Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky

Tracking disease through what we flush away! Wastewater surveillance for population health. Now on Bluesky @lukehillary.bsky.social

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

See what happens to soil viruses when you set their habitat on fire! #FEMS2025

Super excited to be presenting my work on DNA/ RNA viruses and how they respond to wildfire.

Talk is 13:00 on Thursday, Brown 1&2

Massive thanks to @FEMSmicro for supporting my attendance!

[Joint Genome Institute @jgi]

Abstracts are due Oct. 19 for the 2025 New Lineages of Life Symposium — 80 slots available!

See speakers below.

More info: https://t.co/1S5ZOUEMDC

Full Agenda: https://t.co/96CrzmXXso

[RdRp Summit @RdRp_Summit]

Stoked to have Luke Hillary joining us to talk about adapting MIUViG for RNA viruses—huge step for making sense of uncultivated RNA viromes!😍

#RdRpSummit2025 in 3 days!

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

Huge thanks from myself, @simroux_virus and others helping coordinate

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

We're looking for suggestions on how to update and adapt the Minimum Information about an Uncultured Viral Genome (MIUVIG) reporting standard. What works? What needs updating? Check out the survey https://t.co/JfgxdICuRG 🧵

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

...host associated, aquatic, terrestrial, etc etc) Once we've collated all the responses and people who are interested in contributing/ want to stay updated, we'll reach out again. Also happy to answer questions here but am mainly on BlueSky.

[Sabrina Sadiq @RoyalFizzbin]

Now published! Super divergent RNA virus lineages identified in Australian soils and some initial insights into the fascinating relationship between soil properties and virome composition. Check it out 👇
https://t.co/X0Bzp4ihjZ

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

@jamesemcdonald @ucdavis @DarrenSmithdx Very nice timing that it was on whilst I was in the UK. Going back to the States bursting with ideas 😁

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

#VoM_UK24 was a great conference. Really nice to catch up with people and share some of the work on viruses and wildfire I'm doing @ucdavis. The standard of talks from PDRAs and PhDs was phenomenal. Huge thanks to @DarrenSmithdx and the organising team for putting it all together

[Adnan Tariq @rmadnantariq]

@VoM_UK @emm_severi @UniofExeter #VoM_UK24
Day 2 first session of PDRA and Fellows talks. A wide variety of talks.

[VoM-UK @VoM_UK]

Last day to register an abstract for a talk all you phagesters! We will try to make sure as many PGRs, Postdocs and Fellows get the opportunity to talk about their research. Its a very supportive audience!! Abstract deadline is today 8th Jan, registration closes on the 15th.

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

Some great points here about how to make (international) conferences more accessible for all.

[DisabledInSTEM @DisabledStem]

A recent piece published on making conferences more inclusive for all! #DisabledInSTEM https://t.co/Jfw20rnUFl

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

Looking forward to presenting some updates on how RNA and DNA viromics can be used to understand how we influence viral communities both around us, and within us 🏞️🚜💩

[OSU Center of Microbiome Science @OSUmicrobiome]

Join us this Wednesday at 10am EST for the ECR Viromics Webinar featuring Luke Hillary.
Register here: https://t.co/vcAKXvPjMr

[Jane Fudyma @Jane_Fudyma]

Come see my #soilviruses and space (spatial distances not outer space) #AGU23 talk at 9:30 on Friday! Yea yea yea the last day of conferences are tough, but my session is full of super cool microbial talks and even cooler people 😎. Session B51A lead by @elbrodie starting at 8:30

[Davey Jones @bangorsoil]

Proud to accept this on behalf of the team......this journey started 15 years ago @ViraquaProject. I can't thank our @BangorUni team and our collaborators enough (@cardiffuni, @UniofExeter, @UniofBath, @UniofNewcastle, @Arup, @DwrCymru.....). It would not of happened without you.

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

@bangorsoil @ViraquaProject @BangorUni @cardiffuni @UniofExeter @UniofBath @UniofNewcastle @Arup @DwrCymru Congrats to the whole team Davey. Great to see this go from strength to strength 😁

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

@SieraVirus @Jane_Fudyma That should work nicely. Watch the pH of your lysis buffer as you can lose RNA if it drifts too low. Also helps to preheat the lysis buffer too. @jamesemcdonald taught me everything I know for that protocol 😁

[Luke Hillary is now on Bluesky @lukehillary]

@Jane_Fudyma @SieraVirus All prep PowerFecal is a PowerSoil/ PowerFecal DNA kit where you purify the RNA from the flow through of the DNA column. Yields are slightly lower than a pure DNA or RNA extraction and you're limited to 250mg input. Griffiths is cheaper but processing needed to separate DNA/ RNA.

[Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics @evohologen]

📣New #PhDcourse in #computational #phage #genomics🧬
Understand #PhageTherapy & how #bioinformatics can support therapeutic use of phages
Our amazing #phage experts @bentpetersen & @TSPKU offer this course in the fall @koebenhavns_uni

Apply by Sept 20👇
https://t.co/Qdnb9nguDm

[Karthik Anantharaman @KarthikGeomicro]

Bacteria, Viruses, Archaea