Really grateful to have been able to work at the museum with these beautiful specimens ❤🦋

Polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

For more from Amjad Khalaf on microsporidian polyploidy, check out the Meio- and Micro-Eukaryotes session tomorrow at #BG23, 10am BST! events.venue-av.com/e/BG23_registr… Also featuring myxozoans (me), and nematodes (Erna King) @SangerToL

"Polyploidy is widespread in Microsporidia" is now out in Microbiology Spectrum ASM!! A huge thank you to mara lawniczak, Blaxter Lab, and @KamilSJaron for all their help and their time. Check it out on: doi.org/10.1128/spectr…

Have long-read data and want to know what you've really sequenced, and how much of it? Reliable taxonomic labels are often scarce if the target is from a less well-explored group. VAE embeddings can tease apart different organisms in read sets: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our review "Genome evolution in intracellular parasites: Microsporidia and Apicomplexa" is now out in Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology! This could not have been possible without orefrancis and Blaxter Lab <3 - art by me and the talented Petra Korlevic

Sometimes in the lab things don’t work and idk why, other times things do work and idk why. Molecular Biology works in mysterious ways #PhDlife #lablife #cellmates #thecellmatescartoons

Here’s a snap of the #SIP2024 SIP #Microsporidia division attendees! We’ve had an excellent year of presentations, which explored the #pathology, #genomics, and #ecology of microsporidians associated with #aquatic and #terrestrial invertebrates

Fantastic conversations in the #Microsporidia division poster session, regarding taxonomic standards and the value of both morphological and genomic data delineating taxonomic parameters #SIP2024 60+ genomes and counting! Great poster by Yuliya Sokolova on a novel species!

A huge thank you to Judy Chen and Dr Jamie Bojko 🐌🦀🦞🦐🦭🏳️‍🌈 for inviting me to SIP 2024 ❤️ I had a lovely time discussing parasites, microsporidia, and genomes 🧬