Ingrida Olendraite
CSO at VUGENE | Bioinformatics for your research. Molecular Biology of RNA viruses and RdRp. Transitioning from Virology bioinformatics postdoc at Firth group, University of Cambridge. Views my own.
- Remember? RNA virus journal club is already this Thursday! 🤩 Join us and join our (RdRp summit) slack (link in the comment): calendar.app.google/K2fwcsL78K1E... RNA Virus Journal ClubJoin Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/8109697228... Meeting ID: 810 9697 2281 Passcode: 174610
- Save the date for phylogenetics! RNA virus Journal Club returns ( @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) with @evogytis.bsky.social intro to his "Baltic" - python module to visualise phylogenetic trees. January 15th (Thu) - EEST Vilnius Time 3:00 PM Join slack for updates: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...
- Save the date for phylogenetics! RNA virus Journal Club returns ( @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) with @evogytis.bsky.social intro to his "Baltic" - python module to visualise phylogenetic trees. January 15th (Thu) - EEST Vilnius Time 3:00 PM Join slack for updates: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...
- There will be a zoom link and recording (available upon request or to our slack community) - so all welcome to join us there! :)
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteLoved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.
- It's today! December 11th Finding endogenous viral elements in genomic data 🧑💻 by Sebastian Lequime (University of Groningen @rug.nl ) Time: 2pm EST🇺🇸 / 8pm CET 🇪🇺 / 4am JST 🇯🇵 Join @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RNA Virus Journal Club talk & discussion: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9164101918... #rdrpsummit
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteExpressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference. Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes! isvm.org #phagesky #virus
- RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !) With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :) calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg... CET: 14:00–15:00, Format: 30 min + 30 min
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteWe are looking for mentors for the Sci.STEPS program! Please apply if you want to help your junior colleagues around the globe navigate their career path in any science related field.
- 🤩Join the Sci.STEPS 2026 Mentor Cohort! We invite #mentors from varied backgrounds and stages of their #scientific careers to apply and share their knowledge and expertise with our #mentees. ✏ Register here: lnkd.in/edZggY32 🗓 Deadline: November 10th 2025 👀more about #SciSTEPS: www.scisteps.org
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteAssembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteWilling to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
- 🎓 Applications for Institut Pasteur's PhD programs open Sept 1-Oct 20, 2025 for October 2026 entry. Apply to up to 4 projects across 6 programs: PPU, PPU-IMAGINE @institutimagine.bsky.social, PPU-@ox.ac.uk, PPU-EID @upcite.bsky.social & more 🧬 Register now ✍️ www.pasteur.fr/en/education...
- While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search! Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼
- Logan enables minute-scale k-mer search, and hour-scale deep homology protein alignment search, across 100+ Billion proteins. www.logan-search.org
- This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷
- 🌎👩🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)
- Last week we had a 3-day lab retreat at Vilnius University's base in Puvočiai with Lander de Coninck & @ingrida.bsky.social joining us as visitors. These retreats keep getting better & more productive thanks to the students & especially fellow PI @mgabrielaite.bsky.social. I'm super proud!
- Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation). September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST rdrp.io/journal-club...
- Happy world RNA day! AUG1 🎉 🎉 🎉 While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule! This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public. #RNAday
- the forever increasing number of pubmed publications for RNA, and at the bottom: DNA graph, so we can 'adjust' for general growth in science. RNA looking pretty cool. Numbers and years provided for the peak value. X mlns are for the total number of publications
- ChatGPT version of RNA.. :D #RNAday
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteThis is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵
Anthropozoonotic spillovers reveal sustained long-term cryptic circulation of SARS-CoV-2 within and between Lithuanian mink farms medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- One of the small life joys is how Macs with M chip batteries basically never die. You travel, forget your chargers etc - never a problem. Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac. Happy weekend!
- Reposted by Ingrida Olendraitehow many 21-mers are shared between different species genomes at the genus level? #sourmash
- Not just great k-mer content but some important historical facts (: Thanks @rayanchikhi.bsky.social !
- Slides from my talk (with @kamilsjaron.bsky.social) on an history of k-mers in bioinformatics: rayan.chikhi.name/pdf/2025-kme...
- This is for sure my fav book. This is why I am going through it slowly. Thanks to Bluey (: can read it for a bit on a Saturday morning:). "Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteAnd founding ARTIC member @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social) will build innovative portable and low-cost laboratory solutions and training packages to accompany them, now working with new ARTIC investigator Jenny Molloy who will develop open-source wet lab reagents for sequencing
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteAbsolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
- Wellcome Genome campus started to feel like home :) back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25 last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :) 🎊 90 countries >600 attendees! Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteWhat turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? 🌍🦠 Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting. 📍Oxford Martin School & Online ⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm Register here: oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-s…
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteI will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!
- Reposted by Ingrida Olendraite🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!
- Even the event photographer seems interested in @thekatybrown.bsky.social talk :)) Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteYou can find RdRpCATCH here github.com/dimitris-kar...
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteDetecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteOur sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture. #RdRpSummit2025
- And it's a wrap! The second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RdRp Summit has ended, endless discussions, collaborations and friendships have started! :) All of this wouldn't be possible without the organisers: thank you, it was a pleasure! Everyone - join our slack, join the next committee :) #rdrpsummit
- Absolutely loved @lukehillary.bsky.social talk! Much needed for the field and seemed very balanced requirements :)
- @lukehillary.bsky.social is joining us remotely to enlighten us on best practices in annotating viral genomes - MIUViG2 #RdRpSummit2025
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteIntroducing RdRpCATCH- mining RNA viruses using RdRp HMMs! Dimitris Karapliafis is here to talk about the community project we took up during the 2023 RdRp Summit! #RdRpSummit2025
- Manual curation of your virus group is like #Tinder, you get to know them and become intimate.. :D Rachid simply being iconic at the #RdRpsummit2025 :D
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteExcited for #RdRpSummit2025 and #ViBioM2025! Just starting off now in Lisbon.
