Dr. ZhiPing Zhong’s new paper on ancient, glacier-preserved virus evolution study reaches the popular press!
The newly released paper from Sullivan Lab collaborator, Dr. ZhiPing Zhong, titled “Glacier-preserved Tibetan Plateau viral community probably linked to warm–cold climate variations” (published in Nature Geoscience) has received broad interest from popular science websites and journals. The story was…
Matt Sullivan BBC interview and more!
Hi everyone! Matt has been on a scientific ‘tour’ these past few weeks, where he presented marine virus ecology to broader audiences. These two were public: Carnegie lecture in Washington, D.C., on YouTube (for Matt’s segment on viruses, advance to…
Sharing Tara Oceans at a Carnegie Institute Capitol Lecture in DC
Earlier this month, I had the joy to share inspiring story of the Tara Oceans Expeditions, which seek to elucidate life and times of tiny plankton that are the engines of the world’s oceans. As part of the Carnegie Institute’s…
Thousands of novel biosynthetic pathways throughout the global oceans
A new Nature paper by Paoli et al (Sunagawa Lab) describes the diversity and biogeography of microbial-derived metabolic capabilities throughout the global oceans. As little is known about the vast metabolic potential of the global ocean microbiome, the team mined…
New paper in Science from Guillermo, Ahmed and team!
A new paper from Guillermo Dominguez-Huerta and Ahmed Zayed entitled “Diversity and ecological footprint of Global Ocean RNA viruses” has just been published in Science. If the previous study in Zayed et al. (2022) was about the taxonomic and evolutionary consequences…
New paper in Science from Ahmed, James, Guillermo and team!
A new paper from Ahmed Zayed, James Wainaina, and Guillermo Dominguez-Huerta titled “Cryptic and abundant marine viruses at the evolutionary origins of Earth’s RNA virome” has just been published in the journal Science. In this work, Ahmed and colleagues bring…
New paper: Viral Tag & Grow: a scalable method to capture & characterize virus-host pairs with flow cytometry and plating
A new research article from Dr. Ho Bin Jang (a former postdoc in the Sullivan Lab), describes an improved laboratory method, ‘Viral Tag and Grow’, that enables high-throughput capture and characterization of virus-host pairs. This entails using a host bacterium…
BBC interviews Matt Sullivan on ancient ice virus recovery
Following Dr. Zhi-Ping Zhong’s recent paper, “Glacier ice archives potentially fifteen-thousand-year-old microbes and phages”, Matt Sullivan was interviewed by BBC’s Newsday show. You can listen to the interview here (starts at about 14:21) and read the paper here.
Ohio State News features Dr. Zhi-Ping’s work on 15,000 year old viruses trapped in Tibetan glacier ice
Dr. Zhi-Ping Zong, a former postdoc in the Sullivan Lab, was recently featured by Ohio State University News for his paper describing viruses from ancient Tibetan ice cores. Congratulation Zhi-Ping and team!! –> Read the official OSU press release here….
Nature News Features virus ecology and leaders in the field
New Features in Nature: beyond SARS-CoV-2 and how virus ecologists – including Mya Breitbart and Matt Sullivan – are shaping how we discover and perceive viruses from an ecosystem perspective. Link to feature article here (free) Image credit: Nature Publishing…
