The Beeby lab's magnum opus on the Campylobacter flagellum is out. This is a uniquely powerful flagellum and how it evolved out of simpler precursors will keep us busy for a while still. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Franziska did a spectacularly successful PhD in my group and to a large extend set up the lab when we first started. I'm extremely happy for her (though not the least bit surprised) that she won these very important awards for her PhD. Watch this one, great things are certain to come.

New paper from the lab from Sriram Garg in my group. We introduce a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics. I think this is a big deal, so read on below if you think deep history is important. academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

An enormous amount of work went into this from so many people: our leadership at the MPI and the university, the scientific team, the administrative support and of course all the scientists that did the science that laid the foundation for all this. What a rush to be part of this!

Dennis from the group contributed to this paper, showing that an assembly chaperone of PSII has identifiable precursors in non-photosynthetic organisms.

This is a wild paper. The anaerobic biochemistry is definitely worth your while (and beyond me to explain), but let me try to explain why this is also an evolutionary bombshell. This is about how nitrogen fixation evolved as we know it.

Now also on here to very occasionally post protein evolution stuff.