Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of: A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids. A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Microbiology Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

Built from and for ecologists, molecular biologists, and bioinformaticians working with high-throughput or environmental sequencing data, this tool will ease the tedious work of designing specific oligonucleotides at all different users expertise.

New version of PR2 that now includes the eKOI coi database recently published.

Version 5.1.1 of the PR2 database has been released. The major novelty is the inclusion of the recently published eKOI database (coi gene- doi.org/10.1093/data...) in the web interface. The 18S rRNA database is not changed so you can use 5.1.0 or 5.1.1 for metabarcode annotations

We have a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Microbiology available! Come and join great students and colleagues at Hofstra Biology. Please apply using the link below and/or spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/6542

Hello there 🦋 Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳ ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #protistsonsky

Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1. pr2-database.org/post/news/20... Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more... A few highlights:

I'm starting my research group in Koblenz on April 1st (no April Fools' joke!) and will soon advertise two postdoc positions in #protist #ecology and/or #genomics. If you're a (soon-to-be?) postdoc-level #protistologist looking for a job, get in touch! One position on wastewater, the other flexible!

PhD position available in Ceske Budejovice (Czechia), funded by ERC KLEPTOS, to study plastid endosymbiosis in kleptoplastidic protists. Are you curious about this process and do you like sampling/cultivation of protists? Join our team by applying here: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/243 #protistsonsky

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‼️TT Assistant Professor in Microbiology position‼️ We are looking for a new colleague at Hofstra Biology. Please apply or spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/5041

Registration is now open for the ForBio/UiO course “Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing” @biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...

Call for postdocs proposals on Plankton Image at University of Oslo by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships! Great international team involved! Get it touch! 📨 @biovitenskap.bsky.social www.uio.no/dscience/eng...

To start the year I share this beautiful climate change song by Ludovico Einaudi. Art has a way to pierce reality through your heart like no science paper can, while being healing at the same time! Music for Earth’s hope! youtu.be/2DLnhdnSUVs?...

Our new paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protistsonsky Here there is a download link if the previous one doesn't work: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kC9d3m3nN...

Check out the revived ISOP newsletter! #ProtistsOnSky

Do you like aquatic microbes and computational work? Join my team as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Apply here: hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/4504

New job alert: join my team as a Postdoctoral Researcher! Join our #NSFfunded research on microbial communities (prokaryotes and protists) in a seasonally hypoxic estuary. Feel free to DM or email me with questions and/or please spread the word! hofstra.peopleadmin.com/postings/4504