Xabier Lopez-Alforja

Here is the interview with @ib3oficial.bsky.social that they did with me about our latest article on the decline of viral abundance in the Mediterranean.

What's happening to coastal viral communities? How is climate change affecting them?

Starts in the min 23.30

totib3.org/play/radio/n...

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes - Nature Microbiology Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.

#NewResearch

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes

@rstepanauskas.bsky.social & co

#microsky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢Join us for the next ECR #Viromics Webinar:
"Untangle the complexity of the virosphere using single-cell RNA-sequencing"
‍🎙️ Amir Fromm | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
🗓️ 12 November 2025, 4 PM CET
📍 Online | Zoom (register for login details)
👉 coms.osu.edu/webinars/ecr...

A press note on our latest study has been released (select the language in the web)

📉 An unprecedented decline in marine viruses in the Western Mediterranean, based on over 20 years of data from the Blanes Microbial Observatory.

🗞️ Read the full press release here:

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/unpr...

Same patterns to those we've been observing in the mediterranean sea! Decrease in the overalll chlorophyll-a values

What a week in @same18-bcn.bsky.social in Barcelona! 🔬🧬

🌊🦠Presented my work on giant viruses & virophages in marine protists - even in the Hangover session!

🥂Great to have a moment to answer brilliant questions and make new connections 🌊

#giantvirus #virophages #SAME18 #AquaticMicrobiology

Complex transcriptional regulations of a hyperparasitic quadripartite system in giant viruses infecting protists - Nature Communications Giant viruses infecting protists can be hyperparasitized by virophages, and carry mobile DNA elements called transpovirons. Here, Bessenay et al. analyze the transcriptional program of this complex qu...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GitHub - xabilopalf/GAMMANN-Vir: GAMM and ANN modelling for Viral Abundance Time Series GAMM and ANN modelling for Viral Abundance Time Series - xabilopalf/GAMMANN-Vir

🏆The GAMANN-vir code is now open-source for the community!🏆

This tool was designed to analyze complex time series and handle intricate interactions. GAMANN-vir strategically combines GAMMs (trends and seasonality) and Neural Networks (ANNs) (robust predictive modeling).

github.com/xabilopalf/G...

Long-term decline of marine viruses associated with warming and oligotrophication at a NW Mediterranean coastal site Abstract. Viruses play key roles in controlling microbial abundance and community composition, nutrient cycling, and productivity in marine systems. Rising

#NewPaperAlert in @isme-microbes.bsky.social

🔬 18 yrs of Blanes Bay surface water data show warming & oligotrophication reshape viral communities. @icmcsic.bsky.social

📉 Decline in viruses, microbes & phytoplankton.
🌡️ Linked to temp rise, transparency & nutrient loss.

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Group pic SAME18!

Arqueologies queer (Presencial) Gènere, sexualitat i materialitats des de la prehistòria fins a la modernitat

@putomikel.bsky.social i Enrique Moral de Eusebio ens parlaran d’arqueologia queer; entenent-la no només com un nou enfocament del passat, sinó també com una interpel·lació als discursos que hem produït històricament i al lloc des d’on s’han enunciat.

www.instituthumanitats.org/ca/cursos/ar...