Ok! This is a special one! My last postdoc / first PI paper is out! 🥳 Stay with me if you are into: Defense Systems🛡️ Asgard Archaea⚡️ Origin/Evolution of Immunity💪🏽 rdcu.be/dPyF4 🧵(1/8)

New paper out! We continue our work on the hyperhalophilic microbial communities of the Danakil Depression (Ethiopia) using metagenomics. We have studied hypersaline lakes with strong geothermal influence, such as the Western Canyon Lakes (WCL). nature.com/articles/s4155…

Happy to present the outcome of a fun project carried out hand in hand with David Moreira. Did you know there's mitochondrial genome out there just as gene-rich as those of of jakobids? Why do we care, one might ask? Say no more! A thread 🧵 cell.com/current-biolog…

if you're at ISME -- this will be an exciting talk today! 👇

Many thanks to Michelle Leger and Ryan Gawryluk for their nice Dispatch commenting our work on Mantamonas mitochondria! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Highly recommend reading the Dispatch by Michelle Leger and Ryan Gawryluk. It's a thorough and well-written perspective on the relevance of our findings! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A #symbiosis conference is taking place October 7-10 in Rothenburg: great speakers, great topics! Registrations and abstracts open now - apply!

I added another one of my charts to Zenodo. Here's the link & citation. As always, hope it helps! Bibel, B., & The bumbling biochemist. (2024). Expanded TCA cycle (TriCarboxylic Acid Cycle, aka Citric Acid Cycle, aka Krebs cycle). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

Foldmason, our fast and accurate protein structure-base multiple sequence alignment method, has a logo thanks to HBKgenomics. Also, we updated the preprint, including a multi-domain protein benchmark. 📄biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 💾foldmason.steineggerlab.com 🌐search.foldseek.com/foldmason

Video portrait of Barbara Bayer by FWF. Barbara's research group at our Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science Universität Wien is interested in aquatic #methane cycling. scilog.fwf.ac.at/en/magazine/wh…

"Improving the odds: Artificial intelligence and the great plate count anomaly" my opinion on how AI can help to isolate currently unculturable bacteria is out in Microbial Biotechnology: …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… Supported by @MARBLES_EU

We're back!!! Archaea Power Hour returns Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10AM EST / 4PM CET. Make sure to tune in to catch these two awesome talks by Nature Microbio Editor Kyle Frischkorn and Joshua Hamm from NIOZ. Check your email for the link or sign up here: forms.gle/6QvCjHH2H4pxro….

Our new study led by brilliant PhD student Kelsey Williamson (along with many wonderful collaborators), resolves the root of the Eukaryote Tree of Life 🌍🧬 with unmatched precision! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This nasty pathogen infects the nuclei of mussels, multiplies to >80000 cells, swelling nuclei to >50 times their size. Where does its nutrition come from? How does it avoid apoptosis? Read our paper, just out! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Post-doc alert! New post studying marine host-parasite dynamics with Dr. Alyssa Gehman, Chris Harley, and me on the BC west coast UBC Zoology Hakai Institute tula.org/about/careers/…

Learn more about our open PhD position!🌊🦠Chat with me if you are excited about marine microbes + numerical modeling + experimental evolution. ALL students encouraged to apply! Please DM me if you can help spread the word at local universities in Texas.

Looking for a good marine microbiology PhD, consider working with Suzana Gonçalves Leles at UTMSI!

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…

It was fun to be part of this effort :) Hope you enjoy the read! thx Julian Vosseberg Jolien van Hooff Kassiani Panagiotou Daniel Tamarit Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺

NEW Publication (& I'm last author!)😊 We discuss #phylogenomic methods🌲 for leveraging reticulate #evolution🧬 to elucidate the timing of evolutionary events⏱️, like disentangling #introgression from ILS So happy to see my fantastic mentee Saelin get this work out!