A global record of “ghost” nannofossils demonstrates that nannoplankton were more resilient to past warming events than traditional fossil evidence suggests. Read that research and more this week in Science. ➡ fcld.ly/6eq3obt

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Fritz-Laylin lab circa 2022. I am continually blown away with this group's intellect, drive, and thoughtful care for each other's well being. They are the best! 🤩🤩🤩

We found a DNA CRESS virus in #Batrachochytrium - work from Mark Yacoub Rebecca Clemons, Tim James, Tommy Jenkinson Lillian Fritz-Laylin Stajich Laboratory and others.

Please check out our new Preprint ☀️ there are some new insights into RALF, pectin and FERONIA. Looking forward to where this is going! And a huge thanks to Kleine-Vehn Lab and our collaborators 🤩

I’m happy to share that I signed an offer from UMass Dartmouth for a position as an Assistant Professor! I'm excited and thankful to return to the department where my journey in science started. The Velle Lab opens in January 2024!

📢 New lab preprint from first author Erik Kalinka! Genetic transformation of the frog-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Game changing for testing molecular hypotheses and advancing the manipulation toolkit for amphibian fungal pathogen Bd Erik Kalinka Lillian Fritz-Laylin Edgar Medina Andrew Swafford 🐸🍄🧬biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

RNA thermometer in Chlamy, now online Nucleic Acids Res academic.oup.com/nar/article/do… So glad to have Vanessa L., Juliane and Mengting MPIMP Potsdam Golm 🌱🧪 working together on this project!

Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup

We're seeking feedback on our white paper on #PeerReplication. Arthur Charles-Orszag Kristen Skruber Dyche Mullins et al. Anders Rehfeld and I propose an alternative or augmentation to peer review, where key experiments are reproduced, adding robustness to published findings. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

I am actively recruiting students for my lab at UMass Dartmouth! Are you interested in a project on actin, amoebae, cell migration, and/or pathogenesis? Send me an email & apply to the Integrative Biology PhD program by Jan 15! Please RT More info: katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science

An internally controlled system to study microtubule network diversification links tubulin evolution to the use of distinct ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_cellbio

An endogenous DNA #virus in an #amphibian-killing #fungus associated with #pathogen #genotype and virulence. 🐸🍄🧬 Congratulations to Rebecca, Mark Yacoub, Tommy Jenkinson, Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Jason Stajich, et al. on this long-awaited triumph! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Check out our latest pre-print based on my PhD work, in which we shed light on the roles of myosins and actin in diatom gliding motility! #diatom #actin #myosin DiezLab KrögerLab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

News release 🐸🧬🦠🍄 on Mark Yacoub, Rebecca Clemons lead work from Stajich Laboratory Lillian Fritz-Laylin Erik Kalinka Rabern Simmons, PhD 🔬🍄 and Tim James news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/… for our paper cell.com/current-biolog… UC Riverside CNAS

What makes the diploid and haploid cells of some algae so different? Using haplotype-aware analyses, our work with Coccolab suggests allele-specific methylation contributes to allelic imbalance and diploid-haploid differential gene expression. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our (w/Andrew Swafford, Ethan Garner, and Lillian Fritz-Laylin) review "Actin network evolution as a key driver of eukaryotic divesification" is out now in J Cell Science! doi.org/10.1242/jcs.26…