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Shout out to Studying life at the extremes nature.com/articles/d4158…

We are delighted to announce the first fruits of our collaboration with Google Research on #DeepLearning for protein classification. Introducing Pfam-N: xfam.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/goo…

Congratulations to Duke Economics's Rachel E. Kranton and DukeMGM's Joseph Heitman who have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences

A postdoc position is open in Amy Schmid to study archaeal metabolism / cell biology. Please help spread the word. More info at academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18642

Congrats to Pende et al. for their new paper in Nature Communications and to the co-authors Hayk Palabikyan and Simon K.-M.R. Rittmann from Archaea Physiology & Biotechnology Group in Vienna! SepF is the FtsZ anchor in archaea, with features of an ancestral cell division system

Outreach, resilience, bacteria, and salt. LOTS of salt. In ep. 2 of BioGist, Tyler Edwards ('22) chats with Dr. Amy Schmid about #extremophiles, #hypersaline lakes, and the importance of #outreach. Listen now: duke.is/P9rLCS

Congratulations to Saaz on acceptance of his first paper! He discovered an unexpected function for an archaeal histone in regulation of iron uptake gene expression. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

So thrilled that our preprint is out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. We find a mosaic of conservation in DNA binding patterns for chromatin proteins and transcription factors across domains of life. Congrats to first author Saaz Sakrikar!

Duke Biology dept is hiring *2* people! Broad search. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22805 Duke is a wonderful place to live & work; it's been very supportive as an early career prof

#AcademicTwitter: Duke Biology has TWO faculty positions open! We are planning to hire excellent scholars, mentors, teachers, who will contribute to our effort in increasing diversity and equity. Check our website | Ask Questions | Apply by Oct21st | RT! biology.duke.edu/assistant-prof…

The Silva lab at Duke has positions open! If you are an ambitious and motivated scientist (Postdoc, PhD student, or technician) excited to work in a dynamic and diverse lab; and interested in solving big biological questions, our lab is perfect for you! Inquire, send me your CV!

What Assistant Professors feel about the mentorship support from their senior peers? What do they expect? How to improve it? This is the first comprehensive study on the topic and I thank my co-authors for letting me (modestly) contribute to it

Why did chromatin evolve? How much chromatin is ‘just right’? Answering these Qs in eukaryotes is difficult: chromatin varies little - it’s histones, a lot of them. In our latest work, we look at archaea to understand the origins of chromatin (1/n) nature.com/articles/s4156…

Postdoc position open in Amy Schmid! Click here to apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22224

A new publication (nature.com/articles/s4158…) in nature by @pilhoferlab Florian Wollweber Jingwei Xu in collaboration with Schleper Lab Vienna shows stunningly detailed views of the closet relatives of eukaryotes – Asgard archaea: biol.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev…

We are #hiring for Postdoctoral Scholar at Duke University Biology Department, Schmid Lab. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. We are attending Winter QBio Conference 2023 if you would like to meet!

Our work showing that the #CRISPR nuclease Cas3 has an important DNA repair function in halophilic #archaea is finally in print in #microLife. Awesome work led by Guy and Israela with key contributions from Kelly Zatopec from NEB and the marchfelder lab. doi.org/10.1093/femsml…

Excited that our paper on histones in archaea is out in mBio. Check it out: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mb…