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Our recent preprint explores the omics of mirusviruses, dsDNA viruses with a chimeric evolutionary history. Within the marine protist Aurantiochytrium limacinum, we demonstrate active expression of viral genes and production of virions under various growth conditions, including starvation.

Welcome to New Postdoc Ben Leyland! Previously, Ben was a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Ben received his PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Our paper “Wiring between close nodes in molecular networks evolves more quickly than between distant nodes” has now been published as advance access in Molecular Biology and Evolution. We propose to use the evolution of drug-drug interaction scores as a proxy for the evolution of the topology of the underlying biological networks of a bacterial cell.

Lab member Alejandro Gil Gomez has been awarded the Stony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship.

Joshua Rest has been awarded the 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director

Findings published in Current Biology set stage to better understand the �invisible� ocean ecosystem and its importance. Read the full press release.

Postdoctoral Position Available: CRISPR and Experimental Lateral Transfer in a Marine Protist The Collier and Rest labs at Stony Brook University, in collaboration with the Archibald lab at Dalhousie, invite applications for a postdoctoral position focused on unraveling the complexities of symbiosis using the marine thraustochytrid_ Aurantiochytrium limacinum_.

The accepted manuscript features the dissertation work of Mariana Rius and is a collaboration w/ Jackie Collier and John Archibald’s lab was recently made available here at the Genome Biology and Evolution website.

View the preprint at research square.

View the preprint at research square.