Thomas Hackl

So excited to see this out in it's final version after a bit of a bumpy road! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More information: monirlab.com/join/ Please retweet!

Funded postdoc + PhD opportunities in marine microbial ecology! Please share with folks that might be interested. Start date is flexible (fall 2025 to summer 2026) More about the lab + applying (Postdoc rolling, PhD apps due Oct/Jan): sites.google.com/uncc.edu/micro…

We have a 3-year postdoc position in our group at the HIFMB to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/2002…

Super proud of the discoveries on Antarctic virus diversity by @Goncal0Piedade! nature.com/articles/s4146…

@KH4sling And so deserved. Congrats!

Super honored to be one of the awardees and excited to start my new research project! Congratulations to all my fellow awardees!

@Benjamin_Minch Looks awesome, congrats!

Are you interested in finding giant viruses, virophages, and PLVs inside your metagenomes? Struggling to figure out an easy way to do so? Look no further than BEREN, a one-stop-shop tool for recovery, taxonomy, and annotation of these viruses. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Many of us want to detect & infer roles of giant virus in metagenomes but are limited by available tools and bioinfo expertise. BEREN is a modular, one-stop-shop for giant virus & virophage identification in metaG datasets. Latest from our lab, spearheaded by @Benjamin_Minch !

detectEVE: fast, sensitive and precise detection of endogenous viral elements in genomic data biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Happy to finally see our (improved) version of our EVE detection pipeline out for everyone to use :) with @brait_nadja and @th4ckl

Interested in quantifying phage parameters from growth curves? Then this is your workshop! October 31, Utrecht (NL): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@tueknielsen @ppjevac @kirk3gaard @nanopore @JMF_Vienna @joanaseneca Same for us - really struggling with crab DNA and cells blocking after 1-2h. Any tips are highly appreciated!

@ppjevac @kirk3gaard @nanopore @JMF_Vienna @joanaseneca Nice. Any tips you can share? We have struggled with other aquatic animals/plants.

Clam gill tissue! This is a @nanopore PromethION flowcell not dying while sequencing DNA extracted from a clam - our thus far worse enemy sample type!!! Euphoria at the @JMF_Vienna @joanaseneca <3

@Hulk_Vogan @hyphaltip Cool story and beautiful use of thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ plots ;)

Starships carry important cargo genes that have been previously investigated. These include the biosynthetic gene clusters for Fumihopaside A, and Fumigermin. As well as the HAC cluster that contributes to virulence, hypoxia, and biofilm formation.

New Starship preprint is up🚀!biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We take a deep dive into the population dynamics of these giant #transposons by examining over 500 genomes of the human pathogenic #fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

ICTV's long-anticipated Computational Virus Taxonomy Challenge is out! Bioinformaticians are asked to classify unknown virus sequences and contribute to making Virus Taxonomy more reproducible. See: ictv-vbeg.github.io/ICTV-TaxonomyC… - please RT, tell your bioinformaticians and colleagues!

Do endogenous virophages protect their protist hosts from giant viruses? For the marine heterotrophic flagellate Cafeteria sp., it very much seems so. Congrats to Anna Koslová, @th4ckl and co-workers at @mpi_mr_hd on a new study published in @PNASNews ! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I’m hiring! Looking for a PhD candidate with a passion for soil microbiology to join me in Tübingen studying phage interactions with #soil (micro)habitats and the implications for their ecology. #PhDpositions @uni_tue Details here: uni-tuebingen.de/securedl/sdl-e…

Excited to finally share this work! This paper is years in the making... We uncover a global network of purine and pyrimidine cross-feeding among ocean microbes and begin characterizing the forces shaping it. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The meeting takes place back-to-back with the annual Netherlands Association of Virus Ecology meeting the next day, which will also be great - make the most of a trip to Groningen! See this post for more information: x.com/Mark_P_Zwart/s…

Are you interested in Microbial Ecology and want to join an awesome Dutch community? Consider signing up to the annual Integrative Microbial Ecology meeting in Groningen on March 21 2024. Visit sites.google.com/view/qme-nl/ for more information and a link to register!