@lbolanos68

Postdoc @UniofExeter | Environmental microbiology | Views own

 Exeter, UK
lbolanos68.github.io/
Joined September 2009
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So happy to see this one out. Huge thanks to my coauthors, @MLMichelsen and Ben Temperton, for all their hard work. "Metagenomic time-series reveals a western English Channel viral community dominated by members with strong seasonal signals" academic.oup.com/ismej/artic…

Metagenomic time series reveals a Western English Channel viral community dominated by members with...

Abstract. Marine viruses are key players of ocean biogeochemistry, profoundly influencing microbial community ecology and evolution. Despite their importan

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AlphaFold 'goes viral': database adds protein complexes of common viruses | Nature nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

AlphaFold ‘goes viral’: database adds protein complexes of common viruses

Nature - AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrashApr 23
Contrasting Bioavailability of Enterobactin- and Ferrichrome-bound Iron to SAR11 and Other Marine Heterotrophs academic.oup.com/ismecommun/…

Contrasting bioavailability of enterobactin- and ferrichrome-bound iron to SAR11 and other marine...

Abstract. Microbes frequently navigate the environment with the help of small, excreted metabolites. Iron-binding molecules called siderophores are one suc

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrashApr 23
Our first collaboration with the Levine lab! Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs science.org/doi/full/10.1126…

Defining metabolic niches for marine microbial heterotrophs

Understanding carbon cycling requires simplifying bacterial diversity into functional groups defined by genetic signatures.

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Tominaga K. (tomiken)@pacyc1841Apr 7
Pelagibacter, resolved | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Now online! Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems dlvr.it/TRq3qC

Phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems

Gallego-del-Sol et al. show that arbitrium-coding phages can sense non-cognate peptide signals from other phages to regulate lysis-lysogeny decisions. This crosstalk affects lysis-lysogeny outcomes...

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Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…

Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface...

The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Ear...

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrashMar 9
Sub-daily virus sampling at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series reveals diel and depth-structured population dynamics without community-level shifts journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…

Sub-daily virus sampling at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series reveals diel and depth-structured...

Viruses are often studied in disease settings, but in the ocean they outnumber cells and shape ecosystems, yet their dynamics remain poorly understood. In this study, high-resolution sampling of...

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Tominaga K. (tomiken)@pacyc1841Jan 3
Seasonal patterns of DOM molecules are linked to microbial functions in the oligotrophic ocean | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…

Seasonal patterns of DOM molecules are linked to microbial functions in the oligotrophic ocean |...

Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a major carbon reservoir that acts as a critical control on the Earth’s climate. DOM dynamics are largely regulated by a complex web of chemical-microbial...

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash15 Dec 2025
Wave‐driven transport controls bacterioplankton community differentiation among coral reef habitats aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Wave‐driven transport controls bacterioplankton community differentiation among coral reef habitats

The existence of highly productive coral reefs within oligotrophic gyres is in part due to intensive recycling of macronutrients and organic matter by microbes. Therefore, characterizing reef...

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Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes

Nature Microbiology - Environmental micro-compartment genomics provides efficient and high-throughput single-particle DNA sequencing that captures overlooked members of microbial communities.

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash13 Oct 2025
Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection academic.oup.com/ismej/advan…

Habitat-specificity in SAR11 is associated with a few genes under high selection

Abstract. The order Pelagibacterales (SAR11) is the most abundant group of heterotrophic bacteria in the global surface ocean, where individual sublineages

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Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! Below a fantastic note covering the paper 👇

Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history

Paleogenomic studies suggest that Mammuthus columbi derives from an ancient hybridization between Mammuthus primigenius and Mammuthus trogontherii. Although its habitat spanned from North to Central...

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We’re recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026) to study the ecology & evolution of aquatic giant viruses! Research spans lab experiment, field sampling, & bioinformatics. Background in microbiology/bioinforamtics encouraged. More information: monirlab.com/join/ Please retweet!

Join the Lab | Monir lab

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash19 Aug 2025
Functional genomic signatures predict microbial culturability across the tree of life @USC_MEB @USC_earth biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Functional genomic signatures predict microbial culturability across the tree of life

Most microbial taxa on Earth remain uncultivated, limiting our ability to study their physiology, ecology, and roles in environmental processes. Although metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) have...

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Ecophysiology and global dispersal of the freshwater SAR11-IIIb genus Fontibacterium | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s41564-0…

Ecophysiology and global dispersal of the freshwater SAR11-IIIb genus Fontibacterium

Nature Microbiology - Isolates and metagenome-assembled genomes from a global survey show quasi-endemic and cosmopolitan lineages of SAR11-IIIb, with patterns driven by temperature and latitude.

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Yu Nakajima@nkjmu21 Jul 2025
The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 707TB, 2.3 million sampling sites, 214 billion SSU rRNA reads, 651275 OTU

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems

Environmental DNA sequencing has revolutionized our understanding of microbial diversity and ecology. Microbiomes have now been sequenced across the entire planet—from the deep subsurface to the...

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Cameron Thrash@jcamthrash21 Jul 2025
An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley…

An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem

The ocean microbe-metabolite network involves thousands of individual metabolites that encompass a breadth of chemical diversity and biological functions. These microbial metabolites mediate biogeo...

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Notice of Award is in! Join our team at NIU to study marine microbial ecology & disease dynamics in sea urchins 🧫🌊🦠 PhD | Spring/Fall 2026 start Job Ad Here 👉shorturl.at/fSMy9 Apply here 👉 forms.gle/gfMnHutijfqCyQRY9 More: theaquaticmicrobiologylab.co… cc: @IanH77

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Elaine Luo@oceanmicrobes25 Jun 2025
Lab’s first publication as #newPI @ISME_microbes 😃 We observed evidence supporting the viral shuttle hypothesis in giant viruses. We also observed convergent evolution amongst giant viruses and bacteriophages to light-energy and nutrient limitation. academic.oup.com/ismej/artic…

Vertical transport and spatiotemporal dynamics of giant viruses in the North Pacific subtropical...

Abstract. Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, or “giant viruses,” are prevalent in marine environments, infecting diverse eukaryotic lineages and influenc

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Giant viruses specific to deep oceans show persistent presence and activity | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Giant viruses specific to deep oceans show persistent presence and activity

Giant viruses (GVs) of the phyla Nucleocytoviricota and Mirusviricota are large double-stranded DNA viruses that infect diverse eukaryotic hosts and impact biogeochemical cycles. Their diversity and...

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