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Integrating microbiomes into One Health: insights from the 2025 One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit

The One Health World Microbiome Partnership Summit brought together more than 40 leading microbiome experts and stakeholders from all sectors representing 16 countries, with the goal of catalyzing…

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NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference

By Olivier Zablocki

🚨NEW paper: Benchmarking Hi-C for virus–host inference journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A clear baseline for anyone mapping virus–host interactions that establishes robust…

AU25 Ohio State Microbiome Science Faculty positions open  See below

Faculty positions in Microbiome Science at Ohio State - postings open!

By Heather Curtis

We welcome research on microbiomes in any ecosystem context (natural environments, plant/animal/human hosts, or engineered), organismal focus (microbial eukaryote, prokaryote, virus, or…

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