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Our Viperin evolution paper is now on NatureEcoEvo - This inspirational collaboration with the fabulous Helena Shomar & MDMLab explored how a structurally conserved immune gene diversify in function across the archaea-eukaryote tree of life. nature.com/articles/s4155…

🚀 Identifying new eukaryotic signature proteins in Asgard archaea has been a fun, exciting, at times overwhelming (so many protein structures) but fulfilling ride so far with Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 at Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR

Glad to have been part of this tremendous effort by Stephan Köstlbacher @JvHooff Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 & others! Read Stephan's thread to find out how he used protein structural predictions to discover 'isomorphic' eukaryotic signature proteins beyond what sequence similarity searches can find! 👇

🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 Our latest manuscript tackles the longstanding debate about fatty acid synthesis in Archaea and identifies a fatty acid synthesis complex. 🧬🦠 📜 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… #Research #Archaea #FattyAcidMetabolism #BioRxiv #Science #Microbiology

A new substrate for #nitrification by #comammox microbes: #Guanidine So glad to see this out in nature today – great collaborative effort from our @FWF Cluster of Excellence, Universität Wien, team Aalborg Universitet, and UFZ nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thrilled, honored, and grateful to receive this award from ASM. A huge 🙏 to my current & past team Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and everyone who supported me along the way.

The great David Penny's obituary: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent studies provide into the enigmatic origin of eukaryotes? In this review in nature , we discuss the latest findings and open questions: nature.com/articles/s4158…

To be repeated "ad nauseam" 🟥STOP THE BUDGET CUTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION in NL🟥 and no political dog and pony show to confuse the general public erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2024/09/04/… nos.nl/artikel/253664… .WOinActie .AOb .FNV .Landelijke Studentenvakbond .Universiteiten van Nederland .Luc Stultiens .Jan Paternotte

Great work by Lorenzo Olivi, Stephan Köstlbacher and other colleagues from Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR, reporting experimental and computational evidence for titration-based replication control in E. coli!

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Our latest work on Escherichia coli and the regulation of DNA replication initiation via DnaA titration on the chromosome, led by Lorenzo Olivi. Here’s a thread summarizing our findings. 🧵👇 Wageningen U&R Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @HohlbeinLab et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Three weeks left to apply for this exciting PhD position focusing on eukaryotic genome evolution! Come work with us at Laboratory of Microbiology at WUR! Please RT #PhDposition #evolution Wageningen U&R 🦠🧬🧐

Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized quantamagazine.org/meet-the-eukar… via Quanta Magazine with quotes from Toni Gabaldón and Thijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Itai Budin

My mentor, colleague, friend and all-round clever guy Ford Doolittle has just published a book "Darwinizing Gaia". I've read pieces of it an it's very thought-provoking...go out and get it! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549523/…