#MVIF 46 is live!
⭐️ Highlights:
🇺🇸 Rebecca L. Knoll
🇯🇵 Akito Sakanaka
⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social
⭐️ Talks:
🇦🇺 Jeremy Barr @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Erik Bakkeren @erikbakkeren.bsky.social
🇨🇳 Guanxiang Liang
📜Full abstracts: cassyni.com/s/mvif-46
Applications close this Friday (1/30) at 5 PM PST!
mvif 46 program
It's Friday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩
Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-46
Highlights:
🇺🇸 Rebecca L. Knoll
🇯🇵 Akito Sakanaka
Keynote:
🇺🇸 @simrouxvirus.bsky.social
⭐️ Talks:
🇦🇺 @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social
🇨🇦 @erikbakkeren.bsky.social
🇨🇳 Guanxiang Liang
Applications are due 1/30/26 for the Human Microbiome Data Discovery 2-week course at OHSU!
If you're a #postdoc, junior #faculty or and advanced graduate student looking to increase your #data_science skills in #microbiome science, check it out!
📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...
Applications for this #microbiome #datascience short course are due next week!
If you're in biomedical research, interested in building data science skills to study the microbiome and reusing publicly available data, this course is for you!
Applications are open for the Human Microbiome Data Discovery short course!
This is a 2-week course for postdocs and junior faculty to learn #datascience skills in #microbiome science.
Offered May 4 - 15, 2026 in Portland, OR at OHSU
Learn more at bit.ly/microbiome-data-course
Program for #GloMiNe2025 "Preservation of microbial diversity” by @microbiotavault.bsky.social and #MVIF is OUT:
cassyni.com/s/mvif-glomi...
1/3
Get Ready!
#MVIF 38 on Microbiome and Citizen Science
is live n the Pacific time zones 🌏 in less than an hour!⏰
You can still register : cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
Don't miss today's #MVIF 38: A special event on on #citizenscience & #microbiome!
@patrickveiga.bsky.social @gilbertjacka.bsky.social
@waldispuhl.bsky.social Mathieu Almeida, Claudia Cappello, Daniel McDonald Mikayla Borton & Sarah Ahannach.
There's still time to register👉 cassyni.com/s/mvif-38
Karstens Lab @lisakarstens.bsky.social summary of resources to identify and remove contaminated microbial DNA from seq-based microbiome studies here: github.com/KarstensLab/.... Learned this today at Urobiome 2025 @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social
Today/tomorrow Pacific LIVE
& on Wednesday Atlantic REPLAY!
Just register here cassyni.com/s/mvif-36
We can't wait to welcome YOU & #MVIF 36 speakers:
🇯🇵 Nodoka Chiba
🇮🇩 Patsy Tasyana Fitri
🇨🇳 Ruixin Liu
🇦🇺 @aroneys.bsky.social
🇬🇧 Maria Kardakova
🇳🇿 @theoportlock.bsky.social
#openscience #microbiomesky
The Pacific replay for #MVIF is today at 4:30 PM PT.
There's still time to register!
Know #undergrads in Portland interested in summer research?
Let them know about the research opportunity fair @portlandstate Fri Jan 17th 1-3 PM.
I'll be there with @billhersh.bsky.social to chat about our #biomedical #informatics #datascience summer internship!
www.pdx.edu/events/under...
Please join us in celebrating NMDC Champion Lisa Karstens’ recent NIH R25 award! The grant will support a 3-year project to develop teaching materials for early career researchers to gain essential skills in microbiome data science🧪
season 4
👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Today's #Microbiome digest
microbiomedigest.com/2024/12/09/d...
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
#MicrobiomeSky 🦠
Tomorrow Atlantic replay with live Q&A!
There's still time to register!
cassyni.com/s/mvif-34
mvif 26
#MVIF 26 program is out! 🤩
⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Laura S. Weyrich
⭐️ Short talks:
🇨🇳 Ziye Wang
🇺🇸Kate Bowie
🇺🇸Richard Wolff
🇺🇸Ivan Zheludev
More about talks here: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...
📣Apps for the 2024 Undergraduate Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Summer Internship are due Feb 16th!
More info: bit.ly/ohsu-informatics-interns
What: PAID internships with research in data science & informatics
Where: Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR USA
Image of the Oregon Health & Science University logo Next to a box that reads: Get Hands-on Research Experience! Summer internships: 40 hours per week for 10-12 weeks. All internships are paid. For more information, project descriptions and application: bit.ly/DMICE_Internships
Are you an undergrad or know an undergrad interested in an internship in biomedical informatics / data science?
Join our informational webinar about the OHSU summer internship program *tomorrow* Jan 9th at 1 PM PT.
Info & Registration: bit.ly/DMICE_Internships
mvif 25
We have an early New Year present for you
🎁 the January #MVIF program with
Jennifer Wargo
Nikolay Oskolkov
Sondra Turjeman
Mireia Valles-Colomer
Full program with abstracts: www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...
Registration: hopin.com/events/micro...
✨Happy holidays ✨
An award symbol with the text"2023 - Top Cited Author, American Society for Micorbiology" next to a screen shot reading "Top cited articles" followed by the information for the microshades manuscript.
Exciting!
My group's paper, microshades: An R Package for Improving Color Accessibility and Organization of Microbiome Data, was highlighted as an @ASMicrobiology Top Cited paper!
Congrats @erictleung.bsky.social @katebowie.bsky.social Emory neer and Erin Dahl!
📔 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
⭐That's a wrap! So many inspiring talks!
A huge thanks to all of our speakers and attendees for making the meeting so enjoyable🦠!
And for those who missed it, you can check out the recordings later here ▶️ www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ3...
📢 Remember that you can submit your work for:
🌎Atlantic-first event in January w/ Jennifer Wargo
🌏Pacific-first event in February w/ Laura S. Weyrich
www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/info...
Third talk for today at #MVIF.24
⭐️Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies by 🇺🇸 Sarah Teichman
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Second selected talk at #MVIF.24
⭐️ Wastewater sequencing reveals community and variant dynamics of the collective human virome by
🇺🇸 Mike Tisza
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NEXT, #MVIF short talks:
⭐️ Gut microbiota manipulation in neurodevelopmental disorders: implication from animal models of infantile epilepsy
by 🇨🇦 Chunlong Mu
Read his research at:
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Our lineup of #MVIF speakers for today's dive into #microbiome science 🤩
⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 @gilbertjacka
⭐️ Short talks:
🇨🇦@ChunlongMu1
🇺🇸@MikeTisza
🇺🇸@sarah_teichman
🇺🇸@GerrickElias
And thanks to our partners 🧬@Roche and 🔬@QIAGEN for supporting #MVIF!
