Very proud to see Isa Moreno's brainchild and first first-author preprint out there! Check it out: a highly efficient and cheap way to transfect Acanthamoeba castellanii using PEI. Collaboration with Sellin Lab, Viktor Ek and Jens Eriksson. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🎊 So very happy to announce that in 2023 I'll Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics @ UU Faculty of Science, Utrecht University as assistant prof! 🧬 Interested in a PhD position on fundamental bacterial and archaeal genome evolution in beautiful Utrecht? Don't hesitate to reach out :) 🔜 Can't wait to get started!

Asgard archaea reignited discussions about the tree of life 🦠 But do they have eukaryotic features? YES!! 🤩 Check out our new paper nature by Florian Wollweber and Jingwei Xu, in an exciting collaboration with the Schleper lab Schleper Lab Vienna. nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧵1/4

Please retweet! SAMPLE SHARING REQUEST! Colleagues, will be any of you be sampling sea ice in the next couple months? I am desperate to get my hands on not-fixed material for microbiological research. Please DM me if you are sampling or you know somebody who is.

Very excited to finally open this position: PhD on microbial genome evolution, with emphasis on studying genome architecture in bacteria and archaea. tinyurl.com/phdgenomeevolu… Please RT and share with talented MSc students in bioinformatics, evol biology or related fields :)

We compared pairs of clinical & environmental #Legionella isolates to identify rapid adaptations to human. Paper out in #microbialgenomics Microbiology Society. Congrats Dennis Leenheer, Isa Moreno, & al! Great collab w/ S. Jarraud and C. Ginevra CIRI Lyon! microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

To the membrane. #visitingpavia

Our latest chapter of the Asgard saga is finally published in @nature! See nature.com/articles/s4158… #OpenAccess See separate twitter threads by lead authors @eme_laura and Daniel Tamarit for background info. Below a thread on the history of the Tree of Life .

I am so very stoked that this study is finally out! So many years of work, now condensed in a few pages (+ extensive SI 😬). Don't miss @eme_laura's fantastic summary thread! Phylogenomics were central and painstaking. What did we do with 6 years of tree-making? 1/

I have an open PhD position in my lab at Mol Evo Uppsala @UU_University to work on evolutionary genomics of host-symbiont interactions, focusing on #Wolbachia and #Drosophila. Apply at jobb.uu.se/details/?posit… Please RT!

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

Please #retweet! #JobAlert: We currently have two #PhD student positions in our lab in #soil #ecology. Are you interested in #protists, #volatiles, #bioindicators & #biodiversity? Then take a look at the advertised positions! Eu Project SOB4ES & #deserts

Job opportunity! I will soon announce a PhD position in cultivation of novel microbial lineages (#archaea!). If you are interested in joining our Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR lab at Wageningen U&R campus and live in wonderful Wageningen, stay tuned here! Feel free to notify potentially interested candidates.

The Hendrickson Lab is looking for a PhD student to join our team at University of Canterbury as we embark on an ambitious new #phage hunt for marine phages in New Zealand. Join us in Christchurch as a member of this #MBIE Endeavour funded project! FindAPhD: findaphd.com/phds/projectde… @UCNZbiology

Job alert (pls RT): an exciting #PhDposition in evolutionary microbiology available in my lab at @UU_University! Help us study the evolution of early intracellular bacteria and what they can tell us about their first hosts. Apply before April 8th. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

Like #protists, #mitochondria, #evolution? Hate oxygen? Us too! Come join us as a PhD student as part of our #tango2lund project funded by European Research Council (ERC). Details about the position and how to apply: thelabupstairs.online/open-positions/

#POSTDOC POSITION: Come work with me on the spatial organization of #symbiosis in the #protist #Anaeramoeba @UU_university. 🇸🇪 2-yr stipend; international applicants welcome; app review begins 5 May. More info below. 👇 #microbiology #evolution #proteomics

Are you interested in how co-evolution shapes the genomes of bacterial symbionts and their hosts? Open PhD position in my lab at Mol Evo Uppsala to work on evolutionary genomics of host-symbiont interactions, with focus on #Wolbachia and #Drosophila. Apply at jobb.uu.se/details/?posit…

I am thrilled to share our latest publication on the three concurrent mechanisms generate gene copy number variation and transient antibiotic resistance! nature.com/articles/s4146…

"I need to read more about evolution of host adaptation, why don't we write a review", said Zelia Bontemps a week after starting in my lab. Well, proud to announce that said review (also with Kiran Paranjape) is out in FEMS Reviews Microbiology FEMS academic.oup.com/femsre/advance…