It was fun digging into the bioinformatics on the four Sri hibernation factors! They bind the ribosome in pairs and similarly co-occur with their binding partner across the archaeal phylogeny. Across Sri, Dri, and Hib, it appears that CBS domain-containing factors mediate hibernation in most archaea

(1/7) Very excited to share my first PhD preprint on the interactions of two of my favorite mobile genetic elements: phages and group II introns! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final grad paper is officially out! Grateful for the incredible team and all the support along the way! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨 If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊

✨ The latest from C-GEM on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social Structure of an Archaeal Ribosome with a Divergent Active Site www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats to Amos, @kshulgina.bsky.social, Roan, @jhdcate.bsky.social and collaborators on a great story! #NSFfunded #ribosome

Excited to share that my preprint about cellular differences in the hypothalamic preoptic region across behaviorally divergent deer mice is now reviewed on eLife! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

One of the most ancient sequences in biology, the peptidyl transferase center of the ribosome, is not as conserved as we might have thought. #RNA #Ribosomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...