Yours truly is a proper scientist now! TL;DR: we used AI to redesign parts of essential cell machinery with only 19 canonical amino acids instead of 20. Why? Great thread by @harriswang.bsky.social provides more context and details. Let me talk a bit about the AI design part of this. 1/

Big news! Starting my lab as Ramón y Cajal PI at @ibvf-sevilla.bsky.social in Seville 🌞, Spain, bridging microbial ecology, photosynthesis & plant biotech: from metagenomic and AI analyses 💻 to experiments in microbes & plants 🌊🧬🌱 Looking for PhD students & postdocs. DM or share!

Hot off the press, the most comprehensive survey ever performed of diatom distributions, abundances, and diversity in the global ocean. All enabled by the famous [email protected] and lots of hard work from the Tara Oceans team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity andabundance in the global ocean rdcu.be/ehlG4

NIH open source graphics bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Diatom phytochromes integrate the underwater light spectrum to sense depth www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Non-photosynthetic lineages sibling to Cyanobacteria associate with eukaryotes in the open ocean www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #jcampubs

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