Move over, Norse Gods – Marvel at new Asgard archaea named instead (Luis E. Valentín-Alvarado) for the Puerto Rican goddess of the soil, Atabeya. Atabeyarchaeia is a new member of the lineage now widely believed to have given rise to eukaryotes – that is fungi, algae, trees and us.

Registration open for free meeting The Royal Society Nov 11-12 "Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres" on the coevolution of Life and Earth - as well as other planets. Organised by Phil Donoghue Anja Spang (she/her) @gramolius Samir Okasha and Tim Lenton. Register: royalsociety.org/science-events…

📢We are hiring! A post-doc position (computational or wet lab) for 3 years at Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW Wydział Biologii UW in the Narodowe Centrum Nauki #SonataBIS project on #protist & #symbiosis. Apply by 30 September 2024 Please RT & share! 👉 More: ibe.biol.uw.edu.pl/en/projects/sy…

Vladimir Hampl and I review the latest on the origin of mitochondria and mitochondrion-related organelles: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

We are #hiring a #postdoc on atificial intelligence and integrative methods for comparative genomics and metagenomics. Pls RT check this: bsc.es/join-us/job-op…

🚨The ECSO Lab at Purdue is looking for *two* PhD students and *one* postdoctoral researcher for the projects *“The energetic costs of new genes and cellular complexity”* and *“The physiology and metabolism of common and rare photosymbiotic associations.”* Please share 🙏

Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent studies provide into the enigmatic origin of eukaryotes? In this review in nature , we discuss the latest findings and open questions: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our latest: awesome study from Yuming Liu on how animal wings aren’t always (ever?) optimised for flight - slightly rubbish wings are good enough for lacewings - with Will Deakin Emily Rayfield

Are you interested to use molecular and microbiological approaches to study DPANN-host interactions? Check out this postdoc position in our team at NIOZ: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-posi…

Register free for our Royal Society Discussion meeting "Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres" Nov 11-12 London. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering the emergence of life on Earth to the search for exobiospheres royalsociety.org/science-events…

📢New job alert!!! We are looking for a postdoc to work on the enrichment and isolation of new archaeal species. Contact us if you are interested!

Interested in #symbiosis in #protists? Come join the lab as a PhD student to unravel the symbiosis in Anaeramoeba. The project is supported by Moore Foundation. The deadline to apply is December 6. Instructions on how to apply via Varbi at the link below: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Are you interested in studying archaea with their diverse symbionts? We look forward hearing from you: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-posi…

In collaboration with Deem Team DEEM team Orsay, we uncovered the complex interactions between haloarchaea, nanohaloarchaea, and their respective viruses and virus satellites in salt lakes. See 🧵 #DPANN #archaealViruses #Satellite biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Phylogenomic analyses reveal that Panguiarchaeum is a clade of genome-reduced Asgard archaea biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. An interesting, fulfilling project from my PhD with Anja Spang (she/her),Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) ,Chris Rinke ,Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 ,Gergely J Szöllősi ,Lenard Szantho ,Hua’s EEE Lab and Maraike Probst.

We carefully investigated the phylogenetic placement and metabolic evolution of Panguiarchaeum (prev. classified within Korarchaeia), and found that they are Asgard archaea.

These putative hyperthermophilic archaea possess unique genomic features and have evolved thorough genome reduction, suggesting they may have a symbiotic lifestyle.

This study sheds light on the complex evolutionary history of Asgard archaea: not all Asgard archaea evolves by genome expansion.

Isolated in just 3 years! (Much faster than the 12 years in our previous study). We cultured two strains from 'Hodarcaheales', proposed to be closest to our archaeal ancestors. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…