Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going. The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧵 1/10 New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from my postdoc at @mib-wur.bsky.social! 🎉 How eukaryote-like was the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes? Sequence searches alone can't tell us — so we used protein structure prediction to look deeper. 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey guess what - I wrote a book, and it's coming out soon! The Dark Frontier is about the wonders of the deep sea...and the threats they face. Check it out, and if you're so moved, you can preorder from your favorite purveyor of fine literature 📚❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652987...

We are happy to share our newest preprint on a novel strain of Ca. Lokiarchaeum ossiferum, that contains an active provirus, capable of excision and independent replication! We propose a novel virus family: Fylgjaviridae. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Finally out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com: Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling. Great work by @stephkoe.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social @jvhooff.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NatMicroPicks Aerobic archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor? 🦠🫁 The ancestor of eukaryotes may have combined hydrogen metabolism with aerobic respiration, shaping early cellular complexity. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Meet "OxyMoRon" our 5-year NASA ICAR program to study dark oxygen production in Earth's hidden ecosystems. We have multiple positions and are happy about collabs. Co-PIs:@valdeanda.bsky.social @microbiaki.bsky.social @valiergaly.bsky.social Ranjani Murali, Scott Wankel www.mbl.edu/news/emil-ru...

Nature research paper: Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor go.nature.com/4rSfRRw

Passioned by #bioenergetics? Do not miss our new article on the evolutionary history of oxidoreductases with G. Borrel and @sgribaldo.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Thursday! Episode 92 of #MattersMicrobial! Dr. Valerie DeAnda Torres of the University of Florida joined the #QualityQuorum to discuss the work of her research group in studying evolution of metabolic pathways in the deep ocean. Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/nNcXGmh9CZo?...

A large part of what we chatted about comes from the awesome work of @cumsille.bsky.social. Check it out!

Reminder that you can apply for the GRC AEM even if you working under a travel freeze (like I am). Applying doesn't mean you have to pay anything, you are just putting your hat in and show you are interested. The more people apply, the easier it is for us to defend funds! www.grc.org/applied-and-...

@quantaofgeorge.bsky.social was on @markowenmartin.bsky.social's Matters Microbial podcast to talk about his PhD work on multicellular magnetotactic bacteria in my lab. Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJom... Podcast of your choice: www.microbe.tv/mm/mm-076/

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Congrats @emilruff.bsky.social and all coauthors! 🎉👏

Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread. As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.

Thrilled to be leading a Falkor expedition next year. schmidtocean.org/cruises/schm...

Our latest Asgard preprint is out! Closed genomes of Freyarchaeia & the previously uncharacterized Atabeyarchaeia indicate key roles in wetland soil carbon cycling. Led by @luisvalentin.bsky.social isvalentin.bsky.social @katyappler.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Closed genomes from new Asgard archaea lineages using PacBio metagenomes! The sampling in this one is this is quite literally a backyard in northern California. Asgard archaea are not just found in extreme environments, but pretty much all around us!

Anyone teaching their students boolean searches today? Happy Halloween! 🦇 🎃 👻 🧪

Two open positions! Looking for a #bioinformatics #postdoc and a #laboratory #technician. Interested in joining the team? Check out www.microbial-ecology.net/open-positions

Reposting to #MicroSky 🦠🧫 & #evolbiol

First paper out of Jazmin Blaz's PhD! In this collaborative effort, we're presenting two new sp. of Mantamonas and the first complete genome for a representative of CRuMs. Their phylogenetic position makes them key to understanding the early evolution of eukaryotes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Felix Key at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology is looking for a postdoc in "Microbiome Evolution", which sounds quite interesting. I don't think he's on this platform yet www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2153816/job_...

Asgard archaea defense systems and their roles in the origin of immunity in eukaryotes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

Excited for my first Blue Skye post! 🚀 Our latest paper from the Baker lab is out today in mBio! Interested in ocean hydrocarbon degradation & SIP-metagenomics? Check this out! 👇 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @archaeal.bsky.social