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cyanobacteria can have multiple distinct forms of rubisco! check out our new preprint to learn about the unusual carbon fixation machinery of an low O2 prochlorococcus and what we think it might mean for physiology and ecosystem biogeochem

Pls share: Microbiology faculty position available at Texas A&M University.

This paper describes a very simple method extending the regime-based model of Brian O'Meara et al. (2006) to discrete traits. It nonetheless may be useful to some. If you're interested, check it out! doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo…

Commentary by Lewis Alcott and myself on the recent study by Richard Stockey and friends of the Late Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic oxygenation of the biosphere. UoB Palaeobiology University of Bristol Earth Sciences Geobiology: When did animals develop their oxygen habit? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New online! Marine biogeochemical nitrogen cycling through Earth’s history go.nature.com/3THoakt

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…

Are you interested in finding giant viruses, virophages, and PLVs inside your metagenomes? Struggling to figure out an easy way to do so? Look no further than BEREN, a one-stop-shop tool for recovery, taxonomy, and annotation of these viruses. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

More on (twisted) T-duality and higher symmetries of little string theories: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05313 My first paper from the west coast (but east coast people). Great shout out to Hamza Ahmed who is on the market this year and did mayor work in this one!

So excited to have Ivan J. Moreno, PhD in the lab to look into the evolution of Cyanos! Welcome so Santa Barbara!!!

📢 Latest preprint alert ➡️ Ancient proteins 🤝 Alphafold We combined phylogenetics, ancestral sequence reconstruction, crystallography and deep learning based structural prediction and resurrected three billion years of an enzyme's structural history👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Gaia: A Context-Aware Sequence Search and Discovery Tool for Microbial Proteins biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Out today! 🚨 We explore how planetary oxidation ~2.5 billion years ago shaped the puzzling history of metal use in nitrogenase, key to nitrogen fixation! 🌍🔬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… work led by Morgan Sobol, Holly Rucker, in collab. with Eric Libby & Ariel Anbar. UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology

I am looking for alternatives to the science Twitter we used to have not long ago. Any advice? Mastodon, bluesky..?

New paper out where we highlight many newly recovered giant viruses and find new functional potential encoded in their genomes! #giantvirus #Bioinformatics nature.com/articles/s4429…

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