Louis-Marie Bobay
Associate Professor. NC State. Microbial Genomics, Evolution, Bioinformatics.
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayAude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social and Eugene Koonin discuss one of most interesting questions in the field connecting bacterial and animal immunity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie Bobay🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
- Congrats to @carolinamicro.bsky.social for leading this study! We looked at genome rearrangements over short evolutionary timescales. Among other things, we found that genomes are highly syntenic within most species. However, several bacteria experienced sudden and massive genome rearrangements.
- Paper alert 🚨 @lbobay.bsky.social and I explored the prevalence and potential drivers of genome rearrangements in bacteria. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayDeadline is approaching (Feb 9) to apply for a PI position at Institut Pasteur. Come join us and contribute to an amazing scientific environment!!!
- Reposted by Louis-Marie Bobaya quick reminder!
- 🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayUne opportunité unique de former des étudiants talentueux à la biologie des bactéries à l'ENS Lyon et mener des recherches sur les phages, l'immunité bactérienne, le transfert génétique horizontal (HGT) et/ou les éléments génétiques mobiles au sein du département de bactériologie du CIRI.
- 📢 Recruitment of an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) in Bacteriology at CIRI and ENS de Lyon. Research at @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @francoisrousset.bsky.social @labxc.bsky.social Anti-phage Immunity, Horizontal gene/ MGE transfer 📚 Teaching at ENS de Lyon within the Department of Biology.
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayCreating bacterial genomic diversity through large-scale reconfigurations reveals phenotype robustness to organizational genome change doi.org/10.64898/202...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayThe distinction between virulent & temperate phages gets fuzzier if one can find so many virulent phages in the sequences of bacterial genomes coming from standard lab "pure" cultures. Check Peter's thread on our work and the N&V by Carson & Hynes: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #phagesky #microsky
- [1/3] Is your favorite bacterial isolate hiding a surprise lytic virus with a VERY different lifestyle? Finally I can proudly say that our paper on persistent phages is out in Nature Microbiology. rdcu.be/eWJEp. Well done @peterdoug.bsky.social
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayIf you are interested in this work and are looking for a postdoc position, please get in touch -- we are actively looking for someone to join our group at UCLA!
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayRecombination between strains fuels pervasive adaptive evolution among human gut commensal bacteria, and strongly implicate host diet and lifestyle as critical selection pressures @nature.com @nanditagarud.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayLooking for a postdoc in 2026? The Ewel fellowship at UF provides $70K salary and $20K research support for 2 yrs. I'm happy to sponsor a postdoc interested in microbial ecology of Florida coastal ecosystems (seagrass, coral, mangroves, springs). 🦠 Due 1/11/26 postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayWe are recruiting a Lab Manager/Research Specialist jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225... Please re-post, thank you
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayIt’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayAre you a recombination researcher heading to #SMBE2026? Submit your abstract to our Symposium, organised by Marie Raynaud, Laurent Duret, and myself. We're excited to have Aurora Ruiz-Herrera from UAB Barcelona as our invited speaker. 🧬🦄🦠🌿🐝🐟🍄🪱 @aruizherrera.bsky.social @duret-lbbe.bsky.social
- SMBE2026 Symposium 11 | The evolution of recombination landscapes 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026
- Reposted by Louis-Marie Bobay🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayOpening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayNatural and artificial variations of the standard genetic code www.cell.com/current-biol...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobaymetaTraits: a large-scale integration of microbial phenotypic trait information academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie Bobay🧬🛡️How are new immune mechanisms created? We show how Lamassu antiphage system, originated from a DNA-repair complex and evolved into a compact and modular immune machine, wt Dinshaw Patel lab in @pnas.org. 👏 @matthieu-haudiquet.bsky.social, Arpita Chakravarti & all authors! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayLong read Metagenomics, #phage and #prophage in the gut by Ami Bhatt's group. Beautiful data showing changes in phages over two years #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayI'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayHot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayOur paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bioa... The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives. More information on globdb.org 1/5 🖥️🧬🦠
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayVery happy to see this piece out in @plosbiology.org, on the bacterial immune systems and microbial communities. It was a great team effort with Rafael Custodio, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social , @brownlab.bsky.social, and Edze Westra! 🦠🧫 #phagesky #mevosky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayMechanistically, incoming ssDNA is a game changer: it promotes attC site folding, triggers integrase expression via SOS, and allows cassette excision without the need for replicative resolution. This suggests both intra- and inter-bacterial shuffling shape integron recombination dynamics. 4/5
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayWe discovered a universal scaling law linking copy number and plasmid size, which can be used to predict the PCN of your favorite plasmid! 6/7
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayExcited to share some new work led by grad student Sophie Walton (w/ @petrovadmitri.bsky.social). We used in vitro gut communities to study how natural selection acts on strains of the same species as they compete within larger communities. Check out Sophie's thread below for details!
- Super excited that the bulk of my PhD work is now preprinted! Here we used whole-community competition, or coalescence, experiments to quantify selection acting on genetically diverged strains within larger communities. (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayThe Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayIn the meantime, we've been collecting a list of these at tinyurl.com/mag-collecti.... Feel free to add more you find. See also GlobDB from @daanspeth.bsky.social which incorporates some of these into a new MAG collection arxiv.org/abs/2506.11896
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayCome join us in Knoxville! The Dept. of Microbiology 🧫🦠 at the University of Tennessee is hiring 2 Assistant Professors (tenure track, 9-month appt.). Microbial Drivers of Chronic Disease: apply.interfolio.com/173153Quantitative Microbe-Plant-Environment Interactions: apply.interfolio.com/173345
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayFor population genetics and evolutionary biology folks in the Bay Area: the next BAPG will be hosted by Stanford CEHG and the Petrov lab at Stanford on 12/6. Registration is free but required. The deadline for talk submission is Nov. 16. Hope to see you soon! Pls RT! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayCome join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayNow published: EnVhogDB, a large database of viral protein family HMM profiles to help functional annotation of new phage genomes - peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
- Reposted by Louis-Marie Bobay#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayNSF’s doors will be closed at 1:30 pm today. While you may be able to submit things, there will be no staff to process anything. In fact it is illegal for us to even open our work computers or email during a shutdown. A very few rotators may be able to communicate, so check out of office responses.
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- Reposted by Louis-Marie BobayTenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...