- Can't wait to meet everyone today at the RdRp summit! Bringing something to the table myslef 🙃 #rdrpsummit
- So greit to have Xin as one of our speakers! Definitely one of the most important publications in the last 2 years in the field!
- Lucaprot leverages AI to discover highly-divergent RNA-dependent RNA polymerase sequences, completely revolutionizing the field of RNA Virus discovery! We are ecstatic to have Xin Hou (@xinhou.bsky.social) as one of our invited speakers at the #RdRpSummit2025!
- I am very happy to announce that #VUGENE has received 1mln EUR #investment 🥳🥳🥳 Whole #multiomics is amazingly growing field and pure joy for data obsessed bioinformaticians 🙋🏼♀️, company would still be just an idea without the brilliant team. We care about each other's and our clients' well being!
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteTo see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteTrump's proposed NIH cuts are partly based on potential NIH complicity in the covid pandemic as a lab leak, a conspiracy theory NIH head Bhattacharya promoted. But evidence indicates the pandemic as a lab leak is extremely unlikely, as I've summarized: www.physicsforums.com/threads/rece...
- The previous RdRp summit manifested in the consensus statement. What the second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social brings us?:)
- We just published a consensus statement (with 47 institutes) on advancing #RdRp-based RNA virus discovery! We sum up the challenges identified at the 1st #RdRpSummit and propose solutions to ensure greater interoperability. Here’s a summary- t.ly/Uwqge
- Still can register especially for the remote!
- Ummm... did we not mention that the #RdRpSummit2025 is a HYBRID event? We will consider remote presentation and you can attend the summit online! The abstract submission deadline is on the 22nd of April! Visit RdRp.io for more information!
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteIntroducing our invited speaker for the session on 'Viral Dark Matter' we have Rachel Seongeun Kim from the Seoul National University!!!! The registrations for on-site & remote participation are still open! More info: RdRp.io #RdRpSummit2025
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteI got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚
- This is amazing and makes a very obvious point! Perfect art igniting conversations!
- Why #science #communication is so important? We need general public to be onformed about latest innovations and reaearch. Today I had joy in talking about #multiomics and #vugene at Lithuanian National Broadcaster (LRT). Thank you Karolina Panto and LRT for doing cutting edge-science journalism!
- Onformed = informed. Or onboard and informed;D
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteIf you use Kraken for profiling microbial / environmental / ancient metagenomic data, please check this preprint where I benchmark filtering strategies of Kraken outputs on simulated microbial and environmental metagenomic samples, and provide recommendations for optimal filtering thresholds
- just finished filming/recording the last episode of "Future architects" educational/ science communication series where we discussed how personalised medicine is going to be in the future and where we are now. More #bioinformatics and #sciencecommunication ! #outreach #VUGENE #VULSK
- If anyone is still not registered or still considering to come - now you have some motivation!
- EXCITING NEWS🥳! @isme-microbes.bsky.social is now sponsoring 3 travels grants worth EUR 500 each to support early career researchers presenting at the #RdRpSummit2025. Abstract submissions & registrations are still open!✍️ More info at RdRp.io
- Kudos to hybrid meetings!
- Having an amazing time attending "Women's Health: Genes, data and advancing approaches" virtually. Presentations so far were 🎉🎉🎉. I learned so much&already have a looong post-meeting reading list 📄😊 Plus,one of the best hybrid conferences I've experienced to date. #WomensHealth2025
- The last day of the #WomensHealth2025 inspirational event at the Wellcome Genome Campus . If you have any omics data / analysis related questions - this is how I look :) - happy to chat! If you have done x-omics & interested in adding y-omics - at #VUGENE we are here to help.
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteI spoke to the BBC World Service about all things longevity, from science, to policy, to social implications to skin cream! Check out the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRJ... or the podcast version (which is slightly longer—more words, less of my face!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
- "If you are not an immunologist this is a hopeless name" (of an immune cell) 😅😂 Feeling so validated by Petter Brodin at #WomensHealth2025
- Reposted by Ingrida Olendraite🚨 🌟 Submissions & Registrations Open for #ViBioM2025! 🌟 🚨 Join us 13–15 May 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal! 🦠💻 Present your research, connect with global experts, and shape the future of #Virology & #Bioinformatics. 📅 Details & links: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...
- Reposted by Ingrida OlendraiteThis is really cool, maybe someone (someone patient i.e. not me) should do the same for RNA viruses 🤔🕷️
- Measuring What We Don't Know: Biodiversity Catalogs Reveal Bias in Taxonomic Effort Before you say a group is 'understudied' you might want to check out the metric introduced here ... [Thanks to Lauren Esposito for introducing me to this paper] academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
- It's today it's today! My talk in the tinto room (Level 0) at 15:30 :) Just before the break - so perfect for the chat after the talk :) #Microbio24
- Hopefully by Tomorrow the conference center is less of a maze and you can find the Tinto auditorium at the ground level (Level 0). :) In the afternoon I'll speak about my favourite project and many different RNA viruses - hope there will be at least something interesting for all :) #Microbio24
