSmithdx I thought I’d spotted you in one of the photos! Great stuff Luke 👏

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·27 Oca

#VoM_UK24 was a great conference. Really nice to catch up with people and share some of the work on viruses and wildfire I'm doing @ucdavis. The standard of talks from PDRAs and PhDs was phenomenal. Huge thanks to @DarrenSmithdx and the organising team for putting it all together

Adnan Tariq@rmadnantariq

@VoM_UK @emm_severi @UniofExeter #VoM_UK24 Day 2 first session of PDRA and Fellows talks. A wide variety of talks.

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VoM-UK@VoM_UK·8 Oca

Last day to register an abstract for a talk all you phagesters! We will try to make sure as many PGRs, Postdocs and Fellows get the opportunity to talk about their research. Its a very supportive audience!! Abstract deadline is today 8th Jan, registration closes on the 15th.

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·13 Ara

Some great points here about how to make (international) conferences more accessible for all.

DisabledInSTEM@DisabledStem

A recent piece published on making conferences more inclusive for all! #DisabledInSTEM nature.com/articles/s4155…

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·13 Ara

Looking forward to presenting some updates on how RNA and DNA viromics can be used to understand how we influence viral communities both around us, and within us 🏞️🚜💩

OSU Center of Microbiome Science@OSUmicrobiome

Join us this Wednesday at 10am EST for the ECR Viromics Webinar featuring Luke Hillary. Register here: go.osu.edu/ecrviromicsweb…

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Jane Fudyma@Jane_Fudyma·8 Ara

Come see my #soilviruses and space (spatial distances not outer space) #AGU23 talk at 9:30 on Friday! Yea yea yea the last day of conferences are tough, but my session is full of super cool microbial talks and even cooler people 😎. Session B51A lead by @elbrodie starting at 8:30

Soils & Biogeochemistry Grad Group - UC Davis@SBGUCDavis

Are you attending #AGU23 in SF next week? If so, go checkout our grad student, junior specialist, post-doc and faculty presentations! We have an excellent lineup of diverse soil research topics over many different sessions. Come learn something new and say hello!

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Davey Jones@bangorsoil·30 Kas

Proud to accept this on behalf of the team......this journey started 15 years ago @ViraquaProject. I can't thank our @BangorUni team and our collaborators enough (@cardiffuni, @UniofExeter, @UniofBath, @UniofNewcastle, @Arup, @DwrCymru.....). It would not of happened without you.

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·2 Ara

@bangorsoil @ViraquaProject @BangorUni @cardiffuni @UniofExeter @UniofBath @UniofNewcastle @Arup @DwrCymru Congrats to the whole team Davey. Great to see this go from strength to strength 😁

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·19 Eki

@SieraVirus @Jane_Fudyma That should work nicely. Watch the pH of your lysis buffer as you can lose RNA if it drifts too low. Also helps to preheat the lysis buffer too. @jamesemcdonald taught me everything I know for that protocol 😁

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🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕@SieraVirus·19 Eki

@lukehillary @Jane_Fudyma I was thinking of doing Griffith, then splitting the output and adding DNase to one half and RNase to the other.

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🎗Ella Sieradzki 🐈🐕@SieraVirus·19 Eki

Does anyone have recommendations for extracting both DNA and RNA from the same soil sample? There used to be a Qiagen kit (AllPrep) but in my experience it had very low DNA yield. Biscuit picture for tax purposes and attention.

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Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky@lukehillary·19 Eki

@Jane_Fudyma @SieraVirus All prep PowerFecal is a PowerSoil/ PowerFecal DNA kit where you purify the RNA from the flow through of the DNA column. Yields are slightly lower than a pure DNA or RNA extraction and you're limited to 250mg input. Griffiths is cheaper but processing needed to separate DNA/ RNA.

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