Simon Roux

@simrouxvirus.bsky.social

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Virus-obsessed bioinformatician, DOE JGI Scientist, Enjoy exploring the viral world with #metagenomics and other cool #omics toys. He/him. Opinions my own.

This image shows the VEGA logo (an Earth-shaped capsid colored with green continents and blue oceans), and the taglines: "VEGA Viral EcoGenomics & Applications", "Symposium hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute", "Novermber 18-19, 2026"
A painting by George de la Tour: The Penitent Magdalene, showing a woman, illuminated by a candle, sitting in a meditative pose in front of a mirror.
Screenshot of the ASM Microbe program showing the session AEM-402 "long-term dynamics of environmental microbiomes" Sunday June 7, at 10:45 in room 147AB
Two doors with signs saying "ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting" "session rooms"
A poster announcing the next edition of the VEGA (Viral EcoGenomics and Applications) symposium, to be hosted on November 18-19, 2026 in the Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley. The text is surrounded by various drawings of phages and viruses, and an capsid-shaped Earth map.
A cat (tortie) sleeping on a round cushion. The cat is sleeping with its tail between its paws, and nicely matching the round shape of the cushion
A metagenome assembly graph, showing a lot of small fragments connected to each other, without any obvious path through it. Or said otherwise: a bunch of black and red lines all mixed up together that form no specific shape or form, really.
The Scooby-Doo unmasking meme. The "masked" ghost is labeled "Some cool bioinformatic result", the "unmasked" ghost is labeled "a method artifact/error"
A picture of a scientist presenting at a conference. The scientist is at a podium on the left, pointing to a slide projected in the middle, and some of the audience is visible on the right
The picture shows a conference room with a speaker on a podium on the left, a large screen with a scientific diagram in the middle and the audience on the right.
A scientist (Jonelle Basso) presenting her work, pointing at a slide on the left, with the audience sitting and standing on the right
A photo of five (5) envelopes from the same credit card company offering the same credit card deal to the same person, all received the same day
The picture shows on the left a post-it note stamped with the acronym VEGA followed by a diagram of a phage particle. On the right is the custom stamp used to stamp the note, and the writing and phage diagram are visible.
The left part of the slide says "Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Track is Accepting Abstracts for ASM Microbe 2025!". The ASM Microbe logo is on the bottom left, while the right part shows a microscopy observation of microbial cells
The left part of the slide says "Ecology, Evolution, and Biodiversity Track is Accepting Abstracts for ASM Microbe 2025!". The ASM Microbe logo is on the bottom left, while the right part shows a microscopy observation of microbial cells
The picture is of a speaker (Britt Koskella) at the VEGA 2024 conference, presenting from behind a lectern. In the background is a projected screen with a slide showing scientific graphs, on a dark curtain background
The picture shows a projected screen with a slide from a scientific talk. The speaker (Danica Schmidtke) can be seen in the foreground)
The picture shows a projected slide on a wide screen in front of dark curtains, and the speaker (Luke Hillary) in front presenting his research
A speaker (Deepto Mozumdar) at a lectern presenting results at the VEGA 24 conference. A projected slide is visible behind and has an unusual black background, which helps the audience to better see fluorescent microscopy observation
A speaker (Nacho de la Higuera) is behind a lectern and presenting at the VEGA24 conference. Behind is a projected slide that shows a complex network of genomes connected to each other
The picture shows two custom 3D printed trophies shaped like phages, with "VEGA 2024" written on the phage head. In the background is the stage and banner of the VEGA 24 conference
The picture shows a conference room with linear tables, and scientists gathering in small groups between tables to discuss. In the back a stage and a screen are visible as well.
A speaker (Angela Hickey) at the VEGA 24 conference presenting a slide about the human gut phageome. The speaker is behind a lectern and the slide is visible behind
A speaker (Liliana Brown) is presenting a slide about the NIH Human Virome Program at the VEGA24 conference. The speaker is on a stage behind a podium, and the slide is visible behind
The speaker (Katrine Whiteson) is at the podium and presenting a slide about her research at the VEGA 2024 conference
A picture of 2 3d printed trophies, shaped like a T4 phage with a blue head and white tail on a black base. They are labeled VEGA 2024 (the name of the conférence) and Best Student Poster / Best Visualization. They are displayed in front of a fireplace
A picture of Mimi (Zola) the cat. she's a tortoiseshell, pictured here laying on her side, sleeping, on a big cushion.
Picture of a presentation slide that shows the title "The In-N-out framework"
Picture of the speaker, Anna Kuchina, and the first rows of the audience at the EEB track hub
Old(ish) tattoo of (relatively) simple viral capsid shapes on the upper arm
Picture of a sunset over Downtown/University in Tucson